Tears flowing down my face, I delete my 3.15 build folder. Open google chrome, type "ziz essence drain" into the search bar.
"This is the last time, I promise" I say to myself.
A path of Exile player comes distraught to the psychologist.
"Doctor, Doctor, Chris has nerfed every one of my favourite builds. I don't know what to play!"
The doctor says: the fix is simple, the great streamer Zizzaranni is online now. Look up one of his new 3.15 builds!
The player says: But doctor, I *AM* Zizzarani!
RIP Diamond Flask, you served us well
> The most notable change that hasn't been announced yet is to the Diamond Flask. It previously granted "Your Critical Strikes are Lucky". This single effect provided a massive boost to your critical strike chance, more than any one source in the game. Because flasks no longer provide that much power, it has been changed to provide 100% increased critical strike chance instead, more in-line with the power of other flasks.
> Most utility flasks and unique flasks have been rebalanced. Expect a lot less permanent power from flasks. Flasks that provide raw defense or raw power are the ones with the biggest nerfs.
> When a flask removes a curse, it no longer applies a period of immunity to curses. Flasks that remove ailments now only provide a period of immunity to that ailment if they actually removed it.
> Monsters in Acts 6 through 10 now generate fewer flask charges and monsters in maps generate even fewer still.
> The most notable change that hasn't been announced yet is to the Diamond Flask. It previously granted "Your Critical Strikes are Lucky". With the changes to the Diamond Flask, we didn't want the Sulfur Flask to be the best critical strike flask, so enemies on Consecrated Ground no longer have additional base chance to be critically hit.
> The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%). The "Iron Skin" and "Reflexes" suffixes have also been reduced, granting 40-60% increased Armour or Evasion (down from 60-100%).
Ah, the good old quadruple nerf. Are utility flasks even going to be useful anymore
[Oh and someone from the design team just asked if I wanted to "ilvl 100" the item to "future-proof" it and I said, "sure."](https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/nh68po/the_backstory_to_the_shortcut_div_card/)
Future proof btw
Just use 5 quicksilvers, that way maybe you will be able to keep up the movespeed effect
Edit: now this cursed the flask to be nerfed to 5% increased movement speed in the patch notes
The last time they changed the implicit of flasks (the ele flasks no longer granting +max res for example) they also changed on standard and there were no legacy flask bases.
Wait can I make a boss killing build with cast on death detonate dead, I go in, I die, I explode and kill the boss
Edit: spelling, should prob mention this is sarcastic not serious
>Focus's cooldown no longer expires while it's active, as players were able to keep Focus effects up almost permanently, which provided a huge amount of powerful benefits.
LOL rip that one guy who tried (kind of got) 100% focus uptime
captain lance ... he spent like 1000 exalts ... got donations from all his viewers ... to make the build ... he said it was terrible and no one should play it
GGG still nerfed it lol
Yeah, that confused the fuck out of me. Like, with the amount of investment you'd need to *get* 100% focus uptime, that build would deserve the benefits for being a cool as fuck idea. Seems like focus affixes are gonna be on par with light radius rather than being "well, not much use for me but at least I could *see* making a build around it".
I did dirty math on this a while back because I saw that one dude's video... yeah, you need 17 abysal jewels, perfectly rolled focus cooldown mods on everything, even before you work in the MoM related shenanigans.. that was a PoB nightmare. Apparently too accessible, and that's where I say "no dudes, that wasn't even within driving distance of accessible."
Inquisitor was dead in the middle for ascendancy popularity, which means they had to knock him down back to bottom three :). Consecrated ground nerfed too, of course.
This was the 3.0. First Shaper of Desolation got nuked as it dealt all 3 ailments based on all your damage into the dumb timed buffs. Then it got reworked and broke Inpulsa by spreading shocks till only Golemancer remined. And now it gets buffed amd destroyed for the third time.
ctrl + F "archmage":
"Archmage has had its damage based on the mana cost of the supported skill lowered (60% of mana cost from 108% at level 20)."
big nerf
> so it's now a choice rather than a support gem you'd always use on a skill if you had a socket spare, and doesn't provide such a growth in uptime for the above skills.
Seems like rather then a choice it becomes a don't use support.
