Game Balance Development Manifesto Post

Developement Manifesto for 2.5

- Improving ES values from passive Tree and gear by 50%
- CI also makes now immune to physical damage but removed "more ES" nodes
- Vaal Pact gets additional 5% baseleech for life and mana
- Fortify can only be activated by wearing a ranged weapon and be atleast 10 units away from the next monsters
- Increased damage of glacial hammer by 2.5%
- Increased damage for ground slam by 2% (this is a buff!)
- Nerfed Life Values on tree by 50% explanation:
"We felt life was still too strong compared to ES builds therefore we had to act accordingly"
- Poison no longer works with melee skills. explanation:
"After internal long term testing we felt that poison fits more for ranged or spell playstyle"
- Alle Bossmonsters have a 20% more damage multiplier against the life of a player but reduced 25% damage against the energy shield of a player. explanation:
"This is a further measure to tighten the gap between ES and Life"
- Cospri's Malice now have the additional stat: Elemental Equilibrium. Explanation:
"We felt like players had too much trouble to path to Elemental Equilibrium therefore we gave it to them for free".
- Before we forget: Bladevortex reduced max stack to 10 but increasing damage by 100% more. Explanation: "We felt like we want to introduce 2 new MTX for bladevortex so enjoy guys"

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Path of Exile: Version 2.4.0 (Atlas of Worlds) Patch Notes

• Earthquake's aftershock damage has been reduced from 60% more (at level 1, tapered upwards) to 50% more at all Levels. Its mana cost has been increased from 6 to 10. Its aftershock area of effect has been reduced by 12%. With the wide-ranging melee buffs and adjustment to Earthquake, we expect to see a much more balanced use of melee skills.

Why nerf Earthquake and leave Ancestral Warchief (AW) untouched when AW is nigh-guaranteed to see a much heavier nerf next cycle?

Does the balance team just not get enough time? Or did they actually think AW was in a good spot?

AW is perfect. No change is neccessary....

i dunno. personally i feel animate weapon could always use a buff.

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Ashen_Shugar_IV wrote:

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Path of Exile: Version 2.4.0 (Atlas of Worlds) Patch Notes

• Earthquake's aftershock damage has been reduced from 60% more (at level 1, tapered upwards) to 50% more at all Levels. Its mana cost has been increased from 6 to 10. Its aftershock area of effect has been reduced by 12%. With the wide-ranging melee buffs and adjustment to Earthquake, we expect to see a much more balanced use of melee skills.

Why nerf Earthquake and leave Ancestral Warchief (AW) untouched when AW is nigh-guaranteed to see a much heavier nerf next cycle?

Does the balance team just not get enough time? Or did they actually think AW was in a good spot?

What you didn't notice all the new totem mtx's ?

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plodd wrote:

What you didn't notice all the new totem mtx's ?

Good call. Case closed.

wtb