Everything is nerfed, is there ever going to be an update with buffs?

Every single game update is massive nerfs, all the time.

Another new recombinator method = massive nerf + learn the system for the 3rd time, + you deleted all my recombinators in std

betrayal = another learn the system for 3rd time, + you took all my veiled chaos and changed them to veiled exalted then added veiled chaos

nerf to exile dust is a massive nerf and was the only reason anyone took that node

nerf to kingsmarch is a massive nerf

good gems from last patch are all nerfed

and what did you get for all this change?

fully 1/4 people in league all using VFoS, there are hundreds of gems but 1/4 people all using the same one, guess which gem will get nerfed next patch

at this point I have no confidence in poe anymore, game is just all nerfs, all the time, every single patch

I come back when you buff things which, in this era, seems to not exist, just NERF NERF NERF because fun was detected

/rant

Take it you're not having fun.

I am.

Don't see what all the bitching is about

Tbh, I haven't set foot into Kingsmarch and don't plan to. I didn't speak to Faustus until level 90, and I immediately blocked the mechanic the moment I could. May it rest in pieces.

As per your title, the build I'm playing right now got a double buff this patch. Nothing noteworthy really, but still nice.

Oh nyoooo they nerf all the OP things so cruel!!! They should only buff cause number go up = good!!!

Go play diablo buddy

thats weird, i got opposite impression. But i do look into different things, like new items, some of them are stupid powerful.

Don't blame GGG, blame the community. They keep asking for nerfs to anything good because they can't be arsed to try to come up with builds outside the meta. The only way for them to ever experience something new is for GGG to remove whatever is meta right now from the game so their favorite streamer can come up with something new for them to copy.

Good things need to be nerfed sometimes, GGG's problem is they largely went soft on balance and now have a playerbase that won't tolerate them messing about with it.

But fundamentally I have the opposite feeling to the OP - games pretty easy now and has only gotten easier but its also clown fiesta balance at the top, crazy values to test builds that honestly shouldn't exist to begin with.

Still, as long as there is new fruit on the tree i'm happy - this leagues working for me so far and if they tame the mercs a little i'll be real happy.

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BaumisMagicalWorld#0673 wrote:

Tbh, I haven't set foot into Kingsmarch and don't plan to. I didn't speak to Faustus until level 90, and I immediately blocked the mechanic the moment I could. May it rest in pieces.

As per your title, the build I'm playing right now got a double buff this patch. Nothing noteworthy really, but still nice.

Until I saw this post I forgot about Kingsmarch and I won't be participating in it. While it was a fun mechanic for a bit I ended up worrying more about city building/management than playing the actual game. It ended up being a fun concept that actually killed the fun of the actual reason I played PoE1 for if that makes any sense.

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Draegnarrr#2823 wrote:

Still, as long as there is new fruit on the tree i'm happy - this leagues working for me so far and if they tame the mercs a little i'll be real happy.

This I disagree with. If you want to nerf something you need to do it the first day or two. Doing it now would just further the rich get richer narrative and that's bad. They let the power gamers and streamers get rich off a mechanic they knew was OP then nerf it before the casual player has a chance to use it and benefit. That pushes the economy to where the casual can't buy anything which runs them off or to RMT. Some merc mechanics are broken, cool that's what the league is deal with it for 4 months.