What did they do with soul-eater?

Not only am I seeing the affix way more often this league, but soul-eater mobs are a complete slog to deal with now. Not more difficult, just takes too long to kill them because after a few seconds of corpse gobbling it's like they almost stop taking damage altogether. WAY too tanky even without combining it with any of the various recovery of defensive mods.

It has been reworked

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3496784#playerbalance

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Player Balance
The Soul Eater buff has been reworked. There is now a maximum number of 45 souls that can be consumed, with each soul providing 5% increased Attack and Cast Speed. For monsters, this buff also provides 2% less Damage Taken per soul consumed. 1 soul is lost every 0.5 seconds if you have not gained any souls recently.

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Silverpelt wrote:

It has been reworked

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3496784#playerbalance

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Player Balance
The Soul Eater buff has been reworked. There is now a maximum number of 45 souls that can be consumed, with each soul providing 5% increased Attack and Cast Speed. For monsters, this buff also provides 2% less Damage Taken per soul consumed. 1 soul is lost every 0.5 seconds if you have not gained any souls recently.

That's some serious bullshit. This means that every soul eater mob will have almost perma-90% damage reduction. There is zero way to mitigate this. It's really stupid to have an affix on a rare mob that makes it more tanky than pinnacle bosses.

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Angrybagel wrote:

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Silverpelt wrote:

It has been reworked

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3496784#playerbalance

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Player Balance
The Soul Eater buff has been reworked. There is now a maximum number of 45 souls that can be consumed, with each soul providing 5% increased Attack and Cast Speed. For monsters, this buff also provides 2% less Damage Taken per soul consumed. 1 soul is lost every 0.5 seconds if you have not gained any souls recently.

That's some serious bullshit. This means that every soul eater mob will have almost perma-90% damage reduction. There is zero way to mitigate this. It's really stupid to have an affix on a rare mob that makes it more tanky than pinnacle bosses.

Welcome to Necropolis. GGG did a lot of serious bullshit this league unfortunately.

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Angrybagel wrote:

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Silverpelt wrote:

It has been reworked

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3496784#playerbalance

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Player Balance
The Soul Eater buff has been reworked. There is now a maximum number of 45 souls that can be consumed, with each soul providing 5% increased Attack and Cast Speed. For monsters, this buff also provides 2% less Damage Taken per soul consumed. 1 soul is lost every 0.5 seconds if you have not gained any souls recently.

That's some serious bullshit. This means that every soul eater mob will have almost perma-90% damage reduction. There is zero way to mitigate this. It's really stupid to have an affix on a rare mob that makes it more tanky than pinnacle bosses.

Not perma. They lose stacks over time, like players, instead having it forever like it was in the past.

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Aynix wrote:

Not perma. They lose stacks over time, like players, instead having it forever like it was in the past.

They only lose stacks if they don't get any more for at least 4 seconds. I always have corpses, which means perma.

Welp, minion builds get fucked.

Leave no corpses?

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ChanBalam wrote:

Leave no corpses?

Quite literally impossible. Corpses are constantly generated.

Its not corpse. Its "soul". It needs to kill something. If you are DD and spamming desecrate all the time, it wont do anything. But if you play Skeletons/SRS for example, Im pretty sure those will count as "souls".