Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

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Nasitrap wrote:

So we got -25% flat damage to skeletons for whatever reason.
Then -2 levels from nerfed unnatural strength which is about -20% damage as well. So -45%.
This alone makes skeletons almost twice as bad!

-2 levels also means much squishier AG and zombies and in many cases one less spectre which is also terrible.

But then we got now almost useless power and frenzy charges which is an insane nerf in itself.

Then we got the +100% crit chance node removed and there will be "big cluster with minion crit nodes", big cluster is about 5 skillpoints, so we got -4 skillpoints to our build.

Then the mana reservation efficiency nerfed so less offensive auras for our minions on top of that.

Then we got bone rings which we cannot use because we really need those unset rings. If we equip the bone rings that's -2 much needed skills for our build.
(btw get rid of unset rings and let us make a socket in any rings we like, that would be a much better feature)

Then we got +2 lvls to minions hats but they will cost probably as much as some headhunter so casual players won't be able to get them. Also screw unique helmet users I guess.

If just one single of these nerfs were implemented it would be already really bad but somewhat manageable. But all these nerfs together completely destroys the skelemages build.
If you make the calculations they'll do like 20% of the damage they used to do.

How is it justified??

What is your problem with minions anyway? Did some minion bite you when you were children and now you hate them for no reason ggg? Skelemages weren't even an OP build, it's just a nice fun build. Skelemages is not the reason other minion builds suck. They just suck while skelemages are fine being what the minion build should be in the first place. So instead of buffing other minions you nerf the entire minion archetype.

There's builds in this game who melt uberbosses in seconds and skelemages is totally not one of them. Yet you nerf one okayish but fun build by ~80%, what is up with you ggg? Why do you hate us so much?

I tried different builds and this was my favorite one and now it will become five times worse and now I don't see myself playing PoE anymore.

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Nasitrap wrote:

So we got -25% flat damage to skeletons for whatever reason.
Then -2 levels from nerfed unnatural strength which is about -20% damage as well. So -45%.
This alone makes skeletons almost twice as bad!

-2 levels also means much squishier AG and zombies and in many cases one less spectre which is also terrible.

But then we got now almost useless power and frenzy charges which is an insane nerf in itself.

Then we got the +100% crit chance node removed and there will be "big cluster with minion crit nodes", big cluster is about 5 skillpoints, so we got -4 skillpoints to our build.

Then the mana reservation efficiency nerfed so less offensive auras for our minions on top of that.

Then we got bone rings which we cannot use because we really need those unset rings. If we equip the bone rings that's -2 much needed skills for our build.
(btw get rid of unset rings and let us make a socket in any rings we like, that would be a much better feature)

Then we got +2 lvls to minions hats but they will cost probably as much as some headhunter so casual players won't be able to get them. Also screw unique helmet users I guess.

If just one single of these nerfs were implemented it would be already really bad but somewhat manageable. But all these nerfs together completely destroys the skelemages build.
If you make the calculations they'll do like 20% of the damage they used to do.

How is it justified??

What is your problem with minions anyway? Did some minion bite you when you were children and now you hate them for no reason ggg? Skelemages weren't even an OP build, it's just a nice fun build. Skelemages is not the reason other minion builds suck. They just suck while skelemages are fine being what the minion build should be in the first place. So instead of buffing other minions you nerf the entire minion archetype.

There's builds in this game who melt uberbosses in seconds and skelemages is totally not one of them. Yet you nerf one okayish but fun build by ~80%, what is up with you ggg? Why do you hate us so much?

I tried different builds and this was my favorite one and now it will become five times worse and now I don't see myself playing PoE anymore.

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ninja_wolf wrote:

This is just becoming another game where the devs makes changes to a game they dont play, and if lucky, only listen to the top 1% players what to change. Maybe it's time to resub to World of Warcraft again.