Game Balance in Path of Exile: Ultimatum

these are literally all nerfs lmfao

"The Elder-influenced Weapon modifiers that grant a chance for Poisons or Bleeds inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage have been removed."

YET another league where the main skill focus is nerfed so that no one would want to play it... Sadge

It looks like they nerfed the top end more than the others. That's good.
(Yes, deep delvers and fractured mappers may lose out, but how many people are really directly affected by that?)

In general, balancing through top end nerfs is by far preferable to endless power creep, so I feel GGG has done well this time round.

Now just identify the tiny handful of still-totally-OP combos (like aura stacking or whatever allows S8 delete within a few seconds), target nerf them as well as then the game will be even healthier.

And please balance the new gems so they are not 10x more powerful than any previous gems. If you really want to tempt people into using them, you can make them a bit too powerful and rebalance them after the league. Just don't make them so powerful that every one will feel the need to run them or GTFO...

Chirs Wilson said during recent inverview during announcement that there will be buffs, there will be nerfs, etc. But aside from some vaal skills adjustments I'm not seeing any buffs AT ALL. How about buffing HUNDREDS of underused trash skills that are currently in the game? I would say 50% of skills are trash, 30% are mediocre, 20% are good. What a WINDBAG DUDE never trust him!!! False advertisment ONCE AGAIN.

Awakening bonus was nerfed twice. Give it some new effect, it is useless as fuck right now.

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Zhatan wrote:

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k_bry wrote:

It's so fun watching people trying to brag about how good they are at this game and then go on to cry that their build got nerfed.

I don't know how you can have played this game without knowing that buffs and nerfs are a constant and is essential to the future of the game.

What buffs?

I think he meant that the nerfs have been buffed, making them more nerfy

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Arkwright wrote:

I think he meant that the nerfs have been buffed, making them more nerfy

That is brilliant :)

"This is a buff (to the nerfs)"

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Tainted_Fate wrote:

Chirs Wilson said during recent inverview during announcement that there will be buffs, there will be nerfs, etc. But aside from some vaal skills adjustments I'm not seeing any buffs AT ALL. How about buffing HUNDREDS of underused trash skills that are currently in the game? I would say 50% of skills are trash, 30% are mediocre, 20% are good. What a WINDBAG DUDE never trust him!!! False advertisment ONCE AGAIN.

This is the Manifesto dude. Of course there will be other buffs/nerfs and other general changes to individual skills when the patch notes are released later today. Are they going to balance every single skill in the game? No. They have a shifting a meta for a reason, so that people try new things.

This Manifesto addresses the largest imbalances in the game and lets people know why changes are being made and what those changes are. That way they dont have to put this entire manifesto in there explaining why/how they are doing this in the patch notes.

All skills will still be playable, just might not be as broken as before.

Nice

To the mines I go this league.

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VaiberHD wrote:

"The Elder-influenced Weapon modifiers that grant a chance for Poisons or Bleeds inflicted with this Weapon to deal 100% more Damage have been removed."

YET another league where the main skill focus is nerfed so that no one would want to play it... Sadge

Shit didnt read that, so bleed bow goes riprrr prr prr, damn i really liked it in ritual and it didnt feel so much OP actually.