Content Update 3.26.0 — Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas

I am sorry ggg but you messed so hard with this sanctum change. All you needed to do was nerf white/yellow tier sanctums to have everyone happy. Now there is only original sin farming left... You could have even buffed 83sanctums to be closer to juiced mapping. So out of touch its not even funny :(

I feel concerned and upset about you guys dropping a nerf sledgehammer to map juicing 2 days prior to launch without any discussion or justification. Was map juicing out of line? What happened to advertising the league with the directors talking about the "most juiced maps ever"?

So the recombinator was nerfed into... Let's see here... The most broken crafting method in the game by far.

Interesting move. So I'm still using it to fill every slot on my character for every league to come. Got it.

It would have been nice to have such info regarding Sanctum a week ago. People might have based their starter on it and can now start over... ^^

caveing into reddit and nerfing stuff becuase of jealousy is such a backwards way of making balancing..

Sanctum requires a specialized build thats usually shit anywhere else in the game (apart maybe from pure bossing) good strat the first few weeks but falls off pretty fast when other strategies are popping off.

there already isnt dropping any gold in there, so forget about interacting with faustus and or any other mechanic that requires it. what would have made more sense would be lowering chance of divines in lower ilvl69-79 sanctums. instead of accross the board..


the overcompensating that happens everytime something comes up for a nerf debate is getting quite annoying frankly...


/ptk

You had a year to think about, how you want to handle Sanctum and you post this notes 48h before league start?

I really dont like this approach. You can nerf stuff, that is not the point, but doing this so late is a disadvantage for people, who were planning on running that strategy.

It is the same issue as always honestly. We had hidden loot nerfs, we had no communication about POE2 hacked accounts, we had many more.

Be clear, be quick in your communication and dont fuck players experience up by not communicating or giving us the infos too late.

Two things:

1) Nice, that recombinators STILL got changed, even though it was said in the interview, that the "old" recombinator does not get gutted. So without filling the affixes with crafted ones its again pretty much useless.

2) Yes, I was one of the people who wanted to farm sanctum early on. And I am incredibly annoyed. First: Why does something like this gets changed ONE DAY before the league start? Could have been done earlier. Especially since it was basically only because of peer pressure from reddit etc.
2nd: At this point just delete sanctum. There were like 2-3 builds that gave up literally EVERYTHING else in the game (no map progression, no gold, no other drops, no early eater/exarch rush etc.pp.) to be able to even do sanctum early on. And you still had the risk of being unlucky, getting bad perks and just not be able to finish the sanctum.
It would have been one thing to nerf the stack size (which would be totally fine) on floor three. It would MAYBE have been okay to nerf the droprate of divines. But we know how it goes. "less frequent options to defer high level currency like divines" literally mean "dont expect to see it again. EVER".
So gutting 66% chances to even see a divine in the sanctum as those options. Then also lower the droprate AND make the entire sanctum harder. So in total about a nerf of ~ 85%+ of getting a divine at all. At this point just run your campaign again and you are probably better off


Then I want to start a petition: GUT heist as well. You cannot leave early. You have to get the final curio, 100 locked doors, need a special build AND you lower the drop rate of chaos as well there. Would be fair.

And to everyone who even remotely wanted something like a sandstorm visage or something else from sanctum: Be happy to pay 50+ divines now throughout the whole league


I was thrilled about the new league. And I was okay with sanctum getting nerfed. But holy shit, this is so freaking out of touch its unbelieveable.

rip sanctum, you couldnt just do the divines in single stacks, you had to go and make sure sanctums deleted, but party play still works fine even more loot now to ruin the economy faster :)}

Sanctum used to be in so cool spot. We had quant farmers, merchant farmers, room reveal farmers and unique relic farmers and the best part was. All of those strats were 100% viable and it came to the player what strat he likes is best! Such a thing of beaty and good gamedesign. But now it all has been taken away by a literall memewar... Only thing left is farming quant relics and hope for extremely rare drop... I just cant get this change. Seriously the most stupid shit ever in 7years i have nerded out this game. Please dont make this patchnote reality.

The most typical GGG, instead of thinking about how to nerf sanctum normally, and it's really not difficult, just remove the devines from the low level of sanctum, they just decided to kill him 2 days before the league