Energy Shield and Life

This isn't even a nerf, they straight up gut ES.
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Skizo wrote:

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"

if its not instant, it sucks. Dont do this.
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plodd wrote:
What a fucking joke

We wanted balance not just change of meta from es to life.

So super top geared people will be getting 15k es woopee doo

Problem is the majority of players will be getting 6-7k es with no leech now and life will have 7k+ with instant leech..

Not to mention the fact that as a spellcaster you can only get like 2% or touch more leech whilst sacrificing a gem slot, I guess silver lining is extra damage support but still its pathetic..

Talk about 1 extreme to another.

Fuck fuck fuck, why did I waste money on another supporter pack I must be insane.

I would have done better paying a blind man to paint my garage.


This sums it up. But that would be par for course with GGGs overzealous balance team. One extreme to next.

Speaking with your wallet is way to go. I have not bought a support pack in advance ever until I'm happy with release pack represents. Will do same here. Wait for final form evaluate and buy or not buy. I cant see these changes making "as is" in final form so I'll hold off harsh criticism as well.
Git R Dun!
This is so sad.
I don't have enough time to play like streamers do, so my gear is much worse than their... for me reaching 10-12k es is challenging, with those changes i'll never be able to do Es character.

You should just add some life nodes between shadow/ranger/witch area and ppl would do much more life builds.
Sad, now im forced to do only life builds, and i probably wont be able to enjoy late game with rangers because ~4-5k life is not that much.

O, btw im sure GGG will lose 75% of players with this patch, because top players will always find "broken" thing in game. Medium players wont enjoy playing game like this, where they can only chose 1 way or become stuck in low tier maps.
Last edited by piotrekplis#0307 on May 18, 2017, 5:40:36 PM
With the heat this is gathering I am already doubting the changes will happen exactly as stated post beta. If they do, something else op will pop up. We will just have to adapt. But, please don't take the feeling of "powerful" away from people who have put time and effort into grinding to 100 and min maxing their builds. If everybody has the same life pool and same dps everything will be boring and I suspect you'd lose players and financial supporters. I do not believe that everyone should be one-shotting shaper/t16 bosses but there has to be a reward vs investment or there is no reason to invest.

Side note: what in the living F is going on with the game stability since the very last patch? Seeing tons of people dc on portal exit again, and quite often it is 5 out of 6 people in the party right at the end of each map on portal exit. I Personally had this happen about 15 times in a single session a few nights ago. Gets quite old when you have to recast auras every single map. Anyone else experiencing this the last 4 days or so? Running on a fresh install on a fresh os, latest amd drivers, rx480 8gb, fx8350, 16gb ram, corsair ssd, very solid setup.
Sounds good to me, big changes to stale meta is interesting. My only worry is it will make hc even less viable, that would be a shame.
Give me 50000 euros and i will keep your company alive within next patch.Otherwise you re doomed to loose like of 70% players with this stupid decisions u made.
They could just nerf CI... somthing like:
-chaos does 1 dmg to you
-you have 30life

Lol, when poe have achived "better than diablo 3" title, they are going to ruin it Jebaited
Last edited by piotrekplis#0307 on May 18, 2017, 5:44:37 PM
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Toliman wrote:
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Skizo wrote:

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"

if its not instant, it sucks. Dont do this.


Well, there was one though flying around - making vaal pact apply only to 50% of the damage leeched and other amount being subjected to general rules of leech. That is actually kinda good. But the main problem in my opinion is not the idea behind vaal pact (the drawback can be ignored in both life an es builds - you simply don't invest into regen at all) but it's placement. The placement is too good for ES builds in general. It has decent nodes before it if you go down from the upper tree part (especially crossing shadow realm or going down from reaver). You also don't really waste points because you still get some int and decent passives before and around the keystone.

In the life's case the position is f***ng terrible, you need to either go through ranger start with bad nodes and lots of agi (that is useless in case of armor build) or go through outer scion wheels (again, evasion and agi or, OH MY, ES and int at the upper top). Vaal pact should be somewhere in the middle of the tree. Maybe just between duelist and scion or somewhere in the centre of the scion, ranger and duelist triangle. When VP was in the left lower part (where life is) of tree it wasn't so bad LOGICALLY. Because it had kinda of understandable adventage and drawback.
So much crying. Hilarious, actually. I just hope GGG sticks to this very good decision and does not give in to all those little children "threatening" to leave the game.

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