Finished my first league pass, my thoughts

Whether you call it average power level or average player, it's pretty much the same. With "average powerlevel" you won't be steamrolling pinnacles or ubers. You need to go way beyond that before this content becomes easy/possible. Average powerlevel is likely <2 mio dps with lackluster defenses even in todays POE. Sure that's still more than what was possible back when Shaper was first released but Shapers health is 5 times what it used to be and his damage is twice as high. If that kind of playerpower is used as a benchmark then there is no issue with lacking difficulty.
That's not the group of players that trivializes everything and that needs to be nerfed for the game to remain difficult. Those players, that gear level, is already plenty low already making content hard or even impossible.
It's those average players coming here complaining they can't even kill a random rare in yellow maps. Is there really any reason to nerf those players even further and every single league no less? When they can't even afford any of the crazy new powercreep stuff that got introduced?
Say what you will but imo GGG is constantly hitting the wrong things/guys with those nerfs making the game more and more imbalanced and extreme.
We are already at a point where the whole concept of risk vs reward is completely out of the window because the rewards are so bad that attempting the content only makes any sense if you can completely negate the risks. If that isn't a big flashy indicator with warning sirens telling you that your game is a mess then i don't know what is.

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Baharoth15 wrote:

Average powerlevel is likely <2 mio dps with lackluster defenses even in todays POE. Sure that's still more than what was possible back when Shaper was first released but Shapers health is 5 times what it used to be and his damage is twice as high.

Yeah and we both know that 2M dps is plenty to kill almost everything but ubers as long as you do have proper defenses, sustain and know the fight.
Both of us could fix any of those builds in 5 mins or less and make them viable for pinnacle boss fights.

Its usually builds with 4-5k life, capped ele res but no chaos res, some 5k armor and no life regen or leech.
The rest really comes down to knowledge and experience. Ive killed Sirus8 multiple times with less than 500k dps and Im sure sure you did too. Takes forever but its doable as long as you know the fight well enough.


The players you are talking about were never really able to beat those bosses to begin with. Their gear carried them hard, if you take that crutch away they tend to fall flat on their faces and complain about it.

The solution isnt to give them gear but to teach them how to fix their builds and give them a fighting chance.

As the old saying goes:
Give a hungry man a fish and you´ll feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish and he´ll never go hungry again.

Now this is something PoE is really bad at and deserves all the criticism:
Its notoriously terrible at explaining anything and consequently allowing players to grow.
The nerfs arent that relevant in this regard as far as Im concerned.