Energy Shield and Life

We have to answer to the good question. The ONLY ONE :

If ES is nerfed because of facetanking, why is life not nerfed ?

oh well time to go back Life Build ? Yay :(

Good stuff!

Yea, this is really disappointing to me. As someone who doesn't play 40 hours a week it's already a super difficult process to not be instantly one shot by late game content. Now nerfing the 9500 ES I spent forever trying to obtain is going to make late game content impossible for me unless I quit my job.

I agree with most these comments, seems way overkill. Late game content is really not skill dependent, and just about devoting countless hours for god roll gear that casual players will likely never obtain.

Love the game, love the stream of new content, but this 'balance' does not seem a good way to go.

This will only lead to the loss of players .. and so see

My feedback for what it's worth.

ES changes - Agree with all changes so far. 15k can still survive most one-shots but on rippier maps one-shots or pseudo one-shots are still possible.

Keystone - The Vaal Pact change was necessary IMO. I felt the Ghost Reaver one wasn't as necessary.

Life changes - The new hybrid life rolls are terrible. They make the already bad alternate defenses worse by competing for the flat defense prefix slot and by having lower flat rolls. At higher life values 8k+ the hybrid rolls are decent as they provide a better buffer against one-shots but at the lower range where most players sit you're still too susceptible to burst damage and one-shots for the extra life to do much.

it's like Christmas came earlier this year and gave us PoEII.
ditch the past you whinos; comfort and stability is not what makes a PoE but tears and overcoming them.

I have to invest in more than 3 ES clusters! Not fair!

GGG once again forgot about ES builds that only have 9-10k ES and couldn't leech (all trap,mine,totem,DOT in the right up side of the tree) .

If you didn't know, those builds had to play as pure ES because no way you can get pass 4k life in that area and they didn't abuse the leech mechanic cause they can't leech after all.

Now all of them are getting nerf because some shitty face roll meta builds? Seems legit.


So all those builds must travel all the way to Templar/Scion and Marauder area to get all the life nodes? Don't tell me about hybrid because you can't sustain both ES and life and it's getting nerf too .

Not sure how is it gonna help the game, but I'm sure I won't play any trap/mine build anymore.