Why did the Developers change Hexblast+Blasphemy combo??? Change it back

I KNOW that people have new POE2 builds with reducing delays.

But just think about it for a second. The effort it takes to get either the boots or the items for it... is insane.

A new player trying out Hexblast is going to be confused as hell trying to figure out how to play this ability. Nothing in its description makes any sense to anyone except the developers themselves who have over-complicated this ability in their bubble. POE2 was meant to streamline the complexity of the Exile experience and instead they made it worse.

Stop trying to invent new ways to make things complicated for complexities sake

I agree, it's a change that feels like a bug was introduced to the skill. Reduced the quality of life by a hundred fold. I really don't care if there's uniques that make it better, skills should at least function without uniques.

Cuz it was unintended. I dont think this game is supposed to be 1 button for the win.

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DwaneDibbley#4615 wrote:

Cuz it was unintended. I dont think this game is supposed to be 1 button for the win.

As a main hexblaster in previous season, I can tell you that it wasn't that strong to begin with. The mana cost was humongous, the range was small even with everything spec for it and at bosses you needed to do swaps and play with all your buttons and multiple skills. However, it was the only chaos hit aoe skill that a full crit bloodmage could play.

So it was far from "1 button" and not even overpowered.

Probably the most unjustified change at 0.2.0

So my Lich just reached lvl 41 Campaign and I just started tried out a Blasphemy stacker, Chaos/Fire dmg base with Fire/Arrow minions.

I had seen Hexblast finally made available and wondered as well. So basically the issue at hand here is the Blasphemy "attacks" are no longer considered Curses via AOE/Aura...and are simply aura based DOT/Debuffs now and Hexblast is no longer applicable?

So for Hexblast to be of any use now I would have to stop using Blasphemy and tie up 3 buttons for manual Curse casting followed up with Hexblast?

So what should I try and synergize with Blasphemy at this point besides the ED/Contagion/Frost Bomb as primaries? I picked up Firestorm from the Sorcerer skills instead for now.