GGG, did you EVER think about what ES chars can do now?

To make it short: They cannot do shit. CI/lowlife means you lose a slot to not get stunned, another to not get frozen, and after that your defense is still utter shit because you cannot leech enough anymore and the regen is too slow. Oh right, and you have no flasks.

WHY??? WHY??? Does nobody of your balance team test at all? All your changes since 1.2 fucked up the ES builds. And you didn't even bother looking at them for 2.0. Highly disappointed with what you call balancing (not even to discussing how shit many skills are now).

I totally agree with you there! GGG seem to be incapable to release any Update without nerfing stuff and wrecking players' builds. Before you had the Master of Arena update I had a fine working Dual-Strike Crit build which was pretty much destroyed by your ridiculous crit nerf with all the gems and the skilltree. Then I build myself a Tornado Shot/GMP/Evasion Ranger which I managed to get to lvl 90 and with which I was finally able to kill piety on a lvl 75 Temple map without dying if I wasn't too reckless though I still couldn't manage Atziri (due to the ridiculously low drop rate of good equipment and everything). And now after the Awakening Update that build got pretty much destroyed as well. How the hell did you get the *BRILLIANT* idea of nerfing Oondars Guile in the skill tree, thus making the new node there damn worthless for a high evasion ranger, and also nerfing every life/mana leach node even on items, which now makes my attacking of single targets near impossible cause I am running out of mana all the time??!! And to even IMPROVE the whole experience you decided to take out the shotgun effect of projectile attacks, which is a smack in the face too, cause my build fires 5 tornado shots, leading to 25 projectiles each of which pierces nearly 100% (which by the way they did before the update, now reduced to 98%, thx again)!!!
And all of that not being enough your absolutely RIDICULOUS Reduced Mana rework, which now doesn't effect auras at all, thus leading to me being unable to run all the buffs i did run before, another GREAT IMPROVEMENT!!! I can imagine that this change might have wrecked quite a number of end game builds, despite the fact that some auras got reduced in their mana consumption a little.
And even my Dual Strike Crit build got even less playable, due to the whole life leech reduction and your screwed up rework of the Blood Rage gem. How on Earth did you get the idea of changing the chaos dmg taken to physical dmg taken. The whole idea of creating a dual-strike crit build with chaos inocculation and ghost reaver was so you can use blood rage to profit from the life leech. Now that got torpedoed as well.

SO THANKS FOR NOTHING GGG!!!

The answer is no they didnt. The leech changes are dumb. You cannot physically leech enough ES to sustain your shield pool.

This. I tested my ES character in standard, found out he was complete shit, esc + quit game.
NOT going back again until you fix this, GGG. You said balance will be better, build diversity will be better. Guess what? You killed both.

Question: Did you take the defensive passives, or the offensive ones?

If you spec yourself offensively, you can expect your defense to be sub-par. Spec for defense and your offense takes a hit. Most players don't seem to realize that you shouldn't have it both ways.

CI is broken. CI melee is even more broken.

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DTODD wrote:

The answer is no they didnt. The leech changes are dumb. You cannot physically leech enough ES to sustain your shield pool.

You can't leech enough anything to sustain anything in single target fight. Whcih are the only fights that really matter.

Hey guys, I'm trying to create a unified thread on the leech changes here: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1308918

The leech changes wrecked ES. You cant sustain now at all. ES regen was always a joke and no potions make it impossible to play ES builds now. GG thx for destroying my 500+ exalt build.

Damn, the way I am looking at pure ES build is the same way I am look at beggers now.

Love,
Bunny