Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

the worst manifesto so far, hopefully the patch will give us something

Wow ... 115 pages in a day.

That has to be a record for GGG. Doom manifesto is not joking around.

Really GGG? Why don't you just buff underwhelming skills like molten strike (literally close your eyes, pick any gem from a list and you'll land on one gem that isn't viable) instead of nerfing EVERYTHING to the ground. You have gave us defense buff to keep us alive, and now are nerfing it to the ground, are you even expectating to bring new players to the game? I'm scared to death to see PoE 2, new players will get in and see how difficulty the game will be. Old players are already quitting the game. Good luck with that league.

Good game and Newbie friendly

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Gotta love this :)

On a serious note, why not wait till the patch notes / reveal when actual (new) skill info is released to dump the hate?

Maybe the new endgame changes GGG said are coming every league might be good, maybe 1-2 new skills to try, maybe Seismic's damage on the skill gem cut by xx%....if none of that happens ok I can understand the hate.

@GGG: Releasing something like this without any sort of "upside", as many have said, was probably not the smartest marketing move.

yeah, good luck with that.

Very sensible changes. Looking forward to the league.

thank you

3.15: Players only use offensive aura,let's buff defensive aura!
3.19: Players use defensive aura, we need to nerf it.
nice play GGG

What I don't understand is the constant repetition in the vast majority of the leagues lately...

It is always the same:

1) Lots of nerfs, tiny buffs, builds killed
2) Lots of players (the customers) complain
3) All feedbacks are ignored
4) More and more people decide to stop supporting the game
5) Lots of people start the new league because this is the best game of this genre (people don't have other good options)
6) As the game is exactly as the previous league with some minor additions/changes, people get bored very fast and quit the league
7) League becomes dead
8) Time for a new league. Go to number "1"

I remember the time when the channel "Global 820" was extremely active with at least 3 messages each second. Lots of parties to play together to level up or complete some content. Now it is like 30 times slower, like one message each 10 seconds. I never see people excited about leveling, about some builds, about completing some content or defeating some boss. There are only parties for people to enter the map and increase the items quantity drop to make someone richer faster or people talking about random things.

This is an incredibly hard game for new players and each league it becomes harder with the nerfs. So, the veteran players become bored very fast because there is nothing to be excited for (bad gems and bad uniques will continue to be bad forever if not worse, builds diversity becomes smaller each league). New players can't progress more after reaching some wall where lack of information prevents him/her from getting the required currency to buy the items he/she needs for his/her build and I suppose the person gives up if not helped.

I don't understand why the developers don't see this and if they see, why they don't do anything to prevent this...

This game could be fresh and exciting each new league, but it is becoming the exact opposite... the same as before or worse (less options to choose from)

Sometimes it is just a matter or changing some numbers (buff significantly) to make a skill and/or an unique usable and attractive and exciting... but no... let's continue to do exactly the same... again and again and again...
what is good becomes bad,
what is bad becomes worse,
what is unusable continues forgotten forever