Cast on freeze nerf and overall thoughts so far.

Just want to preface with the positive.

I LOVE the game.

I had a blast from the start making a sorc and played with Arc which wasnt strong but was ok.

I swapped to frost and I got access to Cast on Freeze and used the comet and basically used all my currency tweaking that build to work well enough to finally feel that same feeling I used to have in PoE1 when you sort of reached that point where you build finally "started working"

Anyways, I had a great time.

The nerf to Cast on Freeze however is way too harsh. Its basically useless now.

And this is my main complaint so far....so many of the skills you get to pick from feel so underwhelming. I felt like you purposely placed these cast on X skill at the level you did to allow people to get that "escalation" of their build and start feeling powerful.

As it is, it feels like the build is dead. I swapped out of frost to arc at early levels because frost felt underwhelming...Arc felt slightly better.

For now, going back to feeling so weak, I think I am glad I played a lot when I did because now ill take a break

Hopefully you guys figure out the curve of enjoyment because this is a great game so far. Ill try it again at some point later.

PS: Nerfing builds in the ground a few days after release is pretty cruel. You are left with no currency and no real ways to progress....maybe I should just restart a new classs but im worried about it also getting nerfed as soon as it gets fun.

For instance, Electric Rod rangers seem to be pretty crazy....so...its just a matter of time before they are nerfed too or was this just a cast on X treatment?

Slight note. This is exactly what happened to me back in Diablo2 that made me stop playing d2. I had a super weak amazon as main. I swapped to a necromancer after hearing from a friend that corpse explosion was good. I spent hours working on my necro and they nerfed it into the ground and it was now worse than my amazon which was aweful.

Meanwhile I would look at ice storm sorceresses and barbs plow through the maps while I was struggling to kill white mobs. So I just left the game

When you nerf like this, you create distrust in the company. Now Im afraid of investing time into anything that may be feeling strong because it may just be nerfed to hell.

I agree it needed some nerfs but x on cast went from a fun build to absolute terrible.

It just kills that whole line of play

As CoF main here, I just swapped to a new class.

There's no way they plan to keep things as are, right??

I do think if they're gonna do this they need to give everyone free respecs so we can avoid this situation. I'd give you gold if I could, but...yeah.

I feel your pain. Guess it's time to play an alt?

Revent the change or I am done with POE . Glad I wasted my $300

Comets constantly raining did not look intended.

Hey, you know this character you leveled for the past two days and was starting to feel good after getting CoF? Cool beans man, pick it up and throw it in the trash.

Feels like the same design mistakes as Blizzard, as soon as something is found to be good it will be nerfed to the ground.

Doesen't even make me wanna reroll, who knows what is going to be made absolute garbage next.

Cast on shock and cast on freeze were making my monk leveling enjoyable .. thanks for the most useless nerf in gaming history... Fire whoever decided that... Thanks ggg...

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

Comets constantly raining did not look intended.

Yeah but it went from comets constantly raining to comets never casting lol.

A sorc just starting maps could have a 1:2 trigger on comets, now it's 1:10. Kind of a staggering jump in the other direction for a such a key skill to most builds.

Make it 50 energy so we can have a 1:4 trigger and it'll probably be healthier but hammer nerfs like this are what scares away the new players who aren't used to it as well.

Simply feels overreaching and sets a bad tone in general to balance changes

This is what GGG does. They don't play the game, they just look at analytics of what the most used gems are and start nerfing them with little other context or thought. It's insane they did this when respecs cost so much gold and now those same people can't farm for it anymore since we can't trade for it like we could in PoE1.

I've had a lot fun thus far. I leveled up as a Arc lightning wizard which was fun. I hit a wall because the spell just wasn't doing the dmg. I took a few days to completely repec to Frost for CoF and turned the game easy. However, the nerf to CoF is too much. Despite what your goal is from doing this you've made a skill and a lot passive completely useless.

P.S. Don't turn into Hell Divers 2. You saw that happened to that game.