Blight Statistics: Challenges and Ascendancy Classes

Keep uo the good work, GGG!!!

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Nephalim wrote:

At this point I dont want bows to get changed in 3.9 if it just means they're going to get neutered like winter orb, cyclone, and necs have been/will be.

Are they going to butcher TS again, slightly buff other bow skills and then nerf it all in 4.10?

Predictions:
- nerf scourge arrow
- add new skill that is stronger than current scourge arrow
- nerf that new skill in 3.10
- reshuffle the tree so you have to respec all your standard characters, bonus points if they break the "lioneye jewel spot" 90% of bow builds rely on by moving claw nodes away or sth
- leave underused bow skills like blast rain, split arrow or shrapnel shot in the gutter still because nobody cares

Great job balancing, guys. The past two leagues have seen less build variation than ever. Keep up the "archetype" trend and ridiculously heavy-handed nerfs so soon we can all play the same class!

WHY DON'T YOU GIVE THE STATISTICS OF PLAYERS WHO DID 40 CHALLENGES? I'm not doing it just to look at the 36 challenges statistic and leave

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Olympiacoz wrote:

https://steamcharts.com/app/238960#1y

Lol yeah nice league guys

This constant gutting of skills is killing their player base. How's all the draconian nerfing working out for you GGG.

Everyone I knew from 2 years ago are gone. It's the same story for each of them, my builds are destroyed, fuck PoE.

The hallmark of communism reigns in PoE. Work hard for rewards that are taken away. Once you kill or take away people's rewards for all their time and effort, a system or (in this case a game) fails.

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VictusBcb wrote:

GGG: The meta this league is necromancer!
Statistics: Necromancer dominates
GGG: *shocked pikachu meme*

Where in this post did they show any sign of being shocked?

Challenges are too long and boring to grind. Its just an artificial way to get players to play longer than needed.

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Viktranka wrote:

Predictions:
- nerf scourge arrow
- add new skill that is stronger than current scourge arrow

The only 'nerf' that Scourge Arrow needs is a lengthening of the channel time, so that using it does represent a real risk (from standing still) for all that power. But SA is hardly the dumbest bow skill - that honor belonged to Tornado Shot before Scourge Arrow, and still belongs to it after SA was added. No other skill in the game is as dumb as Tornado Shot, where everything you do to improve your clearspeed also improves your single target and vice versa. If they're going to nerf a bow skill in 3.9, it had better hit Tornado Shot more than anything else.

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Smear wrote:

This constant gutting of skills is killing their player base. How's all the draconian nerfing working out for you GGG.

Ironically, 'draconian nerfs' is hardly what typifies GGG these days. Quite the opposite. Those days are past, as threads like this one allude to - https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/8mx7pz/old_ggg_vs_new_ggg/

If their numbers are down, it's got nothing to do with nerfing too much. The Necro isn't dominant this league cos all the other classes and ascendancies are incapable, but because one was buffed out the wazoo. Powercreep typifies the game today much more than any nerfs they've handed out. And no, dropping off from the meta is not a nerf - that can happen from other skills being buffed as well, or just new skills being added that're OP to start with.

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aggromagnet wrote:

Nearly all melee oriented ascendancies sitting at less than 1% played. Looks like that 3.7 melee "upgrade" was a resounding success!

Melee's disadvantages are fundamental, simply by virtue of having to get up close to kill (true melee I mean, not the embarrassment that is skills like Tectonic Slam). I honestly don't think there's any way GGG can make playing melee attractive without significantly nerfing ranged play. Other games do it by making melee builds either a lot tankier and/or higher damage than builds that attack from range i.e. those ranged builds are squishier or do less damage, but in PoE the game hasn't developed that way and people now will cry out now if they changed that.

But one change I think they can push through that I'd like to see is a significant reduction to the max projectile distance. Say, to 1 and a quarter screens. For all projectiles - arrows, wands shots and spells. Offscreening is really stupid and not something too many other games have. I think they could get away with that at least because 1) it doesn't nerf power, just increases the danger, and 2) it should be applied across the board, meaning monster projectiles will also be affected, which should hopefully mollify the hate brigade since there'll be fewer bullshit deaths now.