Malachai's Simula Blood Magic trick being removed. Why I'm disappointed.

Knew it was coming but yeah, there goes all of my characters.

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ventiman wrote:

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qwertazx wrote:

yes everything u said is true but the thing is like u said ci is becoming superior to life, for 2-3 weeks ppl will start threads,spamming how ci is much better than life (which will be true)and they will nerf ci in the next patches too.Cant u ppl see ggg is doing this all the time(first is nerfing life than "balancing" ci and reverse)At the end our endgame builds in top gear will have 3k life or 4k es with some armor and 50% less dps,(cause of point investment in es/life nodes)hybrid builds gonna die and all that is going to open possibilities to create much more dynamic builds, right ggg?

seriously this is really annoying to read the same bullshit every day

ci is superior to life yes when the total cost exceeds a sick amount of exalts

but the gear you need is insane i was really pissed the last ci nerf the target audience were only average ci player....
do you think the guy with his 50 chaos gear and 2.5k es thought he was op ? noooooooooooooo

those 800-1k es chest and 400 es circlets ...do you think the average player has such gear...
nooooooooooo

yes i know i have ci chars ...have you ever tried to play ci in catacombs without a non freeze unique in any hc league ? its fucking scary you can be frozen for 10sec+ and those 2 dispell frozen flasks wont do shit

all the ci crying undermines the really hard fact that you will get hit by statuseffects shock/stun/freeze ect 90% of the time with full duration ohh wait you can buy a 4ex ring to solve a fraction of the problem that will help the little guys

i said last nerf that it was a bad decision to do it with reducing overall values instead of targeting es mods

wake up guys the gear owned by some streamer with no life playing 24/7 represents not even 1% of the poe population

by "fixing this bug" they are lowering overall dps for almost all life users and what do u think ppl are going to be happy with this?hell no , threads with es vs life whats better.I didnt want to say that ci is stronger ,my point is that ggg is doing this all the time first they are nerfing life later es. And rly u cant survive as ci? only streamers have that good gear ? just make low life spork ,stack rarity get some currency ,respec to ci get 20/20 fp gem(1ex) 500 es chest (3 gcp) and thats it , ive had 4.5k es 5k fp dps and i was able to do lvl 69/70 maps. And no i wasnt playing all day , my school is far away from my home soo i would say i had like 2-3.5 hours to play, got all the currency and lvl 75 for 4-5 days

I've got to hand it to the OP for making very valid, solid points without coming off whiny at all. Hopefully this thread gets some notice.


-VG-

Smart life users wont reserve much life for auras, anyway. This bug was exploited mostly by low-life RF-casters, who can afford to reserve almost whole HP pool.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

Smart life users wont reserve much life for auras, anyway. This bug was exploited mostly by low-life RF-casters, who can afford to reserve almost whole HP pool.

If you had flat auras you put them on life. Grace is the best example, everyone used grace on life because it was so damn cheap and effective.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

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Xendran wrote:

Implying that GGG cares about life vs es balance

Actually, this is the problem right here. ES and hp shouldn't be balanced against each other. They're polar opposites. CI has 1 hp, while life builds stack hp. They can never be balanced against each other.

They should have their own qualities. Like they used to. ZO should prevent leech. GR should prevent regen, not recovery, and infused should prevent leech. Further, GR should be melee dmg only. CI characters should rely on recovery. That's the whole fucking point of CI in the first place. To be immune to chaos, but you forgo some of hp or hp/hybrids benefits.

CI should ALWAYS have a higher raw eHP than life though. Each one should be made to work within the game, and NOT be compared to the other. They should have different mechanics making them not directly comparable. Again, as it used to be.

This will never happen and cannot happen as long as reflect is in the game and a major threat. Else you might as well put a direct link from CI to ancestral bond, because without leech no caster would ever be able to do anything against reflect.

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Gravethought wrote:

This will never happen and cannot happen as long as reflect is in the game and a major threat. Else you might as well put a direct link from CI to ancestral bond, because without leech no caster would ever be able to do anything against reflect.

You do know GR wasn't around long, and people played CI just fine before too? Not to mention Leech gem was much crappier and took longer to get... less crappy.

If you really can't handle it you can always use traps to eliminate the source of reflect, or spells that hit precisely. Coincidentally, each element has such, fire has fireball and fire trap, cold has ice spear and lightning has concentrated shock nova.

And yes, I know it isn't really compatible with 'slam and spam' gameplay this game turned into a shining example of. Pick an active skill or two, three tops, stack auras as much as you possibly can and grind away. I could probably train a golden retriever to do it but I guess even a dog would get bored fairly soon, cat would probably abandon the whole endeavor after approx 30 seconds and go back to chasing a piece of string.

Auras should be luxuries, not requirements unless you have a very specific build. Even after the patch, people will still mindlessly stack auras because there's no reason not to.

Well as we all know you need to stack defensive stats in this game much more than anything. Jokes haven been made before like "path of life nodes" etc. for a reason.
Fact is you need certain auras, especially in close combat/melee. You need determination to boost your armor, you need purity to have max res even after being cursed with lower res, and you wanna have grace. This means that you MUST carry all these gems plus red mana gem (and in case of life + blood magic gem) with you all the time. But still you would reserve for 5x% life if you'd cast a 40% aura which is not worth it at all if you are not low-life based.

It might be intentional by the devs, but I am a little bit disappointed with the amount of information we are given on major changes. I mean this is a huge change for many builds and all we are getting is some lines of patch notes without any additional explanation or reasoning behind.

I am totally aware that this bug was never intended, but then again it was in the game exploited for a long time. Therefore changes like that with big impacts on many character builds have to be explained. The intention behind the change and the direction the design is headed to in order to compensate for nerfs like that. I don't expect much wording and surely not for every single change. Also if there is no compensation planned at all, e.g. "Too many auras are simply OP" that would be a viable explanation.

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BerMalBerIst1 wrote:

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Fire_Kid wrote:

Auras should be luxuries, not requirements unless you have a very specific build. Even after the patch, people will still mindlessly stack auras because there's no reason not to.

If you could have auras IRL, wouldn't you stack them too?

Oh BMBI! How you amuse me!