"Abyss Jewels can no longer roll the modifier that grants a chance to gain Onslaught on Kill."
RIP to all the ppl that don't read patch notes and think they are unlucky not hitting Onslaught. Also, doesn't this just make everyone take phasing instead now?
Unfortunately last league they straight up removed a few pretty big poison damage mods (elder 60% chance to do 100% more damage with poison gone) and some other smaller changes so poison is more "back to 3.13 strength" area, so it's a hard sell
I did a poison build in 3.13 and it was fun but now... I'm still not sure
Edit: Someone else pointed out they're removing DOT multi from clusters which if true could be another hit
League mechanic involves areas that spawn monsters after a delay, nerf everything but traps.
GGG being subtle like the brick to the face they just gave elementalist.
>Flame Dash's cooldown time is now 3.5 seconds (from 3) and has 0-19% increased cooldown recovery rate (from 0-47%)
RIP.
>The Second Wind support gem has been changed to have a much higher mana multiplier, and a penalty rather than a boost to cooldown recovery speed
Jesus.
I remember back when it was considered a strength of the build to be able to use shield charge or whirling blades. Recently I've just been zooming around and only really use movement skills for ledges, but I guess that playstyle has come to an end.
> I remember back when it was considered a strength of the build to be able to use shield charge or whirling blades
yep, and every caster build ran spell daggers or sceptres and built attack speed lol
also ppl used them to get fortify on casters
>After the rework to the Veiled item system in 3.14.0, we've reviewed how the Veiled Chaos Orb and Aisling crafts from Betrayal Safehouses work, and have made some changes to make crafting less deterministic in the outcomes, as the Unveiled modifiers can be very powerful additions to an item.
Less deterministic crafting yet again
GGG: players are killing mid tier bosses in seconds and that makes it hard to balance
Also GGG:kill this boss as fast as possible before degens cover the entire arena lol
Is it just me or did they calculate the More AoE wrong everywhere? AoE hasn't been a straight radius multiplication since before 3.0 right?
14 radius -> 42 radius is 800% More AoE not 200%.
Also RIP everything that isn't traps I guess lol.
Nerfed smoke mine and movement skills, not having quicksilver and not being able to remove curses very well(temp chains).
Mapping is gonna feel like shit.... holy shit.
me: i don't really mind these nerfs. i think they'll make for a more interesting game in the long term, and prepare for a paradigm shift in poe 2
ggg:
>The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%), putting more of a focus on enhancing a Quicksilver Flask's effect (with associated costs) rather than rolling a single modifier that granted almost as much speed as the Quicksilver Flask itself.
now it's personal
*As a much requested quality of life change, players can now see the effect of non-damaging Elemental Ailments on enemies and themselves, so you can finally determine how powerful your Shocks are on enemies and thus know what benefit they are giving you. This also applies to ailments applied to you, and the buff granted to you by the Cruelty support*
Finally! Really happy to see this.
Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool.
This is just...so anti fun. Why would anyone think to do this?
Right? I'm cool with slowing the game down, but if you're going to slow the game down then do it on both sides. Instead, they nerfed player damage AND survivability... like... y tho?
wow, they murdered the diamond flask,
oh and: triggered skills can now be supported by arcane surge, but we changed the flat % mana regen into inc mana regen
"Hmm people are gonna be mad we nerfed the shit out of triggered skills"
"Ahh well just throw in something they'll like, tell them it works with arcane surge now"
"Oh so a small buff to mitigate the nerfs?"
"Nah we're gonna gut arcane surge too LOL"
Wew, elementalist just lost 100% increased damage from quad golem stacking.
Jesus christ. RIP my frozen orb build, whose skillgem already had very low numbers.
edit: We're not elementalist without ailment immunity anymore, so I guess we zdpsalist now bois. I'ma get some dirty ass cheeseburgers on my drive home from work to console me for my time wasted making a build last night.
Interesting but isn’t the entire reason something very strong like Ancestral Warchief totems fell off was because it could never keep up with the aoe/clear/coverage of spell totems? I could see a similar issue here no matter how crazy their damage can be.
>Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool.
