lol pizzablast

Last season had the most retarded balance of them all - BV was made to shit on PoE content and scratch it into mouths.

This season BV is a garbage in comparsion to the old one - it is still playable tho. Number one build is the old number two build - Cospris Malice.

When they nerf Cospris - old nr 3 will be the new nr 1. And after each nerf if they wont introduce anything new like retarded BF the power creep would decrease.

After implementing stuff retarded reddit wants for 3years i can without a slightest doubt say that GGG has no fucking clue about the game balance. There is probably no team or even a few people who know how everything in the game works to be so called "go to person" while introducing something new.
Its the same in almost any company i have worked in. Dumbcracks have architects of the system but they have noone who knows wtf he is talking about from start to the finish about the system. (Google was an exception - they have process engineers that know exactly how whole process/system works)


They introduced hand of wisdom which can have double the dmg of two hand weapon in one hand slot - w t f ? And you want them to change anything ? Only if somethig is hyped on reddit it gets nerfed. Cospris was retarded from release but plebs are not allowed to get it so easly - not reddited not nerfed hard enough.

Most of old meta T1 spells are in a retarded spot after ascendencies were introduced. People will always pick the strongest shit because noone wants to lose 100h fucking hours to learn that his self made build is shit and cannot do content they wants to do.

Not gonna even talk about life/CI balance... Being life should give more benefits than life potions which by design are in a terrible spot because of unique flasks.

nerf es, buff life, tnx!

Flame blast totems arent even remotely OP, the people who are complaining about them clearly havent played them. Ive tried Flame Blast totems both on Elementalist and Inquisitor up to 87-90 and theyre not that good.

Clear and safety arent high whatsoever, mediocre at best. Boss killing is "meh" at best as well. The only thing it has running for it better than self casting is theres no reflect, soo no 10 stack insta death on accident.

Its nothing more than a novelty build, really.

Also people in here dont seem to understand the term balance in this thread either. Obviously things arent going to be balanced perfectly, they shouldnt be. That doesnt mean they cant be balanced in general.

Pretty funny though how people still think the world is coming to an end when their unkillable cast on crit characters got nerfed with their millions of free DPS with no fucking investment LUL. You had nearly, what, 2 and a half years to play that broken shit, get over it.

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Nephalim wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

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innervation wrote:

If you want this game to have compelling choice, you need balance.

It's actually the opposite. With perfect balance, there is no choice to be made.

Balance is having 10 viably strong but not grossly content trivializing builds that each have strengths and weaknesses as oppose to 1 content trivializing build and a few mediocre builds and nothing in between or below like what GGG has been doing for the past 4 or so leagues.

Boom hit the nail on the head.

The discrepancy on how large those gaps are, is the problem. I dont give two shits if something is OP as long as it requires investment and isnt grossly trivializing everything, is cleverly using game mechanics.

Mediocre builds are like a crustacean on the ocean floor waiting to be eaten alive while meta builds are like Gods in the sky, having a glorious time in the heavens while jeering at the peasants on Earth and not even acknowledging the lesser life forms.

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Tin_Foil_Hat wrote:

Flame blast totems arent even remotely OP, the people who are complaining about them clearly havent played them. Ive tried Flame Blast totems both on Elementalist and Inquisitor up to 87-90 and theyre not that good.

Clear and safety arent high whatsoever, mediocre at best. Boss killing is "meh" at best as well. The only thing it has running for it better than self casting is theres no reflect, soo no 10 stack insta death on accident.

Its nothing more than a novelty build, really.

Also people in here dont seem to understand the term balance in this thread either. Obviously things arent going to be balanced perfectly, they shouldnt be. That doesnt mean they cant be balanced in general.

Pretty funny though how people still think the world is coming to an end when their unkillable cast on crit characters got nerfed with their millions of free DPS with no fucking investment LUL. You had nearly, what, 2 and a half years to play that broken shit, get over it.

I haven't played a caster in a reaaaaally long time but I actually found FB Totems to be pretty nice. Surprised I could do Twinned T15 on a 5L, etc.

Yep, real hard time with breaches too, i checked some of the build guides and thats one of the biggest complaints. Not very meta when breaches turn you into road kill, even with proliferation it was very easy for breach monsters to outpace you, even with positioned correctly.

I found the only way to safely clear breaches is to stay on the outside and clear on the edge, off screen and how you can kill some rares for shards or find some hands.

