An Update to the Volatile Dead Helmet Enchantment

"

Ferrari420 wrote:

I'm happy you nerfed the enchant but is it really needed?
I think it would be ok to leave the enchant for something like VD, it's a very clunky and slow build that feels just terrible to play, your kind of force to use spell echo on VD as well which just feels horrible, that enchant actually helps it out a lot.

I think without Poet's Pen it'd be OK. About as unclunky as one can get with 2 pens, one having VD, and the other having unearth + gmp + lmp.

"

Fahadius wrote:

"

Ferrari420 wrote:

I'm happy you nerfed the enchant but is it really needed?
I think it would be ok to leave the enchant for something like VD, it's a very clunky and slow build that feels just terrible to play, your kind of force to use spell echo on VD as well which just feels horrible, that enchant actually helps it out a lot.

I think without Poet's Pen it'd be OK. About as unclunky as one can get with 2 pens, one having VD, and the other having unearth + gmp + lmp.

I do agree but here's the thing you don't see every single VD build running around with the uber lab enchant on helm, this enchant is scarce and very expensive.
Why they didn't nerf lightpoacher instead?
lightpoacher makes this enchant look like a joke tbh, it's a cheap item anyone can get and it clears faster than ek, or anything else in the game atm for a helm that costs like 5C now that's what i call broken.

Great, 3 hours after I buy it - nerf it. Very happy about mid-league decisions like this.

13 ex btw, guess ill just sell it and ruin someone elses league lmao.

I don't usually critic any decision by GGG, and i'm adapting every league to nerfs and buffs, but this change in the mid-league? I just make a lab farmer to get some money and them after all the items and skills reveal'd I could make a nice build without going wrong and need to reroll losing currency in this way. But thanks GGG, this time you just ruin a great experience that was having and the feeling to be having a great start. The build will still be ok, but using all currency to get this enchant to receive this "news" is so discouraging.

My condolences goes out to everyone who lost or knows someone personally who lost a helmet enchant on this sad day.
Now you need to be strong !

I feel sorry for you slave markets and your memes.

"

Serleth wrote:

"

Snorkle_uk wrote:

no, not good enough. the people who make these thigns should know they are broken the very second the idea comes into their head. This is a grossly incompetent piece of design that has resulted in players losing 10+ exalts. Making money early league is a snowball thing, take away peoples early league money and you fuck up their entire league.

this is entirely on the devs, the people effected by this have every right to be completely outraged, if they did this to something I had spent 10 exalts on this early in a league there would be a fury beyond words coming from me. Its not funny, its not people over reacting, its a catastrophic error in judgement from the devs, one of many that have come in 3.1, its entirely on them.

What's sad is that this is (probably) a troll, but people ACTUALLY think like this.

Yet if they ever tried to design a game as complex as Path of Exile with over 100 staff members and have zero design flaws, ever, wouldn't happen.

theres a difference between unforeseen combos of elements resulting in something being unexpectedly broken and something that anyone even vaguely competent in the game can see is completely broken the very second they look at it being created, tested, added to the game and then released without anyone stepping in. It should not be possible for it to ever be designed in the first place, I literally cant understand how some of these things make it out of peoples heads, the instant its conceived it should be dismissed as absurd, that its not is beyond my ability to even grasp, how is that possible? How do these ideas even escape someones head without being shot down in flames? Its impossible, the laws of physics dont even allow for that to happen in the universe as we know it.

10 days into league is not mid-league like all these people say.

People who bought this knew exactly how OP it was and just hoped it would last. There are other things but not as direct as 100% more dmg. They nerfed it to a reasonable range now. If you had enough exalts already, then you'll make it back soon enough.

Good job GGG. It was seen miles away as coming. People would of whined if you did it at the end of the league anyway.

Thanks for doing this GGG. Reading the comments has been the highlight of my week.