"... to let spell block be something all characters can have access to, ..."

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FeistyPeisty wrote:

and a Blue Nightmare Jewel for 5 ex.

Ahhh right, I forgot the broken as fuck jewels, I've never seen them since I'm playing mostly SSF.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1971585

The first summoner guide which doesn't have an appropiate answer to the block butchering of 3.4, so it's discontinued atm.

Tell us, what should we summoners or block dependent characters use as defensive layer? My minions will now get ~100k higher damage because of the nodes, but my defense will be terrible. As if a Life/ES char is a fucking tank in the first place! :maximum rolleyes:

Well, I'm a gladiator, face tanker, sword and board. I have a lot of block passives, 1-3, as it takes a lot to get decent blocking. And then the Ascendancy class gives me the spell block.

A face-tank build requires something to mitigate an attack differently than you guys who fight from a distance. He has to both defend from his face tanking opponent and the spell casters at a distance. You guys at a distance only have to defend against the distance casters because you can always run away again and attack from a distance.

And I totally agree that the patch notes for 3.4 look very promising; however, I am saddened that they have not resolved the lightning mage issue. Example: How about a reskin of the infamous devourer who now shoots out lightning and they are 50+ in a mob plus an additional 12-24 rares. lol

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aura0000 wrote:

You guys at a distance only have to defend against the distance casters because you can always run away again and attack from a distance.

- This is blatantly wrong in a great many situations, saying that melee mobs are never a threat to range players is lacing experience with such situations.

- There are many other melee builds that are no gladiators, but were (at least somewhat) relying on block + spell block ....

Just play the new Meta that POE Devs want you to and be happy like every other fanboi.

I must say I am amazed by how they can make such a 'huge skill tree' and everyone has to take the same routes or not even make it past act10 + lab without a carry.

unfortunately i only found this bullsh1t today...
GGG fuck3d several builds i have!
at least they could make legacy the existing jewels.
no more block builds, unless you pick gladiator.

http://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delve/3nv5U5

One week in and Raphpith Globe is an one C item ...

As mentioned, previously it was a several C item simply because the %B2SB was actually useful.

I want to see the build which utilizes the "accessible for all" part.

dupe post

Spell block was changed from conversion to flat because they keep implementing ways to get block, therefore they needed to make it harder to get both spell and attack block.

Terrible thing is it just forces block builds to be necros or gladiators.

In short: GGG kept pouring in vast loads of power creep without any real planning, and their way of attempting to deal with it was to shoot EVERYONE ELSE in the foot.