Dotcap and dot build scaling needs to be rethinked.

Isn't this exactly what they are planning to do now? There is talk about "destroying the Atlas", might be a foreshadowing about an entirely reworked endgame, probably something like what PoE 2 has

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

i tend to agree with the idea that they cant make significant balance changes. the community riots and its really bad for the games health in so many ways. anything that could even be perceived as a nerf is endtimes, thats the sad world we find ourselves in.

How is this even remotely true? Hexblast got completely destroyed. Top tier melee skills like Lightning Strike and Frost Blades were nerfed to hell. Detonate Dead has been nerfed multiple times now. Where the riots at?

Forced meta shifts aren't anything like the scale we are talking about and plenty of people still complained about those it was just a subset though as isolated instead of general.

Also while Hexblast was neutered it should never have been there in the first place when they reworked it the second time and LS/FB are still pretty good they didn't get nerfed to hell at all despite the hyperbole of PoE posters.

Realistically nerfs this league were extremely tame borderline non-existent. I think splitting steel not returning and hexblast are the only actually relevant (numerically) ones.

The scale of change they are talking about is potentially even beyond the exalt / div switch, which kind of changed everyone's interaction with the game at a fundamental level. NOT a simple, typical league skill rebalancing. Those types of changes don't actually effect the GAME at all....they only effect the people who played those skills and want to play them exactly the same post-nerf. A teeny tiny portion of the player base.

I also agree that it is likely impossible to do at this point, without alienating too much of the playerbase to the point of total game destruction. They would need to be okay with taking significant profit losses for a decently long period of time before they can even consider changes on that scale. And that likely won't ever happen because they are a company. Plus, PoE 2 was created almost for that exact reason: they couldn't make the changes to the existing game, so they made them in a new game.

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Snorkle_uk#0761 wrote:

How is this even remotely true? Hexblast got completely destroyed. Top tier melee skills like Lightning Strike and Frost Blades were nerfed to hell. Detonate Dead has been nerfed multiple times now. Where the riots at?

It was nerfed because it scaled top high at certain thresholds. There are people still playing it. - lightning strike