Energy Shield and Life

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Bjorn_Angannon wrote:

Fixed for ya....

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Rory wrote:

After all of these changes, only the richest players will still be able to reach significantly higher values of Energy Shield than life. Current estimates are that a build that balances offence and defence and is (thru RMT) well-geared can reach around 15,000 Energy Shield.

While I don't dispute that ES needed some changes, did it really need the nuclear nerf bomb?

You have succeeded in hitting the rich folks a little bit....the 1%'ers.......the rest of us "average" joe's have just been fornicated-up-the-rectum.

I agree that es values, GR, and VP should be toned down some.

But what about all the one-shot mob mechanics? or pathfinder/vinktar interactions? or or or.....

1) These changes are not final at all, they will be beta tested and a nuclear nerf bomb (which I way too extreme, see below) is a good starting point, then we can see the entire spread from where ES is now to where it will start in the beta, and find a happy middle if the changes need to be dialed back (harder to start with small tweaks and add more tweaks, far easier and faster to compare the extremes from the start).

2) The average joes got a decent buff with how easy it is to craft decent to near-end-game rares with the buffs to the flat ES master crafting mods.

3) There are plans to tweak volatiles and reflect (the one-shot mechanics)

4) Remember the Pantheon system which buffs our defenses.

I just hope they also tune down some of those oneshot bullshit bingo mechanics that currently instagib life builds with about 7k hitpoints...

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Cylianmedz wrote:

4 years of PoE, 7 dead ES chars, so many currencies wasted on getting cool ES stuff that is no longer neither valuable nor even usable.

Fuck you GGG, Learn to balance.
Time to quit and get back at killing people in Eve online.

Massive free giveaway soon.

Farewell fellas, hope you'll still have fun, I won't.

Hell, EVE was so much fun in the old days. I am not done with POE yet but I understand your feelings.
Say hello to the Ministry of Love if you come across them.

Meanwhile,

I'm having fun in D3.

As Immortan Joe would say "Mediocre"

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Ashriel wrote:

Or... and hear me out here... you could BUFF LIFE?

Hi, you are heard, but you failed to read the manifesto, they did buff life. Additionally the Pantheon system is being added to buff our defenses. Additionally, additionally, volatiles and reflect mechanics are being tweaked.

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morbidfear wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQneCdV7BlA&t=1088syou say that people couldn't get massive hps haha Dismantle has a huge hp marauder yes we need balanced but get your facts straight please you assume 9k hp is the limit invalid but grind on get paid and have fun!!!!!!!

And you assume that 25k is the limit when theres people with over 90.000 energy shield. The abosulte maximum amount of life you can find in any recorded document is still !!!6!!! times lower than the same for ES

Would it have been too much to ask to test in small sections each change before adding them all?

Right now we have the elite with 20k ES (not the average player), leeching at instant speed, doing absurd amounts of damage due to double dipping. Could we have possibly tested first what removing double dipping would have done in beta? Then if ES was still too effective, tested with no double dipping and no vaal pact... surely doing significantly less damage and not leeching instantly would have a significant impact.

It seems a bit excessive. My fav character is a freezing pulse witch, with 10.9k es, 175k dps, and no armor or evasion...

Will armor and evasion be added to armor retroactively? If virtually every single ES player is being put in 1 shot range, without instant leech (of course Atziri's Acuity will skyrocket), and the only way to mitigate that (besides the aforementioned pantheon system) will be to reduce your ES further to add armor....

I hope Devs are looking at data that the rest of us can't see and just can't tell us yet we're worrying about nothing.

Will the new hybrid life mod affect existing unique items?

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Cylianmedz wrote:

4 years of PoE, 7 dead ES chars, so many currencies wasted on getting cool ES stuff that is no longer neither valuable nor even usable.

Fuck you GGG, Learn to balance.
Time to quit and get back at killing people in Eve online.

Massive free giveaway soon.

Farewell fellas, hope you'll still have fun, I won't.

4 years, 2 posts, no support tags. You were a leech. Bai.

Shame... Life buff is very low... They destroy ES and will be unplayable... GGG do not deserve support anymore... They destroy the game... GL!