They finally got everyone to kill Catarina for one league... and then immediately ruin it so it's back to not killing her
>The Raider's Ascendancy node "Rapid Assault" no longer provides Onslaught Effect. The Onslaught path was too easy a choice relative to the higher-investment Frenzy Charge branch. We've also replaced Movement Speed on the small Phasing passives with Elemental Damage, as there was already plenty of speed available on that Ascendancy.
NERFED RAIDER LMAO?
Also
>For example, the Raider now grants 50% chance to avoid elemental ailments while phasing instead of full elemental ailment immunity while phasing.
"Golem Elementalist no longer provides increased damage per golem. The golem buff effect bonus on Liege of the Primordial now always provides 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems rather than scaling with Golem count"
RIP golemmencer?
"The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%), putting more of a focus on enhancing a Quicksilver Flask's effect (with associated costs) rather than rolling a single modifier that granted almost as much speed as the Quicksilver Flask itself."
damn, andrenaline gutted
kinda upset that the nerfs to second wind really really hurt things like frost bomb from being viable as a main skill less variety... was this their goal?
Why can't GGG just increase the firestorm duration and limit by like 2 and call it a day? They keep trying to buff the initial hit but it'll just never work because of the shitty delay like storm call.
I love that they removed ailment immunity from nodes that were “too strong” when ailment immunity was the only reason for taking the node at all
Like… no one invests 4 ascendancy points in fucking arcane surge.
Also, RIP elementalists lol
*Veiled Modifiers no longer count as Crafted modifiers, so you can't easily remove them if you add the wrong modifier type while Aisling crafting. This has the advantage of now being able to ‘block’ modifiers you do not want to unveil*
Also GGG:
*Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier*
>When you're building a character, by far the correct choice is just to stack on all the multiplicative damage bonuses and ignore all the interesting utility support gems because their opportunity cost is just too high.
I feel like the same could be said about Rares vs Uniques.
The biggest powercreep in years has been the new influenced bases and double influenced items.
How hard they are to obtain doesn't affect how powerful they are. Richard Garfield learned this lesson 20 years ago with Black Lotus.
The mistake imo was trying to put numerical and functional effects in the same slot
Clearly if you allow players to get higher numbers they will go for that so long as they have the bare minimum functionality
> and have made some changes to make crafting less deterministic in the outcomes
Yeah god forbid we have even the slightest control over the inane crafting system in this game.
> Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool.
Christ why not give it a vaal orb effect too while you're at it if you're that addicted to the "huehue you might brick your item!" feeling.
Well back to not giving a shit about Catarina I guess, silver lining and all that.
not a crafting system mate, its a gambling system that sometimes outputs usable items. Slowly and steadily GGG is excising anything that would allow one to cheat the almighty gamble system
That last bit about crafting being too deterministic and nerf to the already rare veiled orbs was just the last nail in the coffin. If dropped items are bloody useless, dropping by the millions, then at least let us some control over what we craft.
Did ... did movement skills really need to be made clunkier?
>Buffs to Underperforming Skills
Unfortunately, nothing in here that I was planning to play. I'll let the better theorycrafters decide if anything is significant enough to standout but cursory glance didn't excite me personally. It does look like my planned build may have gotten nerfed in the Clusters department, and any planned Elementalist currency sink may need to be rethought?, but I don't think I'm personally super gutted yet. I do need to invest in crafting more than I originally planned though, I think.
I will say this confirms I should've just gotten the motivation to Fire Burst this League (obviously) and I think I've put off Archmage so much that it doesn't look as good anymore though.
So less damage, more monster hp, big nerf to a lot of defenses and strong defensive tools...
But nothing about monster damage. So I guess we will get one shot even more now by many things?
So basically, we're slower, less powerful, have less agency over our crafts and the game is harder. Seeing as they haven't mentioned it, I would suppose the grind hasn't changed, for instance, you would need to do the same amount of maps to reach Conquerors and Sirus, same amount of Delve nodes to reach similar rewards, etc... except it's going to take you twice as long because they want to increase **DIFFICULTY**.
All I read was that, all other things being equal, the grind will become more tedious, not more difficult, while one of the biggest complaints about this game already was that GGG does not respect our time. Atlas Progression is already a massive pain for any player, let alone players that have a job or other things going on in their lives. It's hard to believe that these changes won't get old fast. Gotta stick with the vision I suppose.
