Content Update 3.23.0 -- Path of Exile: Affliction

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andrepierrot89 wrote:

does any1 know if lab enchs are going leg or they getting removed? I did try searching and read the notes a couple of times...
looking forward to next week, let's gooo

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MLGonthorian wrote:

"Anomalous, Divergent and Phantasmal Quality Gems have been removed from the game. Existing alternate Quality Gems now have the base Quality effect found on the respective Gem."

Awful decision. Could have just kept the alt gems, lab enchants, etc. and then add the new gems you spoke of

Why remove Metamorph?

Removing Perandus was a mistake

Removing Prophecy and Metamoprh especially were mistakes.

Prophecy allowed you to modify your maps in a somewhat deterministic way. Frogs, rats, tempests.

Perandus gave you a chance to get a unique deterministically.

Metamorph gave you more challenging mobs that you can get in a map and gave you an extra boss you can fight on top of another boss you can fight later with combining the pieces.

Removing alt gems from Heist makes no sense either. Like, why? Legitimately, why? They can't keep it on top of adding new content?

There is no reason to remove previous content considering the engine CAN handle it and the devs stated multiple times that it can. Runescape for instance has content that is still in the game that was released back in 1998.

The whole "league popularity" argument makes no sense either and sounds like another easy cop-out reason to remove content.

Like I legitimately don't understand these decisions. It's not content bloat, this is just an easy cop-out way for you to remove more content that your team would have to keep track of in upcoming updates.

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Lunaxi wrote:

LOGIN!

1.) NEW GEMS.
2.) ULTIMATUM IS BACK.
3.) NEW ADDITIONAL ASCENDANCY.
4.) BEST LEAGUE IN ENTIRE HISTORY SO FAR IS COMMING.
5.) UNSTACKING CURRENCY WHILE TRADING IS NOW POSSIBLE.

One thing i don't understand, why every league Mana Reservation Efficacy is getting nerf? This time on Ashes Of The Stars.

SPARK WITH +2 PROJECTILES. WHAT CAN I SAY? THANK YOU.

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Elhazzared wrote:

"We want to make Quallity provide better bonus."

Freeze pulse quallity untouched and freezing pulse itself nerfed.

Totems nerfed even though almost no one plays them with how aweful they are.

Yeah, GGG still doesn't understand what made PoE the success it became nor does it understand why it's player retention has been none existant since Delve (ok, not since Delve but that's when it started to drop until it got to the point it is at).

The worst example of this is everything we hear of PoE 2, the more they talk about PoE 2 them more it becomes obvious that it's all about good looking stuff and a complete failure to understand why it will not be popular. The idea of grabbing the people who played PoE a long time ago and never coming back. Yeah, GGG never understood what made them quit and they are making PoE 2 even worse than PoE 1 was at launch for the crowd they want to give them a second chance.

Oh well, at least GD has a decent ARPG.