Path of Exile: Incursion (Content Update 3.3.0) Patch Notes

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Dr8cul wrote:

I fully understand the new mechanics of vaal gems and the duration before gaining new vaal souls. But I am confused about something. Do every vaal gem get 1 souls per kill or like before all vaal gem share a total counter of vaal souls? I ask because if all vaal gems still share a total counter of vaal souls the patch looks like a nerf to vaal auras without getting any benefits.

Example:

Vaal Grace:

Before patch:
48 Souls per use
No cooldown for gaining new souls

After patch:
50 Souls per use (nerf)
9 seconds cooldown for gaining new souls (nerf)


I fully understand the reason behind the cooldown. This mechanic is made to prevent using vaal auras for speedruns over and over like vaal haste. But in exchange for that I expected a minor buff in power or a buff in souls per use (needing less souls). On the one hand this greatly prevents spamming a vaal aura for speedruns. On the other hand this looks like a huge nerf to support(-only) builds focusing on auras and vaal auras especially because "Using a Vaal skill now prevents you from gaining souls for all Vaal skills for a short period of time after the skill is used." This way support builds are forced to use their vaal auras at the same time to play efficiently.

I like the idea of changing vaal auras to be not abused in speedruns because in this situations the vaal auras was very strong. But I think it is a pity that support builds focusing on auras (and so vaal auras) are nerfed as well because in this situations the vaal auras wasn't too strong and just a great feature for teamplay. Also getting souls from rare and uniques (and so bosses) each missing health is a great idea but feels very weak for support builds because of the 1 second cooldown in this mechanic and the cooldown of the vaal aura itself after using it.

Anyway it is a great patch for trap builds :)

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Sarno wrote:

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Updated the 2D and 3D art of Tabula Rasa to look less like a sweatshirt your grandmother gave you that was several sizes too large.

This is the most hurtful nerf. :(

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Added 39 new Labyrinth Enchantments for existing skills, and 43 for new skills. Enchantments for existing skills which have undergone significant reworking may not appear any more due to mechanical changes making them nonfunctional, such as enchantments which modify the cooldown of trap skills. Existing versions of these enchantments will now grant increased damage with that skill at the same value.