PVP 'Balance' update

PvP Balance:

- Removed the Level 60 Sarn Arena variant. Players who do not fit the requirements for the Level 40
Sarn Arena will be taken to the Open Sarn Arena.

- Characters which have entered the portal to Oriath at the end of Act 4 can no longer join Low Level
Duelling queues.

- Death's Oath now deals significantly less damage against players (and Grandmasters).

- PvP-only characters can no longer activate the map device.

- Bleeding, Ignite and Poison now undergo PvP scaling based on the attack or cast time of the ailment's
source. For skills with time override, the ailments use that.

Sad to see bleed go, but it needed it.

Now if only block and regen could get the same treatment. And Zerphi's. And the trillion other things that are easily fixed.

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ocd_xana wrote:

Sad to see bleed go.

it s gone since Death doors

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interesting

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Head_Less wrote:

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ocd_xana wrote:

Sad to see bleed go.

it s gone since Death doors

Not everyone used that though. I was killing shit with split arrow lol just ask Actalo how fair it was ;) was useful again the Zerphi’s builds like Aodui said.

I know, I recently went in sarn with a starforge bleed and was pwning noobs. Then the real abusers scorched+regen+death doors appeared and I looked dum again.

Bleed is just a noob killer Imo. All the zerphis I met in sarn were somehow immune to bleed.
My bleed dps was around 10k with spectral throw 4 proj+bcr (no need 1 hit = bleed death).

It was a pve build anyway but I just wanted to try bleed again to see. It looked very poopy and hard countered way too much by the real sarn cave trolls.

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Aodui wrote:

I was doing 9-18.5 k bleeds with a T2/T3 1hander using Heavy Strike (with melee physical, brutality) and my swap ins:

With ruthlessness sometimes making it a lot higher.
My guess is that the damage is either fully unmitigated or there is some bug.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Aodui/characters


Sharing because I tried, super hard, to get path of building to get Puncture numbers anywhere close, and it is just impossible, you need slow attack speed high damage, so either heavy strike or vigilant strike.

Puncture should really be reworked, right now the only thing it has going on is the duration tag.

Cleave had pretty good bleed numbers when I tryed but yea Heavy strike is the highest possible.