Content Update 2.5.0 Patch Notes

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My bad you are right so its a buff to BV then cause.

hps - hits per second
dps - damage per second
dpb - damage per blade

Blade Vortex before 2.5.0 :
1 stack - 1 hps - with 1000 dpb -> 1000 dps
20 stack - 20 hps - with 1000 dpb -> 20000 dps

Blade Vortex after 2.5.0 :
1 stack - 1.66 hps - with 700 dpb -> 1510 dps
20 stack - 4.98 hps - with 700 dpb -> 24402 dps


Sorry GGG but what are you smoking guys?

As I thought I'm not mad xD. It's clearly a buff xD

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Bearpauw wrote:

This is just shame.
One step forward, ten steps back.

GGG for the first time, I'm honestly disappointed in your work. Don't you realize people like to play strong OP shit, wreck face with it? Constant balancing and fine tuning to this extreme is only reducing the variety in this game. You just tunnel everyone into meta builds which constantly shift. Not everyone wants to start new characters all the time just to conform to your buffs and nerfs that you sooo omnisciently deem to be right (note the sarcasm). Have you ever considered that things you implemented in the past were done just fine and can be left alone?

This is not to mention creating more legacy shit that will ostracize new players who don't want to do temp leagues. Well i guess i mentioned it...

:(

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Always the same QQ before every league.

Game is fine.

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relogan91 wrote:

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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 and has 10% increased hit rate per active blade. Its damage has been reduced by 30% at all levels and it deals 30% more damage per active blade.

I can't understand why people didn't get this is a buff of total dmg of this skill. Yes it will hit with a slighty lower rate but it deals greatly more dmg then now with at least around 10 actives blades, just invest on cast speed ad enjoy it like now. Feel free to clearly explain me where and if I'm wong, maybe with using some ACCURATE calculation.

even with one blade it will do more damage. actually more blades you have less pronounced damage buff it is.

i guess its time to roll BV.

if you changed numbers of srs swarm and want do lesser cast couts - pls do new mechanics, i.e. return to caster if no targets, more aggro range, caster protection, etc.

20 spirits? rly? i am veeeery bored

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keppie wrote:

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 ?

I can't say it much better than that.

You have reworked an old and deprecated skills like fireball and made it viable again, why don't you still pushing in that direction ?

The shaper is a hard boss, I have tried it with my Storm Call but don't have the dps for it, but for all the other content it was ok done all T15 maps corrupted / atziri / guardians. Now what ? you have seen the youtube of the wormblaster build facetanking dmg ?

When I read the patch note I imagine this :

In the same time in the GGG office :

Dude 1 : "Ho fuck guys, we have a problem!!"
Dude 2 : "Server down ?"
Dude 1 : "No! Someone have found a build to facetank the shaper!"
Dude 3 : "OMFG! Put it on the nerf list, IMMEDIATELY "
Dude 1 : " DONE! Ho yay!! "

Dude 4 : "What about the WI build? He can do the shaper also! Nerf it! And the other guy with scorching ray also! NERF NERF NERF!"

Dude 3 : "Calm down! Not all in the same patch!Or they will suspect us..."

Now, only few builds can do the end game (shaper I mean) and they nerfing them.

I was me or PoE was intended to have the most build diversity and best synergy between items / gems / Passive tree ?

Ho god, why don't you push others skills up and keep the build diversity ?

no changes to life
no nerf to es
no boost to 90% of skills
no boost to melee defense and offense
all changes related to streamer builds

worst update ever ... hope league will be ok ...

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Svegurok wrote:

My bad you are right so its a buff to BV then cause.

hps - hits per second
dps - damage per second
dpb - damage per blade

Blade Vortex before 2.5.0 :
1 stack - 1 hps - with 1000 dpb -> 1000 dps
20 stack - 20 hps - with 1000 dpb -> 20000 dps

Blade Vortex after 2.5.0 :
1 stack - 1.66 hps - with 700 dpb -> 1510 dps
20 stack - 4.98 hps - with 700 dpb -> 24402 dps


Sorry GGG but what are you smoking guys?

This should be right:

Blade Vortex after 2.5.0:

1 hit every 600ms (base 1.67 hps)
+10% hit-rate per blade
+30% more damage per blade

so...

1 blade (= 30% more damage, +10% hit-rate) - 1.84 hps - with 700 damage
-> 1674 dps (700 * 1.84 * 1.3)

20 blades (= 600% more damage, +200% hit-rate) - 5.00 hps - with 700 damage
-> 24500 dps (700 * 5 * 7)

so yes... it's a buff. But everyone is crying about a BV nerf. xD

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alansx wrote:

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Steelgrey666 wrote:

Honestly GGG these patch notes for the truly first time honestly make me say fuck you.

LMAO IK THAT FEELING.

This!

All the crying about BV is too OP...

When the time comes when BV is not OP anymore.... Well guess what, there will be something else that replaces BV and will be the next OP skill so we can repeat the same shit again.

Like always, history will repeat himself :)

Wish all of you guys lots of fun with the coming league, i'm happy to continue my lazy, OP, supper sexy, way to fast, face-roll the game while i watch some series Blade Vortex build ^^

Cya xxx