What We're Working On

Great update and quick patches - thank you GGG!

Not sure if this is covered by the crashes point but at certain times I've been dc'ing over and over again like 5 times in 10 minutes

I humbly suggest that you alter your timelines for expansions. I have played this game since open beta, so I have seen virtually every improvement and league you have done. (I have given you money in a good number of them as well).

Simply put, 13 weeks may be optimal for bountiful lumps of moolah, but it should be clear by now that there are many things, generally smallish in detail, but relatively large in impact, that are there in every single release.

This is no longer acceptable to me. It was one thing when you were a small crew. It is quite another when you have a full developmnent team. There are so many moving parts and good ideas that want to receive attention that the details are simply not put together well enough to fight through the consequences of it until several weeks into the 13 week patch cycle.

I like that you are transparent, and have admittedly gotten better over time with some of these. This league was hyped even before Harvest. It was being worked on before Harvest was even finished. Yet still there are pretty severe balance issues, numerous avoidable bugs and the like.

(Totally aside from the fact that you totally destroyed numberous builds with changes to curses). I am honestly done with giving you more of my money for a product that is perpetually bug ridden until WELL into the patch cycle. I am sticking with standard for now, and probably through the rest of this league.

Shattering Steel

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2939714

Punishment has no reason to exist in its current form. Change the reflect to an explode like you announced, and it can perform an accessible role of corpse removal.

Feedback on Hexblast

plz god make hexblast more auto target things that are hexed when dozens of mobs are stacking on top of each other, or spawning from a specific mob, and it just seems like the skill specifically targets those WITHOUT the hex.
it is beyond annoying, feels terrible, and has caused me deaths.

also there are things that cannot be hexed, like totems or even the giant targetable snakes from hunter maps. this makes scaling the main source of your hexblast damage impossible to do, and thus killing these things quite difficult.

and again, you can hex an entire pack of mobs that are surrounding a totem and hexblast, and it seems like hexblast just always targets the totem and theres no boom boom.

Hey guys! Sweet league this is. I can't wait for the fix. Also, Grand Heist Vault doors at the end does not usually open. I'm not sure if that is on your list as well.

I just want to say that you guys are doing great! I'm sure that you guys have lined up upcoming leagues. My suggestion is to have more people stress test the new upcoming league maybe at least 2 weeks before release? Just so we can polish out the League before it comes out.

i always enjoy these kind of posts, and that seems great.
I am also happy to see the apology for filling us with crap, please dont do that again.

Could oyu please buff firestorm, it is such a shame that the skill looks soo good and hits like a wet noodle

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Choke Points in Heists

We are reducing the number of rare guards that can gather behind Heist doors. Some monsters will release their skills in a staggered way so that you are not being hit by many skills simultaneously

This is another one of those cases which was a problem in previous leagues. It's one of those add this to the list of 'don't do this again' situations. Not sure if QA let you down or it was just a time issue. I'm guessing it was a time issue as some of the new skills don't seem to have been tested at all with there final numbers and interactions eg. Flame Wall.

Certainly not the smoothest launch!

I know whether it's intended or not but Intimidating Cry (and all other Warcry) can't be used in a Steel (Especially Splitting Steel Build), because the wording says it exterds only Melee attacks. But the Tags on Intimidating Cry say just Attacks?! Hope it's just a wording issue or maybe intended.

Would be fine to get this clear