Clarifying the Ascendancy Changes

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_Mordai_ wrote:

We have to understand this nerfs are necessary.

There are at least 20 people for each of these ascendancy's which got nerfed who abuse the system and have 20 mirror's to spend to make it look so overpowered. Not to mention the can play 18 hours a day.

Casual players which want to enjoy the game without getting one shot every 2 second and want to touch the end game a bit ( which by the way I guess is 90% of PoE players ) are not being considered since they are not streaming or have the currency to spend to make it overpowered.

So lets nerf the game to oblivion so the 0.5% of the player base gets a new challenge and find a new way to abuse the provided system. The need of the few outweighs the need of the many.

For example Minion builds are one of the most played builds in the game ( Checking post counts in the forums ) and they got literally destroyed. I don't know if turning off 30 to 40% of your player base is a good business decision to be honest. I for myself was thinking to come back for this expansion since it looked very promising before the needed nerfs were posted but I am not sure now.

More power to the nerfs!!!

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aias87 wrote:

This has got to be the most convoluted update/balance notes I’ve ever seen. Who was in charge of these notations? Who approved it? I’m fine with nerfs, mostly welcome them, but when you put them up and try to disguise them as a rework and a buff I think you’re trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

Looks at “Gratuitous Violence” for example

You’ve added 20% more bleed damage. Cool

You’ve removed chance to bleed with attacks, increased damage from ailments and 25% more damage with bleed.

In the end the node is gutted and you couldn’t even be succinct in saying how: -5% more bleed damage, removed chance to bleed with attacks, and removed increased damage to ailments. You deliberately are painting it like the new effect is an upgrade. Mobile games have better standards and patch notes than this.