Path of Exile 0.11.0

yay CI Is nerfed even more!

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OFasO wrote:

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Novalisk wrote:

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Nosajio wrote:

"So am I the only one who read this as making Kaom's even stronger?"

No this is actually a pretty big nerf to Koam's (depending on how much health is reduced by).

The reason Koam's is so powerful is that the 1000 health gets multiplied by all your passive life nodes; hence, a nerf to life nodes is a nerf to Koam's, especially since it only has about 600 armour max, and armour/evasion is now apparently much more important for defense.

I might even go so far as to say Koam's may be obsolete, of course it's too early to tell without knowing how much health is nerfed and how much armour is buffed.

This isn't a nerf or a buff to Kaom's.

Let's say your base HP without Kaom's is 1600, and with Kaom's it's 2500.

Tossing a number here, let's say life nodes get halved (4% instead of 8% etc). So you get +150% life instead of +300% life after the change.

1600*(1+3)=6400
2500*(1+3)=10000

In this case Kaom's gives you 56% more HP

1600*(1+1.5)=4000
2500*(1+1.5)=6250


In this case Kaom's gives you 56% more HP, same as above.

it's a buff for Koam............they nerf HP.....in end-game, HP is the king above all.....as we all know.

Did you read the part where they lowered monster damage?

Exactly, this patch is big buff for CI and Koam, GGG already said they nerf more monster dmg, and nerf HP -- if you can't get enough hp which comes to end-game you will, buy a Koam then; and CI takes lot less dmg than reduction in ES.

If you increase the physical dmg, how do expect the top end gears/build survive the physical reflec? I give up my physical dmg build because you simple cant stay alive vs reflect.... With less life and more dmg you just dead on first sight.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Chris wrote:

We've reduced all monster damage and have made corresponding reductions to player Life and Energy Shield passive skills. Physical damage nodes (both general and weapon-specific) have been substantially increased. As a result of these changes, characters rely less on life than they did previously. Defensive options such as armour are substantially stronger now, more than offsetting the lower life totals.

no kidding scrottie and i believe what i said in your thread about armor needin a buf or 2 came through as well ^_^

An interesting idea, is to not get Life Nodes and use a Kaom's, using the Kaom's as the effective life you'd have gained with those Nodes, and put them into dps passives...

A stupid idea, but meh.

What if they nerfed Kaom's to +800 Maximum Life in the patch notes, that'd be hilarious! :P

This is so dam amazing!!!! Great job guys!

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tiagoyz wrote:

If you increase the physical dmg, how do expect the top end gears/build survive the physical reflec? I give up my physical dmg build because you simple cant stay alive vs reflect.... With less life and more dmg you just dead on first sight.

either you scale off your physical (converting skill) or buy a Koam.....

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One problem though, the main reason a lot of people don't make physical builds is because of reflect. If you decrease life and increase physical damage you're much more susceptible to death by reflect than if you're elemental, even more so than before. This leads to very little variety in high physical builds, with all of them being CI vaal pact ghost reaver. You should substantially reduce reflect if you're going to substantially decrease life, especially for physical builds.

good stuff