NO MORE PATH OF LIFE NODES

Good decision.

that's a great decision by GGG, as well as removing Kaom's heart from Anarchy and Onslaught.

but I'm afraid I'll need to use the full-respec button on my Marauder, because I took a lot of HP nodes to get where I am - and doing so for a level 72 character can be a real headache.
is there an option to save the existing passive tree to a file for future reference?

Nerfing HP nodes is fine if ES nodes will be untouched

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johnKeys wrote:

that's a great decision by GGG, as well as removing Kaom's heart from Anarchy and Onslaught.

but I'm afraid I'll need to use the full-respec button on my Marauder, because I took a lot of HP nodes to get where I am - and doing so for a level 72 character can be a real headache.
is there an option to save the existing passive tree to a file for future reference?

unupdated offline build planner.

Honestly more concerned about the Acrobatics buff. I mean I took that node so I didn't have to worry about ES and Armour, and now they're giving half of it back? Come on GGG, you're killing me here.

Still, it'd be nice if all the builds didn't have to rely so heavily on HP to soak damage and defenses could be relied on to mitigate it instead.

Also, white kiwis ;3

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dima_dunedin wrote:

Nerfing HP nodes is fine if ES nodes will be untouched

In the announcement:

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...and have made corresponding reductions to player Life and Energy Shield passive skills.

This change will do nothing considering it'll still be better to stack defense over offense. "Glass Cannons" will still be heavily punished for even existing. The only fix for the health stacking issue (e.g. defense stacking) is to drop the base damage on all skills and make the damage nodes stronger. Then players will actively decide to either go slow and steady or fast and risky.

Or maybe I'm completely wrong and this patch will be super magical. Time will tell.

To know how the change will affect us, we need to know how much the monsters' damage was reduced.

Let's take an example : I have something like around +250% health from my tree (at 8% per node : 31.25 nodes), for a total of 5K HP, i.e around 1430 base health (with STR and stuff).

If monster's damage is reduced by 25% (and nodes from 8% to 6%), I'd need 3750K health to keep the same survivability, i.e I'd need "only" +160% health (at 6% per node : 26.67 nodes). So, I can either add more survivability, or spend 4-5 nodes into something else.

Btw, resistances are really fine. With my tree (+60% fire, +30% cold/lightning), I only need 4 pices of equip to be way above the caps and 5 to be capped with elemental weakness (without purity and endurance charges).

The problem with armor is quite simple : you always have some but you cannot really stack it.

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torturo wrote:

I am ready to bet on what I predict : life nodes will remain as precious as they are at the very moment.Monster's dmg reduction is a good decision,but what's the percentage?I can bet it's not more than 10-15% reduction.Broken ingame mechanics according to armor and evasion still remain.Players will suffer almost the same pain in battles.A bit less,yeah.They should've changed the formulas and add a different percentage of eva/armor/ES gain per character,according to it's class.That's a change.
I think it's all the same,really.A bit easier gameplay with same issues.

I would take that bet, but it'd hardly be fair. ;)

scaling hp down, wont that screw around with hp regen and blood magic builds?