Content Update 2.3.0 Patch Notes

Pretty disappointed patch:(

I can't see any stuff to try and grind in new league because no buffs to underwhelmed skills

hype train!

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Chris wrote:

Due to the power creep from Ascendancy, Cruel, Merciless and Map content requires various rebalances. Rather than apply arbitrary buffs to life and damage, we have instead added monsters with new skills to higher difficulties, and have applied various corrections to specific monster skills.

Not sure if this is the best solution since monsters are dying instantly most of the time. It seems like it only promotes stressfull approach "kill or be killed". In a current state gameplay is more about running than fighting. AoE and speed is basicaly everything.
Honestly I would rather see some kind of change to monster pack hierarchy when every pack would contain trash mobs, regular mobs and few tougher mobs. It could provide interesting pack synergies and also leave more space for different role specializatons.

WOW...Great Job GGG!
I Love you all!

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Wiesl_1404 wrote:

I have never witnessed a balance team which had been so incompetent about such obvious broken stuff in any other online game i have ever played. Why arn't you able to figure this out yourself?

They are not doing balance, balance would be a massive endeavour in a game such as PoE with so many interacting factors, items, stats, keystones, skills, supports, #links, multipliers, debuffs, buffs....

GGG do imbalance, on purpose, it's known as forced meta.

Why attempt the impossible and have several hundred balance issues when you can just greatly imbalance a few which get the limelight and everything else is forgotten?

It also gives the impression of 'good theorycrafting' rather than the players having a million assets to try to theorycraft powerful combinations with, they get the obvious choices thrown in their face to work with.


Available in any colour, as long as it's black.

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The experience penalty for higher levels is now slightly higher. The penalty starts taking effect a few levels earlier than it previously did.

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?????????????


Jeez I'll never reach lvl100, ever.


Other than that, nice changes...

hype!

nice:
+ Progress through the Trials of Ascendancy is now shared between all your characters in the league.

what?
? The time that Sparks must travel before they re-arm has been increased from 500ms to 1000ms.

that sucks:
- The values of chaos conversion on [...] Infernal Mantle [...] reduced to be 60% of their prior value.
- The experience penalty for higher levels is now slightly higher. The penalty starts taking effect a few levels earlier than it previously did.
- The Endgame Labyrinth
- Increased the attack time of Whirling Blades by 18%. Its previous default attack time was 2.2 seconds. It is now 2.6 seconds.
- Hailrake and Glace now use a weak version of Arctic Armour.


don't care about the other changes in the patch notes.
...all in all, a pretty bad patch for me.

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Chris wrote:

Path of Exile Version 2.3.0 Patch Notes
You now cannot delete characters from disabled leagues, other than The Void. This is to protect against people deleting characters before the race prize awarder for that league has finished.

That's what I call ultimate protection against idiots. It seems that GGG also tired of people who delete chars right after they end race and then complain on forums and Reddit.