Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

Thanks for the manifesto, really looking forward to it.

I am quite surprised the nerfs are so easy going.

I was expecting the following:
1. Aegis Aurora block regen reduced to 1% armour
2. Spell suppression reduces 35% spell damage
3. Ashes of the stars no longer grant +1 to all skills

+ some skill nerfs

Instead some very generous changes.

Two things though got me:
1. Mind over Matter buff/nerf - I don't know what to make out of it. Is it better, same, worse? But then you mentioned you are going to revisit it later
2. Chainbreaker - I am not quite sure what that achieves or what build does that fit for. If anyone could give me some hint?

Thanks for making the best game ever.

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macrodancer111 wrote:

1. Mind over Matter buff/nerf - I don't know what to make out of it. Is it better, same, worse?

It's both a buff and a nerf... Sure you take less damage but now the base ES requirement is higher and it eats more mana. I suppose a buff for the wealthy POE players who can afford to itemize for it.

so for build diversity non-streamer-hc players only have traps left now, did i understand that right?

well its only half manifesto so some defensive mechanics will still be added, right?

If this is all we're getting, it's an absolute disaster. Based on what's here, they took an already razor thin META and made it worse. Without some significant skill balance, we're going to see even less skill diversity than 3.17/18.

not going to support the upcoming league with the supporter's pack purchasing. thank you for saving my money. see you later

I still think they should work in the wands base damage to all spells rather than have flat implicit spell damage to wands. That way we can focus on upgrading equipment, including wands for all characters.

I'm calling it now

despite them nerfing early game for us ( defense, less rmr, less damage ) they will be buffing multiple acts to be harder in patch notes.

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Simple2012 wrote:

I am a noob, I only have 13xx hours in the game.
Let's say I want to - for the first time - kill the uber bosses this coming league. What build do I have to play?

In my eyes, my only option would be seis trapper. But personally I really don't want to play that crap, because everyone is doing it and it seems so boring.

Why are so many builds being nerfed, but the absolute most common and strongest ones are left untouched? I am really confused.

seismic looks boring but it's not. but that doesn't mean it's fun. sure killing stuff is fun but that doesn't mean you're having fun while doing it.

but you won't be able to do it with seismic next league. seismic used

1. divine blessing with damage skill

2. 4 + auras and now that's not possible

you will die faster and deal less damage even on seismic

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Innomen wrote:

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feike wrote:

GGG is aiming for that sweet spot where only streamers and no lifers play the game(focusing on the whales, full diablo immortal style)

Yup. The ONLY thing that guides their decisions is profit impact metrics. They would absolutely prefer the reduced server costs and 10% of the current sever population with equal or better profit.

They actively don't want new players. What new players they do want to get must first be psychologically screened by the horrifying new player experience.

It's basically hazing and control group.

If new types of people joined in numbers then it would wreck their carefully maintained psychological models.

Every game company is a digital drug dealer, and it's a science. Nothing that looks like incompetence actually is. Rather it's hostile and exploitative agenda.

it was a few years back where blizz, ea, epic were in the news nonstop about bad games, mtx and other things and a lot of their psychological manipulation was exposed ( that everyone quickly forgot about and then fell for ). A big part of it is pushing their players to the edge and seeing how far they could push their games and or mtx in a bad direction and still maintain a decent player base / revenue stream. GGG is / has been doing this.

rat hope experiment is a good example. you put a rat in water and it'll swim for 15 minutes before giving up and drowning. However, if you save it and let it rest then put it back in it will swim for 60+ minutes hoping to be saved again. it's a disgusting form of manipulation and it's what we're experiencing. the players that " drown " (leave) are worthless to them but the ones that keep swimming are were the monies at.

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tetomobile wrote:

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BigBadWolf1776 wrote:

Problem - GGG kills any and all viable builds

Solution - get a life and forget PoE

Just do not buy packs or mtx.
If everyone does it, it hurts more than complaining on forum

Boycott fallacy. One pampered little yuppie larvae with enough forum tiles to redo my bathroom erases the need to listen to 3000 average players, and that's exactly the plan.

And that's the point. They don't want to run The People's ARPG. They want to run Uncle Pennybag Acres ARPG country club and fishing resort.

Don't you get it? The boat league is them doubling down on whaling. They aren't very subtle or creative.

That's why they had to copy FF and D2 in the first place.