Path of Exile 2.4.0: Atlas of Worlds Patch Notes

The problem with most of the people who support new nerfs is that they dont understand that it has nothing to do with balance. Was coc-discarge op? Yes. Mjoler Jugg? Op as well. But now they are dead. Like totally dead. And that's not balancing skills, that's killing builds. I mean 0,5s cooldown? 2 casts/sec? Why even bother...
I mean i'm not butthurt, but it seems that GGG can't put things in the middle - it's super op or super dead.

Did melee really get buffed?????

Perhaps after 3 years, I still don't understand this game.

Well, unless I missed something in the patch notes......looks like SRS didn't get nerfed. At least there is a new helm to look for.

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Exile009 wrote:

Cool! The longest forum post I recall reading in my years here ran up to 52 pages, iirc Let's set a new record!! :D

@GGG Thanks for the patch notes. Keep up the good work. :)

the most heated one i remember recently was the latest april fools 'trade improvements' but this CoC love may take the cake

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top2000 wrote:

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Colossus_The_Turtle wrote:

There is but one thing I am quite dissapointed about; no Death's oath buff or changed effect :<

there is.

Wait what? Did i miss it? Link!

Thank you for the note and the effort to make this game better!

I have a question regarding the change of the Conflux:
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Shaper of Desolation now grants different Confluxes over a ten-second cycle: Chilling Conflux for three seconds, Shocking Conflux for three seconds, Igniting Conflux for three seconds and then all three together for one second. Each Conflux means that any damage causes that Status Ailment. Elemental Conflux was too powerful. The new version requires more strategy (and doesn't need a kill to get started).
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The change itself balances this ascendant skill point in a more interesting way. However, it brings up a fatal problem to the coordination between the new Conflux and the current "Pendulum of Destruction" ascendant point, that these two points have the exact same cycle time (both are 10 seconds), which means there is no phase difference between the two skill points!

This is a serious problem. Being no phase difference means the two skill points will interact whatever way it is from the very beginning and then lasts forever. There are two scenarios of how the timing of both skill points work:
1) The starting points of the timers of both skills reset each time the character enter an instance. It means that the coordination between the two skills will remain the same in the whole instance.
2) The starting points of both timers are fixed at the instant of activation of the skills. This case is even worse than the first scenario because it means the coordination between the two skills are fixed forever for this character.

Neither scenario is healthy or interesting at all and should be avoid.

To solve this problem, the two skills should have different cycle times, such that the phase difference between the two can keep shifting.

While the new Conflux system seems promising, my proposal is as follows:
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Change the cycle of the current Pendulum to 3 seconds in every 7 seconds.
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It is a simple adjustment but will work wonders to address the above problem. The overall efficiency of the proposed Pendulum is 3/7=0.4285, which is slightly higher than the current 4/10=0.4. However, it can be seen as a compensation to the shorter buff time (3 sec instead of 4 sec). And the Pendulum cycles much faster which is more interesting. The most crucial point is that the Pendulum now has a big cycle time difference to the new Conflux cycle (7 sec against 10 sec), which means the phase difference between the two cycles will shift quickly over time.

I think in this way it brings more favor to the whole "elemental disorder" theme of the Ascendant class: "I am a master of elements but the power is so tremendous that I sometimes lose the total control of it. I MAY cause huge chill. I MAY cause huge shock. I MAY cause huge burn. I MAY even cause all in one shot. But at what point I can cause which? I have no absolute control of it. It happens when it happens. Yep. That's who I am, an elementalist, deadly and unpredictable."

I absolutely believe the proposal is a viable and necessary adjustment to the current Pendulum system and it will certainly brings more favor to the class and make it more fun. Please kindly consider it.

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Side note: If possible, could GGG kindly check the RNG of my account? I have not been able to craft one single 6-socket let alone 6-link item yet since I played this game. This was not unusually and I could solve the problem by buying items from other players instead of crafting them by myself. However, since and new league is crafting-focused and I intend to enjoy the most out of it, I certainly do not want to be pissed by the bad RNG (if any) of my account. TBH I have put far too much time on this game already. It is a great game. But it does feel frustrating sometime when bad RNG keeps happening.

Thank you for your attention and look forward to your reply.


