Content Update 0.5.0 — Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients

What melee? I'm a totem slam geomancer magician

I actually never against the nerfs but is nerfing all the things help the improve your player base or not? they hyped us and with this changes de-hyped us. Ofc i will play, but im not in mood :(

Can't wait! Thanks for the update guys.

I cannot for the life of me even begin to understand what the balancing team is thinking. I want a hard game, however theyre just picking melee skills and triple tapping them. They are sucking all of the fun out of the game. There are already barely any decent skills to play in PoE2, and they do this..

It's not really about any specific change that's an issue on it's own, but rather their clear lack of understanding of their own game. I have lost all faith in PoE2 after coping for 2 years that any patch now, they will actually begin fixing the game and making it fun. The copium has run out.

Where are all the new lineage support and unique descriptions or the new passive tree changes?

Every patch it is fun to see how difficult life must be for some people based on the comments they produce. And this is true for PoE1 and PoE2.

ZOMfg I CAnnOT PlAY AnyTHINg AnYMore it IS ALL BrokE brUh BUFFS WheN Nerfz WHEN FUbGun rEEeeeee

Am I surprised Twister didn't get hit? Yes
Am I surprised Chalupy didn't get a massive ascendancy rework? No
Am I surprised that Pounce wasn't nerfed/changed harder? Yes

I'm personally starting either Zoogirl/Twister like everyone or Chronomancer since I genuinely find the changes interesting. And finally Challenge League! I think there will be plenty to do / try and see.

Are some of the changes lazy? Possibly, but given the fact that the endgame overhaul is massive and balacnce wasn't the overall focus I would argue limited resources were allocated away from balacing for this pass towards other things.

Coolest comments -> Patch changes nothing, what did GGG do for the past months, where Balance / Ascendancy / Items?????
These people either honestly missed the communication the past weeks, live under a rock, or are just not able to process what GGG said about what will happen in the next months and what this patch was supposed to be.....

That said I wouldn't want to be in the same room as poor Carn right now ;).

They balance melee and proj +levels but dont touch caster +levels.

Plus no change to Cast on X spam. LOL

Another caster screen vomit meta I guess...

And yes, there are ways to sustain it with cost efficiency and mana regen. I played it last league with no blood magic on stormweaver.

I see no mention of fresh clip support, so I suppose it is still dead?

Lots of nerfs, but i think ppl are also forgetting about the new gems and itens that prob will compensate for all of this