Will you nerf the OP lightning spear already??!

The only reason why lightning spears considered as "OP" is because the game basically PoE 1. Any builds that do not follow PoE 1 formula lose by miles to builds that follow PoE 1 formula.

If the game still designed like Poe 1, but then not allowing any builds to follow PoE 1 formula, the game will just become another niche title like PoE 1 and yet not getting revenue as much as PoE 1.

Lightning spears, the previous Spark / Pillar Stat Stacking, are just symptom. The main problem that need to be addressed is designing PoE 2 just like PoE 1 where the game tailored and designed around trading + competitive economic environment, where resource acquisition efficiency matters the most. Your fun is irrelevant, be efficient or lose in market competition.

They will nerf it... on 0.3

They will not nerf it in this patch and i think that is good, i don't play with this class/weapon type but it's ggg faults for making something that strong and not doing enough tests, i bet a lot of players are having fun using LS and it should remain this way until next patch

Sad to see that there is only one skill in the game which can do zoom zoom.
Imagine really good game with 100+ such skills.

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Deeppee#4969 wrote:

Sad to see that there is only one skill in the game which can do zoom zoom.
Imagine really good game with 100+ such skills.

You mean PoE 1? It's just around the corner if you need directions.

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Annastasia_Steele#3866 wrote:

1) dont EVER play meta build
2) dont EVER folow a guide from some nerd on YT.
3) use your own builds and brain
4) win win

1. META system do not exists in PoE2
2. Agree!
3. Agree!
4. Agree!

The POE2 dev team has put themselves in a lose-lose situation.

Let's say they give LS the Cast On Freeze treatment. What do you think happens to the 30% of the community playing those builds? Most of them will just quit. If you haven't looked at the steamchart numbers, they daily peak is almost below 100k already. GGG can't afford to push significant numbers of players to quit at this point.

The failure of 0.2 is one of Hubris. You CANNOT balance the game so that meta builds don't faceroll the content and 20+ meta builds are all equally viable. It's impossible. Either 20+ meta builds all faceroll the content and 1-shot bosses, and casual builds are viable (more player fun overall), or you nerf everything and a few builds are still OP but everything else sucks. Then players will flock to the OP meta, as they have with Lightning Spear.

Anyone with a functioning brain can tell you the answer to your problem is NOT to nerf lightning spear, but to start buffing other abilities. Give players alternatives and enable other powerful builds. Then some LS players will probably migrate to the new builds.

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Annastasia_Steele#3866 wrote:

1) dont EVER play meta build
2) dont EVER folow a guide from some nerd on YT.
3) use your own builds and brain
4) win win

Link your POE2 character then. I bet you're playing lightning spear.

I'd even go as far as to say that they need to buff other skills to bring things up to the level of being viable for actual use, rather than have a select few skills be the ones that actually do any damage.

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Deeppee#4969 wrote:

Sad to see that there is only one skill in the game which can do zoom zoom.
Imagine really good game with 100+ such skills.

^Basically this

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Annastasia_Steele#3866 wrote:

1) dont EVER play meta build
2) dont EVER folow a guide from some nerd on YT.
3) use your own builds and brain
4) win win

Surprisingly in POE2 (and to some degree in POE1) your own builds do not work, because skills and supports are nerfed to oblivion to cater to OP meta builds, creating a recurring negative feedback loop.

This makes the game unplayable for casual players with casual builds, removes any semblance of fun from the game for the masses and reduces the target audience for the game to a narrow stretch of hadrcore gamers with no creativity using OP community builds.