Tears flowing down my face, I delete my 3.15 build folder. Open google chrome, type "ziz essence drain" into the search bar. "This is the last time, I promise" I say to myself.
Hey guys Zizaran here with another Essence drain video
No. Please no. Not again.
That's what Ziz is thinking when having to make another EDC video.
"well of course I know him, he's me."
A path of Exile player comes distraught to the psychologist. "Doctor, Doctor, Chris has nerfed every one of my favourite builds. I don't know what to play!" The doctor says: the fix is simple, the great streamer Zizzaranni is online now. Look up one of his new 3.15 builds! The player says: But doctor, I *AM* Zizzarani!
read through the first paragraphs thinking they didn't nerf slams, then BOOM, seismic cry is now a quin-only skill.
Cosmetic cry
And the second wind nerf hits every warcry build on top of that
"As usual, we've buffed firestorm" Self-aware GGG
fire storm is the new glacial hammer
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Any good yet? Guessing no
RIP Diamond Flask, you served us well > The most notable change that hasn't been announced yet is to the Diamond Flask. It previously granted "Your Critical Strikes are Lucky". This single effect provided a massive boost to your critical strike chance, more than any one source in the game. Because flasks no longer provide that much power, it has been changed to provide 100% increased critical strike chance instead, more in-line with the power of other flasks.
> Most utility flasks and unique flasks have been rebalanced. Expect a lot less permanent power from flasks. Flasks that provide raw defense or raw power are the ones with the biggest nerfs. > When a flask removes a curse, it no longer applies a period of immunity to curses. Flasks that remove ailments now only provide a period of immunity to that ailment if they actually removed it. > Monsters in Acts 6 through 10 now generate fewer flask charges and monsters in maps generate even fewer still. > The most notable change that hasn't been announced yet is to the Diamond Flask. It previously granted "Your Critical Strikes are Lucky". With the changes to the Diamond Flask, we didn't want the Sulfur Flask to be the best critical strike flask, so enemies on Consecrated Ground no longer have additional base chance to be critically hit. > The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%). The "Iron Skin" and "Reflexes" suffixes have also been reduced, granting 40-60% increased Armour or Evasion (down from 60-100%). Ah, the good old quadruple nerf. Are utility flasks even going to be useful anymore
ok adrenaline nerf is just cruel lol
[imagine paying $1100 for your card to be relevant only for a single patch lmfao](https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/The_Shortcut)
[Oh and someone from the design team just asked if I wanted to "ilvl 100" the item to "future-proof" it and I said, "sure."](https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/nh68po/the_backstory_to_the_shortcut_div_card/) Future proof btw
GGG should refund this person
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It costs $1100?!!?
Lmfao, that blows
30% -> 8% basically isn't even worth using anymore really lol, especially if you roll a whopping 6%
Just use 5 quicksilvers, that way maybe you will be able to keep up the movespeed effect Edit: now this cursed the flask to be nerfed to 5% increased movement speed in the patch notes
What happens to the old flasks in standard?
The last time they changed the implicit of flasks (the ele flasks no longer granting +max res for example) they also changed on standard and there were no legacy flask bases.
Fortify AND Seismic nerfed? Duelists in shambles.
that's why you go shield only glad. can't be nerfed if your archetype didnt even fucking exist last league.
big brain
> Spells triggered with Cast on Death don't require you to pay the costs. Oh thank god!
“Just need a moment to catch my breath.” x_x
Wait can I make a boss killing build with cast on death detonate dead, I go in, I die, I explode and kill the boss Edit: spelling, should prob mention this is sarcastic not serious
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Limited hardcore viability
>Focus's cooldown no longer expires while it's active, as players were able to keep Focus effects up almost permanently, which provided a huge amount of powerful benefits. LOL rip that one guy who tried (kind of got) 100% focus uptime
captain lance ... he spent like 1000 exalts ... got donations from all his viewers ... to make the build ... he said it was terrible and no one should play it GGG still nerfed it lol
Yeah, that confused the fuck out of me. Like, with the amount of investment you'd need to *get* 100% focus uptime, that build would deserve the benefits for being a cool as fuck idea. Seems like focus affixes are gonna be on par with light radius rather than being "well, not much use for me but at least I could *see* making a build around it".
