UNDOCUMENTED NERFS?

SOULMANTLE

COWARD'S LEGACY

are all useless now without Atziri's Shield.


good job GGG, nerfing without any prior notices. You have stooped to lower depths than even blizzard.

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LowBudget780 wrote:

Care to elaborate?

soulmantle now has 80% inc effect of hex

https://poedb.tw/us/Soul_Mantle



same thing with coward's legacy

FYI, totems used to wear soulmantle + 2x kikazaru as budget build. 2x kikazaru has -80% effect of curse, so the hex effect is kinda bearable.

Now however, you cant wear kikazaru without perma anti curse flask or atziri shield, making totem build kinda shit.

I wish GGG has the decency to put this "NERF" into NERF NOTES and not ninja nerf this without saying anything.

Sounds like bypassing the effect was too cheap for what you gained from it. Documentation would have been good though.

Already in the patch note

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Items which apply a Curse to an enemy (such as the curse-on-hit Ring modifiers) no longer specify a level, and instead have a set magnitude for their values with a fixed amount of Doom, which is overwritten when another source applies a more potent version (similar to Arcane Surge).

It just not clear that such change in curse item mod was in fact also apply to item that self curse the player character

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Asmosis wrote:

Sounds like bypassing the effect was too cheap for what you gained from it. Documentation would have been good though.

how is sacrificing a chest slot and 2x ring slot too cheap?

anyhow this is unintended:

Looks like the Soul Mantle nerf may have been unintended, from Bex on reddit:

"We're changing it to be "with 80% More Effect" instead of "with 80% Increased Effect" so that you can still use self-curse reduction to mitigate curses. I can't confirm when this change will be through, however. (As soon as we can)."

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/ivdd5m/soul_mantle_nerf_not_listed_in_patch_notes/

@dejuvenate

Ok so to make it clear: If they change that, we are still able to use 2x kikazaru + sanctum of thoughts again to be curse immune again?

So confusing gathering all that information on different sites and stuff is changing all the time...

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Kagerou20 wrote:

@dejuvenate

Ok so to make it clear: If they change that, we are still able to use 2x kikazaru + sanctum of thoughts again to be curse immune again?

So confusing gathering all that information on different sites and stuff is changing all the time...

2x kikazaru is 80% reduced

so we still need to get another 20% from sanctum of thought to be able to have curse immunity (unaffected).

If we only have 80% reduced, we will get hit by 80% MORE that GGG will be implementing, so it's like 1.8 x 0.2= 36% effect of curse (64% effective curse reduction).


CMIIW, everything is still so confusing but that's how I see and understand it.

I'd suggest keeping an eye on this thread:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2685450/page/248

guide by wallach

This appears to be intended based on bex's edit comment.

Soul mantle is officially dead without atziris shield.

With the new 80% increased curse effect, 2x kizarus will only be able to nullify the curse effect back down to 100% effectiveness (down from 180%).

Coward's legacy doesn't work altogether, no longer grants count as on low life.