Announcements - 3.5.0d Patch Notes - Forum

" The Invisible Buff Effect microtransaction can now be applied to Dread Banner and War Banner. THIS IS A BUFF S L O W E R	Posted by ampdecay#1924 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:00:23 PM Quote this Post
" 鬼殺し wrote: " Sarno wrote: " Natalia_GGG wrote: Improved Betrayal encounters by reducing damage dealt by most Syndicate members, improving skill signalling, reducing Syndicate member damage bonuses from some items, reducing skill off-screening, cleaning up residual objects to reduce clutter and reducing additional monster spawns in Fortification encounters. I'm saddened to see nerfs being deployed across the board - with the possible exception of off-screening, which feels cheap and is one reason I'd never play Betrayal on Hardcore. If the VFX associated with Syndicate members wasn't so gratuitously overdone, reducing their damage wouldn't be necessary - and honestly feels like a cop-out. I don't want to not die - I just want to understand why I died. At any time there's more than one of those tornadoes on the screen at once it's effectively impossible to see anything, regardless of what enemies are doing at the time. Abruptly dying in those circumstances is frustrating - but lowering their damage misses the point completely. Please ask the art team to tone down the VFX. It's not the first time they've heavily reduced my enjoyment of a challenge league. As I posted in feedback, fortification encounters were way out of proportion challenge-wise. They were also inconsistent: sometimes I could bulldoze a yellow map fort, sometimes a white map fort would eat me for breakfast. Sometimes it came down to nothing more than placement of the fort. Ignoring the overall difficulty spike that is Betrayal, that's just silly. For me, it was less than it was too hard, just too hard to gauge whether or not I'd walk away unscathed or get wiped very, very quickly. I suspect that this will be a fairly moderate toning-down, but even a noticeable one would still keep Betrayal difficulty higher than core. The gap is massive, especially in end-game. Honestly, for me, the problem isn't the Syndicate members--it's the trash mobs, specifically the rares. Something a lot of people don't realize in this clearspeed era is that trash mobs, especially rares, do a TON of damage, but we're used to them not being a threat because most of the time they die instantly. But when they get some tankiness--Temple monsters like the enhanced Vaal that can charge for 4k, or the Temple wraiths (I was oneshot by a rare one once), Abyss rares, Delve rares, the Esh rares in breaches (ones with Soul Eater are insane), and now Syndicate rares, which are most prevalent in forts--it's very noticable. The occasional 3-4k hit from a Syndicate member isn't that big of a deal, really.	Posted by Elendarulianreo#5299 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:01:18 PM Quote this Post
Was really hoping for bestiary orbs... everything else seems okay though. also sad that the free red maps are gone but its probably fair lol	Posted by Cassievaupel#7093 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:02:25 PM Quote this Post
What about optimalization? Can run BF 1 on high without any lag and poe is lagging when im fighting with syndicate mobs. :( And im not the only one.. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2257418 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2045191 Last edited by Adixoo#1194 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:51:20 PM	Posted by Adixoo#1194 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:03:43 PM Quote this Post
Well done!	Posted by Palessan#1945 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:04:16 PM Quote this Post
Zana missions can no longer spawn in Zana missions. RAGE QUITS	Posted by FubarLifer#5545 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:05:48 PM Quote this Post
well anything for delve will improve just saw niko twice in a std Plaza map netted 0 azurite had 23 the other day but its gone too would be nice if you put something back in the chests the few that there are now Delve is pretty much a bore an waste of time	Posted by Fasteddie1#2721 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:07:19 PM Quote this Post
" ampdecay wrote: " The Invisible Buff Effect microtransaction can now be applied to Dread Banner and War Banner. THIS IS A BUFF Best patch note.	Posted by yungwhiz#5588 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:07:20 PM Quote this Post
Really nice and listening to the player base as always. Love GGG	Posted by _DarkMan_#3091 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:09:06 PM Quote this Post
Shame there is no fixes for, "your authentication for instance transfer was invalid" or "an unexpected disconntion has occured". Maybe move some off the 1000 man MTX team and help the parttime bug fix guy out a little.	Posted by Biovital#3172 on Dec 17, 2018, 7:12:12 PM Quote this Post