Your Thoughts On New 3.15 Patchnotes?

All I can say is...brutal.

If someone had posted this a year ago, it would have been considered parody, likely poking fun at some specific balance change.

SSF is going to be a miserable slog, considering that Expeditions are going to be *less* rewarding/more difficult than Ultimatums were (from recent dev comments) before factoring in substantial buffs to monsters and heavy nerfs to players/crafting.

Instead, if you want to even see the end-bosses, you'll be trading plenty - you know, that thing the developers have said they don't want us to do (and deliberately made trade awful to avoid - see their design manifesto on trade).

Look, I get you want to head towards a more measured, slower paced style of game where creatures feel impactful - but we aren't playing PoE 2 yet, with rebalanced monster damage and massively improved loot quality via automatic 6 links.

Instead, these changes come off as petty, spiteful and aimed at making the experience of most of the playerbase (who aren't even able to see Maven as is) even more frustrating to reign in a handful of powergaming streamers.

I hate to say it, but this is going to be the first season I completely skip, since me first starting the game in Delerium.

If this really is going to be the design direction going forwards, then I'm probably going to wait for PoE 2 at the very least.

Fortunately, Lost Ark is getting a proper western release later this year (damn this game still looks amazing) and Last Epoch is surprisingly good right now, and only getting better.

Or am I missing something here, some silver lining in this horror-list of patchnotes?

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Or am I missing something here, some silver lining in this horror-list of patchnotes?

You don't need to find a 6 link, since you can't afford the mana. That's a buff!

I was in hard place choosing to play couple months of New world or this xp. I guess issue got solved itself.

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Goredeath wrote:

I was in hard place choosing to play couple months of New world or this xp. I guess issue got solved itself.

Going to be finishing off Nioh 2, Star Control Origins, Ys IX, probably get another character up on Outriders, Amid Evil, check back in on Last Epoch and then maybe go back to Final Fantasy Online.

Hell, I may even do the new Diablo 3 season, for old time's sake.

By then it'll be time for the next season and if nothing changes - Lost Ark beckons.

After that it's basically a race between Diablo IV and POE 2.

Skipping this garbage and maybe the next league depends if they rollback with some serious apologies

I'm out!

Gonna work on playing other games
This game got 2-3 years of my life. Its clear the path they want to take is not what I enjoy so I wish ggg luck in their nerf hurricane but I have no interest in this game anymore.

yea well... more nerfs... and too much for my patience to read...

i played torchlight2&3 the past 2 weeks,some Last Epoch,Wolcen and grimdawn..

I am now used to nice far off 3rd person camera with nice huge view on my screen.... POE feels like a cage compared to other games.

These patch notes are the 1st that do not really interest me anymore...

I will update once this league is out and give it a chance like i did with Ultimatum which lasted ~2 hours before i quit.

After reading the patch notes I thought that the Expeditions better be fantastic. If they are worse than Ultimatum's difficulty/reward then I think that league retention will be worse than retention in Ultimatum.

GGG: The nerfs will continue until morale improves.

Just looking at the patch notes, I am not liking it one bit but will still give it a try for the first few weeks to see if its even fun to play.

I hope when GGG says that they would like to re-introduce challenge and difficulty to how POE was before, that they have also factored in how the player numbers are going to be similar to how it was before...

Necessary nerfs are fine and all, and I've never really had a problem with that. But trying to revert the game to the slow-paced slog of yesteryear by gutting virtually everything? Nah, I'm good. Got better things to do with my gaming time than having a more tedious grind for no other reason besides having a more tedious grind.

There's simply no upside or benefit for me with what they're doing. None whatsoever. If they did something to address the shitshow of layers upon layers of endgame RNG, maybe. But they're not, so I can't be bothered.

I'm not salty or mad about it though. It's just a game, and games are but one source of enjoyment in life. There are many others out there which I've already come to enjoy more than PoE.

For me, deleting PoE is just 30+ more gb's free for other things to tinker around with.