Content Update 3.20.0 -- Path of Exile: The Forbidden Sanctum

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alex_disp wrote:

Everyone saying that there are no Skill buffs, but there is a big skill buff - Archnemesis was removed, so it's a buff for ALL skills' damage as monsters will not be as tanky as they were before. We need to try and see how it actually feels but I suspect that rare monsters got noticeably weaker.
Also, there's indirect buff to bossing with every skill by using appropriate curses - For example, just a regular lvl20 Flammability now gives a whopping -36% fire resist for pinnacle bosses while previously it was only -14% (33% of -44 fire resist). That's a bonus -22% fire resistance from nothing.

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roundishcap wrote:

Honestly GGG should make the game they want to make.

These patch notes kill a lot of fun builds I enjoyed. By Kill I mean like a 40-50% effective damage nerf if I don't do a lot of adjustment. Still playable, maybe even competitive; however, the way to gain damage and defense boils down to a couple of methods that every build employs.

Hexblast looks super awkward now, the extra long casttime and losing like 200% extra damage from doom. Still it can be spammed now, and maybe automated in an effective way. Mines/traps might be pretty neat.

Despair lost a lot of identity as a curse, and a lot of chaos dot skills may need 25% dps increases to make up for its removal.

most other curses lost a cool weird part of identity as it seems they got homogenized. Temp chains is going to be way easier to slot in at least.

Curse effectiveness is going to be a trap for a lot of builds since most curse baselines are much lower. Some niche builds are going to be less effective against pinnacle bosses because they were super stacking effectiveness.

It feels like the game is halfway between what it was and what it is going to be, this adjustment period would be better if the bandaid was ripped off so to speak. If they rolled out the gem changes that are going to be in poe2, that would be so much better than slightly buffed items, fractured orbs, or whatever. We need core gameplay concepts from poe2 to be put into this game, and it should be done sooner than later. The longer the game sits like this, the more it feels like poe2 is dead on arrival.