Facebreaker Nerf

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Sneakypaw wrote:

7 pages about a nerf people don't know when (or if) it will happen and how severe it will be.

Time well spend.

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piperazinedream wrote:

If they nerf facebreakers they should be prepared to at least allow donator weapon enchants to be applied to the gloves.

Or perhaps instead of unarmed damage a new weapon type is introduced "brass knuckles" (only works with FB) [1 hand only canot dual wield] they spawn with no physical damage or physical damage modifiers, only elemental dmg, some % crit, attack speed, light radius etc, and/or perhaps maybe couple other mods. This item would make it so FB builds can at least crit and it can make it so FB users can use their supporter (or regular) weapon enchants.

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Sneakypaw wrote:

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piperazinedream wrote:

If they nerf facebreakers they should be prepared to at least allow donator weapon enchants to be applied to the gloves.

Or perhaps instead of unarmed damage a new weapon type is introduced "brass knuckles" (only works with FB) [1 hand only canot dual wield] they spawn with no physical damage or physical damage modifiers, only elemental dmg, some % crit, attack speed, light radius etc, and/or perhaps maybe couple other mods. This item would make it so FB builds can at least crit and it can make it so FB users can use their supporter (or regular) weapon enchants.

WHY U STEALING MY IDEAS AND REPOST THEM D:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/12056/page/662

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/467593

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Nastakanoth wrote:

Facebreaker is not an overpowered item at all, because it does come with alot of drawbacks. In able to use Facebreaker efficiently, you need alot of other unique items and good items, you need to sacrifice skill slots and alot of other things to be able to use them. So, you will need alot of resistance nodes, great gear with resistances etc, the added physical from belt and jewellery makes upgrades very hard and it does take up a mod that could be defensive instead.

Facebreaker is a cheap alternative for any melee character that doesn't have a very good weapon if using 1 hand. However, there are in fact several items that will be able to beat it - or any Facebreaker build actually. So a nerf to Facebreaker builds, Life builds, Melee builds - is that really what we want to do? What would that achieve exactly? Soul taker or other high end weapon builds are so much better, using Aegis Aurora for example one can be truly immortal.

At the same time you refuse to nerf Kaoms, Lioneyes, Shavronnes which enables some overpowered builds - but now suddenly Facebreaker is more important to nerf - so we're going to do a direct nerf on the item? Employing some new tech guys, bringing down all the servers? Kaoms is so good, that you had to create a league to remove it, and I make one tanky melee build to make for this new League, which is Life based... And of course you want to nerf it.

In my opinion the only acceptable nerf to Facebreaker would be increasing the level requirement or scale down the damage at lower levels. But then you should also bring down the servers and rebalance ALL other "OP" items.