Just watched the interviews about balancing. That explains a lot.

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Legioona#1076 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

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Legioona#1076 wrote:

Isnt it quite clear, that other skills are used less, the more LS is used?

Dude, stop repeating yourself. Watch the podcast and you will understand why others are used less.

Why do you assume the podcast is correct about the reason?

Go and watch it.

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

For good reason.

Namely: Jonathan's feelings. He offered nothing convincing in the interview to suggest active balance tuning would be bad for the game. Their hands-off approach is what needs to change.

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LeFlesh#9979 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

For good reason.

Namely: Jonathan's feelings. He offered nothing convincing in the interview to suggest active balance tuning would be bad for the game. Their hands-off approach is what needs to change.

Robbing people of their (more or less) hard earned power would make people happy? How sure are you about that?

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LeFlesh#9979 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

For good reason.

Namely: Jonathan's feelings. He offered nothing convincing in the interview to suggest active balance tuning would be bad for the game. Their hands-off approach is what needs to change.

To be fair he did say they will do more mid league buffs.
Now wether they actually do it in a way that is relevent remains to be seen.

It's been roughly half a year, and GGG is still turning a blind eye to the gross disparity between ascendancies like Invoker & Acolyte of Chayula or even Witchhunter & Gemling.

They've been too timid for too long, to the point of incompetence.

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LordKillius#0678 wrote:

I was outright flabbergasted when he said that... it clears things up why the game has been non functional (aside from LS and two other builds that are boring as hell). Still doesn't seem very smart to run the development like this.

I guess they decided to stick with the overall team structure of POE1.
Only problem here is, that POE2 is far more unbalanced and the first user experience makes the customer.

My guess would be a loss in the 7 figures for GGG just by presenting the game for months in this state. It feels like the game wants you to play the meta and nothing else.