Content Update 3.9.0 -- Path of Exile: Conquerors of the Atlas

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nGio wrote:

You could have canned most of the notes and just said "we're going back to traps/mines/totems/golems for another few years". So those boring op builds of the past will still be shitting on end game in 4 links, while everything somewhat popular at some point in the last few seasons will now require shit loads of investment for fractions of the speed, killing power, and survivability.

I usually flip the patch notes to a positive, and ignore the doomsayers, but there is no way to defend this shit.

Bow pass over with zero changes to ascendancies, the strongest bow skills(still shit compared traps/golems/etc) get hard nerfed, and the ballistas look underwhelming.

So the big bow pass over comes down to hoping that Burning Arrow/Explosive Arrow pan out strong, bow bases that gain attack speed at the cost of damage, and an updated Voltaxic Rift that is still shit(a full revert couldn't even save it in the current game)? All while slowing the tedious story down so that some casual can say "so difficult! now me pro gamer like Faker!".

Whatever, I want that portal effect. I guess I'll find the hottest trap build and faceroll through the "bow update season". Thanks for all of the well thought out "diversity".

ps- To the casual noob who is going to respond with "but dude you can make any build work if you're creative and intelligent enough"....please don't.

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Nubman wrote:

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orpi wrote:

Monsters throughout the game now have more armour, from 33% at level 1 up to 2762% at level 84. Sounds a lot scarier than it is, because their base armour is stirringly unimpressive.

I really dislike that, not everyone play meta builds, people who wanna get fun at cost of farming speed because we play some meme build, now we are even more fucked, this force play meta, and that mean that this is turning into a D3 shit.

Yep, definitely the only thing that could mean.

Out of curiosity, have you seen how armour scales on your own characters, and how little difference armour makes for hits on you before you get like 50-60k+?

Impale builds are easily hitting well into the millions, even vs shaper.

I doubt people doing those builds will notice much of a difference here.

2762% isnt a little, and also have increases on elemental resistances, i wanted to play puncture ballista, its pretty mediocre, now its even more, and also puncture remains unbuffed.