Content Update 0.4.0 — Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids

What's the point on releasing patch notes on reveal stream, if later on you post several more nerfs that changes builds

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grimmreap08#7540 wrote:

Oh look a whole host of nerfs that kill everyone's build! And removed all forms of deterministic crafting. I should have known better with this being GGG. Uninstalling this again until they decide that players actually like to have fun not struggle 24/7... So dissapointed that the only build i made that actually functions in standard will no longer function as of tomorrow...

sure.
see you online in 2 days 12 hours 1 minute and 10 seconds..

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Duong_Allin#6548 wrote:

Support pack so ugly

Then why did you bought the most expensive version? lmao

Gamers: mandatory must-have and totally OP +level mod exists so nobody cares about uniques
GGG: let's buff uniques
Gamers: mandatory must-have and totally OP +level mod exists so nobody cares about uniques
GGG: Pikachu face

When godly all T1 item is worthless and is worse than midiocer T3 item but with +levels then you know you made a design mistake.

You buffed staffs but looks like you have no clue why people don't use them in the first place.
Let me explain it to you...

+5 levels on wand +3 levels on focus = 8 and 8 > 6 you can get on staff. Simple.
Staffs are worse offensively, and on top, you lose defense from focus.

So why would anyone like to use them except for fun Reap skill and for the Sigil?
(I said fun Reap skill? Oh my... Reap nerf incoming in 3...2...1...)

wait are we not going to talk about the 10 sided nerf to movement speed they just did? horror nerf allready happened by limiting runes to only 1... like why is all these changes to make endgame even worst........... it was already slow for anyone not on rhoa now its going to be even worst for everyone. deadeye king again i guess

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godzrevenge#5167 wrote:

wait are we not going to talk about the 10 sided nerf to movement speed they just did? horror nerf allready happened by limiting runes to only 1... like why is all these changes to make endgame even worst........... it was already slow for anyone not on rhoa now its going to be even worst for everyone. deadeye king again i guess

Because GGG approach is to make every build to be equally not fun and miserable.

People like Rhoa because is fast?
Instead of bumping the movement speed for others, they nuked Rhoa and speed in general.
On top, they made "reduced penalty when using skill" harder to obtain.

People don't like "kiss curse" on melee so don't play this class?
Instead of improving melee by removing this B$ people don't like, they will bring this to other nodes on the tree to make everyone equally miserable.

Looks like GGG's mission is to find everything what people like and nuke it, and at the same time, bring to every build things people don't like.
Melee is so slow already that you can be killed during your animation attack, so GGG mission is to make it even worse and to bring other classes down to the same level of suffering.

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+5 levels on wand +3 levels on focus = 8 and 8 > 6 you can get on staff. Simple.
Staffs are worse offensively, and on top, you lose defense from focus.

Focus can roll up to +2 now, and staff could always roll up to +7, which could be sanctified to +8 in 0.3, and even had 1 more socket for +1 spell level runes. Wand+focus could get you a bit of defenses, or marginally higher damage if you rolled full offense on your focus. With the new buffs staves are just better for pure offense.

But hey, what do I know, some streamer a few months ago said staves are garbage, they must be right.

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0psych0#6828 wrote:

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+5 levels on wand +3 levels on focus = 8 and 8 > 6 you can get on staff. Simple.
Staffs are worse offensively, and on top, you lose defense from focus.

Focus can roll up to +2 now, and staff could always roll up to +7, which could be sanctified to +8 in 0.3, and even had 1 more socket for +1 spell level runes. Wand+focus could get you a bit of defenses, or marginally higher damage if you rolled full offense on your focus. With the new buffs staves are just better for pure offense.

But hey, what do I know, some streamer a few months ago said staves are garbage, they must be right.

Yes, it's +8 vs +7 - my bad. Still... 8 > 7
I don't need streammers (I don't watch)... PoB is enough for me to know that staves were worse.

Now, with +2 on Focus this will be more equal but wand+focus still will be better because of defence on focus you can't get on on staves and/or more offence on focus, so you have flexibility of choice depending of your needs which staves won't give you.

Wand+focus was an obvious choice so that's why people were using them and not because someone said it (whoever it was).

The problem is with +levels mod which shouldn't exist because it is mandatory and totally OP mod you have to have - this is just a bad design.

Also in PoE1 having a Staff can give you tons of defence from the tree (just search for staff/staves on PoE1 tree) and now go and search for staff/staves on the PoE2 tree... yeah... now you should understand the problem.

So, staves so far before 0.4...
- worse offence because of -1 to levels
- zero defence what focus can give you
- ZERO benefits from the tree (especially the lack of defence hurts)
- the lack of flexibility wand+focus can give you
- the lack of resistances focus can give you
- Spellslinger

So yes... looks like this streamer was right but I don't need her/him to tell me this, because it was obvious.
Let's wait and see, maybe new staves and new tree will change this but I doubt it.

Oof. Essence of horror nerf. This is going to be major whiplash coming from 0.3 with tons of movement speed and attack speed and going to 0.4 with basically none of either. Why such extreme swings instead of more careful adjustments?