Am I the Only One Who's NOT Interested in .3?

"The Resolute Technique Keystone Passive Skill now grants Accuracy Rating is Doubled instead of Your Hits cannot be Evaded."

Why GGG

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willypete6969#9490 wrote:

• War Pick, Battle Pick and Strife Pick one hand Mace Implicit modifiers are now +5-10% to Critical Damage Bonus (previously +10-15%). Existing items can be made worse with a Divine Orb.
• The Leather Bindings Notable Passive Skill now causes Body Armour to grant regenerate 3% of maximum Life per second (previously 5%).
• The small Passive Skills providing Fire Resistance now have values of 8% (previously 15%).

Do those sound like buffs to you?

Perfect examples.

Ok just to simplify a bit:

Some mace bases have their implicit crit damage bonus reduced by 5%.
One notable passive skill has had its life regen reduced by 2%.
Small passive skills providing fire resistance now provide 7% less fire res. (so 14% in total if you were to spec both).

First off, just to point out that these are incredibly minor changes.
5% less crit damage, 3% less max health as life regen and 14% less fire resistance. Not excactly ground breaking in any way.

Secondly and more importantly, you have failed to take into account all the other changes that will impact this Ascendancy / Build.

Lets first mention the buffs that are directly connected to the ascendancy tree and were mentioned in the same paragraph but you for some reason conveniently cut out of your copy paste. (Wonder why)

The Flowing Metal Notable Passive Skill now causes Body Armour to grant 35% of Armour to also apply to Elemental Damage from Hits (previously caused Body Armour to grant +5% to Maximum Fire Resistance).

The Manifest Weapon Skill granted by the Living Weapon Notable Passive Skill no longer grants Minions from this Skill have 1% increased Accuracy Rating per 3 of your Dexterity. Instead, Minions from this Skill now have 1% increased Attack Speed per 3 of your Dexterity. (And this is a much bigger buff then it appears since melee minions no longer need accuracy).

And then you have all the other changes like the improvements to armor, reduced attribute requirements (which would give you more space to get stats like crit damage, life regen and fire resistance that you lost a tiny amount of, or other stats if they are better for your build), being able to use the same support gems multiple times, new and more powerful support gems, Not needing accuracy anymore (which frees up even more stats that you can use on even more crit damage, fire res and life regen), improvements to crafting, player power that comes from the abyss league mechanic, requiring less exp to reach mid 90s level, and all the new clusters added to the skill tree (15 new clusters added to the warrior tree specificly) which will give you even more options to increase player power, and the list goes on and on and on.

To sum up the problem is that you have just pointed out the 2-3 tiny negative changes that you could find and then ignored the massive list of buffs and improvements just so you can feel justified in whining about it.

You cant know for sure how this will play out until you actually play it live with the changes, but if you were to take an educated guess with all the changes that we know of then litterally everything points to it being massive buffs. The fact that you can single out 2-3 tiny nerfs to some passive nodes while ignoring everything else doesnt change this.

Res is stronger than 100% Armour applying to ele, +5 all res would be infinitely better, how you guys read nerfs but accept it as buffs bc ggg said so its ridiculous. People acting like block all damage with no downside didn't exist before and you could always run more then one of the same support but at the end of the day tying it to a unique and ascendancy wasn't enough to make anyone use it so obviously its not some super source of damage otherwise it would of been meta. We got nerfed for everything but lightning, lightning still shocks, fire don't ignite, cold appears to have more its freeze effects removed and lightning and chaos get to ignite freeze and shock or poison 😳 umm offline trade but i still have to trade you are online is a strange but slightly better option but honestly this isn't poe2s first real league its still just beta marketing

OP if you arent excited at all then don't play this game. It's obviously not for you.

You're welcome.

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willypete6969#9490 wrote:

"The Resolute Technique Keystone Passive Skill now grants Accuracy Rating is Doubled instead of Your Hits cannot be Evaded."

Why GGG

Because they made no accuracy builds even better even without this and they nerfed monster evasion, quite frankly untill I try it I won't know but it doesn't sound like it's even needed.

You're not the only one.

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

OP if you arent excited at all then don't play this game. It's obviously not for you.

You're welcome.

Actually the game is for me. I probably have more hours in POE2 than you. I'm just not as dumb as you apparently because I know a trash patch when I read the patch notes.

nvm lol