This generation of gamers...

What a load of ungrateful, petulant, irrational children. I don't think in my near 40 years of gaming I have seen a more entitled bunch.



You're not going to like hearing it as I've seen the vitriol towards anyone telling you to get a grip, but as the only adult in the room I'll have to remind you one more time, it is indeed early access. During early access for a game of this scope and magnitude there will be buffs, nerfs, and complete system overhauls. If you're thinking anything outside of that realm of possibility then you really need to stop playing until the game is released about a year from now, because the changes will keep coming.

I'd get into explaining why copying a clearly broken mechanic in a build from a streamer in an early access should have been top of your bingo card of things to expect to get changed, but it would fall on deaf ears. You guys are like the Barry Bonds/Sammy Sosa era of baseball...you see all those homeruns being hit and just can't help yourself to the sterioid pool, but are flabbergasted at why there was something wrong with it.



--- Things we agree on:

Respecs should be cheaper, maybe add back regrets to supplement the cost if that won't be changed.

Ascendancy system needs serious tweaking. Too much RNG, too many punishing and mostly run breaking mods, needing to learn a boss on the fly or reset your 40+ minute run, DC'ing and losing your run, unfair to some builds, yada yada.

This guy gets it.

Nobody has been disagreeing with any voicing of that the nerf bat has been bonking hard and heavy, or that it can be frustrating and could come with a nice spooning afterwards at least.

The manner in which its being expressed by some however is childish, impotent, and counter-productive.

Most of these people are going to get over this in a few hours when a streamer finds a new way for them all to play.

Most reasonable people tried the change themselves and noticed a boss dps buff. Or they understand that GGG can LITTERALLY tune the trigger rate for white and blue mobs to make it feel better.

Problem is solved by time.

I'm sorry but what was broken about Cast on Freeze? It was the extremely obvious, logical way to progress your Frost Sorc, and now it doesn't work AT ALL.

As you're leveling, you get tons of Freeze buildup nodes. Around level 30ish you get Cast on Freeze. Cool! Then you get Comet right around the same level. Hell, it even has a "Payoff" tag. Okay, so obviously, the goal of this class is to freeze enemies and use Cast on Freeze to trigger Comet. That's logical, right?

Please look me in the eye and tell me I'm abusing mechanics and copying streamer builds when it was fucking obvious the whole way through leveling the way to go.

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MauPow846#7535 wrote:

I'm sorry but what was broken about Cast on Freeze? It was the extremely obvious, logical way to progress your Frost Sorc, and now it doesn't work AT ALL.

As you're leveling, you get tons of Freeze buildup nodes. Around level 30ish you get Cast on Freeze. Cool! Then you get Comet right around the same level. Hell, it even has a "Payoff" tag. Okay, so obviously, the goal of this class is to freeze enemies and use Cast on Freeze to trigger Comet. That's logical, right?

Please look me in the eye and tell me I'm abusing mechanics and copying streamer builds when it was fucking obvious the whole way through leveling the way to go.

It still works the same way except it was never supposed to be your sole progression tool, it was meant to supplement your other abilities. Now it does that on a more general level for regular gameplay, but much more frequently for bosses. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve or won't get some more tweaking, but to most it was pretty obviously overtuned in it's previous iteration and is now more in line with what it was intended to be.

They didn't want triggers and cast on abilities operate as they did in PoE1, it was said in multiple interviews. It will be ok, my two buds that were running it adjusted and are still cruising through maps just fine.

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Seanprice798#2395 wrote:

It will be ok, my two buds that were running it adjusted and are still cruising through maps just fine.

So your two 'buds' are better players than the streamers who created this is the first place?

Really!

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TheRealKraggy#0533 wrote:

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Seanprice798#2395 wrote:

It will be ok, my two buds that were running it adjusted and are still cruising through maps just fine.

So your two 'buds' are better players than the streamers who created this is the first place?

Really!

weak mental. You should probably go outside and touch grass

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Seanprice798#2395 wrote:

but as the only adult in the room I'll have to remind you one more time, it is indeed early access.

Typical "no offense, but [inserts blatantly offensive and insulting stuff]" post

You are one weird adult if you have 50+ hours to completely waste. Maybe get a job, from one adult to another.

Absolutely petulant and irrational from you to assume that everyone copied this build from streamers. It was very obvious to anyone being able to rub two braincells together when seeing the long cast time of meteor.

That you appearently cant see this or imagine this says more about you than the ones you are trying to offend here.

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Seanprice798#2395 wrote:

it is indeed early access. During early access for a game of this scope and magnitude there will be buffs, nerfs, and complete system overhauls.

IT wasn't supposed to be EA until a month ago when they cat fished us to use it as a scapegoat when the bad design became apparent.

"this scope and magnitude" - This is how you know you're just a ggg fanboi coping. The only thing the game's missing is part 2 and some gems... the game isn't something like wow classic or new world.. It only feels like there's something to the game because you're walking 2 mph the entire time. the endgame could be made in a day by a single dev.

For not liking streamers you boomers sure do let them live rent free in your head