Balance in Path of Exile: Legion

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Phenomena wrote:

Over my 25 years online gaming I've almost never complaint about changes but...

I see and get the rework on the melee skills. I was heavily needed, what I don't get is the nerf's.

Your prime trademark was don't nerf make the other stuff better.

The skills you are nerfing have been accepted by the community already and people likes the gameplay. It's the underpreforming skills you need to look at and do something about. Not the working ones.

Just wait and see on next patch when you have made some to fun strong melee skill options what what will happen then?

At the end of the day this is a game you kill stuff loot and have fun. A skill and build must be fun to play thats what is important for everyone. If someone find that and you nerf it, look at yourself how would you ract?

A majority never see a headhunter or get the currancy to buy one or gets pass level 95 like the stupid level thing you added back in 3.0 or so. Those nerfs are to satisfy a very small player basis but has a big impact for players that have a work, family and can only play 40hrs a week or a bit less.

Once again Don't nerf things, make the other stuff better!

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Iskandur wrote:

Why not just remove offending skills like winter orb and storm brand instead of "offering" players a nerfed version that is going to feel crippled compared to what they've been playing? Aren't the nerfs supposed to get people to play something else? Just delete them. A new FOTM will take their place, then...yeah back on the nerfcycle.

Regarding the elemenatalist and those "bad" skills, if you're going to pull its wings off, why not be merciful and just kill it off outright. Are elementalists supposed to play Arc instead, the freshly nerfed version we have now? What's left for the elementalist?

Maybe is is all down to removing things that kill console performance. Whatever it is, it feel like a no fun manifesto to me.

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AShugars wrote:

Been playing since late Delve league. Have never seen a HH belt drop, and at this rate, I will NEVER SEE ONE DROP...EVER. Gotta hand it to you guys for keeping it real though. Not everyone can enjoy the finer things in life.

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Acquisition

League(s): Nemesis

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dragonpowi wrote:

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Well , the hype is dead , anyone knows a good game to play until 4.0 is released and they revert all these BS changes?

oh no my meta build is gone what im gonna do now :(. seriously, HOA nerf = deserved, Winter orb = deserved, occultist and ES = deserved. the only thing i see that maybe wasnt needed is beacon of ruin and warlord mark. im not sure if aurabot nerf is deserved tho, anyway i play solo.

Of all those builds the only one i played was Hoag, not even mad about it , is just that they nerf everything to the ground and force meleeshit down our throats.

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Justjoshin wrote:

For the enchantments discussion. Why not have the enchantments you can get more heavily weighted toward skills that you currently have equipped in any slot on your gear when you touch the font and choose helmet enchant? You can have what, 32 total gems slotted in gear max? Including weapons on swap that is. Maybe 30% or 50% of the time you have a 1/32 chance to roll an enchant for one of those gems. No gem may have more than a 1/32 chance so if you have less gems equipped, repeats, or supports and gems with no enchantments, that chance would roll back to the general mod pool. You could balance this however you like to achieve the desired weighting and chances. Just a thought I had.

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The Occultist now only has a single Energy Shield based notable, with a condensed and limited version of the previous Energy Shield notables. The ability for energy shield to be uninterruptible if recovery has started recently has moved to a new Keystone found near the Witch, making the mechanic available to a broader selection of characters, though with a new downside.

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We've made a number of changes to bonuses to Energy Shield on the passive tree. The value of increases to energy shield on various passive clusters have been lowered, with some flat energy shield available early in the passive tree. This will let energy shield have some extra defensive benefits at early levels, while reducing the potential Energy Shield that a fully invested late game character can achieve.