Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

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Anngrat wrote:

Always been wondering, who are those people spamming pog for a huge nerf manifesto...

"This world... is an ilusion, exile!"

I have been playing ssf in standard, I would like to ask if the official saves the spell suppression affix on the existing rare equipment as a legacy? My bd is a mine arc, and I can hardly get the spell suppression of the skill enhancement on the talent tree.

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jrv209 wrote:

It didn't dawn on me until now that you guys didn't balance at all last league so you had all the preparation in the world and still botched it this badly? I hope some alarm bells are going off at the GGG headquarters because this is troublesome. How do you not mention Lightning Strike (a fake melee skill that has dominated the melee meta for leagues now) in your patch notes? Do you play the game? That's not to be mean or condescending because this stuff should be very obvious. People have been crushing the game with that skill before you even introduced omni.

and if they do fix anything don't let it be a " ggg is listening" moment for you. no they're reacting to justified outrage. if they listened this manifesto wouldn't exist.

it's like good cop bad cop. they release this and slam our head on a table for a week then the good cop brings us a bottle of water and fake smile.

Thank you so much GGG & Chris for curing my POE obsession. My wife will be forever grateful.

I have no problem with this nerfs, what I don't understand is game direction and this "Good 'ol times" boner that Chris has to develop the game like it's 2002, good for him and his game, but he built the audience on power fantasy RPG, he made you a Godslayer, yet he constantly takes power away, make absurd or rather broken builds while 90% of ingame items are unusable.
Monsters rework is a clownshow, 99.9% of Unique items are no longer build enabling or somewhat interesting except Headhunter, Mageblood and eh idk Doryani's Prototype perhaps. He keep telling us that his vision is a slower and more punishing gameplay, yet we get like 3 timed leagues in a row where you're punished for being slow or tactical forcing you to abandon defences and go full glasscanon to get anything good from league mechanics. The monsters completely lost its touch and you're no longer fighting a powerful skeleton or demon but a bunch of on death effects that proc for 80% of your time in the map and you're not even paying attention to the mob itself but constant degen, helicopta balls flying all over the screen and absolute clusterfuck all over the monitor.

I think even Chris Nerfson himself doesn't know what he wants from this game as he's sstill trying to hold to his 2000s memories when nobody cares anymore and while good memories have place in this game, I think he has to move on and make Path of Exile - not Diablo 2.

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downthetunnels wrote:

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

I havn't spent money in ages. It's like they don't want my money, and I'm fine with that. The very idea of buying a supporter pack these days makes me chuckle. Fat bloody chance.

These are pretty reasonable, though I wanna point out the mana "buff" doesn't buff anything. MoM is at the same power level, just not gated behind a specific unique, and the mana recovery mechanics are actually weakened.
When stating that your intent is to buff it, make sure to do a final pass and ensure that whatever you've taken out in edits isn't so much that nothing left in the final patch actually IS a buff anymore.

just logoin to post this game is dead.. ty for ruining it ggg.

I wouldn't mind the nerfs to meta skills if there were actual buffs to underperforming skills. This league will just be the last 2 leagues but everything is globally weaker due to the reservation changes. All the builds that sucked will suck more. All the builds that were overpowered will be less overpowered.

The point of every league for me is to play a new skill I never have before. Currently I don't think there are any viable options to try. I feel like GGG is actively crippling build diversity by making everything equally painful and non-viable

I took work off for league start day and honestly may opt to cancel the vacation day

Can we get.
Affinities for incubator.
Map option select until change check box.
Upgrade All oil by Shift Click on do the same for essence.
A bigger blight tab would be nice.
Thank You.