1.3.0 Patch Notes

GGG is failing big!!!

They dont keep what they promised:"We will never nerf existing Items"

This is fucking the game up. Why should i farm for months to buy something big and in the end it will get nerfed! Why GGG is dont keeping word as they say Standard League should be playground for powerful Items. I lost my motivation to farm anymore with the infos from patch notes. Next step will be same as Diablo 3,with release of expansion pack you got better gear every hour so years of farming became useless in days. Fuck the devs and the motherfucking game.....

It looks like they didn't nerf the shadow cast speed as listed.

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The elemental penetration on Heart of Flame, Heart of Thunder and Heart of Ice has been reduced.

Their penetration was actually increased by 1.

Well, bang goes evasion as a (almost) viable defense. Not to mention rendering dual-wield about as useful as holding a staff.

"Here, Exiles, look at this shiny new tree... (while we quietly nerf EVERY USEFUL PIECE OF DEFENSE IN THE GAME!)"

Back to Path of Life Nodes we go...

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Kalidor wrote:

Spoiler

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Revy_Slan wrote:

Like I already said, because it reduces the number of "viable" builds instead of increasing them. Ranged will dominate even more than before now. People didn't pick up these stats, gems and uniques for no reason. They did it because they had to in order to not have to play these one shot ranged builds.

To nerf AA, and block in passives to the ground because it is "too readily available", when people skipped block all around to simply run with an Atziri flask to max it out on use (or other 20%+ uniques) is insane. I repeat: it was impossible to achieve max block without these and just running shield+passives+tempest shield before, not to speak of the damage you'd be missing then.

I'm also upset because it reduces character individualization all around, by taking some facets out of comprehensive passive builds... instead of nerfing the corresponding unique items.

It makes no sense.

And that last part of your comment is dubious as well, as this nerf is clearly targeted at two groups of people: 1) standard league players who can horde those unique items and currency which make these stats broken by not facing the threat of death and having the items decay into lower leagues and 2) super no life people, of whom there is only a handful, who manage to acquire that kind of currency in temporary hardcore leagues. This patch is targeted at standard and at players with the means to have any gear they want anyways, and kills everyone else.

no dude.. it increases the number of builds.. every melee wanted to rely on MAX block with BoR WoE Rainbowstrides and lazwhar.. this WAS broken 100% and GGG is fixing it in 1.3

i hope you understand what Balance means. and please dont tell me they destroyed your build too...cause it wasnt even yours when EVERY-SINLE-ONE was using the same gear and tree for their stupid block melee build.

In the comment I made prior to this one and to which you replied - complete with quote - I just told you that

> I haven't touched standard league in my life. I haven't copied one shot uber builds or other builds which are centered around the acquisition of unique items and I haven't played with non-self found end game uniques either.

You might want to try working on your reading comprehension and tone down that misguided snobbishness and condescension of yours that's overshadowing everything you've submitted to this thread so far.

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Kalidor wrote:

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justinmm1988 wrote:

You have no clue about how many people contributed to the core value of this game. Your one sided thought should get you banned. No compassion for people that enjoyed the casual play of this game. Many casual players paid to support GGG. What a prick.

no, i lost the count when more casuals came in the game and i really dont care if they leave cause of the nerfs/balance aka PoE going harder.

The suggestion that the people here are representative of a sudden influx of casuals is asinine as well, considering the thread is filled with people who've been here since closed beta, many of them previously strong supporters of the game, like myself.
And most of their complaints have nothing whatsoever to do with the game getting harder - they have to do with this patch doing little in the name of balance, while doubling down on nerfing a select variety of builds, namely in such a manner that ranged one shot builds remain sole kings of the hill. Incidentally, those are also the cheapest builds... compared to the expensive ones they've crippled now. Difficulty is good. They didn't increase difficulty when the cheapest and most deadly builds are still left intact while more defensive alternatives to them are not.

The problem is not with nerfing builds and making the game harder, it's with failing to do it in a comprehensive and balanced way and in the wrong way, like has previously been explained.

To quote a number of short ones to that end. http://imgur.com/a/OMnQU

Great $%6"!=@!ing job.

Can't get my build up and running again - at least when I crunch the numbers in the new tree.

You just put a perfectly fine lvl 89, 78% block, 4.5k life cyclone duelist out of business.

HAPPY?

- Blocking nodes are either nerved into oblivion or too hard to reach.
- so freaking many pointless nodes to get to anything now.
- I need at least 20 extra points on that skill tree if I try to get the same build running. (estimate)
- The passive skill tree reset is pointless - it only works once - and that one is for free already - YOU SIMPLY CANNOT TRY OUT CHANGES.


Good job. NOT - in fact I'm very disappointed.

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bad trying to please everyone and therefore no one shall be satisfied. you're a top down rpg act like a top down rpg stop trying to cater to a bigger crowd and i know more people means more money but that only works if u don't make the rest of us that have been here feel like we have wasted our time i am sure there are people who shal love what u have don and there will be people that will side with u no matter what u decide to do i for one shal not be either of those gl have fun but i must say YOU DUN FUCKED IT UP

worst patch ever, nerf everything and dont fix desync
this game should be renamed "path of failure"

It's official cyclone is ruined! rip! from 3.6APS to 2.3 yaaay!!