Content Update 3.25.0 -- Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

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AidonX wrote:

For those who did not read

-jug giga nerfed

- glad still bad

- berserker still bad

- chieftain still meh

- champion minor nerfed

- totems nerfed so that might giga nerf EA ballista play especially now that the nodes were moved to narnia

- to phys mitigation nerfed

- more access to max res

- defences to melee buffed but not really

- damage to melee buffed if melee considers doing as much damage as the weakest bow build counts as a win

-instant leech from vaal pact is back which will make slayer a busted unkillable machine with a cyclone build especially with a mageblood+parodoxica, but still not that much damage so that's the trade off.

- raider removed for gimped champion with worse defensives in barskin which still requires a 25% reserve and only mitigates 20% of damage on the first hit but only a measily 20% evasion when the player gets hit enough. Overall worse than raider, and a worse glass cannon than deadeye so even more niche reason to play.

overall melee winners are

Champion
slayer

Kings of path of exile as of patch now

Bow builds

wand builds

no suprise there.

My opinion, all GGG had to do was buff the damage, maybe do the thing with the banner and leave melee alone because ain't no way this mess can be fixed with 1 patch when there are years of melee nerfs to account for. That's a lot of unaccounted math and it s