Content Update 3.15.0 -- Path of Exile: Expedition

Steamcharts tells the expected story here.

116k players 1 hour after launch - peak.

Down to 97k after only 2 hours

Down to 74k after 4 hours

Down to 56k and falling still after 6 hours.

Last league 155k peak and took 25 days to drop to 100k

Path of NERFS has destroyed Path of Exile.

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Smacky007 wrote:

Steamcharts tells the expected story here.

116k players 1 hour after launch - peak.

Down to 97k after only 2 hours

Down to 74k after 4 hours

Down to 56k and falling still after 6 hours.

Last league 155k peak and took 25 days to drop to 100k

Path of NERFS has destroyed Path of Exile.

Already 53k... This league will quickly get bored with everyone.

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Psi0ptic wrote:

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Educmack wrote:

Although I loved the Vaal Double Strike buff I believe I'll skip this league. Too many nerfs and too many "reworks", too much power loss and nothing else interesting to compensate, just increased numerical values of some skills. No mention on defenses, so we are still paper-thin and the tree doesn't grant anything to counter the lack of it aside from some flask nodes that grant shitty things and nothing else. I've never taken a break before and now I think is a good time to do it. Good luck, everyone!

Ditto

You missed the fun part of the patch notes.

Defences:

Nerfed the hell out of Fortify.
Removed the golem immunity buffs completely. (If they reduced from 35% to 15% it would have at least been workable)
Elementalist - DESTROYED
Evasion base dropped from 53 to 15

Paper this would be better than what they did here.

GGG Balance sucks.

They nerf self casting players support gems across the board because they suck at balancing mines, traps, totems and coc builds.


Cold Penetration:

Supported Skills now Penetrate 20-34% Cold Resistance (previously 18-37%).


Awakened Cold Penetration:

Quality now grants "Supported Skills deal 0-10% increased Cold Damage" (previously 0-20%).
Supported Skills now Penetrate 35-39% Cold Resistance (previously 38-42%).

Concentrated Effect:

Now has a 150% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 140%).
Supported Skills now deal 25-39% more Area Damage (previously 35-54%).


Controlled Destruction:

Now has a 150% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 130%).
Now causes Supported Skills to deal 25% more Spell Damage at gem level 1 (unchanged) and 39% more Spell Damage at gem level 20 (previously 44%).
Now causes Supported Skills to have 80% less Critical Strike Chance (previously 100% reduced).
Quality on the Anomalous Controlled Destruction Support no longer grants “Supported Skills have 0-60% reduced Critical Strike Chance”. It now grants “Supported Skills have 0-20% less Critical Strike Chance”.

Awakened Controlled Destruction:

Now has a 150% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 130%).
Supported Skills now deal 40-44% more Spell Damage (previously 45-49%).
Supported Skills now have 80% less Critical Strike Chance (previously 100% reduced).
Quality no longer grants “Supported Skills have 0-10% increased Cast Speed”.



Elemental Focus:

Now has a 140% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 130%).
Supported Skills now deal 20-34% more Elemental Damage (previously 30-49%).


Awakened Elemental Focus:

Now has a 140% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 130%).
Quality now grants "Supported Skills deal 0-10% increased Elemental Damage" (previously 0-20%).
Supported Skills now deal 35-39% more Elemental Damage (previously 50-54%).



Fire Penetration:

Supported Skills now Penetrate 20-34% Fire Resistance (previously 18-37%).


Awakened Fire Penetration:

Quality now grants "Supported Skills deal 0-10% increased Fire Damage" (previously 0-20%).
Supported Skills now Penetrate 35-39% Fire Resistance (previously 38-42%).


Lightning Penetration:

Supported Skills now Penetrate 20-34% Lightning Resistance (previously 18-37%).


Awakened Lightning Penetration:

Quality now grants "Supported Skills deal 0-10% increased Lightning Damage" (previously 0-20%).
Supported Skills now Penetrate 35-39% Lightning Resistance (previously 38-42%).


Swift Affliction:

Now has a 150% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 125%).
Supported Skills now deal 20-34% more Damage over Time (previously 25-44%).
Now grants “25% less Duration of Supported Skills and Damaging Ailments they inflict” (previously 15% reduced).
Quality on the Anomalous Swift Affliction Support no longer grants “Supported Skills have 0-5% increased Attack and Cast Speed”.


Awakened Swift Affliction:

Now has a 150% Cost and Reservation Multiplier (previously 125%).
Quality no longer grants "Supported Skills have +0-10% to Damage over Time Multiplier".
Supported Skills now deal 40-44% more Damage over Time (previously 45-49%).
Now grants "25% less Duration of Supported Skills and Damaging Ailments they inflict" (previously 25% reduced Duration).


I can't wait for closed beta on Lost Ark, I've had it with this crappy balance and shitty servers. POE running on potato servers since 2012.

The guys just screwed up the game.

Well folks, after a few years of suffering with these crap patches, this was the last straw for me.

I spent a lot of money on the account and had a lot of fun with the builds while they were still good.

Now they fucked everything up.

A hug for whoever stays.

My friends will all leave the game too.

Too bad the game has terrible admins and developers.

eesh, unfortunate time to come back to Path it seems.

Bane of Legends: Now called Headsman. Headsman: Now called Bane of Legends.
Bane of Legends: Now called Headsman. Headsman: Now called Bane of Legends.
Bane of Legends: Now called Headsman. Headsman: Now called Bane of Legends.

Good league.

Still looking for a build guide for 3.15 that doesn't say nerfed by 30-50% or that hasn't been abandoned by the creator completely because it's unplayable now.

Way to go, GGG, see you again in PoE 2.

What the actual fuck is with all these support skill gem nerfs???!!! I watched the league trailer and thought 'seems nice, I'll give it a shot' but holy shit! I uninstalled the game again after reading these patch notes.
RIP Path of Exile
Call me when PoE 2 is released.

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SkylerOG wrote:

Casual gamer here who has spent quite a bit of money on this game from 3.0 to about 3.12, and then took a break because it became apparent I couldn’t improve or advance without deciding to devote an astronomical increase in time and effort to the game to learn advanced crafting and how to arbitrage trading to where exalts and even mirrors were menial and easy to acquire and utilize.

I’ve never owned or come close to trading a mirror-tier item, but it became clear that my next step in my evolution of this game, to keep up with the constant “balance changes” being implemented every league to stave off the power-creep, was to acquire gear/items/gems that only the best of the best could afford or had the knowledge, time, experience, and currency to create.

But I’m a family man with a job and real life shit to do, so I’m stuck in the Casual Gamer category and just don’t have the capacity to take that next step in this game.

Well, I was about to come back and try another league and at least hang out with friends again because I was really missing this place. But now, after going through the patch notes… fuck that noise. Holy hell, what is GGG thinking?

The uber top tier folks will probably still be fine and able to reach any boss and kill them without much difficulty, but the “casual gamer” is beyond screwed. Really good items and legacy items are going to skyrocket in cost, and not only will us relatively poor schleps be running around in worse gear, but our damage is reduced by as much as half, our survivability looks like it’s drastically worse (as if we needed more one-shotting), and mobs now have more survivability.

No freaking way am I coming back to play this when it was already trending towards mediocre for the casual gamer.

You blew it, GGG. Hopefully you figure out a better way down the road. But this was not smart.

Very well put.