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

Poe 2 to Poe 1 on first season. Vomit

Was very excited for this patch to be honest. Key word WAS. With all the nerfs to virtually everything that was enjoyable previously and nothing new that looks interesting/powerful enough to replace it there's no reason to come back. Big fail here GGG, big fail.

I understand that nerfs are sometimes necessary for the balance of the game, but hitting between 80 and 90 percent of the things people enjoy with Significant nerfs is not a good strategy. None of this even mentions the Enormous nerfs to player survivability which just make the game feel bad to play. There's also the skills you straight up *Removed*, taking away key defensive options, because you don't know how to balance it at the moment. Normally this wouldn't be much of an issue but it's exacerbated by the lack of defensive options and utility present throughout the game.

We won't even discuss the bad feels from taking things away from players who worked hard for them, like my current monk with 200 hours on it, that is almost certainly completely unviable at the level it was at now thanks to all the nerfs you've pushed out.

Also stun and crowd control mechanics on players just don't feel good when you have no way to really mitigate them, taking away player agency without something to balance it is not good at all. For example right now, the way your changes to heavy stun read is simply this. IF YOU GET HEAVY STUNNED YOU DIE. It's that simple, lock, stock and barrel. That is not something enjoyable it leads to more player deaths, and of the most frustrating variety since there's nothing they can do about it, and it heavily involves a hidden bar being filled up as they take damage, so you can't even predict it to try to mitigate the mechanic.


In short, you fucked up.
Do Better GGG.

Wow. Just wow. Virtually very single gem I was using has received the hammer...
Honestly, I'm a bit suprised. My build was working well, but not to the extent I expected these kind of nerfs in any shape or form.
I don't use web builds so I'd be surprised that my build would be anywhere near meta power levels. Nerfs in the magnitude of values being halved or more for just about anything...
It's a beta so I expect things to be messed with, but if this the extent of messing we should expect, I may be out until release
Anyway, I'm going to reserve final judgement until I have at least some hours in, but after reading this, I don't have high hopes :s

Also : I didn't see any mention of Alva and the currency exchange market. The new recombinator thingy is now standing in her place in my hideout.
Please tell me this hasn't been removed from the game ! Where can I find lovely Alva ? :p

I am a casual gamer, i play maybe 1 h a day.
Poe2 was perfekt for this, it made fun and i finally reached 94 lat week, to 95 only 10% where missing. Now i am back to 10% of 94... over a week of gaming, gone...

Poe 2 is the first game, i ever bought microtransaction and now i really regred it...

I played too a lot with my wife in couch coop, now its not possible anymore, too hard for her.

The game with 0.2 does not feel hard or complicated, it feels like work...

Beside i lost 50% of my damage, i have no freeze or stun buildup anymore. Ofc i tryed different builds and Setups but i only die and die and die...

When i look at the AH for better gear or weapons, the prices are behind the moon

Ergo, game seems pretty dead atm :*(

I play for a maximum of 2 hours a day. I have a family and a job. I reached level 98 and it was fun to play. My plan was to continue with this character in the old league. Now the build is gone. The character has become so weak that it has lost its appeal. I'm going to use these extra 2 hours to do something else.

Well, I'm back already. And the news is all bad.
In the small hour I put in I died at least 5 times in tier 15 maps and only managed to complete 1 of them.
This despite my archer being equipped with high-end gear for which I grinded over 200 hours to get.
Boss fights are now long drawn-out horror shows I don't want to do anymore.
Player survivability has been seriously lowered and that's in end-game, being fully geared. I don't even want to know how incredibly frustrating starting a fresh character must now inevitably be.
Sorry GGG, but this is ridiculous.
Nerfing overpowered meta builds is understandable, but nerfing every single damn thing in the game by ludicrous amounts, while there was no real issue with many of those things is just painful.
This is the first big mistake I can remember this company making, and I was there from the closed beta of POE 1.
My decision is made, I will be re-installing POE 1 and will not be returning to POE 2 until release, and even then under condition only.
I'm very disappointed GGG, very much so. Such a shame :S

How did comet get away without a nerf? I don't get it. Its a complete one click build. You even nerfed some of the other spells, which did already play extremely poor. Oo

Please balance the spells.

WARBRNGER

PATCH :

The Ancestral Spirits Skill granted by the Answered Call Ascendancy Passive Skill now has "Minions from this Skill have 1% increased Accuracy Rating per 3 of your Dexterity", and "Minion from this Skill have 1% increased Damage per 3 of your Strength". The Minions granted by this Skill have had the following changes:

-> i can`t see the ancestral spirits even if i summon my shockwave totems
Can someone knows why?

Thx :-)

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keppie#6373 wrote:

Well, I'm back already. And the news is all bad.
In the small hour I put in I died at least 5 times in tier 15 maps and only managed to complete 1 of them.
This despite my archer being equipped with high-end gear for which I grinded over 200 hours to get.
Boss fights are now long drawn-out horror shows I don't want to do anymore.
Player survivability has been seriously lowered and that's in end-game, being fully geared. I don't even want to know how incredibly frustrating starting a fresh character must now inevitably be.
Sorry GGG, but this is ridiculous.
Nerfing overpowered meta builds is understandable, but nerfing every single damn thing in the game by ludicrous amounts, while there was no real issue with many of those things is just painful.
This is the first big mistake I can remember this company making, and I was there from the closed beta of POE 1.
My decision is made, I will be re-installing POE 1 and will not be returning to POE 2 until release, and even then under condition only.
I'm very disappointed GGG, very much so. Such a shame :S

Why nerf builds in a single-player game? Will this fix the economy in Standard? This isn't a PvP game. The nerf isn't about improving the game for you, it's about keeping players logged in every day, chasing the latest build exploits. It's not for me. This kind of game design caters to those who can't think for themselves.

The Sump Map boss has been renamed from "The Eater of Children" to "Brakka, the Withered Crone". She still eats children.

Ugh, I was afraid she would starve...