Game Balance in Path of Exile: Ultimatum

Flesh and Stone now has a 35% mana reservation (from 25%). The defensive power of the skill in Sand Stance and the offensive power in Blood Stance was too high relative to other reservation effects. We've added a small reduction to Stance skill reservation cost on the Blood and Sand specialization cluster near the Duelist to bring the cost down slightly for appropriate builds.


Big yikes right here. with alot more in the manifesto. oof more and more nerfs. this going down a very bad path for the exiles in the game.

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Randooming wrote:

I spend last league 800EX making 2 builds, items and maps for Standart and its all gone in 5 days. This is so depressing. I wasted so much time end effort for this.

Reading this makes me feel so hollow.

Who cares about standard? People malding!

I have a decent poison build (with Cobra Lash, since it was buffed) that I invested a load of exalt into, and was barely able to do The Feared, Maven w/Challenges, and A9 Sirus at the end of the league, losing a few portals to each. Really curious what this nerf to the Elder poison mod is going to do. Hopefully it doesn't relegate it to mirror tier gear only on a poison build.

Interesting read-through though. Some good, some bad and it's almost time to start theory-crafting a new build. :)

edit: Also, both DX and Vulcan are way worse than before after the texture streaming update. Delirium is going to be broken for a lot of people, while also being nerfed.

YAY fun is NOT allowed as usual. GGG are still in 2013 mindset, and its sad.

Good job GGG. All these nerfs are perfect. I especially like explode chest nerf, fractured fossil nerf and quiver nerf.
Keep up the good work. :)

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N3M3SISSS wrote:

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

hahaha that is some high quality sarcasm right there.

+1

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KalElAgent47 wrote:

Imagine gutting harvest and then killing all of these things LOL...what a MEME. Why would anyone wanna invest in 100% delirium farming now? It will cost a lot to keep making maps and be clunky as usual. Deep delvers are going to lose a lot of their profit as frac fossils are basically useless now LMAO. This is so bad..wow..theres so much more too...insanity.

That's the point... It's overpowered and deserves to be nerfed for the health of the game.

Please nerf Mines and buff Winter Orb.

KEKW

THEY NERFED BLEED!? I'M A BLEED MAIN, BLEED IS DEAD! *tableflip*

No for real, i'm a bleed main, bleed is dead kek

Most of the other nerfs were valid, easily abused mechanics but the bleed nerf really? Don't tell me bleed was OP compared to any other top end shit.

Guess i'll actually have to just abuse some boring meta build instead of actually play something fun.

I can kinda see the reason behind just about everything (I hope BV is still playable...), a lot of these nerfs have been expected for a while now.

Not sure I understand why Hardened Scars was nerfed unless there are reasonable ways to still enable it.