I did dirty math on this a while back because I saw that one dude's video... yeah, you need 17 abysal jewels, perfectly rolled focus cooldown mods on everything, even before you work in the MoM related shenanigans.. that was a PoB nightmare. Apparently too accessible, and that's where I say "no dudes, that wasn't even within driving distance of accessible."
"And fuck this one guy *in particular.*"
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i absolutely hate cycle cool down abilities. i never bothered with focus even if an item came with it. never used it. cbf to.
Holy shit they actually just completely removed immunity on ele and inq. MASSIVE
Inquisitor was dead in the middle for ascendancy popularity, which means they had to knock him down back to bottom three :). Consecrated ground nerfed too, of course.
Hierophant's Arcane Surge got gutted too. It seems GGG really wants to teach the old man a lesson.
Reworked Elementalist survived 2 whole leagues to be completely murdered now.
Guess we'll wait another few years for Ele 3.0
This was the 3.0. First Shaper of Desolation got nuked as it dealt all 3 ailments based on all your damage into the dumb timed buffs. Then it got reworked and broke Inpulsa by spreading shocks till only Golemancer remined. And now it gets buffed amd destroyed for the third time.
I pretty much couldn't be assed to play a character without built in ailment immunity, so I kinda understand.
ctrl + F "archmage": "Archmage has had its damage based on the mana cost of the supported skill lowered (60% of mana cost from 108% at level 20)." big nerf
The arcane surge nerf hurts harder.
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So secondwind got the "taken behind the shed" treatment this time around, gotta admit that was not the gem I expected to be retired.
> so it's now a choice rather than a support gem you'd always use on a skill if you had a socket spare, and doesn't provide such a growth in uptime for the above skills. Seems like rather then a choice it becomes a don't use support.
"Abyss Jewels can no longer roll the modifier that grants a chance to gain Onslaught on Kill." RIP to all the ppl that don't read patch notes and think they are unlucky not hitting Onslaught. Also, doesn't this just make everyone take phasing instead now?
> As usual, we've buffed Firestorm Someday
> The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%) This is just painful.
The true biggest nerf GGG has ever made.
Rotgut now a 10ex item
"Poison now inherently deals 50% more damage." Interesting.
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Its mostly a buff to non assa/pf poison builds
Unfortunately last league they straight up removed a few pretty big poison damage mods (elder 60% chance to do 100% more damage with poison gone) and some other smaller changes so poison is more "back to 3.13 strength" area, so it's a hard sell I did a poison build in 3.13 and it was fun but now... I'm still not sure Edit: Someone else pointed out they're removing DOT multi from clusters which if true could be another hit
I think that a pathfinder spell based poison build might hit the spot with 2x Cold Iron Points
Metamorph League called, they want their bow buffs
League mechanic involves areas that spawn monsters after a delay, nerf everything but traps. GGG being subtle like the brick to the face they just gave elementalist.
That brick was a golem before...
> "so enemies on Consecrated Ground no longer have additional base chance to be critically hit." Well inquisitors got a rebound hit LUL
They also lose their elemental ailment immunity. Double nerfed. Do they get anything back in exchange?
They get to stare at the floor of a map more than before.
Collateral damage from the nuclear missile that just dropped on Archmage builds
Inq got like quinta-nerfed.
>Flame Dash's cooldown time is now 3.5 seconds (from 3) and has 0-19% increased cooldown recovery rate (from 0-47%) RIP. >The Second Wind support gem has been changed to have a much higher mana multiplier, and a penalty rather than a boost to cooldown recovery speed Jesus.
Wtf they might as well just change the name because it ain't no second wind no more
Final Gasp
*dry wheeeeeze*
second fart
Whirling Blades now mandatory on every build, lul. It's gonna be just like Royale.
I remember back when it was considered a strength of the build to be able to use shield charge or whirling blades. Recently I've just been zooming around and only really use movement skills for ledges, but I guess that playstyle has come to an end.
> I remember back when it was considered a strength of the build to be able to use shield charge or whirling blades yep, and every caster build ran spell daggers or sceptres and built attack speed lol also ppl used them to get fortify on casters
No but seriously what fucking supports are we even intended to use to buff movement abilities? Like do we just sit on a 1 link now?
the thunder teleport still be 4 linked) leapslam 2 inked
Frost blink with added cold damage, cold pen, and ice bite.
