2.6.0 Area of Effect Changes
" Yo time to take off that tin foil hat for a second, you just answered your question there boi. Most weren't even using aoe gems that's why it's a buff. Also no shit, why would anyone consider more than one utility gem escapes me. Maybe now they will learn to have only one. GGG creating better players by force since 2017. "Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile." -unknown
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" If they treat it as every other area modifying mod (so they apply to the actual area and not to the radius) and assuming numbers stay the same, yea, that would actually be a buff to conc effect, weight of the penalty on the actual area the skill can cover would be around 75% compared to what it is now. And I actually think it will hardly stay like this, they either didn't think about it (and by watching reave changes I might even believe this) or they're just hiding that for now Last edited by Beregondz on Feb 27, 2017, 2:44:48 PM
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Great, after the previous 2 leagues i've played spellcasters (my life long buddy made me promise him that i won't touch ranged chars for a while). Welp i'm back to ranged chars again?? i've played like 3 leagues in a row Tonado Shot. For the next league i was planning to do a bino's Blade Flurry. Well not anymore! Burning arrow Elementalist here i come!
Revert the loot changes. Remove the stupid archnemsis.
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Anyone knows what happends to icestorm?
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So... if everything is being changed to effect the area, does this mean that Concentrated Effect is technically buffed?
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" GGG Has said they are buffing aura's and curses to keep them in line with the current radius and area of effect as they are now. They had no reason to address it in this post. | |
I really loved Reave and only did two builds with it this league. I'll admit dying sun plus vaal reave did clear quite a lot, but the boss damage was laughable in most regards later on in the game.
I'm okay if you want destroy the reave radius, players will just have to stack MORE aoe to get something close, or not very much and use cleave, but could you please increase the base damage to all the melee skills you are gutting? This feels like, take take take for melee, what are you giving? | |
" I guess it depends if you only play the meta builds or try other stuff. I dont feel PoE got much easier since it was released. It usually have been nerf after nerf until they suddely realize it has gone to far and then they make a major boost change in one of the uppdates and suddenly many skills are super OP. Then the cycle repeats, nerf, nerf, nerf, nerf, nerf, then MAJOR Boost and repeat. Its the GGG way, and i would prefer it was done differently. AND, it way more fun when PoE is at one of the "peaks" and skills do more damage. Last edited by Mateo_swe on Feb 27, 2017, 3:12:29 PM
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" Well, to the uninformed, yes the balancing does look like continual repeated nerfing for years on end. This is balanced by introducing something new that is way overpowered, which they then nerf repeatedly, and for years on the really good 'balancings.' Like Mjolner for instance. It was popular, and even the 'meta' for awhile. I always avoid those builds, but after a couple of pretty strong nerfs I happened to get one, like a year later. So I made a build, not exactly like the current popular one, but somewhat like it. So I spent several months worth of effort into making it pretty good. Well, that needed more balance (evidently because people were still playing it), so we nerfed it a couple more times. As it happens, these nerfs didn't really affect me at all since my build wasn't exactly like the popular one. However, since people were still playing it, we had to nerf it a couple more times until it became unusable in any form, now you pretty much can't use mj at all - see, balance. I've also had this melee ci claw for years, and even though it was pretty awful, I liked it. I literally put close to a hundred exalts. Which took a long time as I don't sell stuff and only trade up currency mainly through masters and then sell fuse for exalts (Which was also 'balanced' and is pretty much impossible amymore), and buy the occasional good item in it and it was still not very good - playable, but so so at best. Given claws/leech are mainly phys I was stuck with reave (because the other skills I used had also been 'balanced' out of usability) I didn't like reave much, so when Blade Flurry came out I tried that. (after they were done balancing my previous main out of playability) And it works pretty good, kinda like you might expect with nearly 100ex investment. I guess I should have been madly double dipping - however you go about that, because now we are going to balance Blade Flurry because of this Double Dipping thing. Don't worry, I'm sure it will be balanced right into the ground. One of their favorite 'balances' is when something else like double dipping is being done, and then instead of fixing that, they nerf the base skill into the ground so nobody can use it - they balance like this quite a bit. I've lost count of the number of times I've been 'balanced' like this over the years. In fact, even though I've gone way out of my way to avoid anything 'meta' or 'popular' I have had every build I've ever had 'balanced' until they are no longer playable, all the way back to open beta - or shortly afterwards actually. They really released a big whack of overpowered stuff they could 'balance' at actual open beta release. They are really good at this balancing too. That's why we have major 'balancing' constantly. Oh, sorry if we destroy your build(s, over and over and over), its best for the game. There, now you understand balancing. Try to be the person your dog thinks you are.
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