Developer Questions and Answers

Why are bosses given complete immunity to certain ailments rather than "reduced effectiveness" or "Unaffected by X"? The latter prevents bosses from being trivialized, while also not gimping legitimate builds that rely on targets simply being under those ailments.


Why do some of the Master currency offerings seem so... bad? Vagan sells 10 alchemy for 8 regrets. Are you expecting the market/drop rates to significantly change in the future?

Are we going to get new channeling skills with Fall of Oriath?
Any sneak peaks you'd like to share? I'm hoping for a cold channeling spell myself.

Is it OK to feel guilty for killing an albino rhoa? The poor thing was scared and running away, and I slaughtered it. Does that make me a bad person?

Do you like turtles?

Are GGG going to review the AoE nerfs for certain Minions?

Some Minion AoE was hit heavily and the only way to increase is with the AoE gem. Increases to 'Radius of Skills' doesnt increase your summoned minions AoE so there is NO way to scale apart from 1 gem

For example Chaos Golems AoE was nerfed by easily 30-40% even with AoE gem - they received a direct nerf whereas Flame Golems are projectile based and suffered no nerfs at all

Why does the Lab still exist in its current state when most players find it such an odious task that they wait until the end of Merc before even trying it? Where are your statistics that say players like the Lab in its current form? Everyone i speak to dislike-despises it.

Why doesn't GGG link getting Ascendancy points to completing tiers of maps in the Atlas? That would incentivize players NOT to grind Dried lake, but to instead explore maps and the actual game. Just scrap the Lab entirely. The Lab is so hilariously unbalanced after an already laughably unbalanced Act 4 that new players are often stuck. We don't like the Lab. Change it, fix it, remove it.

The current trade system isn't perfect, but it's still better than anything GGG can come up with, so please don't change anything.

Long time POE supporter here, since the BETA days. I have a question pertaining to social interactions.

Have the Devs given any thought to improving or expanding the endgame social interactions of the POE community, possibly through streamlining maps into instances, or raids?

For example:

• Allowing a T6 map to be placed in your personal map device, you can set the levels of people who can join your map between 70-76, and then put your map in a queue, people see your map in town on the boards, and if they meet the requirements, can decide to join your map. If they accept, and join, they are either teleported inside the map or teleported to your hideout, and proceed to enter the map.

Or a designated map which can be queued for currency, which teleports 5 players together into the map to play together, sort of like instances in a number of MMOs.

Another question I have pertains to custom builds.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1766555

I have been running this Essence Drain build for quite some time. It suffers from some immense drawbacks due to the way armor resist is calculated, but the goal of the build is to be a Frontline Battle Mage (in this case a Warlock), or a frontline Caster Tank.

As it stands, Essence Drain has very limited ways of effective health regeneration due the the uniqueness of its mechanic. Will there be further support in the future to "Regenerate 0.5% of Debuff Damage as Life" or chaos leech? As I really enjoy being a frontline caster tank,and would love to see more support, even more taunts to protect my teammates, to support this type of build. Maybe a new taunt gem that works off of the essence drain, and contagion combo synergy?


Thank you for your time, and as always, I'm a big supporter, and fan of this game.

1) Can we see player stats without having to take all our gear off?
2) Can we see gear requirements without having to take all gems out?
3) Can we set keys to always cast as if "attack in place" is pressed?
4) Can loot filters be allowed to use the default drop sound for an item, perhaps using value 0, so we can pass normal item drop sounds through the "Item Filter Alert Volume" channel.

Do the devs feel like the current "clear speed meta" is limiting their creativity in skill design?
Are there any plans to introduce new active support skills? (like vaal haste for instance)

why Six Linked Sockets fusing orb requirement on Artisan bench is unfairly so high? Will this requirement get lowered anytime soon?