To anyone pushing the "BUT ITS EARLY ACCESS!" agenda:
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Balance changes make 100% sense in an EA.
Balance means adjusting the build to align its power level relative to other builds. Balance does NOT mean outright removing whole archetypes from the game. Cast on Crit/Freeze/Ignite/Shock was doing too much damage? Lower the proc rate, lower the damage. Don't make it completely unplayable. This has 0 to do with the game being in early access, and everything to do with the direction of the game they are taking - dumbed down version of Poe 1. There current top builds are melee, summoner and bows - all of which 1-shot all the content in the game: hammer of the gods and sunder 1-shot bosses and with minions you can literally afk all content. How is it good balancing to remove all trigger meta skill viability? It simply removes build variety, leaving the player with less viable build options. This is BAD for the game. I'm unironically waiting for Poe 1 next league, since I don't currently see any potential for fun builds in Poe 2. Any further cool and interesting interactions which were praised in Poe 1 will be dumbed down and outright removed from Poe 2. Last bumped on Dec 12, 2024, 9:10:50 PM
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Nobody is "pushing an agenda" go touch grass.
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"Nobody is "pushing an agenda" go touch grass. "
People are literally all over the forums celebrating and cheering the death of "Cast on X" and laughing at people who have been affected by it. Just because you're blissfully ignorant of it doesn't mean it's not happening. "Go touch grass." [Removed by Support] Last edited by Vinky_GGG#0000 on Dec 12, 2024, 2:49:53 PM
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" +1 Balancing =/= Making skill unplayable. This change need retweak again ASAP, its ridiculous that noone event tested it. Dont be secont blizzard who dont even listen to playerbase. Now ice mage is mostly dead and worst elemental to chose and far behind lightining that shredes everything with lvl 1 skill. Thats dumb as f... And Secondly where is free respec after minor change? Or you should commmunicate that you deleting whole class mechanic at least day before so we could prepare for it. Farm some gold, exalts for new items and respec that are needed to make whole character playable again. I dont even remember that bad tweaking in my over 20 year gaming career in many arpgs. Now i feel that i lost over 70hours of playtime and shit i was really enjoying mine ice sorc since lvl 1 to 60, even bought yesterday 3rd tier founder pack becouse of that and few hours later you GGG shited on me. |
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" you're ignorant or gaslighting If you question anything about POE 2 the ggg fanbois will say ea this and ea that... it wasn't even supposed to be an ea until a month ago when they decided they could make more and use it as a scape goat for bad game design. the game's been in development for at least 7 years ffs with a successful game as it's base to build off of and they absolutely botched it. |
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" All you're doing is using the most cliche hysterical language you can manage. The game is in Early Access. GGG have been quite clear about what they are doing and how they are doing it. There is no agenda. There is no conspiracy. Fix yourself. | |
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If casters are dogshit without meta gems isnt that the problem?
I dont see how this bricks anything just change your build. If arsonists get gutted im just going flameblast ignite which i know is at least decent. Last edited by BossOfThisGym#2062 on Dec 12, 2024, 4:54:41 PM
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people got so used to broken interactions from poe they are confusing builds with bugs or unintended behaviour... kinda sad
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its the whiteknight go to defense of their favorite fandom. theres always an excuse. just like an addict, who can quit any time. always an excuse just for one more hit.
the game so far is objectively bad, and the decisions surrounding balance have been ruinous. |
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