Energy Shield and Life

This sound amazing.
Thank you guys, for your work.

Now I just waiting for betta-test to start.

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Gubert wrote:

Ok.. so no buff to life...

What is GGG thinking

There is a very small buff to life, via crafting mods, but not enough IMO. Even a 1-2% buff to some (or all) life nodes would go a long way.

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stastu wrote:

Communism is about when everyone's are equal and all people have same a big bag of poop. Time to start play soft league :)

This

Good job, let's make it hardcore.

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Torayuu wrote:

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Gubert wrote:

Ok.. so no buff to life...

What is GGG thinking

There is a very small buff to life, via crafting mods, but not enough IMO. Even a 1-2% buff to some (or all) life nodes would go a long way.

Where did you see that? My interpretation is that that prefix which adds life can't be crafted together with the +life prefix if it is already on that item

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Completed 22 Challengesstastu wrote:
Communism is about when everyone's are equal and all people have same a big bag of poop. Time to start play soft league :)


This

Its not about making everyone the same. Its about the content of the game, and making balances to mechanics to not make playing the game trivial.

I'm starting to think if the GGG should not made another game called PoE II, instead of change "drastically" the same game we are playing since 2012.

The Actual PoE could have its end in 2.6.x version for those who want to play this version. Only maintanence should be made.

The 3.0 version could be another PoE game, considering that all will change including the start point of the history.

All I am seeing in the comments is "I can't play the game unless I'm using straight cookie cutter methods like poison and ES." Everyone acts surprised, I figured this was something that was knowingly coming and I welcome the changes personally.

I've hardly touched either in the past few leagues just because of how boring they seem, it takes very little skill as mentioned here. Learn to adapt, improve and git gud.

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IamLoco wrote:

Just buff the damn 4% Life nodes to 8% and leave ES alone.
For fxxxs sake.
What the hell were you thinking?!

It has to do with powercreep, if they just straight up buffed life then in a few leagues things get more and more outta hand, then to deal with this they have to make things hit even harder making 1 shot mechanics more main stream.

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ilizan wrote:

I'm a life build player and I don't like the way these changes took. A minor buff to rare body armours? Meanwhile killing ES builds? The good thing about life being weak was the price of armour based items was relatively cheap. Now both ES and life will be bad, which means no more cheap life items, every end game item will be expensive. Now the only advantage for playing life builds is gone and I will still get one shotted by volatile blood. YAY!

WAIT, you mean your end game gear, the very final thing you buy in the game, will be expensive?!? WahwahwahWOW.

They are also planning on tweaking volatiles. All these changes are fair, even without beta testing. But remember, THESE WILL ALL BE BETA TESTED. The only thing I don't like about these changes is the way in which they announced them, they should have done the following:

-Frequently say these are not final changes and will be tested in the beta (they said it at least once but people are stupid).

-Post alongside of it the reminder that 3.0 will also add the Pantheon system, adding insane defensive boosts to the player (again people are stupid and completely forgot about the defensive buffs we are getting that will counteract the nerfs to ES).

-Make some comment about the changes to reflect and volatiles that ZiggyD confirmed they are working on and Rory has said they are planned for 3.0