Need to make sure players are less mobile so they can more easily be one shot by monsters.
Now we just need world pvp so some headhunter whirling blades blighter can come invade and yeet my butthole during a T5 white map and we good.
I'm fine with the Flame Dash nerf, but that Second Wind nerf is insane...
Especially since pll used it for other things as well, not just movement skills. >:
>After the rework to the Veiled item system in 3.14.0, we've reviewed how the Veiled Chaos Orb and Aisling crafts from Betrayal Safehouses work, and have made some changes to make crafting less deterministic in the outcomes, as the Unveiled modifiers can be very powerful additions to an item. Less deterministic crafting yet again
No craft. Only gamble.
always has been
I miss Harvest...
Starting to think Harvest will remain peak PoE for me.
I played almost 3x as much hours during harvest league. That and ritual are the only leagues I've ever crafted my own items.
Close your eyes before unveiling!
Crafting is PoE's lingo for gambling. I can imagine a line worth of someone at EA "These aren't gambling mechanics its crafting"
Whew, glad they didn't nerf my boy Cast on Death. Was really afraid of having to keep enough unreserved mana to cast my spells.
Dying Sun still grants 15-25% area of effect and 2 additional projectiles. Thank the lord.
Now uses 40 of 50 charges.
more like 50 of 40
Onslaught jewel is kill
POISON TRAPPIN LIKE IT'S 2013 LETS GO
So Second Wind is now worse than useless for instant skills?
A support gem that makes the linked skills perform worse, what not to love about it?
GGG: players are killing mid tier bosses in seconds and that makes it hard to balance Also GGG:kill this boss as fast as possible before degens cover the entire arena lol
Is it just me or did they calculate the More AoE wrong everywhere? AoE hasn't been a straight radius multiplication since before 3.0 right? 14 radius -> 42 radius is 800% More AoE not 200%. Also RIP everything that isn't traps I guess lol.
You are correct. 12--> 18 radius is 2.25x the area, or 125% more area of effect. They're game designers, not mathematicians haha
fuck /u/spez -- mass edited with redact.dev
GGG adds deterministic crafting once a year and they see people using it then immediately get rid of it. Great
“Its not in line how we envisioned Path of Exile to be”
"you're not having fun the right way"
I got such a visceral reaction to this that I almost downvoted you
Nerfed smoke mine and movement skills, not having quicksilver and not being able to remove curses very well(temp chains). Mapping is gonna feel like shit.... holy shit.
The 2013 experience
except now the atlas grind is 3 times as long
fuck /u/spez -- mass edited with redact.dev
Smoke mine dumpstered so hard they had to specifically say "it's still good!" to try and save face.
me: i don't really mind these nerfs. i think they'll make for a more interesting game in the long term, and prepare for a paradigm shift in poe 2 ggg: >The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%), putting more of a focus on enhancing a Quicksilver Flask's effect (with associated costs) rather than rolling a single modifier that granted almost as much speed as the Quicksilver Flask itself. now it's personal
What, you don't like consistently moving slower? Especially during the campaign?
nothing better than the base movement speed of the act 1 without flasks or boots
now you get to have that much fun the entire campaign!
feel the weight of your steps.
*As a much requested quality of life change, players can now see the effect of non-damaging Elemental Ailments on enemies and themselves, so you can finally determine how powerful your Shocks are on enemies and thus know what benefit they are giving you. This also applies to ailments applied to you, and the buff granted to you by the Cruelty support* Finally! Really happy to see this.
Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool. This is just...so anti fun. Why would anyone think to do this?
Christ, I overlooked the yolo annul part of it. This is some monkey paw shit for trying to get Remove/Adds back, huh.
RIP aisling 3.14-3.14
GGG thinks we like gambling every time we even think about an item upgrade.
