Path of Exile 2.2.0: Ascendancy Patch Notes

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Incarcerated wrote:

I think everyone on this thread needs to calm down a bit.

Yes, your items have de-valued (on standard... seriously who gives a damn).

Yes, your old builds need some tweaking / re-thinking because of the crit nerf.

No, this won't break the game.

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HudaZki wrote:

This patch is perfect. Crit people whining that their 700k dps will go down to 500k. Lol.

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hobla wrote:

God i enjoyed so much reading those standard players & meta op bitching :)))) .Play leagues and try out some hipster/not so popular 1 million crit builds. This patch is perfect for me, thank you GGG !

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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Peterking72 wrote:

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swib wrote:

2) HARD CODE to detect if a divine are used in an item that contains LEGACY wording/mod (+x% increased global vs. +x% to critical multiplier) the following rule applies:
- Check if the items contains the legacy wording/mode
- If yes even mirroed or corrupted item will apply this: only the legacy wording/mod value will be replaced by the PROPORTIONAL correspondent new value.
- Your divine will not be consumed.

I dont think they can do that because the wording is going to be changed and all the items that currently have crit multi will change with it. If you have 38% multi on an item right now what is stored on the item is the number 38 and the tag that points it to the crit multi line in the database. It pulls that wording "% increased critical strike multiplier" from the data base, so when they change that line to be additional then all the current crit items will change to additional too, there will be no legacy crit multi stat.

The values are not changing on rare items, existing mirrored weapons for example, a dagger, it has 38% increased crit multi suffix, top rolled t1. The text will change to 38% additional crit multi automatically when they change the data base. The new t1 top roll will still be 38% additional crit multi. The only items that are going to need to be divined to get new rolls are these...

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fae76 wrote:

I’m looking forward to Ascendancy and think the Subclasses are a great addition to the game. Thank you very much GGG. Unfortunately, this is also where my excitement ends however.

[1] I can’t understand why GGG has to gate content behind RNG (maps), Zana or temporary leagues (bosses, league-specific uniques,…) and I despise this. By the time most of the player base has grinded enough to finally access this great content or has the required gear to play the build they like to play the league normally ends. I understand that we need temporary leagues for all the players that seek competition, I’m fine with that. For the rest of us, please let us enjoy all this great stuff in the permanent standard/hardcore leagues.

[2] I can’t understand GGG’s balancing and item creation policies. Why introduce and hype some really powerful item in league X (e.g. Vinktar’s) to nerve it to the ground in league X+1. A lot of uniques in PoE are either very strong or not worth picking up at all. Normally the former especially T1s get nerved based on popularity to the point where they become either niche and the majority moves on or until they are not T1 worthy anymore. The later receive no love at all. Seriously for the big majority of the player base it’s near impossible to acquire one of the powerful ones in a 3-month league. If one is lucky enough and gets one, for god’s sake let them have fun and let them feel powerful! There is no need to nerve things. This is also true for Standard, instead of nerving items you could simply introduce harder content and let people have fun & challenges at the same time.
I have been playing Magic the Gathering for nearly 20years now and this game obviously has more combinations than PoE ever will yet nerves/bans are very rare there even for type 1 players yet the game has near perfect balancing.
I would love to see set items. I would love to see more uniques that scale with player-level.

[3] I really love new content but instead of more and more new gems that feel and play the same as existing ones I would rather see new mechanics. I would rather see broken things fixed and bad mechanics improved, e.g. how about improving targeting of single-target skills?

[4] One-shots! I despise these. These days one-shots are everywhere in PoE, players one-shooting 90% of the content or dying to one-shots 9 out of 10 times. Please GGG there must be better ways to create challenging content.

[5] Please improve your Netcode! Desync is still a reality even with lock-step mode. You can easily see this while using movement skills or using single-target melee attacks in conjunction with Resolute Technique. Opening strongboxes often leads to huge increases in RTT leading to unnecessary deaths.

[6] Ground effects and pebbles! If one can’t see Malachai’s traps due to too many ground-effects (shattered ice, corpses,) something is wrong. When skills like Lightning-Strike don’t hit because of pebbles something is wrong. When players die after opening a strongbox due to a Blink Arrow click on an invisible pebble (under a corpse, shattered ice, outside of your light-radius) something is wrong.

[7] Please don’t forget/ignore players playing in permanent leagues. Starting from scratch every 3 months is not everyone’s cup of tea nor is competitive gameplay. Some of us prefer trying new builds, playing self-found, perfecting toons,… You can find reasons for that all over my post.
I would love to see all the monsters, shrines, mods ever created and all the content popping up randomly during normal gameplay or within maps in permanent leagues.

Despite all of my critics PoE is a great game. Thank you for that and keep up the good work.

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ivkoto77777 wrote:

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hobla wrote:

God i enjoyed so much reading those standard players & meta op bitching :)))) .Play leagues and try out some hipster/not so popular 1 million crit builds. This patch is perfect for me, thank you GGG !

Well fuck you too!

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AssasinCreed wrote:

Oh no crit ppl won't 1 shot monsters .. damn now they have to hit twice what a shame.

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AssasinCreed wrote:

Oh no crit ppl won't 1 shot monsters .. damn now they have to hit twice what a shame.