Content Update 0.2.0 -- Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt

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Nerran#7411 wrote:

At first I was very hyped to play PoE2 again, but reading all the QoL nerf made me very cautious not only about this single league, but for the future of the game at all...

Why making combats feel so clunky with a lot of cooldowns and delays? Curses were already a hassle to use, but adding a 0,5 delay? Damn... Not speaking about Hexblast which is completely dead, I don't know where the game is going from there...

Wanting to slow down the pace is one thing... Wanting to create a soul-like feeling at end-game in an arpg, is another... And what is even the point in that? What is the point in making far end-game more "attractive" to casuals, when they'll barely go up to Pinnacle bosses? (And not just difficulty related, just because of the time they have...) It's just a way to kill the game both for Casuals who'll leave as they leave anyway, but now also for endgame players who'll be bored with so many things that will make the gameplay terrible...

Hope it's just having it untested, but I more think I'll rather watch streams to see rather than playing... Cos it's too much, it's frightening...

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SRS BIZNESS BRO#9609 wrote:

People are complaining because GGG hasn’t run this like a typical EA (I suspect out of fear of losing players which could happen here anyway). Months ago people were saying to go ahead and adjust what needed to be adjusted; just give people the tools they need to recoup and respec their character. It is EA after all, who cares if respecs are free?

Instead they’ve set a more firm expectation of “this is what we want endgame to be like” by leaving things as they were for months, and blaming players for “not being ok with changing in the middle of a ‘league’” which was never the case.

Until I can run Savannah, Sinking spire, etc with far less performance issues and can actually play endgame on console I’m good. Personally I feel GGG is way too focused on appeasing those that whine about balance and not nearly enough on the glaring performance issues.

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Funny_Cgullz#7567 wrote:

I love how everyone is freaking out about changes to builds that exist

"Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread."

This is the most important line in the patch notes.

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addohm#7314 wrote:

zero performance improvements...lel. Miserable gameplay stays miserable.

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napartymateusz#2922 wrote:

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neeekit#7316 wrote:

I'm very sad, many skills are now unplayable

God damn, when do people learn?
If everything is nerfed, skills which you call "unplayable" are now playable, not OP and plenty of unplayable skills in the last patch, are now PLAYABLE compared to meta slaves.

Thankfully GGG is not listening to players who have no idea what they are talking about - thats blizzard work.

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tyker1#1092 wrote:

i actually can understand nerfs, like this one is going out of control, we should nerf it, that one is way too powerful, we should nerf it.

but man, nerf does not mean to kill the build completely, the server crashing CoI feedback loop is not because the skill able to generate energy when they are triggered, its because you set absolutely 0 limit on cast on ignite gem about how fast they can be triggered again.

similarly barrier invocation cwdt builds are not overpowered because pyromantic pact can supply energy to barrier invocation, its because barrier invocation having 0 limit on fast it can be cast again once sufficient energy is provided.

So you think you stopped the interaction so CWDT build with barrier invocation is dead, and you stopped burning inscription able to provide energy and CoI build is dead.

But nerfing Burning Inscription wont kill CoI builds, as the true issue of all meta skills is not solved, killing burning inscription just force player to use another source to generate ignite, and because there are absolutely 0 limits on cast rate of meta skills, CoI or other meta skills will still be op. i mean, who the hell cares about the reduced energy gain? its only 200 comets per second or 100 comets per second, as 100 comets per second is still more than enough for current content

So, although as the person who created the BI-loop CWDT build i wished the build get nerfed, i'd be even fine if you say BI cannot be triggered faster than 1 cast per second or something like that, i'll then be happy and go find other combinations or skill synergies. But all i see from the PN is what i have done really annoyed devs as all the nerfs on meta skill seemly targeting BI. no more pyromantic pact energy supply, halved energy generation, so now you need 10 es for 1 energy, meaning for a single cast of comet, it need to take about 2890 damage on ES with lv18 qual 20% BI instead of 1445 before the patch. And what people get is a single comet cast without casting time, but still delayed because comet need time to fall from the sky. the cost for this instant cast of comet is now : 60 less spirit for other gems, 1 less slotable support gem, not able to be echoed. so whats the point of use barrier invocation? do we have anything scenario that this 60 spirit, 1 less support gem worth it for able to cast a spell without casting animation?