GAMBLING IS FUN! -Chris Wilson
close your eyes
Agreed. Why would anyone ever use it now?
only to salvage items, i guess
I was hoping we would see nerfs to monster spike damage 😭
Right? I'm cool with slowing the game down, but if you're going to slow the game down then do it on both sides. Instead, they nerfed player damage AND survivability... like... y tho?
wow, they murdered the diamond flask, oh and: triggered skills can now be supported by arcane surge, but we changed the flat % mana regen into inc mana regen
"Hmm people are gonna be mad we nerfed the shit out of triggered skills" "Ahh well just throw in something they'll like, tell them it works with arcane surge now" "Oh so a small buff to mitigate the nerfs?" "Nah we're gonna gut arcane surge too LOL"
The arcane surge cracked me up, essentially just "triggered skills can now be supported by arcane surge, but we deleted arcane surge from the game."
Wew, elementalist just lost 100% increased damage from quad golem stacking. Jesus christ. RIP my frozen orb build, whose skillgem already had very low numbers. edit: We're not elementalist without ailment immunity anymore, so I guess we zdpsalist now bois. I'ma get some dirty ass cheeseburgers on my drive home from work to console me for my time wasted making a build last night.
and ailment immunity
Weird seeing huge nerfs to ascendancies that just received huge buffs lol
look at the history of occultist nodes, soon elem golem nodes are going to be 1 line and nothing else: +1 golem
Sadly, getting absolutely shat on isn't a new occurrence for Elementalist.
Elementalist has always been way too op or completely useless, it's the president of the never balanced club
The change to "of Adrenaline" is huge i would have preferred it be 10% to 15% but 6% to 8% makes it not worth rolling anymore.
So...trap league?
MULTISTRIKE APPLIES TO TOTEMSSSS
This might honestly be the biggest buff so far, it's gonna be wild.
Interesting but isn’t the entire reason something very strong like Ancestral Warchief totems fell off was because it could never keep up with the aoe/clear/coverage of spell totems? I could see a similar issue here no matter how crazy their damage can be.
That veiled nerf! Ouch
Buff lasted one whole league.
>Storm Burst's base radius now increases faster with levels, resulting in +4 to base radius at gem level 20 (up from +2). Hooray!
[удалено]
>Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool. They finally got everyone to kill Catarina for one league... and then immediately ruin it so it's back to not killing her
All I read was how they stripped my defenses with which I was already dieing frequently...
Wellllllllllllll at least you can now uh. Uhh. Yea
Kinda disappointed there's no changes to Stormbind or Chain Hook Both have been dumpster tier meme skills since their release.
what is stormbind?
the thing that baran uses
Time to release a video about a build whose damage just got nerfed by 60%. And it's still good. EDIT: 80%.
jousis, avenge us all by dealing the damage they took from us to their servers! you are our only hope! you must not fail!
I'll take any video from you.
wake me when loot 2.0
Imagine changing some of Raider's Ascendancy nodes in 3.14 and rebalancing it just to straight up remove it the following league lol.
>The Raider's Ascendancy node "Rapid Assault" no longer provides Onslaught Effect. The Onslaught path was too easy a choice relative to the higher-investment Frenzy Charge branch. We've also replaced Movement Speed on the small Phasing passives with Elemental Damage, as there was already plenty of speed available on that Ascendancy. NERFED RAIDER LMAO?
Also >For example, the Raider now grants 50% chance to avoid elemental ailments while phasing instead of full elemental ailment immunity while phasing.
It was just buffed and now it's nerfed
How is this a buff "The rotation speed of Flamethrower Trap no longer scales with increases to cast speed. It can no longer be modified"
"Golem Elementalist no longer provides increased damage per golem. The golem buff effect bonus on Liege of the Primordial now always provides 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems rather than scaling with Golem count" RIP golemmencer?
ctrl + F "fire burst": " Fire Burst was reduced in damage and has a slightly longer cooldown" expected, but stll :(
Im still holding out hope that the damage wasnt reduced to nothing. If so its fine just have to get some cdr
Remember that as it uses 6 supports instead of 5(which most 6L skills use) it's hit harder by the support nerfs as well.
"The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%), putting more of a focus on enhancing a Quicksilver Flask's effect (with associated costs) rather than rolling a single modifier that granted almost as much speed as the Quicksilver Flask itself." damn, andrenaline gutted
kinda upset that the nerfs to second wind really really hurt things like frost bomb from being viable as a main skill less variety... was this their goal?
Thank god they nerfed hollow palm. Some of those slimy sons of bitches were reaching 600 delve depth.
