absolute cope 3.28 bingo for Mark

do it mr goat. at least one square.

on board with most of these.

I think nerfing stat stackers would be just bad overall though. Having builds you can endlessly sink currency into to improve all league is a primary goal/reason to play for a lot of players.

I think non-stacking builds should be viable, but it only makes sense that builds that have multiple mirrors invested perform better, and without making build enabling items incredibly rare, stat stacking is really the only form of build that takes that kind of investment.

Bring back fun farms, buff underperforming skills/build types, buff loot. win.

I agree with most of these.

I also think none of these will happen.

Please

stat stackers can stay
aura stack can come back
literally none of it matters

it only starts to matter when other options suck in comparison

buff sucky options across the board and we good

cheap builds should be good enough, expensive builds should absolutely demolish

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Bosscannon#3325 wrote:

cheap builds should be good enough, expensive builds should absolutely demolish

So pretty much what we already have in the current state of the game lol

Nah cheap builds suck right now, they feel like "why would I do this to myself" and "there is not enough affixes on gear slots to make this feel good even if I was willing to pour untold divines into it".

There are some cheap builds that go hard but most of them just fizzle out and taper off.

And these cheap builds should also feel good enough to players without a PHD in POE. I am not arguing that veteran players can put together something cheap and strong but the game should not be balanced around its top players.

Player defences easier to solve would be my top priority pick.

Better variety and better saturation of defensive layers that work would probably make me feel more like the devs didn't decide in advance what the viable defenses for my build will be and I am not just here to identify that option. Not much flexibility when everything is wound so tight in terms of how much baseline minimum dps and defenses you need for the game to not shit on you and ruin your day.

NGL, I keep sitting here at the end of every league thinking "surely the 30 billion intelligence makes indestructible god nuke of defeat game easy build is balanced next league right", and then somehow they manage to instead buff it exponentially instead.

Like, here I was thinking surely nothing would ever be as broken as 3.26 energy blade (same thing I thought about 3.25 energy blade)...but now here we are, with 3.27 HoTM.

My only cope is the easier defense solving. PoE2 has it great right now, you don't need layers upon layers of redundancy to avoid getting 1shot. I think it should be perfectly viable to just go pure armor, evasion, or ES and do just fine in peak endgame. Things like block and suppression should be additions if you really want to be a tank, but aren't nearly as essential as they currently are now.