Energy Shield and Life

RIP dual Void Battery and others dual weapon ES builds, a shield will be mandatory. RIP diversity.

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Oxygene_PoE wrote:

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.

Eww I hope I won't considering their ganking tendancies :o
HF in PoE mate o7
Fly unsafe by all means !

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pathofwarcraft wrote:

soooooo your nerfing es into the ground but not fixing life or the fact some endgame bosses can one shot you with 10k es ggg job ggg

Learn to dodge, don't just facetank, turns out there is sustenance to this game.

What about Vessel of Vinktar, Atziri's Acuity.
Pls consider changing ES passives and/or inteligence bonus instead of items.

Btw what about 1 shots, DD, volatile and other unavoidable crap, speed meta ...

Best defense is offense wanna change that?

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Learn to dodge, don't just facetank, turns out there is sustenance to this game.

Facetank is the only way to feel power. We are fighting, not dancing.

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MajorThor wrote:

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

oh wow, sorry about that mate, I'm not as famous as you are. And after only 2 posts I get the bitter and anger shit, so lovely. Nice community forum bro, very stimulating.
HF at fapping on your PoE status, you're so awesome.
Hilarious how some random peon can have a high opinion of themselves, impressive !

I hope that the price of 448ES shavronne and 900+ ES body armour will increase to the stars

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I'm not quite sure these changes address the fundamental problem(s).

As far as I can tell there are two problems:
- Vaal pact is way too strong/broken (especially combined with a high ES pool)
- Its way to hard to get a "good" life pool.

I suggest that Vaal Pact gets change to:
- 100-150% more "Maximum Life Leech Rate" (so base goes from 20% to 40%-50%)
- 50-80% less "Life regeneration"
- Life Leech effects are not removed at Full Life
- ~50%-75% less "Leech"

Life nodes:
- All or most get an additional percentage point (so 4->5, 5-6 etc).
- Nodes behind blood magic gets changes to MORE or get their value doubled.
- Life per level is increased between 1 to 3 points (currently its 12 per level).

With this you would get meaningful combat. As in you have enough eHP to actually take a beating, but eventually you will have to make a choice between "Do I keep dps'ing an risk dying to a big hit, or do I disengage and recover my eHP pool".

Right now its, well I have enough eHP so I cant die as long as I do damage.

This is Why I leave Balance to the Dev's.

Let me pick your brain on your suggestions. Granted i'm assuming you want the game to stay as is with said changes.

100-150 Leech rate is insane fast healing. "add claws 50+% and Jesus!"
50-80% less life regen = ES regen, Leech, and recharge. "sigh"
Leech at Full Pool = an ascendancy = crapping on it and remaking it. "do you even play?"
50-75% less leech = Shits on Health builds "thanks for the health nerf."


Again people. Let them Do their work. They put more thought into this than you have.

as for life suggestion... I'm nor going to wast my time.

Im so happy finally ES nerf.

hey guys,

ive read about 50 sides of replies now. (while eating pizza, dont blame me, haha)

my context:

* i dont like d3 coz its too easy to play, and all is basiclly the same
* i play casual, but i like the tryhard or rip feeling of poe
* im not rich, and would suffer hard from the ES-nerf coz of my crappy gear, especially in the early lategame

here is my point of view:
there are life-based builds that completed endgame-content, but much more ES-based builds. the upcomming ES-nerf doesnt ruin the game. it just put things straight in line togehter. i mean, common, faceroll a very endboss with 20k ES and ignore all mechanics cant be the reason you guys once started playing poe, right :) maybe the first few percentages of players will achieve the "faceroll-i-dont-care-about-mechanics"-playstyle, but the greath mob (like me) wont. i see no problem in that, i like dying.

im sure ggg tested the upcomming changes, and dont forget guys, there will be a big fat beta-testing phase. im sure after that phase there is room for adjustments if needed.

rule number 1, no comment without criticise (haha):

@ggg: i feel like this ES-nerf put your/our game in a row with other upcomming stuff like changes, the big addon or such, that you have maybe not yet announced. if thats true, maybe tell your community about it to avoid 120 pages of flames, blames, and rude-comments.

@the ES-nerf: i think VP shouldnt be touched.

ty for reading, and bb!
honeybadger