poet's pen is ridiculous

I love how an item that to dual wield runs into 1.5ex range is magically something that is super breaking the leveling.

Point being people who have it have farmed at least 1 char up a bit.
It's not much different then saying a +1 tabula with empower lvl 3, and seven league boots are broken as hell for leveling.

Granted I know seven league boots are league specific, but still point remains there are / have been insane leveling items in this game for long time, but it's super rare for them to have any meaningful impact overall.

As far as it's end game potential it does carry a good way, but it's not really any stronger than a few hundred other builds that cost far less to build.

AFK build lays more damage down, by far and costs fractions of the costs.

dont worry.

a 1 sec internal cooldown fix is comming to poet's pen near you in the next big league patch

VD is whats strong not the wands. In PoB @ 8 IAS I do 1.2 million on VD and only 500K on DD and body swap with 8300 life. All fire 4x a second due to 8 IAS. So one spell is more powerful than two others combined and thats only with 3 balls! Oh and balls have homing devives and shot gun instead of face tanking needed to deliver Bodyswaps DPS and aiming for DD. I expect big nerfs to VD. It's same shit every league. One or three skills way OP to entice us then gets nerfed to the ground. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Idunno why we are talking about poet's pen like it's the thing that makes VD good.

You can just self-cast VD and do more damage in PVP since you one shot them with a volley flying at your face anyway, people use poet's pen for the convenience of also body-swapping automatically with poet's pen while using VD.

All other variants of poet's pen are pretty balanced otherwise.

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theworldisnoteforevery1 wrote:

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Eh, for now I'll watch for changes to poet's pen and VD. Until then, I'm done with PoE.

:D

Guys, can you imagine if that guy is going to try another combos and builds which makes leveling much faster, fun and smoother/better or PvP builds overall?

I think his head is going to blow.

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Rexeos wrote:

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theworldisnoteforevery1 wrote:

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Eh, for now I'll watch for changes to poet's pen and VD. Until then, I'm done with PoE.

:D

Guys, can you imagine if that guy is going to try another combos and builds which makes leveling much faster, fun and smoother/better or PvP builds overall?

I think his head is going to blow.

Leveling is much faster, more fun, and smoother/better with poet's pen? Wow I didnt know that one new unique item could change the leveling experience so much for the better? I don't understand how the pen can make leveling so much more fun. That is mostly because spammy builds truly do nothing for me. My brother on the other hand complains to me when I try to have him set up things with more than 2 active skills. Everyone plays this game for a different reason and my overall point is that Poet's pen and VD has killed the enjoyment in yes, the small and nearly dead lld community. Nails in the coffin they are at a funeral that I don't expect anyone to attend.

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theworldisnoteforevery1 wrote:

I don't understand how the pen can make leveling so much more fun.

Its power scales with character's level. Hence progression is truly smooth and satisfying. Its endgame potential aside.

Good item, begging for the nerf hammer to cool it down.

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keeperofstars wrote:

I love how an item that to dual wield runs into 1.5ex range is magically something that is super breaking the leveling.

Point being people who have it have farmed at least 1 char up a bit.
It's not much different then saying a +1 tabula with empower lvl 3, and seven league boots are broken as hell for leveling.

Granted I know seven league boots are league specific, but still point remains there are / have been insane leveling items in this game for long time, but it's super rare for them to have any meaningful impact overall.

As far as it's end game potential it does carry a good way, but it's not really any stronger than a few hundred other builds that cost far less to build.

AFK build lays more damage down, by far and costs fractions of the costs.

Literally this.

For what it's worth i haven't had as much fun since CoC days.

And i know i'm not the most efficient, there are builds that can clear 2-3 times faster because they can use movement skills.

My pvp opinion about VD in pve and pvp>
The skill is similar in nature to SRS. SRS was broken before and still his mainly because it auto-target people from afar without the need from the player to have any shooting skills or timing skills. With beacon of corruption, SRS have about the same destructive power than VD against life base players.

The main difference is VD do not need cast speed to be triggered by dozens and explode on hit unlike SRS who need to attack their targets in order to deal damage unless beacon of corruption.

So Volatile dead is actually a lazier skill than SRS, needing 0 skill to play with, needing 0 investment into anything else than damage nods.

Giving players auto-target skills in pvp is a joke, it is like OXana/pvp president/Rlow said a mirror into poe 2018 pve shitfest.

Skills promoting laziness, auto-target and no investment whatsoever in a pve world promoting laziness, auto-target and no investment whatsoever to clear content.

The state of pvp (projectile offscreen, too much damage, players with 1k life and 50 millions dps camping and targeting names on screen with 1 shot clear arena is a mirror to the state of pve.

If GGG had balanced pvp overtime it would also had balanced pve greatly.

All the past broken items and mechanics in pve have been first abused in pvp: frost wall+la/kb+la/zerphi/es regen/block and dodge/auto-bomber/explosive arrow/kb +penetration... all those have been at least 1-2 years abused in pvp before a streamer/players used it in pve.

If GGG had put their nose into pvp for once in the last 3 years they could have balanced most of broken shit that are now plaguing pve.

About VD and pve, it is the same, auto-targeting skills should have way less dps since it give players such convenient tool but GGG in their bad vision decided to give full power to such skill without care how it would impact the game balance.

So yea they might nerf it hard (maybe) but will again and again do this same mistake: giving too much power to skills with high convenience.

How to balance the skill for pve....
-lower max distance at which they auto-target monsters
-Lower the x-y damage of the skill


...and pvp
- make the balls forget targets completely when players are phasing (meaning once a player phased the casted VD will never target the player again until new ones are casted)
- give to phase run a longer duration