Energy Shield and Life

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maxkardinal wrote:

Why people keep saying that without Vaal Pact there will be NO way to regain ES?

Llife leech was not yet removed from the game, so what's your problem? Oh, i think i'm getting it - you won't be able to fecetank everythg that not 1-shots you. In your world tnhat means unplayable? Nice.

Why people keep saying that ES chars can't mitigate physical damage?

Fortify, Granit, Basalt Flasks, Arctic Armour are not yet removed from the game. Oh, that means that you need to replace your precious dps flasks and drop one offencive aura. Thats unplayable, for sure. Thtats fucking unspeakable!

considering your character pool i would say you have no expansive knowledge of endgame. Life leech without vaal pact is not workable in a CQC environment. The leech is plain too slow. Sure, there are some life leech rate + nodes, but they are mostly in the south west of the tree

I have no doubt bow ES will work, since you can dodge most of the damage. In close quarters (melee, some spells) you can't always dodge.

We aren't talking about facetanking shaper beam/slam here. I have never done that, and yet ive killed both uber and shaper.

My lvl 94 raider (HoWA) has about 10k ES, with a decent investment. One could argue the chest is trash, but this is about the ES a high tier chest will get after nerf. So, is she as invincible as you claim? Absolutely not, if I dont pay attention she will die, even just doing regular maps. Do I need vaal pact? I sure do, even when playing as spectral throw, and even more so if i switch to blade flurry.

In the current high damage environment of late maps the changes proposed by GGG wont work for CI characters. This includes both the high nerf to tree ES and vaal pact. However, there are some additions we havent seen (pantheon).

If this is another knee jerk nerf and actually goes through I will probably skip next season. There are some good ARPG (and mods!) alternatives nowadays.

Life users - YAY! =__=)/
ES users - whine, whine, whine >__<)`

BEST Patchnotes in the last 3 years. Where are the new Supporterpacks so i can waste my money !

Bunch of babies crying kek

This is a good change

finally those arrogant ES pricks will be shot down #makeglobal1greatagain

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Current estimates are that a build that balances offence and defence and is well-geared can reach around 15,000 Energy Shield.

How ggg?

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Yamifira wrote:

finally those arrogant ES pricks will be shot down #makeglobal1greatagain

I agree. Path 3.0 will be maybe about communism. Everyone are equal but everyones have a big bag poop.

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Nedfert wrote:

Probabily this game is become the hardest game in the world .This game lose player every day and this is a fact we all know( friend list empty day by day ) and now another brutal nef anouncement, i wonder if we not be able to play decent anymore this game, why we stil play or invest in this game?

1. They´re all rich now and don´t care
2. I´ll stop my support the moment this mindless nerf goes online. Will hold my moneyz for now, that´s for sure.

If these nerfs go live as they are, and especially if I go from 8k to 6k ES which it seems like I will, I'll be asking for a refund on my recently purchased hydra and legacy packs at least. Dunno if they'll give me them, wonder if I'll be man enough to file chargebacks and get my account banned if I have to, but it wouldnt be worth it with how much money I've wasted so far.

HAHAHAHAHA YES YES!!! LET THE BUTTHURT FLLOOWWWW THROUGH YOU!!

Not sure "life builds" casuals will finaly stop crying and to be jealous.

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Rory wrote:

We'll be making a large number of changes to Energy Shield and other defences as part of the Fall of Oriath Beta. This manifesto aims to explain why we've decided to make changes to Energy Shield, and what these changes will be.

Why was a change required?.............

BIG FAT "OMG"

Path of Exile needed a change, but less ES without vaal pact anymore and no "+" in life, just more defences that are worth nothing. The most enemies on higher maps make mostly elemental damage, cool that the cap of the game is 75% to resistances and none of the defences are anyhow useful to prevent that damage except for dodge/block, which allow you to only maybe avoid the damage dealt to you.

"Volatile Flameblood"-Guy's are a quaranteed one shot for all melee chars at the moment and all of the other kind of exploding shithead's, except you are ES with more then 8k ES, but you really want to ignore that fact? SO your changes will make Melee's just useless...? There are how many skill's in this game? And all the changes are just heading into one direction, making ranged chars stronger while melee getting even worse? Melee= (actually) Heavy Strike, Dual Strike, Double Strike.... who the fuck uses those attacks anymore. Dual Strike get's only a role as boss killing skill,... There are only a few skills really useable (endgame) and your patch just make it more clearly :,D

I have totally no clue how you wanna reach 25k ES as a normal player, without guardian supporters. The best thing I ever saw were 15k (in about 5k hours of playtime, when he was wearing a 900 ES Armour and pretty hard 3 res gear) and even them, can be one-shotted in "Uber Atziri" easily. The maximum of Life with the same amount of money would be around 8-9k Life and to reach more then that, you'd need a Kaom's Heart in Legacy Version. Who the heck can afford something like that?

RESULT: Average gamers with good gear can afford about 7-8k life mid dps, with ton's of useless defences like "armour/Evasion rating", while a low geared ES char atm start at value's of 6k ES and go for a average of 10k-14k with none "armour/evasion" and high dps. The game shows us, defences are useless in anyway, just a high pool of life will secure you and maybe some of the flasks. as long as life is limited like that and with enemies who easily one shot you, on maps that's 5 Tier's lower cause of matching mods, then you can just throw your update in the can.

I hoped for an update that would balance the whole story a bit and not only the numeric value differences between ES and Life.