Content Update 2.5.0 Patch Notes

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Coolmer wrote:

If I know that i will not spend few bucks y-day on some stuff in shop to prepare for new league, this patch notes are wrong.
No life buff. No real Blight buff. ES is too strong what they nerf? Rlly from 12% to 6% Energy Within gem, LoL.
Flask nerfed because they decide like usual not to fix ascendancy classes like Pathfinder, better broke game mechanic so they can get more from future support packs to fix what they broke again and again... and again. Sad repeatable story.

And so on....

Who works there? No brainers.

So all that need to do that bunch of no-brainers at last they visit forum and listen community.
50 pages here already sayin they don't listen anyone and when i see on sites like mmorpg.com post what is sayin GGG has good PR with community it is bloody lie.

Well, have you ever played Magic: the Gathering or some other heavily design based long running game? One of the most important lessons to be learned is the what the players ask for is not exactly what they want...

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Coolmer wrote:

So all that need to do that bunch of no-brainers at last they visit forum and listen community.
50 pages here already sayin they don't listen anyone and when i see on sites like mmorpg.com post what is sayin GGG has good PR with community it is bloody lie.

Maybe they reached they income quota regardless of what they do and their relationship with the community?

Don't get me wrong, a company is there to make money, but when they stop caring about anything else its the beginnig of the end.

"Decoy Totem can no longer evade and has a 4 second cooldown at all levels."
Why didn't you remove them from the game while you were at it?
Do you not know how much 4 seconds is?
Have you ever played your own game?
I guess not.
Also top kek at no armor v.s. ranged fix.

its funny how GGG releases patch notes, then they go hide in a cave with no communication link to the outside world untill patch has dropped.

They dont even read/care about what 99℅ of the population says.. oh does the streamers fund ur entire operation? NO the entire community does, so come out of ur cave and give reasons to the players that give u a job as to y all the nerfs and not buffs to "balance" the game...

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KoHElfs wrote:

Well, have you ever played Magic: the Gathering or some other heavily design based long running game? One of the most important lessons to be learned is the what the players ask for is not exactly what they want...

sometimes its exactly what they want :p its true that some players don't understand where complex balancing will go that tends to be while small tweaks are made of successive patches and stats are analyzed.

They could have increased every life node on the tree by 1% for example which would add up to ~ 20-30% increased life for life builds and it wouldn't break anything.

The stats this league are going to show the forums are right imo, ES use will increase on the whole and a variety of meta abilities are still just as good or better than they were before. Blight is still terribru for example because its issues aren't that heavily tied to its damage, anyone whose tested it knows it yet apparently the people that created it don't know it :p this is the kind of fundamental disconnect that causes salty responses!

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Draegnarrr wrote:

The stats this league are going to show the forums are right imo, ES use will increase on the whole and a variety of meta abilities are still just as good or better than they were before

The stats are going to show player retention even lower than prophecy if anything...

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keppie wrote:

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Ashriel wrote:

Keep on nerfing the fun, guys. Not sure how much longer I'll play if you keep taking my favorite things about this game and making them shit. You do realize that wormblaster, CoC, and triggering skills faster than every 500ms, was something enjoyable about PoE? I pity anyone still trying to make Mjolner work, because it's deader than ever. Come on.

True story. GGG, where's that time you used to try to make bad skills viable instead of nerfing what does work into the ground ? I have to say, been playing since closed beta and this new policy of yours is quickly making this game lose it's appeal. The fact that inventive builds like wormblaster exist is what always differentiated POE from other games. Please stop driving the game in this direction where all the fun gets taken out. Also what's the point in creating ever harder content that only a small percentage of players get to do and then destroy the builds that can run it ?

God yes, this so much. Closed beta player as well, I miss the old GGG. I feel like they hired some former Blizzard employees over the years. Me being a fairly casual standard player, the cospri nerf hit hard. I now have 2 ex in my stash, where I could have just not bought this gear that devalued hard to the point where I do not know if I want to continue playing anymore.

I am now wondering why I supported GGG over the years, I have seen some ugly times but this latest patch just takes the cake. I think my hard earned money will be better spent in other places in the future, as there is no room for casual players in this game anymore. Either play it hard or dont play at all, the casuals will get fucked because of the balancing around the top tier players.

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KoHElfs wrote:

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shynnblue wrote:

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Content Update 2.5.0

Skill Balance Changes:

• Blade Vortex has been refactored. Instead of separate hits for each active blade, the blades now increase the frequency at which all enemies in the radius take damage, and the amount of damage they take. The skill now has a base hit frequency of 600ms

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  this part is not clear. frequency is not measured in ms but in hertz. if you mean base hit interval then please clear this up. confusing for me.

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  Having a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering, I understand your point... I think it would be much clearer if it said "the skill now has a base hit frequency of 1.66Hz"
  
  Especially since the increase per stack is linear on the frequency, but not on the period, so it would be much more intuitive. But then, people struggled with the word uncapped, imagine if there's technical wording on the skills...

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  well they only need to replace the word "frequency" with "interval" if they mean what i think they mean. but who knows, maybe they mean something else thats why im asking them to clear it up. its always possible to describe the fine technicalities of the game in a way that doesnt require one to hold a bachelor or master degree, and i think they have done well so far on the overall.

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shynnblue wrote:

well they only need to replace the word "frequency" with "interval" if they mean what i think they mean. but who knows, maybe they mean something else thats why im asking them to clear it up. its always possible to describe the fine technicalities of the game in a way that doesnt require one to hold a bachelor or master degree, and i think they have done well so far on the overall.

Well, obviously they mean what you think, they just didn't know how to properly express it... You literally cannot measure frequency with time (since frequency is by definition measured with event*time^-1), and people usually mix frequency and period... But while I was kidding about the 1.66Hz, I do think it would be better to express it in frequency (or, to use game lingo, hits per second), since the skill mechanic scales linearly with respect to it...

As for doing well so far, people with an undercapped grasp on English might disagree...

Why are you playing something that is over 16 years old at this point? My computer set up is 12 years old and I run DX11 fine, so if you can't you need to update badly