Balance in Path of Exile: Synthesis

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Attacks need the same level of attention (if not more) that spells are getting in 3.6.0, as well as changes to Abyss Jewels and Physical Weapon Damage, but we'll be spacing these changes over 3.7.0 and beyond

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Nibelton wrote:

and now let's embark on magical journey of reading https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Elemental_Overload

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alhazred70 wrote:

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Nibelton wrote:

and now let's embark on magical journey of reading https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Elemental_Overload

I wish you well on your magical reading journey nice of you to post a link to it for other people such as yourself that need to brush up. Hope I've helped you.

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Iznuts wrote:

So Storm brand nerfed cause of speed runners. takes a good chunk of ex to make it really strong. theres other skills that can delete bosses for far less investment.

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there's a keystone on the passive tree (Elemental overload or EO) that gives more spell damage if you've crit in the last 8 seconds, reducing the base crit of spells pretty much eliminates this keystone because its already tremendously weaker than Crit and relies on low to no crit investment to be worth using at all. If there's a significantly larger investment required in crit to proc it then just going crit which is already highly advisable and almost always better DPS, will be the defacto choice and no one will use EO. Depending of course on the details of how you get base crit.

The main thing to realize here is that EO was a sub par option already, nerfing it by making it harder to get enough crit chance to proc it reliably (which already requires a high hit rate spell or 8-10% investment in crit) and presumably requiring significantly more investment would be another tone def move on GGG's part.

Part of me wishes Chris would take a couple months and get back iinto the trenches with his employees because its' clear that Devs with poor understanding of the game are increasingly making unknowledgeable and hamfisted changes... like the Slayer leech change at a time when melee is a corpse bleeding out on the ground.

its not that Slayer leech doesn't need some balancing (and the rest of the Asc polished up to compensate) its that the timing of nerfing one of the ONLY GOOD THINGS TO DO WITH MELEE, is just retard level of tone def.

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alhazred70 wrote:

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innervation wrote:

Doesn't reducing the crit minimum of spells to 0% massively nerf elemental overload?

Is there a good reason for this?

how ? elaborate.

there's a keystone on the passive tree (Elemental overload or EO) that gives more spell damage if you've crit in the last 8 seconds, reducing the base crit of spells pretty much eliminates this keystone because its already tremendously weaker than Crit and relies on low to no crit investment to be worth using at all. If there's a significantly larger investment required in crit to proc it then just going crit which is already highly advisable and almost always better DPS, will be the defacto choice and no one will use EO. Depending of course on the details of how you get base crit.

The main thing to realize here is that EO was a sub par option already, nerfing it by making it harder to get enough crit chance to proc it reliably (which already requires a high hit rate spell or 8-10% investment in crit) and presumably requiring significantly more investment would be another tone def move on GGG's part.

Part of me wishes Chris would take a couple months and get back iinto the trenches with his employees because its' clear that Devs with poor understanding of the game are increasingly making unknowledgeable and hamfisted changes... like the Slayer leech change at a time when melee is a corpse bleeding out on the ground.

its not that Slayer leech doesn't need some balancing (and the rest of the Asc polished up to compensate) its that the timing of nerfing one of the ONLY GOOD THINGS TO DO WITH MELEE, is just retard level of tone def.