Content Update 2.5.0 Patch Notes

2 days ago I made a Mjølner builds with 50ex.
and now nerf

nooooo my warchief :(

My build will still be viable after this..unless they will make a change to cooldown of cast when damage taken gem.

The only problem I have reading these notes is their strategy of doing balance:

- if the skill/item is causing a problem on our servers we simply remove/kill it forever
- if the item is causing a problem on our servers we simply remove/kill it forever.

Cospri's builds with spells going off every Xms....nerf
Mjolner builds with spells going off every Xms....nerf
Srs with a lot of minions on screen forcing the game to calculate stats for each one....nerf

No improvements to claws apart from range? Bugger!

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Content Update 2.5.0

Flask Charge Generation on Critical Strike:

• A character can now only receive one flask charge per Critical Strike every 200ms. This is shared across all flasks.
• The Harvest and Master Surgeon now follow this rule. Instead of giving a charge to each of your flasks, they will only grant it to one.
• The Master Surgeon Node now has 100% chance to trigger (up from 15%) to help compensate for this change.

Wow... fucking really? Playing a build using the Harvest was the most fun I had in this game. So much fun I've haven't played the last few leagues that much. Sure it lags like crazy, but I didn't mind it. It was a niche item that allowed 2-3 builds to work on standard.


Been playing since beta... guess its time to hang it up.

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Wispo wrote:

Life does not suffice. ES suffice.

People ask for life buff, so that BOTH life and ES are good? No, people ask for ES nerf, so that both are shit

A miserable-"thinking" mass of guys, hard trying to make this game become more and more miserable. If Poe, basically an intriguing and catching game, is poorer and poorer with the time pass, is EVERY TIME fault of these ****bags that implore to Devs the nerf

If life was buffed on ES levels then mechanics such as Vaal boss slam or atziri double flameblast will be irrelevant.

You are not supposed to tank 10k hits , you are supposed to avoid them.

ES doesn't care about 99% of mechanics in this game, they just facetank with 15k ES and spam away.

It is broken, it is OP, it needs to go.

Guys, honestly, this is the first time I am willing to quit since beta.
This league will have the same problems as the last one and a few nice builds less.
No life/es balancing and no pathfinder balancing just... Dayum, you guys screwed it up this time.

Disappointed

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Aedre32 wrote:

So is SRS is going to be buried with BV and wormblaster as well or 'this is a buff'? :)

If you look at page 48 you will see calculated damage of new BV. It is still useful!
The problem was with Pathfinder ascendancy node which allowed Using NON-STOP Unique Flasks, and it was to OP.
Instead of nerf only it they nerfed Globally all flask charge generation on critical strike!

They changed BV mechanics which resulted in 4 times lower hit rate (from 20 to 5)! With this changes alone it will be hard to sustain flask charges.
Furthermore they made flask charge shared among flasks which results in 5 times less charges!

If only Master Surgeon node was based on Attack (not Spell), There wouldn't be any overpowered metas!

Wow, so many negative comments.

For me, DX11 / 64-bit makes this patch the best patch ever (as long as everything works, remains to see). This should make it possible to play multiplayer without all that lag...
Big thumbs up for this! :)

Although, I too would love to see some changes relating to the life/ES balance, as it's very easy to make an immortal no-brain ES character now. But I also understand that converting the game to DX11 / 64-bit takes a lot of focus and time, so maybe next league you can focus more on balancing game mechanics and skills.

That said, we don't know much about the 55 new unique items, and perhaps some of these will make life builds stronger!

Wow Sion still trash