A Very Unpleasent Experience

So today I logged in because of the expansion, after about 4-5 months of inactivity I think.

I logged on to my Cold Witch, that uses frozen pulse- and my eyes totally darkened. I have been nerfed SO hard with the nerf bat on EVERY SINGLE ASPECT possible on my witch, it's stupidly absurd!

Just a few key elements that you mercilessly nerfed on my CI FP cold witch:

Life leech with Ghost Reaver is TOTALLY useless now. I had 1% on my wand and 1% on the Doryani belt, now its 2% -> 0.4%. Totally useless. Going to have to unskill it.

Auras - Reduced Mana is totally useless for my auras now, and I can't keep up the same amount of auras now. Thanks!

Arctic Armor - again - from good to total trash. Using Reserved Mana instead of Mana Regen which also makes it a huge pain in the ass. Also, the 12% damage reduction when standing is trash compared what I had before.

And many more!

So yeah I'm a little pissed. You completely WRECKED my lvl 93 cold witch I worked hard for.

That's so annoying. Thanks for being thoughtless!

No thank you OP!

Thank you for being so thoughtful for the rest of us. Thanks for letting GGG know, that making the game more balanced and increase the amount of viable build choices is utterly horrific for all of us. How hard can it be to understand; that all we want is to let the game stay exactly the same for the rest of time so that we don’t have to worry about our single charter being nerfed in between our sporadic ventures with the game, once every few months. Forcing us to come up with new strategies and maybe even... *shudders* have to REROLL!

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Pwnther wrote:

No thank you OP!

Thank you for being so thoughtful for the rest of us. Thanks for letting GGG know, that making the game more balanced and increase the amount of viable build choices is utterly horrific for all of us. How hard can it be to understand; that all we want is to let the game stay exactly the same for the rest of time so that we don’t have to worry about our single charter being nerfed in between our sporadic ventures with the game, once every few months. Forcing us to come up with new strategies and maybe even... *shudders* have to REROLL!

Sorry but I will have to disagree at least about the ailment changes. If anything the latest changes certainly didn't increase our options, I believe they decreased them.

Yeah, nice post OP....

Again you could have read the release notes more clearly, that would have helped a bit.

But yeah, reduce mana no longer works for aura's. Now you have to use the enlighten gem.
And yes, life and mana leech was change and again it clearly says so in the release notes.

But with the free full respec you got, it should be able to reroll your witch into a good char again because I belive the Freeze Pulse skill was buffed.

Op:

Adapt or quit.

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HanSoloDK wrote:

Yeah, nice post OP....

Again you could have read the release notes more clearly, that would have helped a bit.

But yeah, reduce mana no longer works for aura's. Now you have to use the enlighten gem.
And yes, life and mana leech was change and again it clearly says so in the release notes.

But with the free full respec you got, it should be able to reroll your witch into a good char again because I belive the Freeze Pulse skill was buffed.

yeah enlighten good call, used to run 2 60"s and a 40%, now evan with lower % can only run 1 60% and 2 40%'s with lvl 2 enlighten. wow thats a good move. nerf

enlighten can never replace lvl 20 red mana gem. nerf

developer notes going to increase man preserv on tree not done

enlight will be used because 1 reason not everyone has access to red man gem...seriously a reason

yes change is part of the game, and we deal with it but if you frustrate so many people they wont return and while others dont care GGG should, because after all they ARE a business and need funding. Why else would they push 2.0 with so many problems known in beta and be allowed to go live...oh yeah to make a ton of MTX. like I said a business. Try to keep alot of your customers happy, you can't please everyone, but try not to piss off alot of returning players who have $$$ to possibly spend. Thats what a business should do. Lets face it anyne who started a new character over to see how hard it is, normal difficulty is on crack. used to be 3-5 mobs in a pack, now its like 6-8 alot of times. and dmg increased. what fun is it to alot of new players to die alot that don't know POE well enough. Isnt normal supposed to be used to learn the game not learn how to appear in town. Cmon GGG how can that be fun.

I just wonder how is it possible that you got your character to lvl 93, since its obvious that you cant read (and understand what u read at the same time)...

I would agree that the "reduce mana" change is a stupid idea. GGG totally lost it there.
However it's done and we will have to live with it or leave.

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Pwnther wrote:

No thank you OP!

Thank you for being so thoughtful for the rest of us. Thanks for letting GGG know, that making the game more balanced and increase the amount of viable build choices is utterly horrific for all of us. How hard can it be to understand; that all we want is to let the game stay exactly the same for the rest of time so that we don’t have to worry about our single charter being nerfed in between our sporadic ventures with the game, once every few months. Forcing us to come up with new strategies and maybe even... *shudders* have to REROLL!

increase amount of viable build?

lel

all build with LC, armor tanking, AA
all melee with fortify, taste of hate

only around 10 build viable now instead of the many build we had before (RIP MY RF, ho yeah you're right RF was so op, lel)

nice.

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Blizzard wrote:

So today I logged in because of the expansion, after about 4-5 months of inactivity I think.

I logged on to my Cold Witch, that uses frozen pulse- and my eyes totally darkened. I have been nerfed SO hard with the nerf bat on EVERY SINGLE ASPECT possible on my witch, it's stupidly absurd!

Just a few key elements that you mercilessly nerfed on my CI FP cold witch:

Life leech with Ghost Reaver is TOTALLY useless now. I had 1% on my wand and 1% on the Doryani belt, now its 2% -> 0.4%. Totally useless. Going to have to unskill it.

Auras - Reduced Mana is totally useless for my auras now, and I can't keep up the same amount of auras now. Thanks!

Arctic Armor - again - from good to total trash. Using Reserved Mana instead of Mana Regen which also makes it a huge pain in the ass. Also, the 12% damage reduction when standing is trash compared what I had before.

And many more!

So yeah I'm a little pissed. You completely WRECKED my lvl 93 cold witch I worked hard for.

That's so annoying. Thanks for being thoughtless!

Have you tried the leech out yet? It didn't hit my characters quite as hard as I thought it would.

I'm not fond of continuing efforts to make the first aura cost more and more, (from 30% to 60% to the decision to remove reduced mana from auras) I would rather see each additional aura at a higher cost to control their usage.

Arctic Armor seemed to be far too powerful, so it was bound to get toned down.

I've always found that sometimes the best way to rebuild my older standard characters, is to play a character in the new leagues and get a good feel for how all the various changes work.

Hope you find a build/rebuild that you can enjoy!