Balance Changes in Path of Exile: Betrayal

How does the stat stick nerf effect skills which explicitly only swing the mainhand weapon, such as consecrated path? Will you be completely prevented from using these skills in a dual wield configuration of any kind?

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saragart wrote:

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Innomen wrote:

Yay more gifts to the legacyied-gentry! A bigger fuck you to SSF! HH EVEN MORE IMPOSSIBLE TO ACQUIRE! Awesome!

/sigh

Big fuck you to people in standard too. Get a build, get the gear, get bent.

What is the point of grinding gear if after each league you can throw it all away?

You're looking at things too closely, everyone is. Look at the big picture. GGG always buffs/nerfs in cycles. It'll be god tier gear again a few leagues from now. Think of it like leap-years.

Stat Sticks
The use of "stat sticks" has been a feature of Path of Exile for a very long time.

A stat stick is an off-hand weapon that is not valid to use with a skill you are using when dual wielding. You get all the benefits of the stats on the weapon, while not having any limitations it might have affecting the use of the skill. You can use a weapon that has the attack speed and/or damage you want for the skill, while the off-hand weapon provides excellent stats without its speed or base damage limiting you.

This use started off as an interesting gameplay element to use as part of a build, but over many releases, as more powerful modifiers on unique and rare weapons have been added, the power of stat sticks cannot be ignored when planning builds and is stifling other choices including genuine dual-wielding.

In 3.5.0 we are removing the ability to use stat sticks, through the following changes:

• You will no longer be able to use skills that require a specific weapon equipped if you are dual-wielding and one of your equipped weapons is unsuitable for that skill.
• Skills that could be used with two weapons, but were main-hand-only when used, now use both weapons when dual wielding.

RIP any melee build

Now, dont get me wrong, i am all about bringing the most popular overpowered builds in line, but giving hierophant -1 totem, and compensating with 2 totems on summon is a giant spit in the face cosidering the base totem count is now 3... a first grader would figure out that 2+2 =/= 3

It will be clunky and annoying AF until you somehow get 4th totem... thats not a nerf, thats making you totally hate the levelling experience

Really!? This is what they came up with? Spellcasters abusing the hell out of stat sticks and they get a free pass? Melee which is still burning garbage even with stat sticks gets nuked again? Players asked for number tweaks, players asked for limits to the amount of mods, players asked for balance. This is not balance this is heresy!!!


It would be easier if you just came out and said you can not solve "The Riddle of Melee."


To the melee players who are still remaining:




The only way they can fix this is with massive buffs (we are talking like 150% minimum. Plus a targeting rework)

Why are you guys so good at your job? Why can't other companies be like you? ._. ... almost unfair. Love ya <3

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saragart wrote:

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Innomen wrote:

Yay more gifts to the legacyied-gentry! A bigger fuck you to SSF! HH EVEN MORE IMPOSSIBLE TO ACQUIRE! Awesome!

/sigh

Big fuck you to people in standard too. Get a build, get the gear, get bent.

What is the point of grinding gear if after each league you can throw it all away?

You're looking at things too closely, everyone is. Look at the big picture. GGG always buffs/nerfs in cycles. It'll be god tier gear again a few leagues from now. Think of it like leap-years.

Haha it is funny only because it is kinda true :)

The amount of stupidity on every patch notes / manifesto is unbelievable. Go play diablo immortal if you are baby raging 1 day before the patch notes. LUL

I want only 1 thing this patch.

ANY change to berserker.

Now you take 20% extra damage instead of 10. This is a buff :)

That would be as smart as changing stat sticks for melee only.

This change will go down history as one of the most clumsy and worts executed gamedesign change ever.

I bet they also buffed poets pen.


Oh and cold.dot meta. This one is yet another gem of uselessnes.

Glavial cascade CAN abuse stat sticks. Other cold spells cannot..guess what is going to happen..