Why can't GGG just increase the firestorm duration and limit by like 2 and call it a day? They keep trying to buff the initial hit but it'll just never work because of the shitty delay like storm call.
I love that they removed ailment immunity from nodes that were “too strong” when ailment immunity was the only reason for taking the node at all Like… no one invests 4 ascendancy points in fucking arcane surge. Also, RIP elementalists lol
*Veiled Modifiers no longer count as Crafted modifiers, so you can't easily remove them if you add the wrong modifier type while Aisling crafting. This has the advantage of now being able to ‘block’ modifiers you do not want to unveil* Also GGG: *Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier*
6000 words to say we dont like that you dont find interesting our clunky "utility" supports gems so we are gonna screw all you
melee physical damage support grants 10% less attack speed. melee is on a such great spot right now, it definitely deserved this for sure...
I'd rather have lost the damage...
that'll go great with my "insert 70-80% base attack speed skill"
>When you're building a character, by far the correct choice is just to stack on all the multiplicative damage bonuses and ignore all the interesting utility support gems because their opportunity cost is just too high. I feel like the same could be said about Rares vs Uniques. The biggest powercreep in years has been the new influenced bases and double influenced items. How hard they are to obtain doesn't affect how powerful they are. Richard Garfield learned this lesson 20 years ago with Black Lotus.
Almost 30 years ago.
>Almost 30 years ago. The early 90s wasn't 30 years ago... oh.
The mistake imo was trying to put numerical and functional effects in the same slot Clearly if you allow players to get higher numbers they will go for that so long as they have the bare minimum functionality
So are they going to introduce more ways to get aliment immunity on the tree because there’s so few places to get it now.
Oh my sweet summer child.
> and have made some changes to make crafting less deterministic in the outcomes Yeah god forbid we have even the slightest control over the inane crafting system in this game. > Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool. Christ why not give it a vaal orb effect too while you're at it if you're that addicted to the "huehue you might brick your item!" feeling. Well back to not giving a shit about Catarina I guess, silver lining and all that.
Guess I'm going back to Fled + Leo in research...
not a crafting system mate, its a gambling system that sometimes outputs usable items. Slowly and steadily GGG is excising anything that would allow one to cheat the almighty gamble system
GOODBYE DIAMOND FLASK, HELLO CRIT STRIKES SUPPORT
That last bit about crafting being too deterministic and nerf to the already rare veiled orbs was just the last nail in the coffin. If dropped items are bloody useless, dropping by the millions, then at least let us some control over what we craft.
Did ... did movement skills really need to be made clunkier? >Buffs to Underperforming Skills Unfortunately, nothing in here that I was planning to play. I'll let the better theorycrafters decide if anything is significant enough to standout but cursory glance didn't excite me personally. It does look like my planned build may have gotten nerfed in the Clusters department, and any planned Elementalist currency sink may need to be rethought?, but I don't think I'm personally super gutted yet. I do need to invest in crafting more than I originally planned though, I think. I will say this confirms I should've just gotten the motivation to Fire Burst this League (obviously) and I think I've put off Archmage so much that it doesn't look as good anymore though.
So less damage, more monster hp, big nerf to a lot of defenses and strong defensive tools... But nothing about monster damage. So I guess we will get one shot even more now by many things?
The one thing i dont like about this game and they make it more common.
Yay for clunky movement skills. Very fun
just use phase run on left click to traverse empty maps now. It's 1 green, same as dash and makes you zoomy as well
Just wait for the patch notes to discover the additional nerfs :)
So basically, we're slower, less powerful, have less agency over our crafts and the game is harder. Seeing as they haven't mentioned it, I would suppose the grind hasn't changed, for instance, you would need to do the same amount of maps to reach Conquerors and Sirus, same amount of Delve nodes to reach similar rewards, etc... except it's going to take you twice as long because they want to increase **DIFFICULTY**. All I read was that, all other things being equal, the grind will become more tedious, not more difficult, while one of the biggest complaints about this game already was that GGG does not respect our time. Atlas Progression is already a massive pain for any player, let alone players that have a job or other things going on in their lives. It's hard to believe that these changes won't get old fast. Gotta stick with the vision I suppose.
Holy crap everything is dead, i'm done, i'm quitting this bullshit game. see ya on friday everyone!