0.9.9 Patch Notes

This is the worst patch ever. I now need to restart my character again that is lvl 7? Blahhh. And, what the hack, no pokemons in this patch? Buuuu.

Joking aside, I CANT WAIT TO PLAY THIS. Crap, and I planned to not play PoE until open beta.

Dear Chris, when and where you give us a info when all chars will by wiped and you start a new leauge, i just wanna start with other players in the same moment. ( sorry about my english its bad :D )

PoE fan

You guys can very easily make 4 linked items with a few fusings mostly. No build in this game is useless without 5 or 6 linked items, or if it is, then you are doing something wrong. Best thing would be to completely remove the 5 or 6 link possibilty from the game and everyone will be calm about the fusing system. No skill needs more than 3 supports to be effective, most of them needs less than 3. The game has to be a bit of a challenge even after level 70, and not allow to 1 hit everything with some ridicoulusly OP build and/or equipment. So I am really happy that AoF is removed/reworked too.

Thanks for GGG the very good work and this patch seems to be awesome! Making the game harder at every level is a reasonable objective because it was quite easy so far until Maelström of Chaos with almost every kind of senseless build. I am really waiting for trying this patch. Good job!

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Jonathan wrote:

This actually was something we tried, and it was so ridiculously unbalanced that we had to make it so that spectre necros don't raise enemy undead to your side.

Aw. I was looking forward to breaking the game with that, too!

GGG,this is most awesome work.I can't read all the notes now,but holy shit,I can't wait to see it in action!

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Pappaboy wrote:

You guys can very easily make 4 linked items with a few fusings mostly. No build in this game is useless without 5 or 6 linked items, or if it is, then you are doing something wrong. Best thing would be to completely remove the 5 or 6 link possibilty from the game and everyone will be calm about the fusing system. No skill needs more than 3 supports to be effective, most of them needs less than 3. The game has to be a bit of a challenge even after level 70, and not allow to 1 hit everything with some ridicoulusly OP build and/or equipment. So I am really happy that AoF is removed/reworked too.

Well, it's more fun to play with 5-6 links than with 3-4 links so removing it would be bad IMO.

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Vaphobos wrote:

I am really disappointed with this patch because of the legacy migration and other points that I'm going to explain.
...*rambling...*

So you don't like it because they didn't address what YOU want?

The monster AI, new class, new mechanics and new skills is huge - and they are still probably working on Act 3. Sorry that the Migration rubs you the wrong way - but after reading through the patch notes I can see why it was needed.

The item progression, skills and difficulty are changing rather drastically and getting relevant balance feedback will be far more difficult w/o having a move to migration.

This is beta, not your personal play-ground.

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darkjoy wrote:

So i guess, loot dropping from shattered mobs bug not fixed?

Chris said somewhere this bug only apply to armored crabs!!!

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hexster wrote:

diminishing returns on magic find is stupid why even bother having mf at all if u cant stack it up for better returns you do know it gimps ur charater to have high mf very dumb idea to even work on ur mf now how will you know when ur mf starts diminishing might has well have none at all
now

So they can allow for a higher MF at lower levels and still keep things balanced. There will probably come a point when stacking on more MF won't be a benefit - and at that point, stop stacking more on because you have effectively maxed it out.