Path of Exile 0.11.0

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FrivolousSam wrote:

First, an acknowledgement that the leaked patch notes that I am basing this off of were only for testing and this information may be entirely out of date/incorrect, but I just wanted to share some concerns I have, making the presumption that these changes that were mentioned in the testing notes are in fact going to happen. Feel free to disregard this post and everything in it if that turns out to be incorrect.

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The nerf to the damage of freezing pulse worries me, because the damage on freezing pulse was never a problem, never why the skill is strong. The only thing that makes FP good is how, when used with greater or lesser multiple projectiles, due to the shape of the spell projectiles you are easily able to hit one target with ALL of the projectiles, and if you combine this with added lightning damage and chance to shock on hit, that would give you 5 rolls at applying a shock stack on an enemy per cast.

The problem with just reducing the damage of the spell means you've destroyed any use the spell has without GMP or LMP, and reduced it's effectiveness as a crowd control spell. You've essentially nerfed the wrong thing and instead of discouraging people from using multi FP shock stack, you've made it the only viable way to play with FP.


Similarly, the nerf to shock duration on Static Blows seems like it was designed to affect that FP setup, and will do a reasonable amount to making double spork totem builds less effective, BUT IT'S GOING TO HURT ANY OTHER BUILD THAT USES LIGHTNING SKILLS A HELL OF LOT MORE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT FLOOD AREAS WITH LIGHTNING LIKE SPORK DOES. Sorry for caps but I really needed to emphasize that.

It just seems like you're trying to nerf certain ways that people use skills that are incredibly effective and "easy mode", and hamfisting it so hard that you're damaging any and all builds that might ever want to use those elements or those skills in any way. Please be more careful where you aim that nerf hammer guys.

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davros70 wrote:

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Ludak021 wrote:

Please man, Kaom's is so rare and so expensive only a handfull of people have it, rest can only dream about it. You can't generalize OP of certain builds based on one such item that is more unavailable than available. It's like saying ES builds are OP bcs they have 500ES shields, 900ES chests and 300es circlets...

This patch will do nothing to the rarity of Kaom's
Kaoms will still be the highest life bonus there is in game.
Any flat life bonus is going to be worth more than before imo.