POE2 means Path OF Electric?
" Lightning is OP regardless of the build being played . Lightning Arrow Deadeye , Lightning Invoker , Lightning PotCG Gimling Mercenary , ... it's not just these braindead Archmage Spark Stormweaver ( even though they represent half the softcore ladder ) , Lightning builds are everywhere and these skills got so much synergy with eachothers compared to other damage types it's insane . JUST POINT TO ME ANY SUBPAR LIGHTNING SKILL IN THIS GAME PLEASE ??? And anyone claiming to be playing a non-lightning build usually got some skills that are Lightning based , including myself . GGG really did trash balance here . " Oh my God , how did you guess that ? The strongest Mercenary build is Gimling using ...... lightning skills with a Pillar of the Caged God & Hands of Wisdom & Action . What a surprise lawl ICE BELL RINGER ~ Endgame Farming ~ Pinnacle Eraser ~ Gamepad Gameplay ~ Low Budget ~ 0.1.1 Version https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3705057 Last edited by Ashyev#5110 on Jan 24, 2025, 4:07:05 PM
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" Orb of Storms. Ball Lightning. Lightning Conduit. Voltaic Grenade (not sure on this one, but it's CC so why bother lmao). Stormblast Bolts. Shockchain Arrow. Idk if Magnetic Salvo is any good, but considering it's not Lightning Arrow it's probably horrid. Stormcaller Arrow is barely worthwhile but it gets the job done against chunky dudes. Arc is just Spark but worse, making it de facto subpar. Due to the fairly linear demands of current pre-release endgame content, there's always only going to be one or two Skills for any given build that are blatantly The Best ("fast AoE"), and the rest is subpar at their peak. That leaves a lot of room for subpar Lightning Skills. So no, not every Lightning Skill is super OP. Chill out. It's only maybe one third of a game rn, and on top of that, due to the cyclical nature of PoE balancing it's a matter of time until some Fire Skill is the absolute broken shit to play or w/e. Remember how Comet was the shit like six weeks ago? Yeah. Every Cold Skill was just so broken back then, it was insane. " Bonestorm + Detonate Dead Blood Mage is currently my most powerful character. DD is broken as hell, its radius is silly. I'm curious what Lightning Skill would make the build better (aside from rebuilding for Spark instead of Phys spells lmao). |
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It's Path Of Lightning.
No doubt PoE 2 will improve with every patch but PoE2 follows PoE 1. Which there is always only a handful of viable build never more, never less. And it changes every league. PoE 1 & 2 has just as many viable build as Diablo 4. Which is like 5-8. Only difference is you can sink a crap ton of currency into bad skills to make them viable. |
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We only have access to a portion of the planned content. With a lot of what we have seemingly being in an unfinished state.
I'm not too shocked lightning skills are excelling far beyond that of other ones. It just so happens that spark and a few other select skills are outperforming the rest. Bound to happen really. It will change with time. https://www.pathofexile.com/shop - Support Path of Exile!
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" Orb of Storms is triggered by Rod, making it amazing AoE. Ball Lightning and Lightning Conduit are used together in the one shot builds. |
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" I can't take seriously your response if you start it by freaking Orb of Storm which is literally the only lightning skill that was somewhat nerfed by GGG due to how many servers went down in flames when groups of Stormweavers spammed it to multi-casting 1 gazillion bolts . " Same as above lmao . Except this time Comet was neither intrinsically good , it's trigger spells that made it OP and for that Trigger was nerfed into the ground ( same reason as above = multi-casting broke servers ) . Since then Comet went MIA because if you can't circumvent it's bad design with Trigger it's worth shit . So the point still stand that Lightning Skills does not have any design flaws whatsoever and have too much synergy with each others. You can spam them , they do the highest base damage , you can reroll the wide damage they are doing , they can freeze ( electrocute ) , you get ton of flat damage and % damage increase from stat stacking , they got awesome synergy with crits build ... and on and on ... GGG went total banana here . ICE BELL RINGER ~ Endgame Farming ~ Pinnacle Eraser ~ Gamepad Gameplay ~ Low Budget ~ 0.1.1 Version https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3705057 Last edited by Ashyev#5110 on Jan 25, 2025, 4:11:26 AM
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" You never played poe1? You expect the current meta to last? When the new classes are introduced don't you think they will build some OP incentive for their testing? |
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