Content Update 3.27.0 — Path of Exile: Keepers of the Flame

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23OO23#0568 wrote:
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ShiruDev#0945 wrote:


The mechanics you listed are fine for league start or for noobs who can’t make currency (expect delve - but it's boring wrr). Most of them don’t affect explicits // Scarabs, etc. What we care about is pure mapping — dopamine from loot.

Last league, despite the nerfs, we had a blast; even with the T16.5 nerf it was still excellent to farm. Now everything’s going to revolve around Essence into Strongbox (plus Faustus’s market manipulation).


So PoE is now a game about watching someone who likes to basically break the game with most profitable farming strategies, who shares them, and everyone has to either waste time or watch specific people who like that because the other option is a game that provides very little reward "for just playing"?

I mean I knew that, but as someone who just wants to play and refuses to watch and follow meta BS I'd ask less for "gib big dopamine" and more about just having fun overall. Because it seem to me that the whole loot balance of PoE is either: do one specific farming stat, get your build up in a few days, or don't and good luck getting anything in a month. That's why I say "breaking", because now GGG has to lower rewards so average people don't get rich in few days even with strats, and make sure they play for longer.

If you just rely on big dopamine hits in a game, it shows that normal gameplay is extremely flawed and I find it sad. Especially when I see "follow XYZ's stat" being a very popular thing to say in game's community. Apparently "just playing" is not GGG's way.


This isn’t about chasing some streamer’s “most profitable strat.” My whole squad makes our own strats. We don’t care about YouTubers — we craft the items that end up in meta builds from folks like fubgun and other, and then the newbies buy them at insane prices. That’s the economy.

What I’m asking for is simple: pure mapping with a real chance to drop stuff. It’s fun to open a map thinking “something might actually hit,” not to feel like we’re back in some old league where the only “flat drop” that matters is Strongboxes + Essence → Strongbox → repeat. Variety and baseline loot matter. Scarabs/explicits/etc. should enhance mapping, not be irrelevant while one strat works.

“Just playing” should be viable and rewarding without having to copy a meta video. Right now it looks like everything funnels into Essence → Strongbox (plus Faustus market games), and that’s exactly what I don’t want. Give us multiple viable ways to map for loot — not a single railroaded strat.

Mark my words: AFK Ultimatum > Essence > Strongbox > Scarab T17 farm
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So dead skills are still dead... They told us, that will be huge balance patch, but is very small to be honest.


Where did they say this? Because I don't believe they did
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Danith00#5112 wrote:
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So dead skills are still dead... They told us, that will be huge balance patch, but is very small to be honest.


Where did they say this? Because I don't believe they did


It was during an interview a while back... I can't remember if was before PoE2 0.3.0 launch or shortly after. Actually it might have been the ZiggyD Q&A for that release?

I'm sure someone else remembers exactly where it was. A bunch of the streamers were quoting it, some even included clips of it in their videos.

And I agree that we didn't really get that, but one always has to take statements like that with a grain of salt, especially now that they are committed to dates rather than deliverables. So we got 3.27 on time, rather than having everything in that they wanted (but it being late).

Personally I think the league looks like it will be a lot of fun.

The Bloodline Ascendancies alone are enough to shake up the meta (I hope). EDIT: Did not realize most of them are out when I posted this. Slightly less hopeful, but at least 2 or 3 of them look like they might be something I'd try to use.
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Danith00#5112 wrote:
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So dead skills are still dead... They told us, that will be huge balance patch, but is very small to be honest.


Where did they say this? Because I don't believe they did


Well, it would not be first time the lied, last time they lied was about Poe2 not affecting Poe1. And now we see then fruits of focusing manpower on Poe 2 and constant FB updates Poe 2 only. Thing is, they will not get punished for it, they got more than enough profit from game, that is why they do job half done and still get away with it, while in other jobs loss would be big.
What would mr Siklic do if he was in this post?
I'm ready for my 2nd 40/40 league... LEEETS GOO
So a minor buff to my favorite skill (finally) and the rest being lackluster additions/changes along with a ton of nerfs (as usual).

Whatever.
Pointless to give triple-A game companies any sort of constructive criticism without getting put on probation (or banned). GGG's downfall is drawing near.

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