Content Update 3.16.0 -- Path of Exile: Scourge

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Sabranic_SilverDeth wrote:

That doesn't sounds to me like a good design paradigm. =p

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JohnJohn1988 wrote:

So you're conveniently not going to mention Ultimatum or when it's supposed to go core? How were you able to balance something like Expedition in time but didn't have enough time to bring Ultimatum in when it's a simpler and more fun of a mechanic...? It's been 3 leagues now already. We want to use Hateforge again (the good version), not one that gets ruined like the rest of anything else which has a sought after interaction. Make it even more rare if that's what it takes, but don't ruin it like you did with Harvest and other mechanics.

Also, did you ever think while making the passive mastery mechanic that the passives that we had allocated in the past were fine without you removing/altering them so that some of the ones we were reliant for in the past can't be obtained anymore? How is this giving "player agency" if you're essentially changing which passives we have access to on which sides of the tree if some of them are not there anymore or we have to pick between them via the mastery instead of having them in one concentrated area? That seems like not only nerfs to defense but also disguised nerfs to the skill tree that you're trying to masquerade as more choices. At least let us choose whether we want to use passive masteries or just stick with the previous original tree. This is just even more forced content on players that we have no say in. Even more of a reason why a private server of 3.13 would be nice to be able to play at this point, at least in the distant future.