Content Update 3.17.0 -- Path of Exile: Siege of the Atlas

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"With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Blight has 30% reduced Cast Speed"

right, who would want a to play such a burden. Looking for some conditions to lowering cast speed, greatest idea ever ...

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neohongkong wrote:

at least this league is not tied to grind 16 watchstones (or at least 16 boss kill)

it's way worse now, it's mandatorry to be a boss killer, you can't do whatever you want.

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Atlantis_arch wrote:

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neohongkong wrote:

at least this league is not tied to grind 16 watchstones (or at least 16 boss kill)

it's way worse now, it's mandatorry to be a boss killer, you can't do whatever you want.

Not that hard to buy boss carry. (for 32 watchstones i doubt how many player do it themselves)

You still haven’t changed Fireburst’s cooldown back to 1 second? 😫

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The following Unique Jewels can no longer be obtained: (...) Winter Burial.

Great, let's remove the option to add splash damage to Glacial Hammer that doesn't require the absolutely awful support gem. Because clearly too many people were still using the skill, right?

What on Earth were you guys thinking?

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Awakened Gems no longer drop from Conquerors. Some Awakened Gems can now drop from The Maven's Crucible, with all Awakened Gems now being a possible drop from The Maven.

Seriously? You've gated (most?) awakened gems behind the freaking Maven?

Ten bucks says awakened multistrike hits 200ex this league, specially with the turboboost the big farmers are going to get.

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The Watchstone system has also been removed, and replaced with Voidstones which are obtained by defeating The Uber Elder, The Maven, The Searing Exarch and The Eater of Worlds. These Voidstones raise the tiers of maps on your Atlas and can be augmented by Sextants.

Gated behind those encounters, and assuming dropable/tradeable stones with extra mods aren't a thing anymore? That's going to be ugly.

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Overall quite a lot of good and interesting stuff, but holy hell those three changes are absolutely awful.

"Problem:
Most hit-based Spellcasting builds deal too little damage and have too few defensive and mobility options when compared with alternatives like Traps, Totems, Mines, Triggered Skills or Damage over Time."

LoL, how you get that info?
Suppose you got some info from archive?... that is problem from 2016 and continues... who plays self-casters without dots those last years playing it wrong.

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Added a new Strength Support gem - Eternal Blessing: Supported Aura Skills lose their reservations and become Blessings. You will only be able to benefit from one Blessing at a time and while under the effect of a Supported Skill, all Non-Blessing Skills which reserve mana are disabled.

Does this mean you can only have one skill that reserved mana or one aura skill? Like can i use it as the replacement of the old keystone or does it disable stuff like petrefied blood blood and sand and banners?

It disables all other mana-reservation, but you should still be able to reserve life.

^nope I think it would deactivate anything that reserves life OR mana. Just because you change the skill to reserve life instead of mana doesn't change the fact that its a mana-reserving skill.

Im just excited for everything overall. I think the word "fresh" is what comes to mind with atlas, endgame bosses, influences, self casting changes, drop locations changes and best of all the atlas. It is a shame people are whatever on the league mechanic but i think its also going to be enjoyable.

But one thing im actually amazed about is how many people struggle with Maven. Sirus was just annoying(though also easy, just positional patience required to manipulate his movements) and hearing that Maven having the awakened gems im stoked.(though i think accessibility is more the frustrating part then the actual fight as others take abit longer on the learning curve) Personally i just assign a number to a platform lets say 3 on top 2 on right and 1 on left and i trained my brain on highlights to say 3 2 3 2 1 3(up right up right left up) and because ive trained my brain with this method the memory game is a joke. Havent ever failed a maven fight (all 6 portals, though have used a 6th portal but still killed her,aquired loot) because the rest of her attacks are mostly predictable on how to handle them.

Over all, gonna be a fun league. Though i have to admit the hype isnt as high as last year, but its still really good. I just hope accessibility is there for bossing for more people to engage with(and by the sounds of things it...may be??). Really dont want to be doing 9 maps of one conq, 5 for another 7 for a 3rd and 7 for the final type of thing. That would be a recipe for a burn out.