Energy Shield and Life

Thank you. Finally some changes and exactly like I would have made em myself.

What a bunch lol........Deal with it and be creative again. Good on you GGG for having the balls to fix this.

Lame cry kids are happy about ES nerfs. "THX GGG Now End game life is viable", hahahahah pathetic noobs ITS NOT!!!!!! Nothing end game viable now, u think some Life based build can chain uber atziri/shaper deathless? And im considering deathless only since im playing only HC, NO ITS NOT, what a surprise isn't it?


Not surprised at all, this company ruined all of my precious builds so last years are like - ok challenge accepted, i'll adapt/abuse/minmax most broken *** build in patch ***. And they calling that meta-shift, rofl.


Poe way.

"Life is sux, solution?" Lets nerf ES, so life will looks a little bit better.. did you tried to buff (life), not nerf (es)?

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IamLoco wrote:

GGG!

You had 2 choices:
- buff Life builds and make everyone happy
- nerf ES builds and make everyone sad (leave life build users sad anyway).

You went the Diablo3 way and made everyone sad. Fine.

But let me ask you two questions:

- Who on earth came up with these 25k ES builds? If you focus on nothing else than ES and have mirror worthy gear only - I can imagine this is possible. Looking at my lvl93 Inquisitor which I´ve spent most of my currency for, I´m sitting close to 10k ES and will most likely not get over that with my resources.

- HOW ON EARTH do you expect ES builds to heal during a combat once Vaal Pact is gone?
You know that ES does not replenish as long as you take damage, right? You do know that, correct? ES builds also have no flask (instant life recovery anyone?) and there is NO other way than instant life leech to kill a reflect elemental mob.

Your so called "balancing" shows too clearly you´ve grown too big to a degree that your developer staff doesn´t know what they´re doing.

they are killing off everything except bow ES :D

Pfft 25000 try 30000 lol

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and what about the oneshot potential on some encounters and skills? i already get oneshotted by some stuff with 11k ES. with even lower ill never get over lvl 90 :P

I like changes, because it gives us the chance to create new builds :)

don't worry es users, soon after release there will be new guides you can follow.

I see two major problems:
1) This change will make bunch of extra expensive legacy item - especially 20% rings from Elreon.
2) This change won't affect only high tier gear and chars, but I think this change will also affect middle to lower tier chars.

So high tier ES chars will have somewhat harder playstyle and that's ok. But middle tier chars will be unplayable. 15k ES is overkill, but it can be played with 10k ES. But char with 6k ES will be oneshotted by everything with 4k ES. So he will end up respecing his char to life (or life+ES hybrid) or buy uber legacy items.

IMO the biggest problem with ES chars its hybrid compatibility. Hybrid gear has much lower ES values and you can't take Acrobatics because of 50% lower ES for dodge chance. You can use armor, but you don't have high ES values or high armor. And armor is useless for tanking big hits. Life+ES char is viable, but why you wan't to go life+ES when you can go full ES and forget about Chaos dmg or go Shavs with low life char.
But ES has one big advantage - it's regeneration and Discipline. How can you fix and balance this? I don't know and neither you.