The game feels horrible to play the 3.15 nerfs + the 3.16 nerfs have just killed this game

I feel like people making decisions don't actually play the game. I have tried a multitude of skills old and new and it couldn't be more obvious there are serious damage issues from level 1 - red maps. I now feel the same at end game. My POB time is ridiculous...I feel heavily gated at red maps and there is 0 reason I should be given gear. I feel they have designed the game around in both preventing and using the most unique of gimmicks and really made it bland, boring, and really, well, not functional for most skills. You shouldn't need more than a few exalts to make skills work in first tier maps...Skills shouldn't be so trash level 1-50 but definitely not so bad come red maps...I've tried stacking elements, crits, bleeding, impaling all sorts of builds and damage is just not there and it should be. I feel as both raider and witch you choose mediocre survivability at best and be stuck at high tier yellows or you go glass canon so you can actually kill bosses in less than 10-15 minutes.

Ascendancy trees need way more variety and it's clear they've taken a butcher knife to them...

There are so many new and awesome skills for me to try too. It's just a da#n shame 90% are just worthless.

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johnce6 wrote:

I feel like people making decisions don't actually play the game.

It doesn't matter if they play their game or not. As many people in this forum had pointed out: PoE is balanced around the top 1%. If you are not streamers or nolifer, you are not their target audience.

It's funny because gating the casuals with more grind will only promote more RMT.

People need to realize this and stop supporting GGG financially. Then, only then can we have some changes. But it's kinda copium.

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Networm13 wrote:

It's funny because gating the casuals with more grind will only promote more RMT.

Ye unbelievable it makes me wonder sometimes why ggg not doing more against botting and rmt - at least i havent seen any post or video where officials from ggg talk about this. A auction house or some sort of in game marketplace or i dont know what cuz im not a game developer, but there must be some good ways to make botting or atleast rmt lot less profitable. Im afraid that ggg is afraid that their game will die lot quicker without all the rmt's

I completely disagree with the nerves in disguise, they where plain and open in the patch notes. A lot of people all choose to say woooohooo great patch, we need to click 3x lesser so the patch is great. Flaming each and single person that did had a brain and clearly saw that the patch 3.16 was a huge nerf fest.

Further I agree.

Ow and what i miss is the one shots without any graphics, yesterday i did some lvl 75 heists i died 3x and i have no fucking clue why, mobs where not even near me, no ground effects no ranged attacks no nothing, just all is fine and then sudden go back to town.. This game becomes a disgrace for the former PoE.

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dan166 wrote:

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Networm13 wrote:

It's funny because gating the casuals with more grind will only promote more RMT.

Ye unbelievable it makes me wonder sometimes why ggg not doing more against botting and rmt - at least i havent seen any post or video where officials from ggg talk about this. A auction house or some sort of in game marketplace or i dont know what cuz im not a game developer, but there must be some good ways to make botting or atleast rmt lot less profitable. Im afraid that ggg is afraid that their game will die lot quicker without all the rmt's

You dont need to be a dev - just look at the chinese version. The game is popular and very much not ruined by AH or pets that work similar to Torchlight. A million QoL features.

But dont worry, someone wih utterly failed logic will tell you why doing that in the west will ruin the game, even though that makes no sense at all (most of my trading, whether buying or selling, might as well be AH - I find people with a search/they find me with one, and most of the time the person deosnt say a word.

Might as well just be AH - but oh noes, the top up rich people will not be as out of reach as regular sellers, which is what people are aCTUALLY protected.

f em

Slam melee does not exist on poe ninja builds, slams are hilarious, the nerf train is mind blowing I logged back after few months, checked the state of the game, just casual playing standard and probably going off for several months again because this is just pathetic. I do not even understand why did they implement so many nerfs 2h slams were finally interesting to play after several YEARS..... Hilarious really... Players are actually making public groups ,,Melee enthusiasts,,

Yeah melee sux, my friend quite 1 week into league and he had like 150k ehp with 70k for elemental dmg and he was still getting one shot by Goat shammans with molten shell. How are you suppose to outplay that when there is full pack of them casting this stuff all time. Or that funny Tormented Spirits with Martyr's Grip that detonates corpses. GL playing build without exploding corpses.

Idk why the "player must die" philosophy is so strongly enforced in poe. Dying non stop if frustrating. Especially when you invest into defences and still feel no change.

Also I'm kind of confused with slowing player character progression. That wont make most players play 3 months. Nothing will change that.It only cause more frustration. So what if dude gears up to godly level in 1 month. Me and my friends would be happy and maybe either go with brand new build and maybe spend some $$ on overpriced as F MTX.

Def not gonna buy anything right now. This and previous league made me feel at the end of the day that I have wasted time.

not that i care about dying on the game

but in 3.16 i can only kill maven in my last portal or so at the last sip of my flasks because the damage is so nerfed and she keeps warping all the time the ground gets filled with dot stuff
it is really annoying or "MaYbE I ShOuLd GeT a MaGeBlOoD"
fuck off

they balanced the game for ppl trading challenges on discord and whatnot
ggg is like: "god forbids solo play"

and i can already see they either buffing us or nerfing mobs next league because this experiment is a total failure and player retention is even worse than before

just launch poe 2 as a frigging beta and get over with

"Every build just feels like trash to play without heavy exalt investment"

this is so true, unless you invest something like 50+ exalts into a build it just doesn't feel good

in 3.13 even non meta builds with 5-10ex investment felt good to play and further upgrading felt really good and made me want to push even further
but this league even after 40+ exalts invested it just feels bad

i can't even imagine how the so called "casuals" handle the current league

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Norbi1one4all wrote:

this is so true, unless you invest something like 50+ exalts into a build it just doesn't feel good

Add to the difficulty of even reaching that investment within a reasonable time frame (read: Before 2 months into a league) for most players, the experience is overall very frustrating.