3.19.0c Patch Notes and Update on Community Feedback

Just buy more packs and MTXs guys - remember, because of *you* the game is in the state it's in today!

Millions and millions of $$$ in the bank, and GGG keeps on trucking through. Yeah, some people get mad and leave, but many (many) more continue to support. That's all it takes - eventually they'll listen, right?

"Fine - give them some more armor bases. That'll shut them up!"

NOT nice

New rare mobs are bad. So many electro copies, flame balls and etc. Too many effects and they are really annoying.

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Shimidt wrote:

The game got hit with a death star laser and this is like using some flat earth science shit to repair it

THIS

Seriously, wtf is happening? What have we done to deserve this? I hope your team has a backup or time machine backup of the game and all of its code before these quant changes were implemented, otherwise, these fixes are going to be like throwing gasoline at a fire...

The kalandra buff was much needed! Lake felt massively unrewarding, like doing the Fetid Pool.

The next patch cant come soon enough...

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Anngrat wrote:

GGG, either you god damn admit, that all these change are one huge mistake and they need to be deleted, either your player base will be gone by friday, We don't need those explanations why you did all this garbage, we want our usable harvest, our map and currency drops, s***ty archnemesis removed and fun builds aviable. We are playing god damn arpg, you mad baldman!

Amen brother!

and may the god of rng chris wilson hear your prayers...

That's just sad.

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Eshu wrote:

Sadly by now most people's hype died down. This was pretty much the school example of how not to do a league start. It was not a bug or server issue but decision makes completely losing touch with the reality of their game. I would love to see the graphs of how many player played archnemesis, sentinel and this league, also how far peple took their characters in these leagues in the early stages. I got through the acts but by now I just dont care about the league. The condescending "what we are working on" post was another nail in the coffin. It's just sad that whoever has this vision for the game is still allowed to rampage in the decision making.

Ritual and Archnemesis were the best leagues in terms of numbers (for quite obvious reasons). What's funny is that, according to steamcharts at least, Ritual had the best retention in month 2 compared to any other league, yet all the changes post Ritual were invoked in the name of "better player retention"...which was never achieved. Ritual had almost the same average in month 2 as in month 1, which is HUGE, and still almost half playing in month 3. Again, huge. This never happened post 3.13, Ultimatum was the closest and everything after it just continued tanking.

Archnemesis was a little boost and did good compared to Scourge and Expedition, but that was to be expected from an expansion. Then Sentinel pretty much tanked because a lot of people quit right at the start due to...guess what! Archnemesis going core.

Sure, there's a possibility Steamcharts doesn't give the full picture (since a lot of people don't play via Steam), but of all the leagues you could complain about retention, I am 100% sure Ritual was not the right one. Ritual was the most popular league POE ever had, you can tell from the numbers, and general opinion of people posting here, on reddit and in game chat. It might not be EVERYONE's favorite, but I am 1000% sure it wins the majority. And for some reason GGG wants to stray further and further away from that.

Give people 3.13 with all the expansions introduced in 3.17 (even archnemesis was nice, but the way it was in the league, not the abomination it is now) and I can guarantee they'll be happy for the next 3 months. And you can use the time to think of some actually good and meaningful changes. I am completely fine to pretend 3.19 never happened if you are.

I couldn't buy fortify as a melee duelist in act 4 because i haven't had one alch drop for me so i had to wait until later in act 5 to drop one regret to buy an alch from a vendor to buy a support gem. I played to act 6 and my conclusion is ty but no ty. GGG went in completely deny mode and i am passing this leag or this game until loot is back.

looks pathetic, no one major issue fixed. How am I must craft "high item bases" if is there are dropped nothing worthy?