Was this patch supposed to be fun?

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Derpey wrote:

Congratulation on not getting the whole point the guy tried to make.
Purchasing a 5L to get through Cruel, what a fucking joke man.

Learn to read, the 5L is for Merciless, I used a 4L Foxshade to plow through Cruel, though with Cruel Act 4, a 5L is certainly not overgeared.

I got to a4m with a 3L molten strike char :(

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GandhisNightmare wrote:

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Your DW duelist that has hp on 2 different pieces of gear is dying frequently? Might i suggest getting some more items with life on them.

Or, you know, they could actually fix evasion so it works properly. Even if I took your advice, where am I supposed to get this +life gear? From advancing through the story? Remember, it's a level 57 character that isn't even finished with Cruel yet. If the idea is to advance the difficulty with the level of the character in mind, the devs failed horribly.

I get that the hardcore players will say I'm a noob with noob gear and with noob builds. Guess what? I'm a casual player. I'm in my 40s and have a full time job. If the devs want to keep players like me, they'd better rethink act 4 and quick.

when you should at-least take some good advise if you want to do better, because your build looks even less tanky when must glass cannons. by looking at it i would think that everything in act 4 could kill you in 1-2 hits.

again i suggest getting life on everything you can.

I have always liked a challenge in any game, but when the challenge means you get one shotted by everything it's just stupid. Map bosses in some maps are seriously out of hand right now. By this I mean mostly the new maps that came out (Desert, Arena, Pit etc.) They said they wanted people to do more map bosses so they can get those sweet +2 maps and same time they made bosses harder than ever. What was the logic behind this. Especially in HC people were already skipping many map bosses because they are just one shotting everything. And now they one shot everything even more.

Kaom itself was my favourite boss in Act IV but seriously there is no way you can do it without taking damage. Imo every boss should be doable without taking any damage with movement and placing. But when the lava balls are falling to fill the whole area, 200 different adds are trying to rape you and same time Kaom jumping on you and smashing ground you just can't do anything but take damage all the time. In this case Daresso was awesome fight. You could evade every deadly attack like reave and charge. Then comes Piety which in general is really fun, but there is no indication or anything where you could atleast predict that the laser beam is coming. You just have to guess. And once again the room is really small and full of adds that just block you and you die really easily. Then comes Shavronne, Maligaro and Doedre which I personally enjoyed alot. Fun and intresting mechanics and cool effects. After killing those you get to meet MAlachai which is super boring fight on upper level. Kill boss, evade tentacles and don't get one shotted by "The Touch of something". Kill Piety, rinse and repeat. Go down level after Piety gets impaled, and then you get to witness to most chaotic boss fight ever, atleast for me, in any game before. Just run around trying to evade everything which I'm pretty sure none will ever get to do.

I don't mean the game is boring itself, but it just doesn't feel that rewarding to me at this point. I'm farming 73-74 maps on 87 level char just because better maps won't drop. And since I'm not going to do most map bosses just to get killed and lose exp over and over again I propably will not do higher maps in a long time.

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GandhisNightmare wrote:

I get that they wanted to make it more challenging but dying instantly over and over again in a boss fight isn't challenging. It's just stupid and makes me want to walk away from the game for a while. Maybe permanently if they don't adjust the difficulty. I've tried playing after the patch on my 73 Scion, saw that that was a mistake (they nerfed the crap out of my build), and tried it on my DS Duelist build. He's about level 57, has fairly decent gear, and died over and over again on the way to, fighting against, and fighting to the waypoint after Malachi.

At this point I'm stepping away and just keeping an eye out for any adjustments.

GG Devs. You "win" I suppose.

you are dying cause both your gear and build is quite poor, and you can easily farm for more gear and adjust your build with work especially if you ask questions, and read guides, but yes I will agree with you that some of the content is far to hard atm but thats the way its been in most every patch with this game and many others it will get adjusted with time, and its not such a big deal I mean many players are playing in hardcore just fine!

Masochism is fun!

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GandhisNightmare wrote:

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Your DW duelist that has hp on 2 different pieces of gear is dying frequently? Might i suggest getting some more items with life on them.

Or, you know, they could actually fix evasion so it works properly. Even if I took your advice, where am I supposed to get this +life gear? From advancing through the story? Remember, it's a level 57 character that isn't even finished with Cruel yet. If the idea is to advance the difficulty with the level of the character in mind, the devs failed horribly.

I get that the hardcore players will say I'm a noob with noob gear and with noob builds. Guess what? I'm a casual player. I'm in my 40s and have a full time job. If the devs want to keep players like me, they'd better rethink act 4 and quick.

Well shit, 1 res + hp on every gearpiece is fucking standard when you're in cruel. Blue items does the job just fine.

I hate this patch , it's just so retarded I have 3.6k life 1.5k es at merciless and sometimes i can't even get into range to use my spell before having 2/3 of my life ot, so i need to spam instant flask and use spell totem.

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AviKohl wrote:

What if Piety is stuck next to a wall? Leap Slam would be the only way to avoid the laser.

Any "blink" skill will work, Whirling Blades, Flame Dash, Mirror Arrow, Lightning Warp... You name it.

Also, this kind of situation doesn't ever happen if you don't let it to. Piety doesn't move unless you knockback it or she has no targets in the arena. First one is easy to avoid, even if you have knockback on your skills, just make sure you never knock her against a wall. Second one mainly requires you to not sit for the whole duration of portal grace period.

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Alternalo wrote:

PoE is a game where you can avoid 95% of the bullshit they throw in your face if you play a ranged build, and you can bypass the remaining 5% (which is reflect) by playing totem/trap build.

Seems like every difficulty increase they implement mostly or only punish melee builds, this trend is going ages ago, and seems like they are happy with it.

Happy with the fact i feel myself like a glass cannon with my 4600 hp melee with capped res+fortify, and facerolling any map with any mods with dual totem 1900 hp uncapped res.

Because i can manually avoid shit, and i must not deal with the reflect shit.

I mean other than the shotgun change, Fortify, Armor getting better, Lockstep allowing for reliable movement skills for melee, multipliers on melee gems, Duelist tree getting much better, you're right.

Other than even with those changes doesn't help you at all you're right. I mean, sure it feels better on earlier levels, but once you get to lvl70+ zones it's all the same if not worse than before.