0.1.0d Patch Notes

Stop asking for 1 time free Respecs!
This whole issue is mostly exacerbated by the god awful respec costs and total lack of ascendancy respecs!

The refund cost are just too high period, they are insane.

In PoE 1 we had regrets to respec at a flat cost and one of the biggest criticisms was STILL the prohibitively high cost of respecing for new players just screwing them out of experimenting for fear of respec cost.

If the time investment is too high to re-level or re-spec (which it is by far) they will just quit instead, why do we have respec costs in the first place?

No seriously what benefit does it bring to players, new or old? Can anyone think of a single reason that actually helps players?

All it does it prevent you from either,
A. Experimenting with your own build or,
B. Switching to the build you actually want to play/try.
Where is the upside, there isn't even an economy aspect to this anymore as they deleted regrets, It's now just pure player experience and it's just a bad one all round.

And Don't give me the "Oh but they'll just switch their build to the new op one every time one is found."
Okay, so? What your saying there is, they will play the build they want, but with extra words...

Also they will still have to buy gear and skills so it's still FAR from being free to swap builds, and if you have the money to do so then why can't you do it?

remove patch

I understand the point of all early access is not to show the game, to balance it, to fix bugs so that at release everyone would be happy, but to show how you can have fun with the game, how it can be enjoyable, just like Poe 1, and then just kick it in the balls, spit and wipe your feet, destroying all that fun. The vision of the game is not clear at all. Do we really need to run 1 map for 10-20 minutes killing 1-2 mobs at a time? So this is just the beginning. Now trigger skills, next Summoners will be killed, then someone else. Even the desire does not appear after such an action of anything to test and try, because there is always a fear that it will turn into a piece of crap. And the time has already been spent, no one will return the currency, and there is not enough gold for respec. In the end, all we will see is endless acts, and endgame bosses are not. (I'm not talking about party players who have seen all this already probably 2 days ago, just because party play is still completely unbalanced and broken). Great decision GGG, you wasted 5 of my days, my build that I spent everything I had on that I liked is unplayable.

Not fun:
Far to sparse equipment drops during campaign to the point where its a struggle just to get resists to where you can function.

On top of that when trying to balance resists you cant re-socket your gear.
You mess up putting something in a socket and too bad sucker, you gotta grind for hours to find another decent piece, an orb to socket it, and something to put in that socket.

Want to experiment with some different spirit gems during the campaign?
TOO BAD!
You get 1. Maybe you might get one more random drop uncut spirit gem. maybe.

Want to try some different skills?
TOO BAD!
That will cost you all the gold you have for 1 respec.

Did you manage to finally get to a point where you feel like you can maybe play the game?
TOO BAD!
We just nerfed your build into the ground?
What? you cant afford to respec? TOO BAD!
What? you dont have a bunch of spare equipment to try something else? TOO BAD?

Serioulsy GGG, are you trying to see just how much frustration people will deal with before they just drop this mess like a hot rock?

FUN:
The combat system. Its really cool. Seriously, good stuff there.

I play games for fun. Overall at this time this game is not fun. Its actually just tedious. Diablo 4 has actually gotten to be VERY fun. I'll be switching back to that for now. I'll check back in a few weeks to see how this mess is doing.

Best of luck to all of you.

What interests me is that they have all the data that we don't have at a glance! Can see who it's affecting, how many players are using any “Cast on X” gems and then they put out an “update” like this or think anyone cares?

It's the biggest disrespect ggg could afford - unbelievable.

Anyone affected by this should stop playing the game, there needs to be a consequence for this, simple as that.

We ALL have different lives and one has more or less time, the other invests all his free time and the other has hardly any time and is happy about every single progress - and this is the thanks for that?

First time I leave the game since poe1 2.0 league. lvl30 CoI 20% stack after 2 packs, can't even respec, I'm not leveling another build to get nerfed again. (Saying after 2-3k hours in poe1 feels bad man)

Leaving aside the brutal nerf to skills that were ok like cast on shock, you're just telling me you killed most people builds and aren't giving then a free respec?

bruh

Please make respec free, at least during EA. Let us explore passives and build options.

Glad I decided to wait on the $70 supporter pack upgrade, logged in and my level 54 Sorc is bricked. Can't afford to respec (over 100k gold) and invested a ton of gear and materials into a Cast on Freeze build that is absolute trash now.

One time free respec is needed for a nerf this big, I have to level a new character now because I can't even go farm gold efficiently with this build to change to something else.

The build was OP, but this nerf is too much without allowing players to switch to something else for free.

My frost stormweaver used to get oneshot but cleaned fast, now she still get oneshot but takes days to clean

Such an annoying game, already nerfed to the ground a week later

All my trust to the devs is lost, no way I'm investing days in building a char for this garbage untrustable game anymore

Bye