Why nerf energy shield? Buff other defences
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I strongly disagree with the nerf philosophy in general but why nerf energy shield? From what i gathered from the patch notes OTHER defences got nerfed too.
I dont understand, why nerf the only good defencive option, it wasnt even OP its just the other defences that are all too weak. Rather than nerf anything thats good, buff the things that are weak. Edit: im a jackass, i woke up and begrudgeingly scimmed trough the patch notes without reading them completely, tbh the nerfs arent that bad. Armor needs more buffs tho! Melee too Last edited by GundeSvan1337#7452 on May 22, 2026, 7:23:32 AM Last bumped on May 22, 2026, 1:48:55 PM
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You can still get 20k energy shield so doesnt feel like a massive nerf. Just the recovery aspect of it.
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>ggg
>Buff Lmfao. First time? Добавьте это в ублок, чтобы сайт выглядел по человечески.
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Idk looks like it's still the best defense in the game, just recovery tuned down a little bit
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" 20k ES get 18k damage recovey in low speed = die | |
" considering Gloamgown + Convalescence with second wind |
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" Lmao what a point |
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" you are thinking of PURE ES stacking builds. Me for example i play a lot es+ev and for me this nerf is kinda big... Also most likely you dont play HC but this will impact HC players much more. TBF i got my ES recharge rate to aeound 3.5k es per sec adn start down to roughly 2 sec which i admit was too strong but this feels like they nuked it to oblivion. Playing hc i gonna be so much more punishing than it was already. |
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" I played hardcore trade 0.4 league and my icestrike pathfinder had 14500 energy shield, about 68% evasion, 40% deflection chance, 75% elemetal resistances, chaos inoculation, sustainable practises ascendancy, ghost dance giving energy shield, wind dancer knocking + slowing enemies and blasphemy with temporal chains slowing 50%+. I felt immortal, was even standing next to juiced 8x ulaman's legion abyss rares. Nothing in the game did more than maybe 5k of my energy shield in damage and those big hits were only from bosses and bosses hit big only like once per 10sec so you can always recover it back. My poe.ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Taistelija-5483/vaalhc/character/TaiSeeker I can only see few changes to my defenses in my situation for patch 0.5: 1. energy shield recovery goes down alot because passive point / gear suffix changes 2. base evasion on endgme items goes up, so my sleek jacket would provide even more evasion 3. ghost dance no longer gives you quick chunks of recovery, but instead overtime Last edited by Taistelija#5483 on May 22, 2026, 5:18:14 AM
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" yeah yeah i m aware of the numbers and also note that pathfinder in particular is much tankier than ppl give it credit for because of all the layers it has (CI + perfect essence of ruin, sustainablke practice + Max res slow immunity ect ect) i had a pathfinder bear this season with 10k es 62% ev 50% armour and like 25% deflecion max res and sustainable practice and perfect essence of ruin for another 12 % phys dmg reduction. and again im not saying nerfing recharge rate ect was out of place im saying that GGG tends to make irrational BRUTAL nerfs from one extreme into another. they nerfed it by so much its gonna be a problem to solve. if your ES recharges with 300 per sec even if you have a large pool it will get very dangerous. not to mention its gonna feel horrible. also just nerfing ES to the ground is not gonna fix other defensives stats those just still feel awful. |
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