Content Update 3.13.0 -- Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas

Am I the only one who only enjoys only a few of the skills and only enjoy a couple of play styles? I fail to see the point of shifting power around (in a mostly single player PVE game) every league.

Some will say:
To get creative with new builds?
If the skill is mechanically unchanged (and I found it boring) why would I want to play it?

To keep the game fresh and interesting?
Isn't that what new leagues/content with a restart is for?

Can you imagine playing a single player Car racing SIM and the developers nerf your car because you played it too much?

I just find this whole quarterly pre new league...thing... odd.
"Fixed a bug where you could trigger your own traps by throwing them through your Flame Wall."

But that sounds pretty cool don't you think? Traps could use something cool like that.
Well its seems like its time to go to another build, goodbuy all of my lovely totem i will miss you :'(
To all the belivers who thought the gem/tree BUFFS were gonna somehow save the ascendancy "rework" and we wont be playing a watered-down version of the same boring old bulds as before, well my friends this is for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
These patchnotes literally made the game 2x worse (aura stack nerfs are fine tho).
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3XE wrote:
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ryuukk33 wrote:
very disapointed, the only thing this patch note will make is force everyone into meta builds yet again

buffing underused skills? what a joke

every balance notes makes me want to play the game less and less

very disappointed and concerned about your ability to balance underused skills

change your balance team before it is too late


Nobody holds a gun to your head lol, you can leave anytime you want.
Anytime...

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PoE is dying now =\
Adding POG content.
Nerfing all nice to play builds.
DotA has same way of development and now its garbage custom map.


Yep dying, for sure, must be. Especially since each new major league they are breaking their own records of users online. XD

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Vaildez wrote:
So they spent the extra month working on making the game no longer fun? Cool Cool...


Ahh the irony and here I thought it's one of the best updates this game has seen in years. I guess we live in different realities then, lul.

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IonDrako wrote:
The buffs were extremely underwhelming to be honest.

Also wish you'd revert the whole basic attack animation thing you did back in legion which makes most strike skills that use that animation super unfun since the first hit is super slowed just so the second one is faster??? If I have 1 aps then I want to hit once every second, not have an average hit of 1 per second due to the first and second hit having different speeds.


My honest advice would be: stop doing drugs, m'kay.

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ArkthuriuS wrote:
Are you telling me the CLuster Jewels i invested a fuckton are going to the trashcan? It should only apply to old ones though. Wouldnt hurt STD players.


Nobody cares about Standard bro, it's a dumpster league.

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Ygidua wrote:
I cant find any summoner specific buffs to mitigate the ascendancy and skill gem nerfs.

Bex said there would be, so please point me to them.


Overall, the timing couldnt be worse for nerfs, in an pandemic you just dont do this in my books, its terrible PR for your company, its much smarter to give people something instead of taking it from them.


Chris if you see this post, send me a PM, I just want to understand your reasoning behind this.

Those that play, have fun and stay safe!


I don't know if you're blind or having serious problems reading but they already posted their explanation for the decisions they made.

For me and many people the vast majority of changes were totally deserved and warranted, dunno why it's so hard to understand for the rest of you, lol.

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teodar1987 wrote:
Nerfs and trolling all around

1. Bosses immune to damage from long distance - introduce new farshot mechanics. Bet you smiled when you made that decision.

2. People complain about the shitstorm that is Sirus and beg you to flush him now the drain, you now shove him down peoples throats in maps.

3. Heist, already nerfed during league, now made obsolete with low spawn chance aka limited markers aka cant run blueprints. Vinderi, already having a stupidly nasty penalty to threat, now made pointless.

4. The gems stupidly optimistic people hoped would compensate for ascendancy slaughter, nerfed by FIVE f*****g times - i'm talkin about alternate auras.

I'm trying here, genuinely struggling with my anger for the nth time, to see the purpose behind the changes. I'm coming short. Today I tried simulacrum wave 20 with a bleed glad with several hundred ex invested in and got butchered in seconds. A character now further nerfed. Is the idea that we should be happy with mid content and just drool over streamers, to keep us always chasing the endgame carrot? What a business model!



You are struggling to hold your anger over changes made in a FREE TO PLAY game?? I suggest visiting a specialist then, you might need it.



On a side note, super god damn hyped for the new league!

I don't know how you guys do it but I've been actively trying to quit for a while now (yeah right) but you guys always manage to bring me back.

What sorcery is this?!


Did he just quote Anti Mage from Dota2? In his attempt to white knight?
Where are the powerful new builds to discover, where are the 40 skill gem buffs?
Is that a joke or did I miss something?
These are the worst patch notes ever, I'm really disappointed ...

Chris didn't you say that your employees will work less now?
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JJJaaaMMM wrote:
To all the belivers who thought the gem/tree BUFFS were gonna somehow save the ascendancy "rework" and we wont be playing a watered-down version of the same boring old bulds as before, well my friends this is for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ



NICE!
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Sitzura wrote:
These patchnotes literally made the game 2x worse (aura stack nerfs are fine tho).


It wasn't just an aura-stack nerf, it was an aura nerf. Instead of nerfing the % of return on stacking, they nerfed all auras.

Bad idea IMO but whatever.
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