Path of Nerfs

I had a dream of getting 100 one day. Lets be honest here my max lvl is 94 and i had lots of fun playing it. Now this build got nerfed once and today i can see another nerf. Im simple man with simple needs pls provide more fun less serfs. Why dont you buff other skills and stop destroying fun skills and items. This game is complex and it takes time for players to figure out good builds, nerfing things you are not expanding good builds you are killing them, you are making LESS not more.

you guys at GGG reminds me our politics here in Poland :D
they are all live in other world.
i'm earning $300 monthly (minimum wedge), politics earns 100x more.
and their opinion about all Polish citizens are based on THEIR wedge.
you get what i mean, right?
you do nerfs based on bunch of few elitist players where majority are casuals like me.
my highest char i think is 89, now i know i'll never had higher.
go nerf game, nerf experience gained to the point your all players will be those few elitist.
you will reach this point in a 2 years with this pace i think.
no worries, you have ZiggyD and few others to buy your microtransactions.
just my 2c.
regards from Poland,
Mike

u came home from a hard day at work put u poe invest hundred of ex in big shield items and BOOOOMMMM shield nerf....ok.... new league what u do? invest time take over on a stupid guy that leech life to stay alive lot of ex great items and BOOOOMMMMM no more instant leach 2 hits kill u (u should stay away and let u minions die only way this game can be played from now) but guys great news.. u have more buffs can u belive this????? now u can die with honor... 1 shoot kills u still but u die with 20 buffs... idiots are the ones who still will wait in a fucking line to play league or the ones that still will support with money... i should stop send money from shield nerf. my mistake . i wont make another.

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Vaal Pact Keystone
Being able to leech instantly meant that many threats were completely mitigated by high-damage fast-hitting characters with minimal leech investment. Vaal Pact has been changed to no longer grant instant leech, but instead doubles your character's leech rate and maximum leech rate. This was one of the most heavily-requested nerfs in the history of Path of Exile.

The keystone is still powerful, but now really benefits from investment in leech.

Atziri's Acuity
Atziri's Acuity has been changed to instead grant Vaal Pact if you've performed a critical strike recently, giving it a slightly different use when compared with the Vaal Pact keystone. It now fills a different role to its previous one and acts as a way for you to avoid some of the downsides of the Vaal Pact Keystone

The Slayer
The Brutal Fervour Ascendancy Skill no longer grants Maximum Life Leech Rate. Hematophagy and Vitality Void now only grant +3% to Maximum Life Leech Rate (from +5%).

As a result of the changes to Vaal pact, other sources of leech were also examined. Brutal Fervour was identified as a problem, moreso after the changes to Vaal Pact, as it was the next-closest thing to instant leech. We didn't want to change what made the Slayer the Slayer, but were okay with it taking a small hit, given its dominance over the 3.0.0 ladders.

Leech changes are "not good" handled imo, but still better than before!
I recommend to make vaal pact +50% more life leech rate und cap life reg to -50%. Atziri Acuity just buff life and especially mana leech rate on crit or just let mana instant leech. But with this change, MindOverMatter with leech isn't endgame [guardian / uber atziri / shaper etc.] viable anymore. Please GGG turn the mana thing in anyway back on that gloves, or did i missunderstood something and there is no mana leech (instant) rate remove? :)

The leech rate passives were fine or buff the base leech from 20% to 25% or something, but with this - normal leech is really awful and you force the player to take vaal pact or leech isn't good enough imo.

Positive:
It seems there is actually no more ES leech downside with vaal pact - only the standing of the point and in this case, atziri acuity seems the only really good usage for ES leech builds in v3.1 and 80 int are also good for ES builds.

The Soul Tether mechanic also buffed with this VP change and makes it viable to use - i guess.

Wow calm down people and wait for full patch notes or actually play new patch before raging like little kids. Dont forget theres coming new op elder/shaper items, jewels etc.
Whats fun to play broken builds and kill shaper and other bosses in few seconds?
In Harbinger i played simple cyclone build without vaal pact i could kill shaper and uber atziri deathless and it was so much more fun then doing it with some op broken build

Fuck Vaal Pact. Glad its gone.

There are plenty of things that should be on the nerf list.

- Reduce Aurabot effectiveness
- Remove Headhunter specific div cards
- Reduce Quant explicits or remove items (see Bisco's)
- Reduce Sextant radius
- Increase Zana costs
- Decrease travel distances for Whirling Blades and Shield Charge
- Bring skills back to Earth. Sunder, Blade Flurry, KB, VPS, Barrage (-1 projectile does nothing with so many projectile sources), Spectres, Glacial Cascade Mines (mines in general...), Dark Pact (needs another 10-15% less damage).
- Add PvP damage scaling on 3.x items (see Death's Oath, Allelopathy)
- Cap Projectile Distance

@GGG

Thank you for rolling with the PATH OF NERFS meme. It made me laugh for a while at work while itching to get home and write about this. This shows that while they take the community seriously, they are made up of people with a sense of humor. Thank you!

I'm bitter about Vaal-pact for sure. I've used it for over 4 years on every single build. I also subscribed to the CI-melee META, pre 2.6. Hell I played everything after the closed BETA and so although I haven't been around since the beginning, I've felt fucked off heaps of times!

After CI was murdered I realised that the game's (literally [I said literally omg!]) about moving forward. My Life-based builds out-performed my older CI builds in many areas! Yeah, it took me months to get over my bitterness after my build got 500k+ views then was ruined, but it was worth it as I could have fun again.

@GGG, rest assured that your community loves you. Emotional outbursts are often associated with passion, and your community is absolutely bonkers about what you contribute to the realm of ARPG. Ever since Diablo 2 I've never experienced that "maybe I should call in sick so I can play" sensation as violently as I do with POE. I'm old, but not Diablo 1 old! Maybe I was just too poor!

Anyway, as Random as I am, I would like to say thank you for taking people's outburts with both an iceberg of salt and a critical eye. As after 5 Asahis worth of worth of reflection, I've realised why I love Kiwis. I can be as abrasive, yet comical as I was back home here and I still feel welcome.

You're a good [Removed by Support], GGG!

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Pyridoxine wrote:

Whats fun to play broken builds and kill shaper and other bosses in few seconds?

A lot of people seem to consider this not only fun, but the sole and correct way to play PoE.

And hey, i get that, but that's seemingly not what GGG wants from the game.

i don't like any of these