I havent seen anyone do breach lord timers with then either yet, to be honest im not sure you can. Atleast from my experience i dont think you can.

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Nephalim wrote:

What you fail to understand is that blade flurry is more than a fraction more powerful than other top tier build.

I'm not saying the 10 builds need to be equal in every regard, it is not even to objectively quantity every aspect of a build and equalize it to another's. I'm saying it makes more sense for there to be 10 viably strong but not perfectly equal end game builds rather than 1 ridiculously overpowered build that is cycle nerfed every league.

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Nerf cycles end up watering down a game. It stifles creativity and creates an oppressive game environment. All of those innovators out there that risk 100 exalts on a super risky build that may or may not work? What incentive would they have to be creative when everything is at the same powerlevel?

It didn't take hundreds of exalts, a degree in quantum mechanics or much more IQ than a monkey's to make blade flurry work. Did you just use the word innovation to describe a meta poe build? That's gold. I bet the Mathil sheep think their poe's version of Einstein.

I am not speaking directly of bladeflurry, pizza blast or any specific build. Zoom out and get yourself out of your "angry thought box".

If i were to name a specific build I would say something like Wormblaster which took quite a bit of creativity/exalts and got erased from the game due to coc changes because of nerfs?

Meta builds become that way because of popularity and nothing more. When a stream chooses a build and starts using it, the whole POE sheep world follows. That is enough to create a meta.

This league?

Vaal Spark - Zizaran
SRS/Golem - RaizQT
BladeFlurry - Malthil

It is not only the scaling of a gem that creates a meta. It is the fear of unskilled players to take a chance on their own build and create something new. IF everything was equally balanced (which it can't be) nobody would even take chances on new skills or improved old skills.

I don't know. The reason people play POE is to break the game, when you take that ability away from players over and over again it becomes stale and boring. Hitting monsters for shitty loot and little orbs isn't exactly an easy selling point. People like power. They want to make that build that wrecks everything on the screen in one shot. It's in the player nature to want to break the game. Balancing all of these things to a degree where there is not outlyer would make the game boring as fuck.

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Prisus wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

What you fail to understand is that blade flurry is more than a fraction more powerful than other top tier build.

I'm not saying the 10 builds need to be equal in every regard, it is not even to objectively quantity every aspect of a build and equalize it to another's. I'm saying it makes more sense for there to be 10 viably strong but not perfectly equal end game builds rather than 1 ridiculously overpowered build that is cycle nerfed every league.

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Nerf cycles end up watering down a game. It stifles creativity and creates an oppressive game environment. All of those innovators out there that risk 100 exalts on a super risky build that may or may not work? What incentive would they have to be creative when everything is at the same powerlevel?

It didn't take hundreds of exalts, a degree in quantum mechanics or much more IQ than a monkey's to make blade flurry work. Did you just use the word innovation to describe a meta poe build? That's gold. I bet the Mathil sheep think their poe's version of Einstein.

I am not speaking directly of bladeflurry, pizza blast or any specific build. Zoom out and get yourself out of your "angry thought box".

I'll do one better, I'll get out of this discussion entirely, I should of realized it was pointless 2 replies ago. Thanks for the time saved.

I can't take it anymore I have to rant. This community is either pants on head fucking retarted or just pure cancer. So many times the community has raised pitch forks over builds like CoC, Cospri, mjolner, Low Life COE spectral throw, BV, etc. that actually take significant amounts of currency to build and yet the community has an easy mode build like flame blast and they want to protect it because it can turbo shit on basically everything with a 5L and zero investment.

This community is actually on crack cocaine. I mean wtf do you people want... powerful items? Challenge? A reason to play longer than a few weeks? Then quit complaining about builds that are powerful when you actually have to invest time and effort into it and focus on builds like this that are grossly powerful with little to no gear, jewels, quality gems, etc. The chaos/poison meta in its prime was a great example of little investment achieving broken results. And while im sure we can all agree Flameblast isnt as broken as 100% chaos conversion builds, it does perform well with hardly any offensive supporting items/passives.

This game is blowing my mind with how much its flopping around and its taking all the cool fun builds like discharge and worm blaster with it.

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TheAshmaker wrote:

I can't take it anymore I have to rant. This community is either pants on head fucking retarted or just pure cancer. <...>