Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

And I'm happy thats an option if people want to play it that way. The game is about freedom of choice and it mostly delivers on that with lots of issues for sure.

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MasterKnives wrote:

And that's fine you can be the better player I'm a ok with that. Bit to state the game is too difficult is insanity we have more tools then ever to make a successful build it's the easiest it's ever been

Game is HEAVILY overtuned, it's hella too difficult. Aiming to turn it into OHMYGOD HARDCORE ZOMG game gonna force 99% players to quit.

Actually I made a heavy profit this league from hard content, got 1250+ vouches from uber bosses, made a lot of currency,

BUT

I'd still prefer the game to be waaaay easier. Everyone gets mageblood, mirror? Sounds great! Everyone could kill all uber bosses and nobody needs my boosts? Amazing!

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pr0mete1 wrote:

He thinks he knows better, because he made 40/40 challenges on no brain summoner and his opinion is more important, than yours.
Also, he thinks that adding "can't wait for D4" in every his message will make GGG to change their mind.

The only problem - I did it on non-summoner build, dunno, check opponent's gems next time? Mapping done on tornado shot, bossing done on cremation =)

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Anngrat wrote:

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pr0mete1 wrote:

He thinks he knows better, because he made 40/40 challenges on no brain summoner and his opinion is more important, than yours.
Also, he thinks that adding "can't wait for D4" in every his message will make GGG to change their mind.

The only problem - I did it on non-summoner build, dunno, check opponent's gems next time? Mapping done on tornado shot, bossing done on cremation =)

You are my hero now.

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pr0mete1 wrote:

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Anngrat wrote:

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pr0mete1 wrote:

He thinks he knows better, because he made 40/40 challenges on no brain summoner and his opinion is more important, than yours.
Also, he thinks that adding "can't wait for D4" in every his message will make GGG to change their mind.

The only problem - I did it on non-summoner build, dunno, check opponent's gems next time? Mapping done on tornado shot, bossing done on cremation =)

You are my hero now.

Trolling aside, I really dont understand your position.

You played X hours in the league, made a build, progress to y point. Y point is somewhere below the start of the endgame. I just dont understand - don't you want to run ALL content, really ALL content that game has to offer.

And you demand to make it even harder? So Y point for you gonna be even further from endgame, so you could access even less content in the game? I just fail to spot ANY logic here...

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Anngrat wrote:

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pr0mete1 wrote:

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Anngrat wrote:

The only problem - I did it on non-summoner build, dunno, check opponent's gems next time? Mapping done on tornado shot, bossing done on cremation =)

You are my hero now.

Trolling aside, I really dont understand your position.

You played X hours in the league, made a build, progress to y point. Y point is somewhere below the start of the endgame. I just dont understand - don't you want to run ALL content, really ALL content that game has to offer.

And you demand to make it even harder? So Y point for you gonna be even further from endgame, so you could access even less content in the game? I just fail to spot ANY logic here...

Not everyone plays like you, just remember it.
I picked skill in this league that only looks cool, made 93 level on it (with my best character ever have 95), killed few non-uber bosses, farmed mechanics I like and had a fun time. The only thing I didn't like was immunity affixes that GGG nerfed pretty fast.
I will do it again in next league with a pleasure.

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tnengineer wrote:

Tired of the minion build nerfs... What you basically are saying is this:
If you are rich, you will have more minion damage than before because you can afford the items, otherwise you will get nerfed. The rich get rewarded with more power (as if they need it) and everyone else playing minions will be penalized.

Just like in real life, those with all the wealth get even more power and wealth, while the poor must be kept down.

No what they have done is created more ways for you to boost your minions. With the new itemization chances are your builds can be stronger then they ever were before. This also opens the opportunity for another ascendency since now you can get the plus 2 from your helmet. Leveling them will be smoother because you'll have lower level versions of the minion wands, and shields with stats. What they did for summoners was free them from the repetition that frankly was required for most variants of the builds.

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pr0mete1 wrote:

Not everyone plays like you, just remember it.
I picked skill in this league that only looks cool, made 93 level on it (with my best character ever have 95), killed few non-uber bosses, farmed mechanics I like and had a fun time. The only thing I didn't like was immunity affixes that GGG nerfed pretty fast.
I will do it again in next league with a pleasure.

With such approach nerfs/buffs have almost no effect on your gameplay and in-game experience, so why do you want the nerfs then?

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MasterKnives wrote:

No what they have done is created more ways for you to boost your minions. With the new itemization chances are your builds can be stronger then they ever were before. This also opens the opportunity for another ascendency since now you can get the plus 2 from your helmet. Leveling them will be smoother because you'll have lower level versions of the minion wands, and shields with stats. What they did for summoners was free them from the repetition that frankly was required for most variants of the builds.

The leveling wont be smoother - generally you gonna end up with 0 - 2 minion bases dropped with something like 0 minion mods on it. And minion fossils gonna be hella expensive, you wont be able to buy a bulk of fossils/recombinators for 10c and craft crappy minion gear.

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Not everyone plays like you, just remember it.
I picked skill in this league that only looks cool, made 93 level on it (with my best character ever have 95), killed few non-uber bosses, farmed mechanics I like and had a fun time. The only thing I didn't like was immunity affixes that GGG nerfed pretty fast.
I will do it again in next league with a pleasure.

I think what you mean to say is that most players don't play like he does. Which is exactly how the game was designed to be experienced. The rewards are there in the form of cosmetics that change every league for people who are dedicated and have the time to complete them, this is free of charge and an amazing way to reward dedicated play.

For the rest of us who do our own targeted content the current systems in place are fine but needs to be tuned to make the progression a little bit slower and a little bit harder (With appropriate rewards). Too much content in the game gets ignored because the payout isn't as consistent as say heist. And while RNG should always play a factor in your game play the hill to climb needs to be smoothed out a little bit. I think by buffing items and increasing value and options across the board people will discover more fun when build diversity increases. This of course is challenging to do and I personally don't think most issues can be addressed until path of exile 2 which I personally have great faith in GGG they will be able to deliver.

With more wands and shields as options you can make up for that early game loss of the plus 2 to skill gems, you're still getting 30% added chaos damage, and with a trade league your items will be readily available and affordable IN TIME just like they always are if you're not going to attempt to self craft.

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MasterKnives wrote:

With more wands and shields as options you can make up for that early game loss of the plus 2 to skill gems, you're still getting 30% added chaos damage, and with a trade league your items will be readily available and affordable IN TIME just like they always are if you're not going to attempt to self craft.

Dude, even if bases gonna drop 24/7 ( which i doubt), the weightning of mods gonna be like classic 200-500? How many convoking wands did you id to find out that they have decent minion dmg + 1 physical spell skills? I believe something very close to 0. The story will be exact the same with the odds of 90%. You won't loot good minion items with good minion mods from the ground - that just dont happen in PoE. You gonna need fossils(most likely they gonna have minion/damgage tags only, so you even wont be able to roll it in harvest during early mapping). Or houndreds and houndreds of alch>scour....