Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra
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I don't know if GGG is just trying to make people talk about their game with really shitty nerfs that 99% people will hate and 1%(streamers who play this game for a job) will like and then release stuff that's actually good for normies like me with the announcement or they're just severely out of touch and they think what people want in this game is for it to be harder for no upsides. I've been playing since 2011, since closed beta, and every league that comes out makes less and less content doable for people who don't spend their entire life playing this game. Or is the goal to alienate all the people who can't invest 10 hours of their day to the game? Either way I don't think PoE will ever be the same again with all the bullshit that's happening.
Hope PoE 2 will make my enthusiasm for this game come back, because UBER UBER UBER UBER content that I'm never gonna beat because of lack of skill/time investment might as well not exist in this game for me, so there's 0 hype from any of that shit. |
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The B TEAM does it AGAIN! ... and the crowd goes WIIIIILLLLDDDDD WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! |
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I am a casual player through and through, i do not have the luxury of infinite time like your streamer clan.
I am also by no means an experienced player let alone one that has RNG set at 10,000,000% to get the best gear no matter what build i try to play and yes i follow build guides, as i said i'm a casual and don't have the time (people have lives you know outside of POE) since 3.18 i've played a RF build and a Minion build ( But now onto the point at hand, seriously GGG what are you thinking with all these unnecessary nerfs?? you nerf our defences and you nerf flasks like WTH?? you don't even touch ashes of stars?? these are but just a few to note, now what really gets me is that you're killing off minion builds - the 1 time in my limited playtime i actually find a build i enjoy right before the new league comes out and it's now in the bin. why is it that meta skills/builds are left alone? Flasks - like seriously i play on PS5 and having the ability to automate my flasks is a difference between staying alive and dying so why nerf it?? Don't get me wrong i enjoy POE (i used to play and support you on PC for 5-6yrs) but at the end of the day regardless if this is a F2P game or a once off paid for game, if you continue to nerf everything you release into the game eventually you won't have a player base, take for example Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, game released, developers nerfed everything into the ground and player base has gone down the toilet. life is too short, there are other games out there/coming out and people don't have the time to waste trying to get around nerfs. At the end of the day this is just a game, if people are having FUN no matter how OP or non OP their build is - just leave it be and let people play the way they want, you GGG put the mechanics into the game let us just play without you nerfing everything you put into the game. |
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This is all joke right? I'm lost for words....
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" Damn.. this bricks like all my builds -.- |
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nerfed my build, nice job, maybe i stop play this
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"great" changes... Still sane?!
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Never seen something as mandatory as +2 minions levels swapped with something completely useless, kinda hard enough to make minions survive or get the last spectre with it, I dont get GGG at all.
But then again I wouldnt have sold my firm to a Chinese capital fund either. |
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A non-emotional response from someone who never forum posts or reddit cries.
Really like the nerfs, defensives are still abit overtuned, but the removal of divine blessing should tone down alot of the over the top use of offensive auras. The trio will still be used and still as effective. (grace, determ, DB) I still feel like they're abit light and hitting the wrong end of the spectrum, which is early game, early league and not end game / end league. The buffs / nerfs seem very very light numerically, which isn't what I think is needed. I think alot of skills and situations are being tapped where they need a much greater numerical and mechanical change. Offensive nerfs are still way too light imo, brittle is still op at 6% and omni is still op in it's current form. The RMR nerf is way to low, aurabots need a significant nerf as they offer so much raw power, 15% isn't going to do much and because it gimps individual play, it will simply mean more party play. I think unironically this is a buff to aurabots, which are already way too powerful (simply because how builds are put together). Magic Find hasn't been touched or addressed which I think needs serious redoing or removing, I think it's a cancer to the game. Melding nerf isn't enough tbh and some of the nerfs are no where near required to change playstyle. Needed to expound more affixes for it to be viable, which this barely does if at all. Spell suppression changes are good I think, although what I think needs to happen is add a small jewel with spell supp as defense node, as many still feel it necessary at mid-late game builds to survive uber fights. 34% on chest was op but left side builds need access to a small amount to cap out, even if they are using mageblood. Regarding the buffs, none of them are big enough to change viability. The base damage on some of the unused skills is why they are unused. You could buff cleave by +10 and i'ts still not viable vs helix or VLS. Some need base changes and mechanic changes for viability. For EG, you can buff scourge arrow infinitely and nobody will use it because of it's non-interaction with terrain and it's bugs. So no numerical number will make it viable. Also the trap nerfs need to be bigger, I don't think people should be killing endgame bosses with tabula and 50c of gear because they are using traps and seismic. Its complete bs and needs to be shot, force them to scale properly. Other than that great job so far, look forward to kalandra. You guys are doing a great job. |
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