Game Balance in Siege of the Atlas

rip spellslinger 2022

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Blip wrote:

What about the balance of gear being shit, or trade being shit, or crafting being shit, honestly I would love a private viod league which is the complete opposite of the crap hard mode coming. Buff drops a lot and give harvest back in its pre-useless state from harvest league. I don't find poe fun anymore because everything is always way too out of reach. I would love to try different builds, but it is impossible to get the currency. I would love to try headhunter at least once, but currency or the div cards don't drop and map sustain is impossible. With all that, mage blood prices are probably like 10 times what I have on standard having played from closed beta, beyond a joke.

we literally just had a currency out of sky league, where you could farm anything in the game on ZERO investment, from HH to Bloodmage with +300 increased quantity on any map and you are here bitching on the forums... I farmed HH in a week in Tower T12 as a casual player (unfortunately it got poofed in a double corrupting attempt xD)

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clawface wrote:

Glacial Hammer feels like it got nerfed again through threshold jewel not being made implicit like other skills and also due to hydrosphere skill changes. 100% cold convert is not big enough change.

I agree, the whole point I use the jewel was for the splash damage. Hopefully they add it in the patch notes.

One thing I can't understand is why people get excited or hyped on buffs or nerfs of old stuff... Doing this only show well incompetence? cause rly if u want people to try other things just make NEW skills that play diferently and more or less same power per investment.

All this constant change on mechanics so u need to re learn everything every 3 months is what made me (and I bet lots of others) drop the game or play a lil bit each league.

Its just a waste of dev resources btw having to change mechs and nerf/buff things over and over and over. GO make something new and leave what is fun/working the way it was. (sunder rip) (molten strike rip) (blade furry rip) (winter orb rip) and many others.

bow builds are back pog

Thanks for nerfing what is fun (Spellslinger, Cospri's, CoC, TR).

Great job...

Revert Sunder

Like it so far. Sounds reasonable.

glad i got coc eye of winter / hydrosphere and toxic rain / caustic arrow builds out the way last league. time to self cast something it looks like..

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Aldora_the_Summoner wrote:

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Womanyzer1993 wrote:

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"With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Blight has 30% reduced Cast Speed". Existing items can be updated to the new stat with a Divine Orb.

Do I get something wrong here?...

Yes, you got something wrong here :) But it's not unusual given the complexity of the game and the specificity of language they use.

Basically they are saying that 30% reduced cast speed means it takes 30% less time to cast it. So it's faster to cast. But obviously in this game, reduced usually means worse so I'm sure you're not alone in wondering if something was wrong here.

I'm pretty sure, that's not what it means.


" Cast Time " has nothing to do with " Cast Speed ".

Blight has a 0.3 Second " Cast Time ", while chanelling at a rate of 3.333" Cast's / Second, wich are the ticks, affected by " Cast speed ", applying the debuff, wich deals damage at a rate, based on the characters abillity to deal damage over time at a specific, modifiable rate. ( Debuffs inflict damage x% faster ).

So reducing " Cast Speed " increases the " Cast Time ".
Resulting in a 0.09 seconds base " Cast Time " ( Also Cast Rate ), PER tick.

Leaving me with the conclusion:

Using this jewel sets the base cast time to 0.39 Sec instead of 0.30, wich is a nerf??

Proof me wrong, I really want this to be a typo.