(Outdated)Frostbolt/Eye of Winter, Coldsnap, Cast on freeze Comet

Just rerolled into shock. At last I can clear white trash mobs easily, and still do decent damage to bosses.

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

This is such a bad take it’s ridiculous!

Not only is this PoE we're talking about, but Early Access PoE at that.
Come on Kyle, you've been around long enough now to know how this works.

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

“Too-good-to-be-true” isnt even a relevant claim. The mechanics that went into the build were just clear cut interactions of skills and passives in the game.

I'm quite positive that the devs stated, numerous times, for months, with great emphasis that they will monitor the game very much and be quite harshly to, as much as possible, deny/destroy single rotation builds for PoE2.

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

The problem is in a game like this that requires very HEAVY investment into a single playstyle to make any real headway into the endgame it’s unbelievably killer to have your build nerfed overnight to the point that it’s unplayable. If it was something along the lines of a 20-40% proc rate nerf the build would still at least be usable, in its current state it IS unplayable.

Aye, I'm aware.
You're also aware that the nerf bat in PoE is a ten ton hammer, that said ten ton hammer have snuffed dozens upon dozens of builds, that all those snuffed builds never recovered and that no amount of "reddit posting", crying, threats, grand standing, etc... rarely had an impact on the final decision of the devs.

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

Many players, myself included, have spent thousands of gold trying to min/max or even just experiment with different options for their build. Now they, and me, have no gold to fix a build that essentially soft locked because the damage is gone. Not providing a way for players to be able to respec out of a broken build is just in bad taste. People either need to now fight through a broken build to scrounge up gold to respec or start all over and go through the whole campaign again, which a lot of people don’t want to and shouldn’t have to do.

Many players, yourself included apparently are quite naïve, which explains my original comment (my first comment on the forum by the way, congratulation)

Don't hit me with the sentimental "experiment" line, most if not all the people here copied a FOTM build because it was not only quite effective but piss easy to play too.

This game is in early access, Frost+CoF+Comet was too strong so it was raped, gutted, raped again and then crucified for good measure. No amount of complaining is going to change it, you paid for the privilege of beta testing a game that, for the foreseeable future, WILL continue this volatile trend of randomly disembowel X or Y build for X or Y reason, you better get used to it now or wait for 1.0 launch, when the game will be a tad more stable.

For now, I can only support the people that used Gas anything (they too got the hammer) and the CoF/Comet people petition to have a free respec, preferably retro active for future build that will get that treatment but do not hold your breath, GGG never did that prior, I don't know why they would do that now.

So, allow me to repeat myself before I vanish back into lurking:
I hope the new PoE2 players learned a very valuable lesson about this event because it's only going to get so much worse.

Yeah i was following this build, now what to do?

Still using Comet on CoF, slower clear, but works fine for now... let's see the high tier waystones

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xinelobr#6514 wrote:

Still using Comet on CoF, slower clear, but works fine for now... let's see the high tier waystones

Yes but no need of that much mana in original post tree i think.

I have just got Taryn's shiver unique staff it gives 106% increased cold damage, 13% cast speed 100% increased freeze build up and enemies frozen by you take 50% increased damage also havea unique ring call of the brotherhood that gives 20% freeze buildup. I've just made it into cruel am 52 and its keeping me going at the moment just killed crowbell and did the ritual stuff in freythorn. it is a lot slower but I can still kill stuff for now so not a complete kick in the balls only a caught a bollock in the zipper really.

I've found using two comets with cast on freeze still works but you have to use wall as a defensive. Im able to do maps just fine with a mix of freeze build up and crit at this time.

How are you able to have a comet on COF and one you can manually use ?
Sorry if dumb

buy another skill whit uncut

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

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Warpten101#3099 wrote:

I hope every new PoE players learned a valuable lesson about too-good-to-be-true FOTM builds.

This is such a bad take it’s ridiculous! “Too-good-to-be-true” isnt even a relevant claim. The mechanics that went into the build were just clear cut interactions of skills and passives in the game.

The problem is in a game like this that requires very HEAVY investment into a single playstyle to make any real headway into the endgame it’s unbelievably killer to have your build nerfed overnight to the point that it’s unplayable. If it was something along the lines of a 20-40% proc rate nerf the build would still at least be usable, in its current state it IS unplayable.

Many players, myself included, have spent thousands of gold trying to min/max or even just experiment with different options for their build. Now they, and me, have no gold to fix a build that essentially soft locked because the damage is gone. Not providing a way for players to be able to respec out of a broken build is just in bad taste. People either need to now fight through a broken build to scrounge up gold to respec or start all over and go through the whole campaign again, which a lot of people don’t want to and shouldn’t have to do.

Its pretty much how Path of Exile works, are you new to this franchise?