Character Balance in Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra

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Fuquelongtime wrote:

This is disgusting, after spending mirs on my characters and leagues piecing them together to become ultimate fighters and mappers. You destroy the items that I use, while leaving the ones I don't use as legacy? again... this is the 3rd time in a row you have done this and its absolutely ridiculous. You all don't know how to make a game let alone balance it. you should be ashamed of yourselves that you purposefully screw so many people out of their time and effort. You will be losing more players than you anticipated after this patch, and it is entirely your fault. Also, none of the items I used took advantage of any "cheesy" or inappropriate mechanics, however, your nerfs to them will make my builds not preform even at a rate that's usable anymore. How is that fair in any way? these nerfs are unfounded and uncalled for. This is not ok GGG, you are a bad game developer just taking advantage of people.

100%. Enough is enough.

Some people can't learn from free, earnest, good advice. Instead, they must be taught their lessons via hard experience.

The player base would do well to give a generous dose of that.

That is exactly what I intend to do.

Feels like some hate to Skele builds.

ty so much... Jesus Christ
reservation nerf AGAIN.............wtf

I kinda like nerfs and meta shakeups. Making builds becomes less exciting over time otherwise. Like with auras now it's always about reaching those efficiency nodes cause you need this, this and that for defensive layers and some damage. So that's gona change, alright.
However, alongside nerfs players should be left with some buffs, maybe in areas that have been less popular, whatever.
But as usual players are just left with new headaches.

GGG, what are you so afraid about?

Summer nerfs are always nice <3

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Riverwind77 wrote:

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PROBLEM:GGG's complains about defensive builds and nodes are mandatory for most players

You made those nodes mandatory by buffing monsters non-stop and adding that untested trash called archnemesis into the core, where you have 4s to find and kill an effigy in a cluttered laggy screen, if you dont, you die!

Looks like league skipping, lets stop spending money aswell until they learn.

100% this.

If the numbers go way down, and I mean WAY down, that's the only thing that might get somebody's attention. Obviously telling them what we want doesn't do a damn bit of good.

Problem: minion damage is higher than ever, specially with *balanced* Archnemesis core.

Solution: let's nerf reservation efficiency, that needs ALL builds (even underperforming ones), because everyone uses defensive auras + banner + 1 offensive, so now they have to drop 1 (or 2)

Clap, clap, amazing your *vision*... I haven't spent a single cent since 3.15, thanks for clarifying to continue like this, more money in my pocket!

This is just absurd... Seriously people, stop playing PoE and move on, not joking or trying to antagonize anyone, GGG is clear in their intentions, you might as well just find something else to do.

I played mostly Evasion/Spell suppression characters (with a decent hp pool 4.5k~5k) and I don't even have to open PoB to know this just killed my build, same thing for the mana reservation changes, I wouldn't be able to sustain the current defensive auras that I use, but I try to practice what I preach, stopped playing, no regrets, sure, there is no game like PoE, but there are other games that are fun to play.

These nerfs were expected.

It puzzles me as to why people just continue to play and purchasing supporter packs while at the same time complain about the changes.

I am very disappointed by these changes... You keep nerfing us but you should also nerf some other shit. This game is unplayable due to all these degens and 1 shots, do you guys even play your game? Or you just watch some streamers and base on that... Very frustrating.

So we got -25% flat damage to skeletons for whatever reason.
Then -2 levels from nerfed unnatural strength which is about -20% damage as well. So -45%.
This alone makes skeletons almost twice as bad!

-2 levels also means much squishier AG and zombies and in many cases one less spectre which is also terrible.

But then we got now almost useless power and frenzy charges which is an insane nerf in itself.

Then we got the +100% crit chance node removed and there will be "big cluster with minion crit nodes", big cluster is about 5 skillpoints, so we got -4 skillpoints to our build.

Then the mana reservation efficiency nerfed so less offensive auras for our minions on top of that.

Then we got bone rings which we cannot use because we really need those unset rings. If we equip the bone rings that's -2 much needed skills for our build.
(btw get rid of unset rings and let us make a socket in any rings we like, that would be a much better feature)

Then we got +2 lvls to minions hats but they will cost probably as much as some headhunter so casual players won't be able to get them. Also screw unique helmet users I guess.

If just one single of these nerfs were implemented it would be already really bad but somewhat manageable. But all these nerfs together completely destroys the skelemages build.
If you make the calculations they'll do like 20% of the damage they used to do.

How is it justified??

What is your problem with minions anyway? Did some minion bite you when you were children and now you hate them for no reason ggg? Skelemages weren't even an OP build, it's just a nice fun build. Skelemages is not the reason other minion builds suck. They just suck while skelemages are fine being what the minion build should be in the first place. So instead of buffing other minions you nerf the entire minion archetype.

There's builds in this game who melt uberbosses in seconds and skelemages is totally not one of them. Yet you nerf one okayish but fun build by ~80%, what is up with you ggg? Why do you hate us so much?

I tried different builds and this was my favorite one and now it will become five times worse and now I don't see myself playing PoE anymore.