Energy Shield and Life

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VultureTX wrote:

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Solkan88 wrote:

I hope the changes won't be retroactive :(

After this DEV manifesto I suspect nothing but rapid inflation for ES gear till 3.0 drops.
as in like what happened to Legacy Kaoms in Standard.

Yes, that would be logical and fair to standard players, but you never know... I hope GGG is smart enough to not make these changes retroactive.

nerf to vaal pact was too far same with to low life builds maybe give them a small es buff

what's left is your skill. Maybe when you can't facetank shaper anymore, you have to use a bit of skill?

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LordNeromancer wrote:

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bhavv wrote:

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theLt wrote:

Imagine they make notes like
*all es stays the same as on live
*all endgame mobs and bosses do +30% more damage
*all life nodes get +30% buff

Would these changes make the community happy?

Id be fine with all life basic life nodes except the Scion cluster one giving 6% life each. Some even only give 4%, while the lowest ES nodes are 6%.

That alone would be sufficient, if still necessary than add an extra 1-2% to some life notables.

Life nodes are lower because Life+ES then will be high numbers. And Chaos ignores ES, so with CI u need more ES.

I dont agree. Life nodes used to be 6%, they were reduced because at that point life was considered too strong, and ES was also buffed because it was weaker.

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rararaputin wrote:

what's left is your skill. Maybe when you can't facetank shaper anymore, you have to use a bit of skill?

Well I would if I could move and shoot worth a damnn the way this GUI works.
I have no problems in FPS shooters like Battlefield , but POE makes me a sitting nuke/crit magnet every single day.

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Nephalim wrote:

What a horrible path the game has taken. 15,000 ES for a balanced character post nerf? 25,000 ES pre nerf?

Does anyone from GGG actually play the game at end game? This game has become more and more of a joke past ascendancy.

I couldn't agree anymore and I cannot help but be sarcastic here.

Should I be super currency rich in order to play the end contents without hype or meta builds (the ones subject to be nerfed, so nothing permanent)? Should I be a celebrity like "Johnny Depp" having millions of dollars of real estates (with 10 houses 100 ships and 1000 cars) or a Donald Trump? I don't know whether his dollar wealth is measured in millions or billions but he is surely at the head of a country with billions of dollars.

Do the players from the GGG circle or family have access to game cheat codes? Is there a GGG player with 10 mirrors in his stash? Or another GGG player with 1000 exalts or another player with millions or billions of alterations? Wasn't PoE intended to be a free game, a game without paying or cheating? (By the way, I suspect an existing mirror recipe supposedly unknown.)


Let me give you my own ES numbers after playing this game for 2 years with two breaks. That is not for 2 days or weeks or months but years with countless of hours of playing. 9.3k ES of my own lvl 93 Assassin Barrage wander (CI, with phys, ele and chaos hybrid damage) with decent gear. My other LL elementalist is now lvl 90 and it will still have 8.8k ES at lvl 92. With many exalt worthy trades, say 50-80ex, how much can I upgrade their ES gear? Not much, maybe 450 (ES gear upgrade) x (3-4) will give me = 1350-1800 extra ES for my CI char. 1.5k ES is upgrade is very nice at the cost of very "EXPENSIVE" gear but as you see my numbers, 1.5K + 9.3k is nowhere near 25k.

case 1: the nerf isnt that bad. There are other improvements in 3.0 that make ci crit builds still great.
case2: its just a horrorble nerf.

There are different reasonds for playing poe. My goal was to collect perfect gear because i love upgrades. I invested very much of my lifetime to gather the best gear for ci crit attack builds. Pls make this not a waste of time GGG. Otherwise i cant take this game which i actually very like serious anymore.

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argonaftec wrote:

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Peace.

P.S. Sorry for much words.

Ok, but u can fill Life with flasks, in same time no ES flask recovery. Why not to restrict ES regeneration in VP (such as Life regen). No mobs in sight and Corrupted blood on u - u dead. Just modify ssome way life recovery or max life - it will be ok. But NO, only nerfs. To get high ES u sacrifice Armor/Dodge and its costs too much in currency. These changes killing ES.

WHY GGG? WHY? YOU WILL LOOSE PLAYERS :|
MANY MANY MANY PLAYERS YOU WILL LOOSE


ENERGY SHIELD WILL BE 0 % VIABLE with new Vaal Pact 0 use on ES and new nerf Ghost Reaver => ANY NEW PLAYERS POORLY GEARED => no sustainability
(ONLY usable ES builds will be Occultist with ascendancy + Soul Stryke quiver , ALL THE REST = R.I.P, gg Path of Nerfing :| )
ES isnt even viable anymore,only LIFE Builds more or very gimicky geared ES builds, nicely done GGG nicely done.

Making ES useless

What next?Evasion useless?then Dodge? then feel the need to re-work Life into useless too?or all will be braindead life builds ok nice.

If my main character will be unable to lvup (max ES i had was 11k with 75% of ES of possible best armour and 60% shield (but great hybrid) and over 300ES hat), I will resign from playing POE and you will not see my money. 900ES+ armor is only a dream to a common player, who spends in the game 30-40 hours a week. Peoples dies often and can't lvup over 90 so resign. When high 95+ lv character dies, than lost 40-100 hours of playing. There are situations, when 10k ES is like a leaf for a massive attack of exploding ground effects. Because of dying i've resigned from high tier maps, and farm on low level - and developers, you know what? I've got a new level faster, than by risking fight with bosses on maps or even groups of nasty modded enemies. I was playing PoE earlier with hybrid build with Shaveronne's Wrappings and i was then so weak... This can kill the game. Peoples will come, and go. 25k ES was probably not possible with vaal discipline and best gear. Vaal discipline is already modified. I've never killed Atziri, never killed Shaper. My first Malachai Mercilles kill with no hyped ES, was like 100 Times dying and step by step damaging him. Who would play hardcore? Hom many decent Kaom armors are avaible, and who has enough exalted orbs to buy them? Only clever traders, leechers and peoples who were lucky to play the game before 2.0.0, like open beta testers have so good gear, that can make them be able to have over 15k ES. Now in this game only best decent players have something. Peoples plays leagues, because there the can rivalize with fair play rules, and there are not so many 900+ ES armour as on normal. This game is already a "Dark Souls" of internet gaming, and developers want to totally destroy our chances to have any fun from playing. Better way is to fight gear resellers, orb buy/sell traders, item quantity gear farmers and of course real money orb farmers sellers, who are the most rich players in the game and who control orb prices, buy all kaladra mirrors. They can have high roll gear! Oh yes the can. GGG should remember, that this elite will still be able to play and have fun and all others, who support company, would fast resign. Better way to repair balance is to increase life mods. If already roll gear will not be modified, that this would only make smaller elite of "lucky, that i am already good" players and all new peoples would resign fast. If already roll gear will be changed, that everyone will resign. Life physical players have much better leech, that compensates high values of ES and HP potions helps them too. This is my manifesto.