Energy Shield and Life

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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

What about changes to life totals in Witch, Shadow and Ranger areas? It is a struggle to get meaningful amounts. Even with the scion life wheel the life totals available is low.

Where is the life regen on the right side of the tree? Without life regen on the right side of the tree there is no reason for any life build there to not get vaal pact.

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LordTreufeldt wrote:

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.

Losing some players because they refuse to adapt is better than splitting your player base from a monetary stand point.

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Completed 27 ChallengesGubert 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

---- read for once ----

All armour will have a new Prefix modifier that can be rolled that increases flat defences (Armour, Evasion, or Energy Shield) and grants a small value of added maximum Life.
18 to 23 Life and +14 to 20 Armour/Evasion Rating OR +8 to 10 Energy Shield
24 to 28 Life and +21 to 42 Armour/Evasion Rating OR +11 to 15 Energy Shield
29 to 33 Life and +43 to 95 Armour/Evasion Rating OR +16 to 25 Energy Shield (Not on Gloves and Shields)
34 to 38 Life and +96 to 120 Armour/Evasion Rating OR +26 to 30 Energy Shield (Only on Body Armour)

this stacks with rolled HP. Your welcome.

Balance == Equal == Homogenized == Communism == Bad

Pretty linear train of though, no? Like a train going off the rails and down a canyon.

So will the rings that already have the crafted es mod on them stay in the game or will they lose that mod once the up date goes live.

You know you`ve fucked up if there is 115 pages of replies in a Thread after only 12 hours!

I also have some balance changes..I will cut down my expenses of MTX`s by roughly 33%.

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yuridagreat wrote:

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TenTonBlue wrote:

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yuridagreat wrote:

Horrible news.
Nerf ES into the ground and dont buff life. Literally why kill whats fun to play?
We are about to kill GODS in 3.0. We are supposed to be able to take on any content but no.. First lets kill AOE changes and now ES.
Not cool GGG

Great job on reading the whole post. Nice Meme

Dont BullSh*t. ES is nerfed into the ground. No instaleech either and hardly any buff to life and AOE IS nerfed into the ground.
yes I read the whole post. Did you?

Hahaha, if you can't play the game with 10k ES (15k will still be possible), get good scrub. Also I think the original rebuttal was that you said "dont buff life" which they clearly did in the manifesto. So that you completely missed. Also, the killing gods in 3.0 gives us the Pantheon system which greatly buffs our defenses. Lastly, none of this is finalized, it will be BETA TESTED (which I guess you also missed since you didn't read the first two sentences of the manifesto).

I like the changes.

And regarding the "bad" oneshots. Well yeah you CAN get oneshotted, but only if you Facetank. All big hits are either telegraphed OR can be read under the Name of the Boss. Oh and you cannot simply outdps Reflect? Reroll the Map or skip the Map.

This game is NOT meant to steamroll everything and facetank everything.

To the people crying with about 10k ES. You are NOT wearing High Tier ES-Rolls so it will not hit you very much. Yeah the Vaal Pact will hit you.

To all others: You do not know what Uniques will come, maybe there will be something like "Half of your leech will be applied instantly" or " Life leech will apply instantly on Low life" or something like that?

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DaMasteRyu wrote:

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.

No shadow or witch can do much without ES, its their primary defence.

Also ES isnt a 'cookie cutter build', no more than taking Health, armour, evasion or shield block for defense.

Or do explain why ES builds should not be viable in this game?