[Feedback] All Roads Lead to Crit

Without a doubt, Critical Strike is the most effective way to scale damage into endgame. If crit remains unchanged, every endgame build is a Crit Build as Non-Crit Builds can't compete.

For Content Patch 0.5, I urge GGG to reduce the number of Critical Strike nodes on the passive tree and/or sources of Critical Strike found on gear.
Last edited by CharlesJT#7681 on Feb 21, 2026, 3:12:48 PM
Last bumped on Mar 3, 2026, 9:13:26 PM
Hope this is fixed in 0.5.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/IILU81II-8410/character/BellaZio

5% crit chance, not a single crit node on the tree.
Damage is so stupid kinda reminds me gemling in 0.1
There is nothing wrong with critical strike imho, it is a huge investement too so hopefully they wont change a thing!!
Last edited by IILU81II#8410 on Feb 22, 2026, 4:36:45 AM
yeap in 99% of cases crit is the way to go and this is sad
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IILU81II#8410 wrote:
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/IILU81II-8410/character/BellaZio

5% crit chance, not a single crit node on the tree.
Damage is so stupid kinda reminds me gemling in 0.1
There is nothing wrong with critical strike imho, it is a huge investement too so hopefully they wont change a thing!!


Have to agree with this, there are plenty of top builds that doesnt need crit in order to clear all content with easy.

- Whirling Assault / Gathering Storm + Frostwall
- Poisonburst Arrow / Toxic Growth
- Gas Arrow / Toxic Growth
- Essence Drain / Contagion / Dark Efficy
- Shield Wall / Infernal Warcry
- Rampage Bear

I feel like only two cases where i see crit being mandatory:
- Bloodmage 15% base crit ascendancy + spark/coc
- Ice Strike quarterstaff builds
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yeap in 99% of cases crit is the way to go and this is sad


Agreed, crit should not be the ONLY way.
Spells have waaaaay too much crit base.

Just nerf those first.
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Spells have waaaaay too much crit base.

Just nerf those first.


I agree, that could be a great start to nerfing crit.
Bloodmage + Crits = GOD MODE (Not just OP).
+1 Agreed. CoC and crit should be an variation that is equal with its own quirks with other build

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