Content Update 3.9.0 -- Path of Exile: Conquerors of the Atlas

I’m feeling the nerfs to zombies, specifically, is overkill. They are now in a worse state than they were in 3.7 (yes I played zombies in Legion too). The nerfs to minion damage support, feeding frenzy, ravenous horde, and the Necromancer acendency would have sufficed — and since you felt you absolutely had to: the maim support mod on 2-handed maces as well. That should have been enough. Hell, the slam nerf would have been borderline, but okay. Instead, you tack on a 25% damage nerf and 0% zombie life on the skill gem on top of everything else — after you just said in the 3.8 manifesto that minion survivability was a problem.

Reminder that going into 3.8, zombies, specifically were nerfed in the areas of quantity (you have less zombies in 3.8 than 3.7) and they removed the Violent Dead gem (which buffed zombie slam). So now, zombies will be doing less damage, have a weaker slam than 3.7, and have the survivability issue prior to 3.8 once again. Sorry, but this entire process is completely backwards.

Still, I think zombies will still be viable — just not so much as a primary damage source unless you have the ability to recast them. They’ll supplement skeletons and/or specters and that’s about it.

Was the zealotry consecrated ground permanently removed from allies/minions?

Stop limiting volatile dead pls -.-

I just got an idea for 4.0... only letting people create premade characters, after what you think we should play. it would save so much time.. no need for shitty patchnotes or anything...

Hype!

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Steam charts says it all. Dying game. Can't even argue it. Since June people have basically abandoned this game. Pretty sad.

https://steamcharts.com/app/238960#1y

This game will be flatlined in a year. The pool of new players is drying up, veterans leaving in droves, all the while the GGG butt-goo-slurpers pretend it's all ok.

When D4 comes out, this game will be toast. Blizz is going back to their roots of D2. It's glorious to see.

Yeah cause THIS time is different right? All the other times people said this it didn't happen, but you will be the one that is right! Also tons of us were around before the game moved to steam and don't see any reason to switch over so the steam charts are missing a huge amount of the player base.

Did you even look at the steam charts?

Last 30 Days 11,899.3 -177.4 -1.47% 24,832
November 2019 12,076.7 -2,830.7 -18.99% 24,832
October 2019 14,907.5 -10,352.7 -40.98% 31,634
September 2019 25,260.2 +14,316.5 +130.82% 74,653
August 2019 10,943.6 -15,470.6 -58.57% 25,500
July 2019 26,414.3 -22,076.8 -45.53% 53,530
June 2019 48,491.1 +35,387.0 +270.05% 113,258

The rate which the game is dying in steam would most likely reflect the rate it's dying not on steam. Just because you throw money at the game doesn't mean it's thriving, it's not. The facts are there.

PoE Peaked in Dec 2018. A year ago. Since then it has done nothing but slowly die. The last 3 months it died at a very fast pace. Blight did nothing for the game. Instead of fixing the game, they added boring content and horrible balance that they just push to sell people MTX and force new bag space purchases and people have caught on. All these new currencies that magically "don't have currency slots yet." Like it's an accident. Tell yourself whatever you want but it's dying. Dying. Dying. Watch the numbers. Not your personal investments in this game. Your 15 supporter packs don't tickle Tencents pockets in the least.

"The majority of our attention has been focussed on bows, giving them a sweeping review similar to the attention received by Spells, Melee Attacks and Minions earlier this year"

don't make me laugh. you destroyed melee and self cast spell almost entirely, last season everyone and their mother played necro, this league it will be necro and some bow shenanigans.

on top of that you catered nicely to those streamers and players that are jobless and dedicate their life to a single game.

i really miss the way poe was at the beginning. many more builds were viable but now it all comes down to meta.

it feels like you don't know where to go with your game at all. nerf this nerf that then buff it back (Arc i just say) and repeat. tree also changes every damn league. can you imagine this is annoying af? another league i will skip i guess

Accounting for the weaker multi craft mod, is it reasonable to lower the cost? Since you only get effective two mods out of it now (the their being the crafting mod itself), 2 ex seems excessive.

SO WHERE THE F*CK IS THAT MEMORY LEAK FIX!?

It was introduced in 3.8 and you have admitted yourselves "unusually high" memory usage. SO I ASK YOU AGAIN, WHAT THE F*CK? MEMORY LOAD IN TOWNS GOT ABYSMAL.

You don't give a rats a*s don't you GGG? You don't plan to fix the sh*t you have created yourselves? You make stupid posts for damage control and then you just abandon the work you have to do?

I'm completely disappointed and SO PISSED.

Not gonna buy a single cr*p from you until you sort your engine, memory or whatever problems.

I hate you GGG from the bottom of my heart, but in the same time...i HATE YOU EVEN MORE.