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

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ReneGuenon#3515 wrote:

You know what is funny, i can bet my house than when the patch notes will be released, all the doomers will come by LE forum and cry about nerf.
This is just the pattern of the tiny vocal minority crying and complaining about something they cannot comprehend as they never work on anything related to IT or programming, involving necessary balance twist.

I also follow LE dev streams or news and it will be a lot of nerfs already announced by the way. (volatile rehersal, falconer, mage ascendancy overall ect...)
Moreover LE is a game that was in EA for 4 years (at least) and was released a year ago.
i am not sure to remember but POE2 is released already or are we in EA?

Follow the approach of a guy like mathilification, he never cries, he just tries to play what he wants and see where it goes, patch notes or not.
It works, good, it does not, well the adventure is also interesting, not the only the arrival.

So you are assuming random stuff about people playing game and patch notes. Cool.
Since it seems you need to be in IT to know to modify grenade skill cooldown from 3 sec to 7, it is quite hard for non IT people to comprehend that.
Yes I mentioned few outlier builds will be nerfed and 1 skill. WHich you just repeated as some proving point?
And how many builds will be buffed? I know atleast 8 builds I played last event and season that will be buffed.
Not to mention 1 whole class, few archetypes, multiple other skills in various masteries.

So patch notes in EA aren't patch notes? Changes done in EA are somehow different to changes done in released game?

And since playing games is not my job, as is Mathils; I have no obligation to keep quiet on all the shit GGG is doing.

good GGG

All of the good skills are now bad and all of the bad skills are now terrible, and a few builds/gems are straight up so bad they are unusable. 3.26 when?

GGG are u allergic to a big player base? or force ruthless down on everyone ??

So basically, everything is nerfed to oblivion.

Lat's say you want to play Manastacking Spark Stormweaver:
1. Spark skill is now destroyed,
2. Stormweaver ascendancy ruined,
3. Archmage completely destroyed,
4. Dream Fragments Ring nerfed to 10% max mana instead of 20%,
5. All max mana nodes from Passive Tree nodes, ascendancy small nodes, Jewels, Time-Lost Jewels, Uniques, etc. were heavily nerfed,
6. Eldrich Battery which enables you to play a manastacking build, has been nerfed to oblivion (doubles mana cost of skills, when mana is your only eHP)
7. In case you wanted to use Everlasting Gaze amulet to have ES also, it was utterly destroyed too,
8. Lightning exposure nerfed,
9. Conductivity curse nerfed,
10. Curse activation time nerfed,
11. Let's not forget about the biggest nerf to all players, double chance to be affected by elemental aliments,
12. Want to convert lightning damage to cold, freeze needs 48% more build-up than before,
13. Cast on Shock procs only half as before,
14. You cannot use 2 Blinks, because now they share cooldown (I totally support this nerf),
15. "12 jewel sockets were removed from the passive tree" (I think is good for the game, but still a nerf to most builds).

The only things that were not nerfed for this former build, were the support gems.

It was one of the best build previously, but nerfing Archmage (which was OP), a small nerf to Spark and nerfing Dream Fragments would've been more than enough to cripple the build, while still being playable, instead of killing it completely.

On top of this they nerfed my favourite encounter, Breach, pretty heavy too.

And this was just an example, at least 15 good builds have been completely destroyed and not only them but also at least 50 ideas of meme builds are no longer doable now, with these changes.

I guess Phys damage Warrior is a real option now, since it was the only one just slightly nerfed overall.

I think i will just buy some popcorn and watch the poe 2 players chart on steam plummet.

Well personally I am really looking forward when the servers are up and ready with 0.2. So I can get rolling on my next wave of experimental characters to see what build clicks with me and what class.

Besides the normal forum doom/gloom that seems to be the reasons forums exist..

I see someone complaining about game performance with almost the same build I have. 7800X3d with a 40 series Nvidia card.. and yet I have none of the issues they have. Then again this isn't anything new either over many many years of gaming this is somehow a pretty common thing too. People used to speculate some cars performed better because they were built on a certain day of the week. Maybe the same thing applies to hardware.

Good patch notes, nice to see spark disappearing, it was [Removed by Support] meta and party play. Good cut on Ingenuity and attributes stackers, this will shake out and make other builds to shine. Can't wait for spears!!!
[Removed by Support]

I will reply as a "Dad gamer", this is early access i was playing with my build on mercenary, then i watched some videos on Youtube other classes like ranger and stormweaver, it kinda destroyed my gameplay feeling. Like what the hell im doing wrong. I'm very happy seing all the nerfs that came. I will start my journey very fresh with my friend that never even came to the end game in POE, being happy that i can rediscover game and changes that Dev's made for US. Very good job !

I don't get why people cry so hard on these nerfs. Aren't You excited to rediscover the best game that came in a decade or so ? You will find some broken build's guys. I know it, You know it.

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