0.11.0 Patch Notes

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The Orb of Fusing and Jeweller's Orb now consume all the quality on an item to increase the chances of rolling more sockets/links.

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Faxie wrote:

I am very worried about this patch. I play a summoner witch and I read the following:

1. Your ES will be lowered from your passives
2. Your ES will be lowered because of inner force in combination with discipline
3. Your spectre damage will be reduced because of lower damage on original monsters


There is no mention of downsizing current monster hp, so it means fights will last a lot longer and therefore expose the witch much longer to damage dealt.

I hope you can take away my concerns.

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shrinkmaster wrote:

i dont care about the nerfs to obviously more-than-average powerful builds. they were needed to equalize the power level of specs.

i care about the fact that melee skills and supports are still extremly boring, unfun and generally suck balls.

edit:
melee still LOOKS and FEELS boring to me, even if it might be viable now to progress, which i'm still not 100% sure.

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Chris wrote:

The "nerfs" in this patch are in response to the rest of the rebalance and so that many builds are simultaneously viable. You can't complain that there are only seven good builds and then complain when we balancing the power level :P

Please note that the argument of "just buff the other skills, never nerf anything" has this cycle:
a) Buff bad skills: now everything is easy.
b) Game is now too easy: give monsters more life.
c) Values would now have all crept up: scale them all down slightly.

After those steps, it's exactly the same as just tweaking the abusive skills in the first place. Don't worry, we've tested the builds with the new balance and they're still really powerful. It's a pretty different experience now. My advice would be to try out your old characters, then respec them using the free respec if you want to make build changes. You can also play a new character in the new leagues.

Also, and I don't mean to rant about this, but it's a bit distressing reading that we "destroyed" a build when we just toned down its damage by a small amount in some cases.

I'm quite worried that the melee buffs are too high for the early game. In our testing over the last few days it has trivialised a lot of the challenge. We'll be reviewing it further tomorrow.

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fbattaglia wrote:

Path of Nerfs 0.11 is gona be another Diablo 3 shit all over again.
Btw , the leaked ones were the same , and you also banned the guy who posted em. lol .

I banned that particular throwaway account, yes. The leaked patch notes were a substantially out of date version - almost every line was rewritten since those ones were first drafted last week.

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fillfill wrote:

hmm did i miss it or is the armor reduction formula not changed?

It's not changed, but as you know it's based on monster damage which is a lot lower now. Because of this, armour has a lot more defensiveness now.

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fbattaglia wrote:

Path of Nerfs 0.11 is gona be another Diablo 3 shit all over again.
Btw , the leaked ones were the same , and you also banned the guy who posted em. lol .

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CliveHowlitzer wrote:

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markus7 wrote:

The nerfs are sensible.

FP, Spark, Inner Force... All too good. Plus many other variables have changed, so in a way it's a new game

Blood Magic builds, which were too desirable, are also made less powerful by some Mana/Regen buffs (particularly Clarity).

I wish they'd rebalance some Auras, though. It should be more viable to have a character that uses NO auras.

Looking forward to revisiting MELEE!!! :- D

Keep it up, GGG.

Agreed. One of my biggest pet peeves is the fact auras are basically required on every character I make. It isn't really planned, you just always use certain auras like it's a given.