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tldr: Change the cycle of the current Pendulum of Destruction of Elementalist to 3/7 (instead of 4/10), in order to create a phase difference with the new Conflux and a quick phase shifting between the two.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Added a channelled skill system. Incinerate, Flameblast and Wither are now channelled skills.

Unlike other skills, which are used once and quickly finish, when you use a channelled skill, it doesn't finish until you release the relevant button/key. You continue performing the same skill.

You need to pay mana repeatedly to keep the skill going.

The channelled skill's mana cost must be paid again to maintain it with a frequency determined by the cast time. If you can't pay, the skill will end, just as if you'd lifted the button.

So all what channelling does is nerfs existing skills? Really? Thanks, GGG!

RIP Flameblast. I will miss You ;_;

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Nice nerf to single relatively good Melee Skill. Nice 5% more damage buffs to Melee...this is what we we wanted! Thanks again, GGG!

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Why it's so fucking hard to just actually listen to community?...

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I actually like CoC and Discharge nerf. Maybe Blade Vortex nerf will be good too. Jugg nerf. FW abuse has fixed as well. A lot of thing to enjoy in this Patch.

But Bladefall still going strong? Lol.

Bladefall Meta forever.

And they nerfed both Slayer and EQ. And I wanted to play EQ Slayer this League ;_;

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southsidepopper wrote:

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top2000 wrote:

time is precious and you spent it to play games?

who are you to judge how precious his time is. his dog of 13 years died for gods sake. and plus his favorite build got nerfed. give the guy a break.

What a elitist "GOD" POE player, congratz, you are the #1 troll, good for you sir, continue dat way, mr superior, nothing like people that get fun of others bad moments, he are depressed about the nerf, and if he want to make an opinion about are shit the nerf, he are free to express his toughts, ok Mr. perfection, continue being so perfect.

@posts

@ex per league
I make about 6 ex per 3-4 month league so 100 ex in a year is about right.... (to people saying they make tons of ex in temp leagues... yeah you dont unless your trading your balls off i also play like 12 hours a day when i play)


@CoC
Ive never played a CoC build yet i see this nerf as bad myself

@jug nerf
Im guessing they nerfed this because of the new 4k armor? that kinda sucks and has shit stats other then the armor itself

Melee already sucks nerfing our only class isnt helping anything (what other melee class is even good? they all suck buff them dont nerf jug)

@nerf every temp league

I think they take stats from each league then nerf whatever is doing most damage/most used/etc
I see this ok for next temp league cause your making new chars/builds anyways but this goes to std also so...

@temp league
I think this league is going to suck

@alas of worlds
This whole system seems redundant and not needed and feels like you just made it because you needed something to make an update with and couldnt think of anything good
We shell see since i get to play (if i get to play)


We should all play bow and magic builds so they nerf bow and magic things. they cant not nerf them if everyone plays them cause then they wouldnt have anything to nerf

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top2000 wrote:

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Ferrari420 wrote:

= cause I tested the --experimental-frame-optimizations and it was literally unplayable and made the game even worse.

are you using a potato that was made before 2006?

Not at all, this is the only game I play that I experience screen tearing and fps drops that last several seconds and make the game unplayable for me to the point that I just log out when they occur, all my deaths in HC are due to these problems so I just stopped trying to play HC. BTW I just want to make it clear I'm not crying over cast on crit, I literally don't care about cast on crit or discharges changes, I just hope these performance optimizations work for me because --experimental-frame-optimizations did not improve performance for me.

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top2000 wrote:

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Raonni wrote:

ofc i can compare, i lost alot of time on it, time is precious maybe ppl dont value time like i do and that why they dont care to stay on the endless nerf loop every league 1 get nerf 1 buff and the wheel keeps roling.

like i said i would love to play solo offline, but i cant i dont care about multiplayer, and about this elitism. and theres nothing i can do to stop them of destroying the most fun build ive played on my entire fucking life of playing games since D1.

time is precious and you spent it to play games?

that why im sad, im a casual player it took me forever to build that toon, now to build another again jesus.. the toon was not even finished yet.

like i said before if i was young with 10+h per day to play, fuck it i would not be here posting, but i dont have much time to build a powerfull char again every 3 months after the end of the league coz the community cry about nerfs when they should just ask for buffs on the skills that ppl dont play like lightning tendrils ... and other 100