Balance Changes in Path of Exile: Betrayal

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ಥ_ಥ wrote:

I'm going to miss Death's Hand but whatever. There are other ways to get Unholy might and generate power charges.

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When looking at unique item balance, some items that offered triggered effects had their cooldowns reduced. It was difficult to do this without also looking at other triggered effects. As a result, the Cast on Critical Strike Support and Cast on Melee Kill Support will also have their cooldowns reduced.

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moonmidnight wrote:

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ಥ_ಥ wrote:

I'm going to miss Death's Hand but whatever. There are other ways to get Unholy might and generate power charges.

theres still hope for unique off hands to be changed

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Xveno wrote:

I understand that wielding a statstick for more damage is not very realistic, but with that argument, you should not be able to use shields with 1h weapons either, because they too can give you more damage.

And for the balance perspective, I looked at the available delve statistics:

Softcore-Delve statistic for characters lvl 95+ (poe.ninja):

Skill popularity:
blade vortex (20%) <-- 1/5 of ALL players used blade vortex
molten strike (10%)
elemental hit (10%)
frenzy {poets pen}(9%) <-- note that the first four skills covered almost half of all builds
tornado shot (7%)
arc (7%)
righteous fire (6%)
reave (6%) <-- first melee build that uses statsticks
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the second one is double strike, at 3% followed by blade flurry at 2%

Deepest solo delve:
blade vortex (3.8k)
tornado shot (3.4k)
molten strike (3.1k)
poets pen (3k)
magma orb (2.3k)
elemental hit (2k)
glacial cascade (1.6k)
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the first melee statstick build is blade flurry at 1.1k

Now by looking at this statistics I would never say that statsticks were "op" for melee based builds, and nerfing those builds will make them even less popular.

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Yadeehoo wrote:

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saragart wrote:

It is Very Disappointing to see stat sticks just killed rather than tweaked.

People are playing in standard for a reason, I dont want to reroll with each league release. I could play my build another 2 months before getting bored and rerolling. Now I will most likely have to.

Can you just Make items legacy rather than change the rules all the freakn time?

The cycle of nerfs and build breaking changes every 3 months annoys thhe living shit out of me!

Agreed

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xXx_1 wrote:

They hate people who win the game.
You want to win from now? It will be according to our rules
And you'll have to live in our bubble for a long time

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gadam93 wrote:

I dont see how GGG would actually be that stupid and make this a straight up nerf. I'm pretty sure the new mechanic will make dual-wielding interesting again and open up more possibilities for new builds or just using skills that nobody uses atm.