Content Update 3.0.2 Patch Notes

"

ReaperOfHoes wrote:

Please explain further the Umbilicus Immortalis change. What flasks do still apply on yourself not your minions?

Also... Still no 3D art for pale council uniques? Like seriously? New mtx every week but this can't be done for 2 months?

As I read it, flasks all work exactly as before, it's items and passive skills that are changing.

Some examples:
I have a Pathfinder Zombiemancer with the Master Surgeon Ascendancy node. Because it only cares about me using a flask it removes bleed from me on flask use even though I use Umbilicus.

My pathfinder also has Natures Adrenaline which gives an attack and movespeed bonus while using a flask. Because umbilicus passes flask effects onto my minions I don't get any benefit from this node but my Zombies and Spectre to get the speed bonus while under the effect of a flask.

The poison from Master Herbalist also affect minions with umbilicus.

Haven't tested it but Blightwell should have been affecting ES regen for minions during flask effects as well.

Re-reading the patchnotes, I'm not actually sure what they are changing about how this works, but presummably it wasn't working in a consistent way. Gotta wait and see I guess.

Edit:
Actually, it might be a change to mods like *of Heat: Now it'll remove freeze and chill on you when you use the flask (like the Master Surgeon Ascendancy) while giving the freeze and chill immunity to you minions while they are affected by the flask.

That would make it a buff then.

Pretty anxious to see this change in-game now xD

So, as someone whose build was using a non-common type of spectre that I got from act 1-10 zones and created leveled versions with desecrate... this basically bricks my build in the middle of a league. So thanks for that. I will most likely be asking for a refund for my spectre mtx.

"

Patch Notes wrote:

Efficacy Support now correctly supports Damage over Time effects.

So - was this to patch an exploit, or was efficacy simply not working with DoT skills?

"

Patch Notes wrote:

Spectres no longer have their level reduced to the level of the area they are in. Instead, the level of a Spectre is now based on the lowest of either the level of the monster they were raised from, or the maximum level allowed by the skill gem used. This is now indicated on the skill gem.

So - if I go and pick up, say, the ever popular flame sentinels from Solaris Walkway ... they're what? Going to be limited to the level of that zone, or the level of my summon spectre gem? The wording makes pretty much utterly no sense, unless what you mean is that a level 5 summon spectre gem will raise a Tier 12 map monster to the gem's maximum level rather than tier 12 (similar to animate weapon)? But a level 20 gem used on an act 1 monster will spawn something that can survive a passing bit of flatulence on said tier 12 map?

"

bridgeburner wrote:

So, as someone whose build was using a non-common type of spectre that I got from act 1-10 zones and created leveled versions with desecrate... this basically bricks my build in the middle of a league. So thanks for that. I will most likely be asking for a refund for my spectre mtx.

lol so pathetic :D you can still get your specters in maps

It's nothing short of astonishing that there are multiple layers of staffers involved here, who thought it was a GOOD idea to have Spectres based off anything other than your skill gem level. I mean...... wow. Just let players raise them based off the gem level and be done with it. On top of that, we STILL have the issue of poor communication with the community involving anything of importance or change in the game, too.

These guys are just begging for charge-backs on content purchased under false promise, let alone the issue of giving players zero reason to buy MTX as it is. It's borderline amazing how these patches just persistently seem to be one step forward & three steps back.

I mean, I think I feel worse that it's not even just a waste of our time at this point - it's more demoralizing that it was just a complete waste of their time with what they've used financial resources on actually doing here. I mean, for every half-assed poorly executed and delivered piece of content or change (and the equally poor communications surrounding it), they then have to waste even more time and resources changing & fixing it further. Which takes even more time and resources away from being able to fix current problems and deliver new content. Which is a huge problem as it is, given the disaster that is the current league, solely because dev time was needed for the peasentbox version of the game to be worked on.

It's such a shame to see, because the game and so many of the people behind it are involved in something you really want to see succeed, but the dev & balance team seems to be going out of their way to make decisions that are stopping this from happening.

"

Cogburn wrote:

"

bridgeburner wrote:

So, as someone whose build was using a non-common type of spectre that I got from act 1-10 zones and created leveled versions with desecrate... this basically bricks my build in the middle of a league. So thanks for that. I will most likely be asking for a refund for my spectre mtx.

lol so pathetic :D you can still get your specters in maps

The spectres my build uses can only be obtained in Shaper Realm now. So no. I can't get them in maps unless I grind or spend a significant amount of money to get them.

w8, what? You announced the best update for spectres ever (stay after disconnect)
and then with patch totally killed spectres builds (by fixing desecrate tables) and now u can't get high tier spectres t16/t17 to play against end-game bosses like shaper (spectres will just die from one-shot)

is this top tier trolling or what? i can't even believe someone could do that actually

yeah i may not buy anymore mtx or points anymore and i have spent a fuck ton

if they do not revert the desecrate changes i may not support this game with my money any more

"

bridgeburner wrote:

"

Cogburn wrote:

"

bridgeburner wrote:

So, as someone whose build was using a non-common type of spectre that I got from act 1-10 zones and created leveled versions with desecrate... this basically bricks my build in the middle of a league. So thanks for that. I will most likely be asking for a refund for my spectre mtx.

lol so pathetic :D you can still get your specters in maps

The spectres my build uses can only be obtained in Shaper Realm now. So no. I can't get them in maps unless I grind or spend a significant amount of money to get them.

So you can still get your specters with a little effort, whats the problem? They dont disappear, dont die. Just entitled

"

Cogburn wrote:

So you can still get your specters with a little effort, whats the problem? They dont disappear, dont die. Just entitled

They're not immortal. They do die. And by the way, this leaves me either having to pay for shaper pieces to get them, or try to grind guardians myself without having the spectres my build relies on. This isn't entitlement. This is a really weird and build-braking decision in the middle of a league.