Path of Nerfs

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ilieff1 wrote:

Making the game ,,casual friendly,, was the biggest cancer Poe has ever received..

In fact it should be made alot harder. Just like in the begining. Just what we liked at first place..

How would you know? You weren't even around int he beginning. And most of the player base does not share your opinion. There is plenty of hard content in the game. Based on the challenges you competed in Harbinger, you didnt even do any hard content in the first place.

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Sardekar wrote:

So very, very glad that GGG butchered their own Black Friday sale, causing me to spend money on a Dauntless Founder's pack instead, which was a great sale by comparison.

I was very excited about Abyss until I saw these patch notes. Not only did 2 of my league starter builds get messed with, but the XP nerf is just plain asinine. I have nearly 4k hours into POE according to Steam, have never had a lvl 100, simply because mapping is usually insanely boring and I can't force myself past high 80s- low 90s. Thanks GGG, you've now given me no reason to ever try and push further, which was actually going to be my plan this league.

Good job on creating more reasons for players to go play other games than to invest further into yours this patch. You created a lot of great hype, followed by several shots to your own foot, from the Black Friday mess to these patch notes. I truly loved this game and wanted to continue loving it and treating it as my main game, but you really, really make it hard to remain a fan GGG, unless we're extremely, extremely patient or a masochist.

Guess it's also a good thing Dauntless has a patch coming out same day as Abyss starts, so I'll have something better to do with my time when I'm getting DC'd on every area transition and portal like the last two leagues and both races.

Stellar freaking job.

Oh, thanks for the info regarding Dauntless. SWOOOSH! hear that GGG? That's the sound of my money not going to PoE and into another game.

One less donut for Chris.

How does it feel to get nerfed in the wallet? OHHHHHH! I bet that pinches a little?

Just to be clear before someone accuses me of whining, because I was rather harsh in my post-

In my 3700+ hours I have used VP once, on one build that I didn't play for long. I've never made a Pathfinder, ever. I haven't used a Totem build since the first few months I played. I didn't make a DP 'Zerker. I've never made a VPS/QoTF build. The closest thing to meta I've done was an ED and a Flicker build most leagues, just because I like the flavor of chaos and ED, and I kept trying to like Flicker(and failing). GGG is not crushing my meta win-button, they're taking away my fun and my chase goals. When they nerf based only on the 1% and the strongest of the strong builds, they make the game a lot less fun for everyone wanting to play in any other way, while the 1% will simply find the new meta and continue to abuse mechanics as best they can.

You take away clearspeed, now non-meta builds that had barely enough clearspeed have almost none. You add to the XP grind and we now have fewer goals, fewer reasons to bother playing- this is why no one plays leagues for more than the first half of each league now, you just made it worse. Give us more to do and more reasons to do it, not less.

There's other games out there, there's other things besides gaming. You want people to spend time and money on your game, you need to make it appealing, not piss off a large chunk of your playerbase and send them looking for new hobbies.

Fix melee, fix useless skill gems, buff ascendencies that no one ever uses, flesh out the endgame to be more than just mapping and more mapping over and over. Fix FPS in parties so we can actually play with our friends. Fix the rampant DC issues that have been plaguing the last several leagues. STOP NERFING BASED ON THE META, PLEASE. And for the love of all things holy, learn to ignore reddit, all they do is complain about everything anyone else is having fun with, this is not an accurate metric to balance your game around. Reddit will always complain, always say everything needs to be nerfed, then immediately turn around and complain about the nerfs anyway. IGNORE THEM.

I appreciate the hard work and transparency that GGG has put into this game, I just really wish they'd stop taking 1 step forward, 3 steps back every few months. It's like dating some of my literally bipolar exes all over again.

The title of this thread is in very poor taste and its a fuck you to the player base that pays the bills, and to be frank, Chris is a moron for doing that. That being said, I don't care about the nerfs, I'm just gonna play the game and figure it out. But seriously, this guy is the head and he creates a thread with a title like that? Honestly you deserve it if a ton of players leave.

funny how people say sole on nerfs ... the game is getting erasier and easier over the years (funny how thios happens with nerfs only) and this page is about heavy nerfs^^ ofc you don t find buff here. Just read the last sentencve O_O.

i thought the whole point was discovering incredibly over powered builds...

wow, there is a lot of sand in a lot of vaginas

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TheGreatjon wrote:

i thought the whole point was discovering incredibly over powered builds...

That's why they nuke them. So you can go looking again.

There is a band called "CryMeARiver". This band made a song - cry baby cry. This song was about meta players after they lost VP.

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Tartaros38 wrote:

<...> the game is getting erasier <...>

Nailed it.