The Third Edict: What We're Working On

very good

Whirling Slash change completely nuked my build. Just spent all my currency on gear for the build too. What happened to no mid-league nerfs?

Complete league ender for me.

thank you for nerfing cool playable spectres, wont get back to 5fps vaal guards, bye

ill be sure to call the wah-mbulance for you

just 6L frozen mandibles before the annoucement of the patch and now the spectre is gone. well done GGG.

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SpeedSoSlow#6643 wrote:

No balance changes?

Why would there be? This isn't a main/balance patch. Bug fix.

because DeadEYe killing league
same as stacker and spear

u are just looking at some stats from ninja, overall u have no idea what is strong or going on. deadeye is not killing the game nor are stacker or spear people, like i said, u dont know what u talking about, maybe just stop posting answers here at all

Disenchant the spirit gem and it should just give you back a blank spirit gem with all of the sockets back

well guess im unninstalling. game is getting more and more boring each update. and the perfomance keeps getting worse as well

Minion nerf but not deadeye and merc still broken for almost a year now….. classic. This is why POE 2 gets a bad rap.

I am disappointed by the state of Elemental casters this patch, but I see you guys have a lot of problems.

Also Chayula looks so good, that I believe Invoker looks like it fell into obscurity due to power creeping, based on the amount of things offered.

I feel Invoker and Quarterstaff needs a rework, when you consider the following facts:

1)Quarterstaff can't work without Sacrifice + Profane Ritual + Scepter that summons skeletons.

Honestly, if you have the above mentioned setup, you can make any Int or Dex based character use Quarterstaff, without accounting for the character's chosen Ascendancy.

2)Invoker needs an Overhaul compared to Chayula because it does some things wrong.

a)Unlike Chayula, Invoker doesn't have a branch specialized in speeding up the leveling process.

I refer here to the Darkness nodes. Those are excellent for leveling Monk with Crossbow or spells, because they turn Spirit, which isn't needed for these builds into a third health bar. By the time you start to need Spirit to use the late game gems, you progressed through Acts 1-3 without any problems.

I'd argue you can keep going all the way towards End Game with those nodes and then, once you reach end game, you can reset easily.

b)Unlike Invoker, Chayula can mesh over multiple playstyles because it's not tied down to Frost and Lighting damage.

This limitations, gives Invoker the appearence of a watered down Stormweaver where you trade AoE damage for survivability...

*Meditate to boost shields past their normal values
*Mechanics that favor Energy Shield and Evasion stacking

...and unreliable sources of damage, outside of the specialized nodes for Frost and Lighting damage

*the nodes for fishing damage with criticals

The nodes for hastining Meta skills are also good, as long as you stick with Frost or Lighting damage, to min-max their effectiveness.