[Feedback] All Roads Lead to Crit

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

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.

Incorrect not every endgame build is critical,

Critical nodes are already rare compared to generic damage nodes. Critical strike requires specific gear and investment and, yes, it's definitely the most straightforward way to scale for a lot of the builds. However there are many builds that dont heavily rely on critical strike, so I disagree with nerfing crit further. Examples of other builds are already posted in the thread.

If you really want to nerf crit that badly I propose nerfs to Oracle and Blood Mage but I assume this proposal won't go down easily for the Oracles and Blood Mages. So yeah kinda leave crit as is. Actually, thinking about it, they'll probably nerf oracle anyway as it does get critical hits too easily. We'll see.

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EVGENIUS#2976 wrote:

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

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.

Incorrect not every endgame build is critical,

Critical nodes are already rare compared to generic damage nodes. Critical strike requires specific gear and investment and, yes, it's definitely the most straightforward way to scale for a lot of the builds. However there are many builds that dont heavily rely on critical strike, so I disagree with nerfing crit further. Examples of other builds are already posted in the thread.

If you really want to nerf crit that badly I propose nerfs to Oracle and Blood Mage but I assume this proposal won't go down easily for the Oracles and Blood Mages. So yeah kinda leave crit as is. Actually, thinking about it, they'll probably nerf oracle anyway as it does get critical hits too easily. We'll see.

Bloodmage....when Devs implemented this class all the other gone from bad to worse. Clearly destroying the game. Yesterday i tried reach a bloodmage in level 97 with pressed the running button continuously from the start of map....just couldn't! The guy finished boss alone in less than 3 sec while the other 4 players abandoned party... Im level 98 merc and felt doomed!

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EVGENIUS#2976 wrote:

I propose nerfs to Oracle and Blood Mage

I guess that would be a good start for GGG.

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

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EVGENIUS#2976 wrote:

I propose nerfs to Oracle and Blood Mage

I guess that would be a good start for GGG.

+1 to this. We had enough with Bloodmage immunity.

Their original idea was good:

Cold spells - least damage, most base crit chance
Lightning spells - mid damage and mid base crit
Fire damage - high base damage and lowest base crit

But what we got in 0.4? Comet that has insane base damage, even more insane base fire damage if fire infused, all while being cold spell with high crit chance, and fire infusions are easy to get by using living bomb together with coc comet. Which result in comet being most used and most OP spell in the game.

Passive tree should have less generic spell damage, less crit chance/damage.
Less cold damage, bunch cold crit branches.
More lightning damage branches and couple lightning crit branches
Tree should have a lot more fire damage branches than it currently has and maybe no fire crit passives at all.

I don't think you guys know where the real source for crit builds come from...
I don't want to throw my friends under the buss but...
Can anyone guess?
*oh nevermind someone already hit the nail on the head. GG

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PaintMaster#2396 wrote:

More lightning damage branches and couple lightning crit branches
Tree should have a lot more fire damage branches than it currently has and maybe no fire crit passives at all.

There's already plenty for the two, actually so many its hard to manage, even if you were doing pure lightning or fire without crit.

It's not really the crit on the passive tree nor the spell crit chance that is the root cause. It's the Ascendancies and a smart combo of unique items that takes it to the next level (like max level on megabonk).

GGG is so busted, oooooooooh. They need more in-house QA to break the game before they release anything.

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Falginton#0485 wrote:

+1 to this. We had enough with Bloodmage immunity.

Agreed, the Bloodmage needs a hefty nerf in 0.5.

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Selous-4040/character/BLEEDVERSIONDAWN

Not a single crit node on the tree—DoT build. Uber Arbiter either dies in 20 seconds, or I can facetank all his abilities back-to-back. Am I doing something wrong in this game?

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Selous#4040 wrote:

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Selous-4040/character/BLEEDVERSIONDAWN

Not a single crit node on the tree—DoT build. Uber Arbiter either dies in 20 seconds, or I can facetank all his abilities back-to-back. Am I doing something wrong in this game?

yeah youe mistake is to reply to this kind of thread and trying to make people understand it's not all about meta and streamers, your post will be ignored (like mine) because they dont have a valid point to prove what they're talking about and they will never try to achieve what you linked, sadly.
with all due respect.