Path of Exile: Heist Balance Manifesto

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ArionAthreides wrote:

I started with Harvest.
I played a lot of it thanks to COVID forcing me at home and despite that not only I failed at getting any endgame content, I never figure how to craft stuff despite Harvest being the so-called Best Crafting League and my gears end up being shit. I see build claiming 1.000.000 DPS when I never went past 10.000. Farming 100 EX a day while I saw a single Ex after two months and I totaled a big number of 2 EX. People surviving something capable to kill you from the other side of the map while I simply stopped getting experience once I reached 91 because I died more than I was earning experience.
It took me 3 months and I got nothing and hopefully, I will start working back full time when Heist start. Are casual players even supposed to play League? Because I can't see right now how someone could finish this game in 3 months if it gets harder, especially since I could play it for a whole year and still I couldn't figure out if adding more INT or STR is even useful to my build or why I should even wear a shield since armor seems useless or how 97% of Uniques are useless and they kept adding unique that useless.
And let's not talk about the fact the game force you to play most of the time to get the resources you need but you have to interact with a person to sell/buy instead of having a way to put your stuff in a selling place and then get what you want without being forced to leave a map mid-boss fight or lose a chance to get/sell what you need.
And for what? To show people how trendy your HQ is? I would do my stuff in Oriat's frankly.

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TheRigidSlinky wrote:

TLDR Theres still a lot of things you can abuse, and we dont even know what kind of knockoffs are in store. Maybe we will see more build diversity, and dont forget theres also the new skills and altered support gems.
I can understand people worrying, but doesnt this make you more excited for the possibilities?

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Gid_PathofExile wrote:

The Glancing Blows nerf seems to hit the wrong thing.

It hurts duel wield block and staff block way more than Life/ES recovery on block (which is the actual problem).

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Souleus wrote:

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ArionAthreides wrote:

I started with Harvest.
I played a lot of it thanks to COVID forcing me at home and despite that not only I failed at getting any endgame content, I never figure how to craft stuff despite Harvest being the so-called Best Crafting League and my gears end up being shit. I see build claiming 1.000.000 DPS when I never went past 10.000. Farming 100 EX a day while I saw a single Ex after two months and I totaled a big number of 2 EX. People surviving something capable to kill you from the other side of the map while I simply stopped getting experience once I reached 91 because I died more than I was earning experience.
It took me 3 months and I got nothing and hopefully, I will start working back full time when Heist start. Are casual players even supposed to play League? Because I can't see right now how someone could finish this game in 3 months if it gets harder, especially since I could play it for a whole year and still I couldn't figure out if adding more INT or STR is even useful to my build or why I should even wear a shield since armor seems useless or how 97% of Uniques are useless and they kept adding unique that useless.
And let's not talk about the fact the game force you to play most of the time to get the resources you need but you have to interact with a person to sell/buy instead of having a way to put your stuff in a selling place and then get what you want without being forced to leave a map mid-boss fight or lose a chance to get/sell what you need.
And for what? To show people how trendy your HQ is? I would do my stuff in Oriat's frankly.

A few responses:
I know of only 1 useless unique in the game. The rest are either useful in the early game, or have at least one end-game viable trick to them.

If your build shows 10k dps tooltip, that's typically ~400k bragging/pob dps. So you're only actually off by 10x from top tier builds. When people talk about their dps they are talking about what path of building shows with all effects turned on (e.g. every flask modifier up, every curse on, every buff and debuff active ....).

I'm a casual skill/time level player, but with leagues worth of experience, so I understand the mechanics well. That is enough to reach 90+ on multiple characters per league, which is enough to pretty fully explore a build. Usually with a 2 ex budget you can reach 25-50% of the absolute maximum damage potential of a build, and 90+% of the defensive potential. With a little bit more build experience, it will become relatively easy to hit level 95. Hitting level 100 is very intentionally not for casual players.

Shield (block based) defenses are quite popular. You should wear a shield because of block. Armor is fine unless you're trying to defend one-shot attacks that are intended to be manually dodged, and which mostly have enough telegraph even for casual players.

You only get as much INT/STR/DEX as your build needs to wear all items/gems. Any more is a waste unless you are doing one of the stat stacking builds, which you would know if you were (you would have an item that says e.g. for each X Strength).

And yeah, let's not talk about how bad the trade system is. Absolutely garbage, I think everyone would agree there unfortunately.

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Rhaegar_G wrote:

Nerfing defensive mechanics instead of making enemies harder to kill will only make the gameplay more binary. I signed up for an ARPG not a gatcha mobile game.