Content Update 3.16.0 -- Path of Exile: Scourge

"We want to increase player defenses"

"We nerfed ascendancies that provided defenses"

Also, all of those wonky nerf decisions, like 60 sec vaal IC.
So much madness in these patch notes.

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King9999 wrote:

Nice to see they don't force Maven bosses to spawn all at once anymore. I hated that.

Yeah, now we have to wait like 2mins for them all to spawn. Soo much better...

The sky is not falling down for necromancers.

SO specters were so far ahead of other options as the specter of choice, everyone knew they were going to get smacked down. They clearly overperformed beyond what was reasonable.

That aside, I don't see necromancers going away as the top 1-3 ascendancy any time soon. The overall package is so robust, its going to take a lot more than this to dethrone them for good.

The teaser and all was fun and quite ok, but this...

Do you understand whats you killed like.. most of minion builds now?

Also do you understand whats you killed most of maps we loved to run?

And more..
But just those two greatly increase fall off om ppl play over time. When most of us go out to maps and found they hane no power, nor good maps to run.. they will leave quite fast to other games, thanks now we have a lot of choice!

Just see.

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Ashnazg01 wrote:

The sky is not falling down for necromancers.

SO specters were so far ahead of other options as the specter of choice, everyone knew they were going to get smacked down. They clearly overperformed beyond what was reasonable.

That aside, I don't see necromancers going away as the top 1-3 ascendancy any time soon. The overall package is so robust, its going to take a lot more than this to dethrone them for good.

Necro will still be among the top after being smacked in the face with the nerfhammer for the 5th+ league in a row but that's probably because the other two top tier builds (SST and Forbidden Rite totems) were kneecapped even harder than the necro was, and most other skills weren't buffed at all. It'll be interesting to see if any of the buffs this patch (net with the nerfs this patch) will be enough to make whatever new meta feel good to play in light of that.

Nice new game, can't wait to play.

Was getting tired of the overloaded contents from formal leagues, great improvement from team GGG.

OMG WOW!

where gem buffs :(

What was the problem with Patient Reaper? Trickster was already the least played class last league.

GGG you can stop the games dead. It's just overkill now and not funny. It's clear when you remove some of the best maps but keep the ones nobody runs like dungeon and museum. You just hate zoom zoom builds and want a rippy clunky laggy unbalanced game that doesn't even render mobs or a bosses moves. You had so much and threw it away. The only viable builds left is necros totems and saboteurs. Rest is inferior.