GGG, still time to make balance changes.

Still time to nerf Volacanic Fissure of Snaking.. Molten Strike of the Zenith... Penance Brand... Lightning Strike (yes more)...

Time to buff Assassin...

And still time to actually buff spells... 20% increased damage or DoT damage on shit spells stuck at 10M dps can't compete with mechanically stronger skills that do 100-500M with a bit of investment.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND. WAKE UP.

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Sanctum nerfs where ?

Melee slam nerfs when ?

Bull spells when ?

If we leave out specialist 1500 EHP Ice Trap builds etc. there are only 9 characters with 10k+ EHP and 500M damage on poe.ninja and most of those are lightning strike. Maybe they could have nerfed LS a bit more but I don't see that big a problem here.

If you extend the DPS to 100M, then there are a bunch of skills but the commonest were fixed. Hexblast mines was destroyed, FBoK was destroyed. The build that looks most like it needs a massive nerf is endgame Flicker but I doubt they will ever touch that.

They dont need to make the game perfect in one patch. Its imossible. They will nerf meta skills now. If they end up strong next league again, they will jsut nerf them again. Repeat untill fixed.

Yeah, I really wish they would update oni-goroshi this league...

Give them a league to get back into the swing of things. What we got is pretty quality all things considered. And contrary to popular belief, you can play skills outside of what is considered meta.

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

They dont need to make the game perfect in one patch. Its imossible. They will nerf meta skills now. If they end up strong next league again, they will jsut nerf them again. Repeat untill fixed.

Yeah but they didn't that's the thing. Invest 200 divines into Lightning Strike, Molten Strike Zenith, Volcanic Fissure, Penance Brand of Dissipation, etc... and tell me the difference between that and investing 200 divines into spells, or DoTs.
The current nerfs were NO WAY NEAR enough.

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e1337donkey#1437 wrote:

Give them a league to get back into the swing of things. What we got is pretty quality all things considered. And contrary to popular belief, you can play skills outside of what is considered meta.

Bro, they had one whole year to do nerfs, plan nerfs, or they could even do them right now. I could do them in my sleep. They don't need "a league to get back into the swing" wtf am I reading.

I agree about skills not considered meta, and I do that most of the time. But the issue is that in softcore trade league people compete in the economy ; so if my non-meta build does 10M dps, you can't compete with people doing 200M dps clearing maps in 1 second. Your buying power suffers, and the more the league progresses the more left out you become.

I'm not even asking for buffing lackluster skills, I just want NERFS to the overpowered stuff. I don't think it's too much to ask, it should be a game designer's job. The Lightning Strike nerf or example, is laughable.

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Senju_Hyoketsu#6098 wrote:

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Yeah but they didn't that's the thing. Invest 200 divines into Lightning Strike, Molten Strike Zenith, Volcanic Fissure, Penance Brand of Dissipation, etc... and tell me the difference between that and investing 200 divines into spells, or DoTs.
The current nerfs were NO WAY NEAR enough.

Then they will nerf them again next league. Observe. Still not enough? Nerf again, untill people finally move to other skills
LS damage was nerfed by 50%, its not "laughable".

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Aynix#7757 wrote:

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Senju_Hyoketsu#6098 wrote:

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Yeah but they didn't that's the thing. Invest 200 divines into Lightning Strike, Molten Strike Zenith, Volcanic Fissure, Penance Brand of Dissipation, etc... and tell me the difference between that and investing 200 divines into spells, or DoTs.
The current nerfs were NO WAY NEAR enough.

Then they will nerf them again next league. Observe. Still not enough? Nerf again, untill people finally move to other skills

BUT THEY ALREADY KNOW that even with the nerfs Lightning Strike will do 300M dps, and so on. THEY ALREADY KNOW.

And we had THE SAME META for 4 years. The right timing for these impactful nerfs was NOW.

A nerf from 700M dps down to 300M dps is laughable, when most spells literally struggle to break the 20M mark, if even feasable.

Like I said, they will never balance the game in one patch. They will never nerf TOP1 skill to the level of bottom skills in one patch. It would be suicide for them. They will gradullay nerf top skills and buff bottom skills, to eventually reach the "equilibrium".
Dont compare LS to the worst skill and say "50% nerf isnt enough". Compare LS to top skills that were not nerfed - LS is now weaker than them.

Theres also all the new tech coming that might disproportionately buff skills OTHER than LS and the like.

Novelty can be more powerful than raw power.