Path of Exile 0.11.0

"

Armageddon82 wrote:

...and still no improvements for solo players in the endgame :(

(high level maps are too expensive to roll fine for one person)

"

Eightkilo wrote:

Don't know if this has been answered, but it sounds like physical damage will go up but life will go down. Is reflect reduced aswell then, otherwise it's a bad change for hardcore.

"

Koaxx wrote:

"

Trapperkeeper wrote:

"

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.

Good analysis

The only issue with such analysis is it fails to consider regen rates (including leech rates), value for blood magic builds, etc.. I mean, it's still going to be pretty powerful for any build that chooses to go for mass HP node stacking, but I can definitely see where its across-the-board value will take a hit.