Game Balance in Path of Exile: Ultimatum

Hooray, you've done it. I actually hate literally every single one of the "balance" changes you guys have done this time around! Cool!

carrion golem nerf again..lol. why dont you just buff other golems?

That manifesto is nearly as depressing as the last one, you know, the one that hit 500 pages before you deleted lots of posts...

all nerfs across the board. explode chest way the only way to deal with porcupine for many builds. I don't know but I was already on the fence about this league. If we dont see some major love for some builds I think I may pass. Check my account on how much money I've spent supporting ggg and i feel like I got sucker punched with carrion and toxic rain nerfs. The only 2 builds I was interested in this go around :(

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manofthelaw3 wrote:

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Ygidua wrote:

I am using Vitality, Blood & Stone, Carrion Golems and all got nerfed. Not sure what to do, since 1 year each new league nerfs my kit further.

Do I truly need to play what everyone plays, to feel stronger again?

There's always not playing the same op build every single league.

What OP build?

I have created this build 2 years ago, it offers me some defence, minions that tank for me and damage I am dealing in addition.

This build is far from OP, I have never killed Shaper or any other big boss, except for Atziri and Elder. I still get one shot at maps, never delved deeper than monster level 83 and so on.

Maybe I am using some skills that can be abused by the 1%, but is that my fault that they abuse it? GGG always nerfs things that are used in a completely different way by many players, than by those who are supposed to be hit with the nerfs.

The 1% will just move somewhere else now, their big HP dude got nerfed so they now play a different build, while my tank spectre is now useless.

I have absolutely no idea how vitality could be abused or flesh and stone, there are not even any passives in my tree supporting those t wo skills and now they are made less effective.


This happens now every three months, I dont copy builds, I enjoy my build and its getting weaker each time they roll out a new league mechanic and this just isnt fun.

Same can be said about the master missions nerf. Maybe on third party chats these can be abused, I dont know. But I am playing solo and I never had too many of those.
They popped up so seldom for me already, that even less of those will make investing into awakening levels pointless.

I guess this is hard to see for someone who just copies the OP meta build each 3 months, but that just isnt my way of playing sorry.

I like all the changes but honestly i would have expected a huge nerf to Essence and Warbands, actually are both to op

Hell yeah my league starter is a safe boy! Love the nerfs, Carrion Golem was out of control. 10/10 GGG.

Why can't we buff for once instead of nerfing eveything?
It's so bad.

Maybe try to just buff stuff for players for like a year and see what will happen instead of gutting fun things over and over? I can guarantee we will get much more players playing for long.

Now it's dead. What's even to play without Explosion chest? Asenath's or Inpulsa's, two working builds for whole patch. Which means 40/40 and leave, since playing for more wouldn't be enjoyable.

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normally scarce stats, such as Area of Effect, Skill Effect Duration, Aura Effect and Projectile Speed are on Cluster Jewel notables

please not this again!! I'm having flashbacks about cluster jewel Aura Effect nerfs :(

agin nerf....