Changes to the Purposeful Harbinger Notable Passive

Pathetic. GGG lost its credibility and cannot be trusted with anything they say. After spending 100 EX and literally a whole week of farming just to wake up and get hit with this. POE was all I did during this epidemic and it started to become fun but not anymore. If this nerf makes the build significantly weaker, I will not continue to support this game financially.

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Amarath wrote:

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For everyone crying that this shouldn't be nerfed: You feel it is entirely right for the next 2.5 months (maybe more, depending on development delays due to global pandemic issues), to have a singular build that is both ridiculous degrees of magnitude stronger than anything else, while also becoming excessively prohibitive in entry level cost, is "good and fair" for the game? Climb off your high horse.

Yes who cares.

If someone else have a great build i don't get Mad at them like you apparently do. Its okay for people to have good builds. cyclone every, summoner everything. Crazy aura stacking everything. Its okay.

so True just look at Coc 3 Leagues going stron as f**** GGG dont care !

i did have respekt for GGG but this is just a new Blizzard move !

It makes perfect sense that you fix this for abuse of unintended uses like soltice and the like, but why would you nerf replenishing presence midleague? Is it because that one person on reddit got 100% regen per second? It clearly says you and nearby allies, and sounds exactly like an aura, the collateral damage of this nerf will be inconsequential to the top end builds that abuse mechanics and devastating for those of us using it legitimately. The top end builds mainly use endbringer/heraldry + purposeful harbinger not replenishing + purposeful. Anyone paying attention to the prices of these mods together could tell you this (adjusted for roll weight. ie crafting difficulty). Seems to lack a bit of oversight. Am I salty? Yes, am I salty because I invested dozens of ex into abuse? No, I'm salty because legitimate interactions are being nerfed mid league

While the nerf is obviously needed, this should have been handled earlier.

Your mistake (balancing), followed by your mistake (telling people it will stay this league), followed by your mistake (changing your mind and handling it too late).


You, GGG, deserve a truckload of backlash for how this was/is being handled.


Too much time investment from too many players by now.

Good, bug fixing!

Liar

Maybe it's time to go back to the 1-2 week stand by bewteen leagues so you can actually test and fix bugs before they launch.

I'm so tired of being beta testing this game every single league I decide to play.

Look at the state of your fucking game atm, it's atrocious, from performance issues to questionable design/mechanic decisions to outrigh fucking things up like this mid-league, W-T-F happened to you, GGG.

This league has really just left me feeling sick. Not even in a C19 way. It just started as a rippy mess where I couldn't see anything and things were exploding that I couldn't see or hear discernably. So I was not enjoying that. I guess that was my fault because I wasn't moving fast enough but when I started moving faster I was running headlong at the shotgunning delerium mobs which wrecked me, so that wasn't fun either.

I stop for a short while but read up on the news on the website each night to see if something is going to pique my interest and I read that there's a very strong build which has been tearing it up and that a nerf will come next league but for now it's going to be live and let live.

Then I see this post. I don't really care about slaughtering a powerhouse build, sometimes they deserve it. I do have a problem with liars and retractors, especially when it comes to pseudo-scamming people out of their time, currency, and mtx points recently spent on a very timely sale to make their auras and heralds pretty.

I'm sure that this wasn't personal but that's a lot of my problem is that this league didn't feel personal. I've been here for years, and I like that you have people go on baeclast and reddit and touch base, but I feel like you are making a game for baeclast and reddit and not the vast majority of people who have a few hours here and there when the spouse and kids aren't around. And what's important to them is that they can trust GGG. It's important to have the streamers that sell your game for you, but if you stop being good to your majority, and they stop trusting you at your word, then there won't be anyone that the streamers are playing for.

I get that @Bex has to bear the brunt of community rage and has to put on a face for the dev team. But this should have been a Bex moment to say "this isn't going to fly, the game needs to take the hit that this company cannot"

I'm sure that someone is going to come and comment that I should cry more, or that I don't have the levels or the challenges or the whatever they think is the most important credential is to have an opinion on this but ultimately this league has just left me feeling tired and not very interested.

TLDR: I don't care that if you nerf this build but there's a tangible cost in the trust of your community.

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silvinapl wrote:

Maybe it's time to go back to the 1-2 week stand by bewteen leagues so you can actually test and fix bugs before they launch.

I'm so tired of being beta testing this game every single league I decide to play.

Look at the state of your fucking game atm, it's atrocious, from performance issues to questionable design/mechanic decisions to outrigh fucking things up like this mid-league, W-T-F happened to you, GGG.

You do realize that leagues are essentially a temporary test realm for new mechanics right? That was the whole reason leagues were introduced. If you don't enjoy testing new mechanics just play standard.

I feel like you calling it abuse really fundamentally shows that you feel like players should be able to find creative ways to build their characters. Is the interactions unexpected? Yes... but don't call it abuse. That is the whole intention of this game, you find a mechanic you build it to the utmost it can be. The fact that you leave crap like cyclone headhunter in the game but mid league nerf a similar mechanic on something not cyclone, feels real bad.
TLDR: Don't call it abuse, we are literally all playing to make the most efficient character, not to play the way the game devs pathed it out for us. We want to be creative, if it breaks your game so be it.