Energy Shield and Life

GGG thank you for seeing the struggle of life characters.

Fuck ES characters, and give us the glory dammit...

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PsOfOs wrote:

This is what the devs posted,this is what people comment.
If they have plans to increase life significantly and didn't mention them here,they are even worse.
Right now,though these values can change after beta,i see no mentality of bringing life and es at a balance that is enough to play endgame.
All i see are obsessed es haters that don't even care about life status in game,and people prompting others to play d3.
Do you like the changes they announced?
Do you think 50 life roll on chests is what life builds needed?

To answer your first question, mostly. If the changes are to be implemented as they are in this post, then no, but the important thing for people to realize is that crying wolf and quitting the game (hence why I brought up the D3 meme, people are actually quitting for that game in response to this) is absolutely asinine when these changes aren't even implemented in BETA yet, much less the final release of 3.0.

As for your second question... maybe? It mostly depends on the development philosophy of the high-end content we see in Acts 5-10 and how those bosses interact with players in terms of damage/one-shot mechanics.

Disfavor Juggernaut ftw! xD luv Ya GGG! xD

For all the people saying that they "removed" leech from ES no they didn't they removed instant leech....

Good thing I just bought that 4 ex es chest. CoolStoryBob

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I_NO wrote:

You guys are fucking bad at balance.

The changes are not even live yet. This is the plans for BETA! Give them a chance man. I believe in GGG and know that 3.0 will be amazing.

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JMFD0013 wrote:

GGG thank you for seeing the struggle of life characters.

Fuck ES characters, and give us the glory dammit...

lol. I like my red more than that guys blue! He's having more fun than me. F^&% him!

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Zevalex wrote:

As an SSF-HC focused player it might be very difficult to build an ES based character with these conditions. Though I don't quite know why people are so angry. Some 21+k ES builds did have quite the comfortable time demolishing end game content, It really did make the game simpler than it should be.

How many actual, practical PoE builds can reach 10.000 effective life pool? In most cases that's not possible, not until you can afford a massively expensive Vaal Regalia at least.

I'm willing to bet most PoE players haven't spent 1000+ hours grinding. So they don't have anywhere near 900+ ES on their body armor.

I'm also willing to bet I will still not have a 900+ Regalia even after 5000+ hours of PoE.

A 20k+ ES build is not a real, practical build, that can actually do anything. It's absurd to nerf the game just because some dude built an insanely OP build, to prove that it's possible.

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Draqu1986 wrote:

Good job GGG nice changes, high hopes for ppl actually playing the game not face tanking with 15k es++

Don't worry guys u will find the game different now that u have to dodge stuff .

No they wont. People will change to facetanking with life builds now.

Anyway if you build a full tank character, say juggernaut or gladiatior, why shouldnt you be able to facetank?

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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

I'm not seeing how you're interpreting it that way. They said the were adding new life+defenses mod, not that they would be restricting it in that manner. It would be very dumb if they did that.