Big Balance Changes Should Come More Often Than 3 Months
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Last bumped on Jan 13, 2025, 10:41:35 AM
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Well POE2 has been ... not out for 3 months yet. And we have had and will be getting several before the 3 month mark.
Whats the issue here exactly? Mash the clean
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" They said in the post-patch announcement interview that the "cadence" of "big balance patches" in EA would be "similar to leagues in [Path of Exile 1]." The cadence of leagues in PoE1 is 3 months. |
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Very much a monkey's paw reaction - not even getting in to the fact that a human being has to actually make those changes
how often do you want to spend half your gold on a respec? even in some fantasy land where these changes don't have nerfs, you still need to respec to get to nodes to actually take advantage of the buffs. new buff comes out: PIN now has an effect where it doubles your damage... is your ranger specced for pin buildup? do you have 9 spare passive points available(assuming you took the most common ranger path to grab the quiver nodes)? no? that'll be an hour of your time to rethink your tree, and 100k gold |
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" Great. We already had one balance patch before they went on break. We are getting another later this week. Both of these are before 3 months So.... ??? Mash the clean
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" I thought they meant the previous big beta that was PoE 1 3.0 aka "10 Acts"-beta. In that Beta they slowly added in more Acts and content over time in 1-2 month periods. |
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" You are playing an EA title....this is exactly what you should have expected. I get that you are making the point that you DON'T want to do that too often, but I would argue that the expectation of EA is to be doing something like that every few weeks, if not more frequently due to bugs and quick patches. Starting anew....with PoE 2 Last edited by cowmoo275#3095 on Jan 12, 2025, 6:32:13 PM
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they're not really concerned about balance during EA
"buff grenades"
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" you mean... the way they are doing? probably my mistake for assuming the OP could count and was talking about their planned cadence for launch balance. It certainly couldn't be a complaint about EA balance cadence (since its obvious they're patching more frequently then that) I was basically commenting on the fact players always say they want more frequent updates until they play a game where it actually happens and they're stuck not knowing if the build they run will still be valid next week |
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Buffs should be faster than nerfs at least. GGG doesn't want to buzzkill people mid league with nerfs, but buffing things that severely need it should be more normalized especially in EA.
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