Changes to the Purposeful Harbinger Notable Passive

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dizz wrote:

I'm not using this passive, but nerfing things hard mid-league is always a poor solution.

Just a thought, but maybe consider creating new leagues 4 months apart instead of 3 months apart, so you can identify and fix issues before ruining builds and trades for players in the middle of a league.

Edit: Nerfing things mid-league is actually even more of a joke because this game is PvE. If this game was entirely PvP-focused, I could see this being an issue. BUT IT'S NOT! Being overpowered in a PvE game literally has no negative consequences or repercussions. Someone is op killing monsters and having a good time? Not really a problem worth hotfixing..

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frankthetankkk wrote:

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dizz wrote:

I'm not using this passive, but nerfing things hard mid-league is always a poor solution.

Just a thought, but maybe consider creating new leagues 4 months apart instead of 3 months apart, so you can identify and fix issues before ruining builds and trades for players in the middle of a league.

Edit: Nerfing things mid-league is actually even more of a joke because this game is PvE. If this game was entirely PvP-focused, I could see this being an issue. BUT IT'S NOT! Being overpowered in a PvE game literally has no negative consequences or repercussions. Someone is op killing monsters and having a good time? Not really a problem worth hotfixing..

This 1000%

FUCK YOU GGG

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nome0000 wrote:

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frankthetankkk wrote:

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dizz wrote:

I'm not using this passive, but nerfing things hard mid-league is always a poor solution.

Just a thought, but maybe consider creating new leagues 4 months apart instead of 3 months apart, so you can identify and fix issues before ruining builds and trades for players in the middle of a league.

Edit: Nerfing things mid-league is actually even more of a joke because this game is PvE. If this game was entirely PvP-focused, I could see this being an issue. BUT IT'S NOT! Being overpowered in a PvE game literally has no negative consequences or repercussions. Someone is op killing monsters and having a good time? Not really a problem worth hotfixing..

This 1000%

FUCK YOU GGG

The first thing you need to understand is that Path of Exile is a free to play game, owned by GGG (which can actually, do whatever they want with the game). Second thing is, this isn't a nerf, it's a fix - albeit uncalled for since Bex did say it wasn't going to happen, but it had to happen, this would have caused too many issues in all sorts of areas. Third of all, Path of Exile leagues are meant for you, as a player, to TEST new mechanics they put into the game, NOT mechanics that weren't meant to be or mechanics that break the game in half like this one did.

And just for once, remember they are humans like you, they had to do a complete shift to work from home in the middle of it all, and still try and keep up with whatever was happening with 1 of the many possible build combinations this new league brought to the game.

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Necrees wrote:

I hope that someone at GGG reads this!
I'm a casual player for more than two years now, and I'm usually playing no more than 2 builds per league and not seeing too much of endgame content (never played uber elder for example). I have a family and job and I don't have as much time to invest in the game as I would like. And now with this situation with a virus and all, I was very excited to play this build and to experience some content I never had before and to have so much fun! I invested a couple of days and all the currency I had and only yesterday got my first four Purposeful Harbinger jewels and felt for the first time the power of the build... Today I put my kids in the bed and started POE only to find out that GGG did what they said they wouldn't!!
I do not understand the business logic behind this decision? If you didn't nerf it would you lose players? I don't think so. Could you lose players now? Well, I am considering giving up on the game where game creators do not appreciate the time invested by players!

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Blutgarde wrote:

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Necrees wrote:

I hope that someone at GGG reads this!
I'm a casual player for more than two years now, and I'm usually playing no more than 2 builds per league and not seeing too much of endgame content (never played uber elder for example). I have a family and job and I don't have as much time to invest in the game as I would like. And now with this situation with a virus and all, I was very excited to play this build and to experience some content I never had before and to have so much fun! I invested a couple of days and all the currency I had and only yesterday got my first four Purposeful Harbinger jewels and felt for the first time the power of the build... Today I put my kids in the bed and started POE only to find out that GGG did what they said they wouldn't!!
I do not understand the business logic behind this decision? If you didn't nerf it would you lose players? I don't think so. Could you lose players now? Well, I am considering giving up on the game where game creators do not appreciate the time invested by players!

If you really can only enjoy this Game with such a broken Build, i would suggest to look for something else anyway.

There are already so many mechanics in the Game that mistakes like this can always happen. As long as we have open P2P Trading, Balance/Exploit Patches should always happen immediatly. No matter what time in League we are or how much Players already invested to play absurd broken Stuff. Maybe the Meta Slaves, that only play to get rich, learn from this and take it a little bit easier next time.