Why does GGG hate poison so much?

I created my very own pathfinder poison build, of which im pretty proud of but it has been nerfed now 2 patches in a row.

first they got rid of poisonous concoction, so i needed now something else for single target damage and swapped to bleed concoction as it has synergy with poison supports.

and now they are getting rid of contagious contamination....

dont think i can keep this pure poison build up for much longer if they keep nerfing it.

GGG seems to hate multiple things: char speed, tanks, melee, minions, poison, fire, armour. They also seem to love other things: lightning, energy shield, ranged, spells.

It's pretty clear that the developers, some of them ar least, have pretty clear biases that prevent them from being objective in their game design.
Having preferences and biases is a perfectly normal human behaviour, but we should at least try to control ourselves when creating things for people with different preferences.

In general there's been some puzzling changes in the patch notes. Like nerfs to stuff people more or less did not use. Eg, the Tactician pin setup is nerfed into the ground. I was playing around with it last league and it did seem really good, but this wasn't some widely used class. Also using grenades, while effective at clearing what's on screen, is just inherently slow due to the delay on them. Way slower than LA deadeye.

I think less than 3% of builds were even Tactician in the first place. You could argue it's more of a side-grade with what it swapped out with but the pin archetype IMO made the tactician seem kind of unique now that's just gone.

Also why nerf Arc? I felt like I had to move heaven and earth last league to get Arc into a usable state on my stormweaver.

Speaking of stormweaver, it needed way, way more buffs than what it got which was basically an infusion range enhancement and a skill limit buff which only applies to very few skills in the archetype to begin with.

I'm shocked there's no changes to elemental storm beyond the limit cause it's a borderline useless skill. It does effectively nothing at all.

Infusions need a huge rework but they didn't change them at all.

I'm not sure why the singular change to bloodmage was actually a buff? The strongest caster in the game? Maybe cumulated with passive changes it's more in line this league I'm not sure.

Buffs to pathfinder seem really good. I just don't get why only the ranger gets to be a league starter though.

Adhesive grenades support gem cures all the delay problems with grenades at the cost of a support slot.
Gas grenade titan rocked last season clearing all content with ease for me.

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Zoddo#7578 wrote:

I created my very own pathfinder poison build, of which im pretty proud of but it has been nerfed now 2 patches in a row.

first they got rid of poisonous concoction, so i needed now something else for single target damage and swapped to bleed concoction as it has synergy with poison supports.

and now they are getting rid of contagious contamination....

dont think i can keep this pure poison build up for much longer if they keep nerfing it.

they don't want to repeat PoE 1 mistake, "if you want to play poison, you pick Pathfinder cuz prolif and wither, shadow? LUL"





if i were GGG, i'd rework the whole DoT archetype

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ryuukk33#4998 wrote:

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Zoddo#7578 wrote:

I created my very own pathfinder poison build, of which im pretty proud of but it has been nerfed now 2 patches in a row.

first they got rid of poisonous concoction, so i needed now something else for single target damage and swapped to bleed concoction as it has synergy with poison supports.

and now they are getting rid of contagious contamination....

dont think i can keep this pure poison build up for much longer if they keep nerfing it.

they don't want to repeat PoE 1 mistake, "if you want to play poison, you pick Pathfinder cuz prolif and wither, shadow? LUL"





if i were GGG, i'd rework the whole DoT archetype

yeah DOT seems to be really underwhelming, atleast compared to other things

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lupasvasile#5385 wrote:

It's pretty clear that the developers, some of them ar least, have pretty clear biases that prevent them from being objective in their game design.
Having preferences and biases is a perfectly normal human behaviour, but we should at least try to control ourselves when creating things for people with different preferences.

There is no other word that could describe GGG better than this.

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Zoddo#7578 wrote:

yeah DOT seems to be really underwhelming, atleast compared to other things

I don't know about poison, but ED/C was dope this league especially combined with that ridiculously tanky lich...

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lupasvasile#5385 wrote:

GGG seems to hate multiple things: char speed, tanks, melee, minions, poison, fire, armour. They also seem to love other things: lightning, energy shield, ranged, spells.
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LOL - you're not wrong!