3.20 Balance Manifesto: Jewels and Ailment Mitigation

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arandan wrote:

I'm beyond confused by these changes and why development time is being wasted on non-issues.
Nobody has ever used jewels for ailment mitigation, nor will they going forward, unless you also nerfed boots implicit and/or suffix.

It is beyond idiotic to expect me to waste a mod on a 4 mod jewel, where in current game, for most non-crit builds ALL 4 of them need to be damage in order to justify TWO talent points spent on the socket.
You're also competing in this space with filler resist/attribute suffix, and %life/flat life prefix.

As far as unique jewel changes - it is impossible to populate the drop pool with highly desirable items only.
Some (most) of them are still going to be trash that you never pick up, hence the only thing you'll have achieved with this change is diluting the game further and most probably disabling even more choices.

You've effectively created multiple problems while trying to 'solve' issues that never existed in the first place. Why not focus on things that could actually improve the game going forward instead ?!?

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Any improvements we could make to this Jewel would have to fundamentally change its identity and would therefore essentially remove the Jewel in its current form from Path of Exile.