Path of Nerfs
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Here's my experience with PoE over the few leagues I've played.
Started in Perandus as complete newbie, screwed my first characters up like so many others. IRL happened and I found time to play in Harbinger again and ongoing. In harbinger I learned what is what in the game, followed builds on the forums and got somewhere. Had my first level 92 character at that time, (Played brutality cyclone) and had a lot of fun. Managed to six-link a starforge which I traded for 330ish chaos at that time, my first 6 linked item ever. I managed to kill the shaper (Died 3 times still) after failing the first set of fragments and I felt GREAT. Accomplished, gotten somewhere, smelled that holy endgame. Then the vaal pact nerf happened. I will say as it is, yes that keystone carried my ass through a lot of stuff. It allowed for room for error without getting instantly deleted from the screen. And while a lot of people here say the complainers about the VP rework are used to 'facerolling content', that's asinine. I am not used to steamrolling anything ever in this game, even during harbinger. Or otherwise I wouldn't have felt so great after my first shaper kill. The VP rework was far from needed in my oppinion. As shown the top 10% can play wonderfully without it but the average player in the game is getting the brown end of the stick. As it stands currently, I haven't gotten past yellow tier elders in PoE during all the leagues I tried and it is like screaming against a wall. Attempts are there but barely repeatable and thus not exactly teaching because we only got 6 portals and are tied to our map pool. The margin of error for average players is so tiny that it directly bites into the map pool and this leaves them with nothing because they can't go back to try more attempts since they don't sit on 100 maps of the type the elder is on. Needless to say I never even managed to finish the epilogue quest. My highlight so far was making it to the red eradicator ONCE on a BV character (Yes I even tried the meta) and I got absolutely destroyed. It is frustrating and ceases to be fun after multiple leagues. I have no idea in what direction you want to take the game, GGG, but I get the feeling the average casual player is not having a place in it. Last edited by Naedingur#0526 on Oct 19, 2018, 5:46:02 PM
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This nerf hits my character pretty hard >.>
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" you are aware, this was 10 months ago? |
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" It is same for all sane peoples buddy. Unfortunately the game is probably going to loose us - the oldest ( since closed/open beta ) players since it turns to be NOT FUN AT ALL after You are expectings to be nerfed after each pach for no reason at all. I am sorry guys - but honestly if I knew that the game would do this each few months I would never join it. After all the game soon is going to be version 4.0.0 NOT 0.0.4 guys ! Stop bullsh*ting us with "clean economics" and "much fun on clear" and etc etc speeches for 13 y old 1 month hype players. This is not serious at all. Do whatever You wanna in so called "leagues" which is completely alpha tests of this game, but for the gods sake - DO NOT TOUCH STANDARD AND HARDCORE ! Especially the ready builds - You are allowed only to add to their stats, not took any. ESPECIALLY A VITAL ONES ! This is just not serious. With the "1h 6L wipe" the PoE turns to a joke now.
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GGG its time to buff defence and life!
There should be better and more defence options and variations... Buff block, dodge, armour, evasion, etc. Add new defence so players dont die from 1 shot in delve or map boss. Settlers master craft service Settlers My IGN TreeOfDead
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" Well.. I love the way you express a sarcasm, but unfortunately Your sarcasm level is so advanced, that probably only peoples which care to open these videos before the ES nerf and watch them wholes will understand it. Basically before the nerf 3.5 ES was equal to at least 1 HP points which means that builds with 10k ES were equal as survivability to builds with 3k HP. I was running 12k ES build which was absurdly defense build with low DPS, costed 108 Exalteds, and I have worked for it nearly 1 whole year.. It was equal to 3.1k HP build with even lower damage. Now ( after the nerf ) the same ES build went 7.6k ES, which is more or less equal to 1.7 up to 2k HP build with EVEN lower DPS. Therefore we need about 165% ES rise to match the HP builds now. and about this 25k ES build. I've seen it. It was killing the boss on Act3 nearly 8 whole freaking minutes. It was made just for fun, and it was absolutely not practical at all, and the guy which have build it were spend on it nearly 800 Exalteds !!! PLEAS TELL ME HOW MUCH PEOPLES WOULD SPEND 800 EXALTEDS TO BUILD SOMETHING WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT PLAYABLE!? and - ShinigamiKller - No. I believe that anything that limits the sky is a problem for gamers. What's the point to play just to get all the time until "an average" player. There is just not fun. There is just no competition ideology at all. Why shall I care to spend my weeks, months.. even years to play something just to match some limit and that's it ?! Nope. if a game is limited then the competition is gone, and the fun is done within it. It's just like a beautiful empty shell. So - I believe that now the regularly ES build should be about 17k ES, and about 30-35k ES should be the greatest ones. ( to match the 10k HP builds now since the synergy of HP is 9 times greater ( you can drink HP potion, but I haven't heard someone to drink ES potion yet ) ). I was silenced for telling the name of USA president for 40 days. I was silenced for stating "I am Jesus" for 5 days. Maybe it is time the deeds of the moderators to become public, so peoples understand that they hired a cheap mods which enforcing their "woke" agenda on players. Last edited by BlazeSTX#1437 on Oct 30, 2018, 5:16:35 AM
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" This is plain wrong. If you are heavily invested into ES + 0 into Armour/Evasion/Block/Dodge, yes your 1ES point is not worth as much as 1 life. But that is your own fault. Grabbing some Block is not that hard, of having hybride items with some armour or evasion on it either. But most importantly your whole point is obsolete when we come to 1 shot spike damage. THAT IS EXACTLY THE CORE PROBLEM! And high es builds is the same shit as old Vaal Pact only on a different day! (the possibility to ignore certain game mechanics) Because where others failed to block/dodge whatever, they are just dead, their whole precious defenses failed. They needed to invest it in the first place because their HP is much lower. So there is that, and now tell me more about how 1 life is worth 3 es ratio... PFF Last edited by xX999Xx#3624 on Nov 8, 2018, 6:07:27 AM
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" PFFFF.. I am really tired to explain basic math and mechanic to guys which is trying to excuse every mistake GGG made. It's like trying to explain Atheism to the Pope and convert him. It will just not work. So.. Stop adding stuff to the topic. Defense + ES is always LESS than Defence + HP; Evasion + ES is always LESS than Evasion + HP; As it was noted above You can get a full potions bar of HP potions with 3k HP each, but You cant even have a single ES potion so far. ES is "the magic" which were making PoE different, more magical game than the regularly, and a bit strange NOT-SO-Diablo clone. Well.. Seems like WE WERE WRONG! It is trying to remove ES from the core mechanic and convert to fully Diablo clone. Last edited by ThorTX#4927 on Nov 8, 2018, 7:21:08 PM
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ES-CI builds still exist and are successful. So why do people still keep whining?
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" We're not, we've left the game. GGG keeps kicking the players that funded this game into stardom in the face and we've left. BYE! |
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