Path of Exile 2.4.0: Atlas of Worlds Patch Notes

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Bex_GGG wrote:

With the wide-ranging melee buffs and adjustment to Earthquake, we expect to see a much more balanced use of melee skills.

Umm, with wide range spell buffs and monster life increases, frankly, I don't expect many melee builds in the first place, considering that the primary reason why melee was understood as Earthquake only still is there.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Blade Vortex now has a stack limit of 20 (down from 50). It now deals 63% more damage at level 20.

So this is a 53% damage nerf. RIP Lawnmower.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Vaal Molten Shell now causes an explosion when it prevents any physical damage, rather than when it takes any hit.

Please, it's already dead. Stop!

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Bex_GGG wrote:

The chance of finding a Unique Strongbox has been doubled again.

Doesn't matter how many times you double the number 0, it will always be 0! :^)


Good to see Elementalist nerfs at long last but this type of 'balancing' will quickly move on to next best thing. You're not selling champion skins like Riot games and this can, and likely will, hurt the game. Melee looks like it is heading back to pre-2.0 days again and it is rather disheartening. Earthquake was too strong compared to every other melee skill, yet it was the only melee skill capable of even getting competing with top spells. Nerfing the class, items, skill itself and it's supporting gems all together in one patch will only make the skill feel terrible and people will not want to use it ever again.

Overall can't really be too angry or sad about the nerfs. Perhaps the overkill nerf approach is something to look at in future because we only get meaningful content updates 4 times a year. Being stuck with an ability that is complete garbage for 3, 4 or even more patches is rather... sad(and it does hurt your business directly, too).

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daulabuci wrote:

Standard player here .
Invested so much time to finally finish a CoC dagger discharge ( not mjlonir ) , i have invested all in items that i cannot even sell them anymore !! the value was gone over night so much i would have to farm months to get back the EX i used .I got work and cannot afford to do this again ..
I understand nerfs to be balanced but not this obliteration to this extend .

Uh, haven't you learned anything from making bad investments in real life to not do that here? I never built a CoC character because I knew with the kind of pressure being exerted by the community to have it nerfed and its actual physical negative effects on the hardware used to host the game it was just a matter of time before it was changed.

I don't feel sorry for you, there are plenty of inexpensive options available that aren't CoC, use them. Also its not like your crit gear is useless, it still does massive damage, you just need to click buttons now.

Most people don't really get the point.

You talk about balance. This game can never be balanced. Who is it going to be balanced for ? The casual players (majority of players) the hardcore players (vocal minority) the streamers (opinion makers) ?

GGG simply introduces new skills and items which are very often OP and lets people play with them for a while. Then it nerfs them and introduces new ones or randomly buffs some underused ones.

Why ? Because they don't want us to use our old builds. They want to force us to make new ones. And the best way to do this is by nerfing most good skills and items. This way they ensure that people have to play more (build new chars, grind to make money to equip them etc) and so it's more likely for them to buy stuff (like tabs).

It's understandable that GGG wants to force people to start from scratch. That's how they make their money. But it's very frustrating for those of us who have good and expensive builds that just got double nerfed (like my legacy mjolner) and would like to keep playing with them.

I liked a Lot... This game is Awesome!

GGG nerfs are kinda ridiculus. Nerfing Chieftan ability to gain max end-charges, from 100% to 30% is a joke. I can agree 100 % is to easy, but 30% will make it to unreliable.
Why not make it 70% or so. Then players can still trigger it reasonable often, if they have multiple sources for trigger, and its still a usable skill.

Why is it lately that nerfs turn skills and items from godly to useless, rather then tune them for better gameplay. Getting abit dissapointed how this game is developing.

With Regards Fingalf.

Glad I didn't take a month off for this league. There are still a couple fun builds I want to play but I doubt we'll see nearly the staying power of Prophecy.

Reducing EQ aftershock damage by 30% on a lvl 21 gem and decreasing the damage of Less duration by 10%.
Just one question.
Are you fucking nuts?
Thanks for killing the hype.
I was really looking forward to see "meele being adressed" and playing the new content - but I am totally over that now.

Yes, EQ is a good skill to clear white shit.
No, it is not a good single target skill. With this change you will still clear white shit the same speed as before, but bosses will become a fucking nightmare.
Did you get some fucking devs from Blizzard to join your team, or do you just feel like fucking players over by now? Is fun forbidden in NZ by a new law or something? If yes, well, you succeeded in sucking out the last drop of fun there was in playing a melee character.
Support packs my ass.

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Aias_o_Telamonios wrote:

Most people don't really get the point.

You talk about balance. This game can never be balanced. Who is it going to be balanced for ? The casual players (majority of players) the hardcore players (vocal minority) the streamers (opinion makers) ?

GGG simply introduces new skills and items which are very often OP and lets people play with them for a while. Then it nerfs them and introduces new ones or randomly buffs some underused ones.

Why ? Because they don't want us to use our old builds. They want to force us to make new ones. And the best way to do this is by nerfing most good skills and items. This way they ensure that people have to play more (build new chars, grind to make money to equip them etc) and so it's more likely for them to buy stuff (like tabs).

It's understandable that GGG wants to force people to start from scratch. That's how they make their money. But it's very frustrating for those of us who have good and expensive builds that just got double nerfed (like my legacy mjolner) and would like to keep playing with them.

It not just balance, the shit you and everyone using those trigger gems were doing was taxing their hardware. Its the same reason they killed ghosting. I honestly don't care how much fun a build I am playing is if it gets nerfed so that the servers don't get fucked.

Yet again another FTP business model. We release an OP skill/character and then we sell MTX/skin/w-e we can sell and then since we made it OP so people will buy it, we nerf it !

And then the matter of nerfing : in this ARPG you nerf a skill or access to a tree, but by doing so you screw lots of people that actually farmed like hell to get those items (no to mention the Leg Moj + the rest of the Moj build/gear).

Since all "interesting" Div cards have as much drop rate than the item itself - seen and commented by professional streamers - No real point farming them.

So basicly play the build of the new League/Meta cheap as fck, and just trade, because thats all there is sure in this game, the trade. Spend hours/days running after items to get people AFK or not selling in Leagues or W/E diff - at when a proper auction hall to purchase directly without ANY delay one bloody item !!!

I kinda pissed and venting here for my Moj build and MOSTLY gear that is useless AND worthless now but I m sure I aint the only one getting the same conclusion here.

And now you got 2 days for high balling sells and people that have huge amount of cash to buy certain items to "control" the market, look certain items pages of the same names again and again, and then wax-in wax-off, new league, and same all again ... food for thoughts.

And now they told "poision will be changed". Scary as fuck. Should i make posion char now or no? Or it will be nerfed to the hell loke coc?=/ cant believe ggg more :(