GGG, Rework the skills nobody uses please,Fix defensive mech balance before its too late .

GGG, Rework the skills nobody uses please
there are many skill nobody uses because
1) they are bad
2) they are unusable

im speaking about the slow bad mace skills im talking about the parry related skills, the skills that mechanically hard to use

few examples of skill im speaking about

spear of Solaris
Thunderous Leap(remove the + to cast time)
explosive spear
fang of frost
escape shot
electrocuting arrow
magnetic salvo
spiral valley
glacial lance
Armour Piercing Rounds
Fragmentation Rounds
Permafrost Bolts
Half of the mace skill are also unused because of the +1 sec to cast time nonsense

those skills are very cool but almost nobody uses them because they have issues or very limited use if there is even a use for them
also Frenzy skills are kinda dead after the frenzy nerf

Defenses:GGG please fix the defensive issue we have in the game right now ES is the best and the most used defensive mechanic in the game for a reason, its OP.
ALL THE OTHER defensive mechanics suck compared to ES .
do not delay this fix currently ur insensitive everyone to run full glass cannon build whit es , ppl will get used to it and u will be "forced" to balance the game around that play-style.

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Agreed.

Quite literally more than half the skills in the game are borderline unplayable. There's also a ton of useless passives. We have a years worth plus of data showing that the majority of skills see zero play and something like 80% of passives have never been selected.

What's the point of adding more and more content if the content we already have isn't being utilized?

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SplashKing#6352 wrote:

Agreed.

Quite literally more than half the skills in the game are borderline unplayable. There's also a ton of useless passives. We have a years worth plus of data showing that the majority of skills see zero play and something like 80% of passives have never been selected.

What's the point of adding more and more content if the content we already have isn't being utilized?

exactly
there already plenty of Skills in the game !
just make them better!
we have already few defensive mechanics in the game
armor , armor es ,armor eva, es and more and more
just make them all good!
otherwise it will be like poe1 , 80 % of stuff is trash and everyone uses only the 20%that is good and thats it

I have to agree, especially around defenses, but with skills, too. Right now with many bosses, what's the point of having defenses, if they can 1-tap you, anyway? We may as well throw away defenses and go full-glass cannon, because it's not going to make a difference on how much damage the bosses do.

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

Fragmentation Rounds
Permafrost Bolts

I don’t agree with these two spells. I’m following Witch Hunter Phox’s build and it works perfectly for me.
I’ve been using only these two spells from level 1 all the way to the endgame.

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Babonzo#0016 wrote:

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

Fragmentation Rounds
Permafrost Bolts

I don’t agree with these two spells. I’m following Witch Hunter Phox’s build and it works perfectly for me.
I’ve been using only these two spells from level 1 all the way to the endgame.

and how does this build feels in End game ?
i leveled a witch hunter whit that combo it felt fairly good and fun even whit the small radius , but scaling the dmg for those skills in end game sucks they feel very weak .

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ac429#4687 wrote:

I have to agree, especially around defenses, but with skills, too. Right now with many bosses, what's the point of having defenses, if they can 1-tap you, anyway? We may as well throw away defenses and go full-glass cannon, because it's not going to make a difference on how much damage the bosses do.

yeap, there is no reason to build defense if bosses can 1tap u .
GGG needs to understand this otherwise there will always be a meta for glass cannon builds and not well balanced build.

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

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ac429#4687 wrote:

I have to agree, especially around defenses, but with skills, too. Right now with many bosses, what's the point of having defenses, if they can 1-tap you, anyway? We may as well throw away defenses and go full-glass cannon, because it's not going to make a difference on how much damage the bosses do.

yeap, there is no reason to build defense if bosses can 1tap u .
GGG needs to understand this otherwise there will always be a meta for glass cannon builds and not well balanced build.

GGG is probably stuck in some form of logic loop here. Back in 0.2, during the interview with Zizaran, they mentioned that they don't pay that much attention to defenses, because players enjoy building for damage more.
So players aren't building defense, because they get one shot anyways. Meanwhile GGG isn't putting much work into defenses, because people don't build for it. It's just going in circles.

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

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ac429#4687 wrote:

I have to agree, especially around defenses, but with skills, too. Right now with many bosses, what's the point of having defenses, if they can 1-tap you, anyway? We may as well throw away defenses and go full-glass cannon, because it's not going to make a difference on how much damage the bosses do.

yeap, there is no reason to build defense if bosses can 1tap u .
GGG needs to understand this otherwise there will always be a meta for glass cannon builds and not well balanced build.

GGG is probably stuck in some form of logic loop here. Back in 0.2, during the interview with Zizaran, they mentioned that they don't pay that much attention to defenses, because players enjoy building for damage more.
So players aren't building defense, because they get one shot anyways. Meanwhile GGG isn't putting much work into defenses, because people don't build for it. It's just going in circles.