Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

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francorocco23 wrote:

Problem: no problems
Solution: Create a problem

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Masakiyomi wrote:

Also, spell suppression EVEN HARDER to get from gear?! Are you freaking crazy?! By removing spell dodge, implementing spell suppression and increasing spell damage all across the game you made it pretty much a necessity for literally every build that's trying to stay alive, the only solution was stacking 90% all res with Melding of the Flesh (which was only achievable [with reasonable investment] through Purity of Ice and Aegis Aurora) or having ridiculous amounts of life combined with reductions and sustain, and now even an investment into all max res nodes in Marauder's area combined with juiced up Purity of Fire is gonna be completely useless because you literally nullify the whole point of using Purity in this case! You HAVE TO do something with the ridiculous spell damage being present at every step in the game at this point, 80% max res is NOT enough and with this kind of nerf to the Melding we're all just getting teabagged at this point...

Another thing I have to mention is the ridiculous situation that 2h swords, axes and maces had been put into: no block (for literally no reason! just give them 18% chance to block attack damage and make all staves have a chance to block spell damage instead), no meaningful ways of on-hit healing triggers (no, Vengeance is not a solution), literally the only option is to get Fortification (which is also accessible for those with an innate chance to block...) and ridiculous amounts of both hp and leech/regen, making combinations like 2h mace Chieftain really struggle on maps, and making pure red builds suffer A LOT if they decide to stick to their "default" basetypes.

I honestly don't get it. You're trying to make people invest into defences which leads to situations where A LOT of players end up with less than 1 million DPS for an off-META build (yes, we do play those, look at majorities instead of streamers and META-slaves with 1500 deaths per char on SC), while every goddamn Pinnacle Atlas Boss fight is more and more punishing the less damage you have, it's really quite ridiculous... especially if you also account for all the clearspeed-biased mechanics like Legion, Blight, even Syndicate (transportation, killing supporting troops in general) or Temple of Atzoatl at some point, it's blatantly obvious that high damage is 10 times more beneficial than high level of defence yet instead of trimming the damage and giving more ways to build defences against specific types of damage (like making max resistances a bunch of rollable suffixes on pure strength bases, or having less hardcore versions of Transcendence that are actually freaking usable with a 2h weapon other than a staff) you reduce the dmg creep here and there while also making defences more important and even more tedious to get decent amounts of, expecting us to be happy about it...