0.1.0d Hotfix 1

I'm new to this game an I had a unique and awesome build and now I'm up creek with out a paddle just wanna say that's A pretty shitty thing you guys did I understand nerfs are a thing but i don't feel this was cast on freeze was so overpowered that it was gamebreaking or anything I mean ffs you have mercenary blowing up the whole screen and idk what it is but another build 2 shooting bosses for the love of God revert my build

and yeah, have no money for respec = test your EA by yourself GGG in this case.

im having issues logging in after the patch and when i can, the latency is unplayable. i was fine right up until the hotfix

Let's talk about why Sanquimancy works like this:

X spell costs 32 mana.

With Sanguimancy, X spell costs 32 mana + 32 life.

Instead of:

With Sanguimancy, X spell costs 16 mana + 16 life.

Also, Vitality Syphon (10% spell damage leeched as life) doesn't even fn WORK. "We buffed leech" that's cool. How about you try enabling it first.

So now we have no leech. Life Remnants don't drop as often from bosses. And every spell costs life. So, it's basically a race to see who deletes us first; the boss or ourselves.

Also, SRS no longer triggering Grim Feast literally killed witch. We have no damage, now we can't even survive long enough to whittle down the white mobs.

"Cast on..." Gems are effectively useless now. Minion Death, Crit, Freeze, whatever, nobody is gonna use any of it.

Okay, you win.
Goodbye.

You can just delete the cast on (...) support gems now. Just destroyed viable leveling builds compleatly. Trigger spells are the reason i play poe and now thats gone.
Well the EA was fun while it lasted

This has nothing to do with balancing. You could have nerfed COF, but you completely destroyed it. Why is the spell COF in the game now? Why didnt you patch it out completely? Fucking ridicolous. You remind me of another company. Cruel ascend zo power quest bugged for days. And you morons work on destroying our builds than to fix your shitty slow ass game.

what is the actual point of this ?
to stop people from playing the game ?
why nerf literally every even slightly playable and fun build ?
everyone is already playing deadeye cause all else is literally shit ...
what next ? nerf all deadeye damage by 60% with a hotfix ?
why not buff the other 95% of the skills and builds that are so trash its embarrassing?

Just do a campfire chat or sth fast, this nonsense has to be patched out asap, because soon it will be irreversible.

My guess we are talking about like 15% playerbase loss and it will start the chain reaction of negativity which will result in even more in near future.

I am not even exaggerating or being self-important.

This is not some "beta" testing environment, people are actually investing time and effort to reach endgame. It's not like D4 first act till lvl 25. You could call this preseason or like it was with POE1 expansion. It's not reasonable to suddenly completely change interactions in the middle of progression.

Would be nice if you guys actually buffed skills as well so we can at least pivot the build. Like it would have been nice if Comet was buffed, removing that +1 second casting time, so that the skill could shine outside of its intended synergy with Cast on Freeze. Or maybe buffing Frostbolt, or creating some new synergy there to make it a more viable spell outside of just proccing freeze on mobs. Because with EA being what it is we don't have much options to work with either.