Is it me or..

Does every build in the game feel like it has to have mandatory components in it to be effective. Casters, for the most part, have to have some form of Archmage in it. Mace skills have to have Hammer of the Gods, Quarterstaff skills have to have the Bell. Almost all melee skills have to have one or both of the Heralds ( ice and Lightning). There are a few people with skills enough to make builds that dont require this but its few and far between.

Weaker spells arent being brought up to par and the "OP" skills are not being brought in line fast enough. We need more skills. We need more weapons. Im at burn out peak right now. I'm not saying the game is bad by any means, but if I remember Jonathan said in his interview that he doesnt wanna make large balance changes unless there is a economy reset? Isnt that what EA is for? The criers will cry regardless of the time in point of a season you do it.

I dunno. I want to keep playing PoE 2 but I'm just not really motivated to play the same thing every one else is playing which, to me, is the only real thing to do atm.

Hope everyone is still enjoying PoE still. Have a good night.

no you are absolutely right

if you want to be hyperbole you can even say there is only 3 good builds in the game
HOWA, archmage and herald, in all cases it doesnt really matter what skills you use with them

That's basically how the game works since poe1 honestly

of course everyone will try to fit the most amount of buff they can, at some point certain buff/skill are being used by something 80+% of players... (eg: Determination in poe1).

now that in poe2 we have large amount of sockets & reserve no longer uses mana, naturally we will try to maximize them to max potential. If you have slot unused and spirit unused, you're doing it wrong 😆

understandably some skills are in need of buff so they are more viable compared to others. And we still have so much unreleased stuff to go.

Auras are not free multiplicative damage buffs anymore so that's not really the issue now. Issue now is just hilariously bad skill balance like why is frost crossbow that awful, why are one handed mace builds a complete joke, how about almost every fire skill even as a sorc. So much garbage that would take forever to map with.

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Auras are not free multiplicative damage buffs anymore so that's not really the issue now. Issue now is just hilariously bad skill balance like why is frost crossbow that awful, why are one handed mace builds a complete joke, how about almost every fire skill even as a sorc. So much garbage that would take forever to map with.

This is what I'm more leaning towards. The bad skills just aren't being buffed at all to keep up with the overwhelmingly good skills and maybe I just don't understand why they are waiting? Maybe they will get better with other skills coming? If so, that's also no good because those skills are going to be heavily reliant on the skills not yet implemented.