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

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OG_Smez#4109 wrote:

Please clarify these crafting changes

If this is truly nerfing the ability to use essences as before all you guys are doing is hurting the mid tier player and taking steps back towards the shitty randomness of slam and pray

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SoLoRoX_18#7987 wrote:

Please for the love of all things holy, revert that terrible essence change. If I have to rely on that dumbass genesis tree bullshit, I'm done. All the work you guys put in in 0.3 to help with deterministic crafting is taking a huge leap backwards. Not to mention, it's further hindered by the removal of the recomb. These are by far the worst decisions I've seen to date.

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The Bogfelled Commoner now has a Spectre variant for the boss version of the monster.

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fruitburst#5510 wrote:

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Rekill#3893 wrote:

Onely a single instance of leech between life, mana and ES is the dumbest shit ever... WTF...
when iam a warrior melee and got some life leech and mana to sustain my dps.
and then i obviously take dmg because iam melee. but i am leeching mana because i am attacking. then i can't leech life!???! thats just awesome HAHAHA! xD

I think you've misunderstood its one instance of EACH, so Life and mana can each have 1 instance.

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grynnder#7112 wrote:

GGG, thank you for your work, but I personally don't find your balance solutions interesting. Nerfing leech to only 1 source is insanely bad from a design standpoint. What you did is you made all Warriors go BM just because mana costs are unsustainable and they have no other ways to recover mana (ofc int Warrior doesn't care but we still have to see how it plays). No Warrior will ever choose mana leech over life leech. It has to be obvious. So effectively this is not just a leech nerf, u made us have effectively less passive points as well AND to tweak passive tree accordingly. So as a phys Warrior u basically always go to BM no matter what. Regen is almost non-existent, Time of Need is nuked, so the only source of real recovery left is leech (it was leech, we still have to see how it feels after the nerfs), so basically you solved nothing except made Warrior even weaker.

By the way, there is an interesting line: "When multiple Leech instances are active, only the one with the highest recovery rate will recover you until it expires, after which the next-highest recovery rate instance will apply."
Everyone who played Warrior knows, that mana leech works better. I do not know the exact formula behind these calculations and\or will it be that if you have 16% a.damage leeched as life vs 8% a.damage leeched as mana mana will still win, but I just hope that it won't happen. Because if a mana leech mod bricks a weapon\gloves or anything else really, it will be catastrophic. Even if they go 1 in 1 (like 8% life leech equals 8% mana leech) you just rendered all mana leech rings\gloves\weapons(!!!) unusable for phys Warriors.

Other classes just don't have that problem, because afaik there is no spell damage -> mana leech conversion anywhere in the game, so this nerf basically only affects Warrior and Huntress. WHY? BM, the leech abuser, is unaffected by this change. I don't get it.

Why PoE2 has to be like that? Full of half-ass restrictive solutions? Like honestly these balance tweaks are pretty mid if not bad, thanks for buffing armor I guess.

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QuidingGaming#2503 wrote:

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All crafted modifiers are now guaranteed, but items can only have 1 crafted modifier at a time. Desecrated modifiers no longer count as crafted modifiers, but items are limited to 1 Desecrated modifier.

How exactly are we supposed to play SSF?

I really hope this isn’t true, because it basically forces everyone into playing trade, or not playing at all. Without deterministic crafting, playing any sort of endgame in SSF might as well be impossible.