There is nearly zero balance changes and buffs to skills.

Thats sad.

A league mechanic isnt enough to keep players in, unless you shake the meta and we actually have new builds to play around.

This has to be one of the most poor patch notes I ever seen.

That said, hopefully the new skills are actually good and fun.

Overall, I think this is going to be 2-3 week league to most of ppl.

BAMA is dead, slam skills still S1 tier and there is not much else to play around. What makes me sad. Trickster was obliterated and Assassin changes isn't that exciting to be honestly. No other classes/buffs/changes. Sad

To be honest, I am not excited about 3.27 and was waiting for a lot more.

Lets try it but.... I believe this will be a 2 week league for me.

You're forgetting one teeny tiny change. There are 10 (If I recall correctly) new bloodline Ascendencies that are core to the game. Everyone has the ability to select one of these to shake up the meta.

Trickster will still be godmode on top later in the league. The investment requirement was just increased. Red life builds will remain terrible for the same reasons they do now.

what are you talking about, Total meta shift with:

"Chieftain: The Ngamahu, Flame's Advance Notable Ascendancy Passive Skill now has Non-Unique Jewels cause Small and Notable Passive Skills in a Large Radius to also grant +4 to Strength (previously +3)"

Yes, the lack of skill re-tuning is terrible. But don't mention that to the fanboys who will tell you that you are crazy and that somehow the changes in wisdom scrolls will solve everything.

I would rather have more transgems and gem changes in general over these new bloodline ascendancies but something new should be interesting.

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Aldonés#1294 wrote:

You're forgetting one teeny tiny change. There are 10 (If I recall correctly) new bloodline Ascendencies that are core to the game. Everyone has the ability to select one of these to shake up the meta.

There are new skills too, it's like none of them paid attention.

You don't need to play the very top meta skills to have fun in this game.. you'd be surprised how much patch notes don't really matter when you just go into a league playing what ever you feel like and making it work with all the tools available.

I kinda get OP's point here and felt the same but i do think there is enough here for a league, the feather they are using for balance doesn't quite sit right with me though and I do kinda yearn for when they used to trash the top and then we'd see what new things came to the top.

There is no denying that the players themselves are what repeat the same builds though, I can't stand repeats unless I really scuffed a concept and think it needs another go.

Its probably fine, it is slightly irrational to expect a developer to shift the meta just so the playerbase move to different builds when they already could.

I as usual will be making homebrew mid tier builds until i run out of ideas and there is enough room for that still.

If there was any more hyperbole in a single post I think my head would explode.