Path of Exile 3.16 Balance - Part 3 - Auras, Curses and Elemental Damage Over Time

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Serdoa wrote:

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Takiah wrote:

So my vortex build will never reach same levels of DPS as 3.14.
Guess I'll have to find other games to play.

I don't understand posts like these. Is the issue not if you can actually play through the game but just that the number (most likely in PoB...) isn't high enough?

Or did you just phrase that badly and have any math to provide as for why the damage of Vortex is not enough for red maps / endgame-bosses anymore? (Though for maps I'd assume Cold Snap / Creeping Frost is more important).

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rotting_fox wrote:

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Irorone wrote:

We're not snapshotting auras

I wasn't referring to aura stackers here. Pre 2.0 you could snapshot auras/mana reservation.

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Irorone wrote:

Perma immortal call didn't make you invincible, it only blocked 100% phys. BTW that means there are still four other pretty common damage types to push your shit in with.

Some of the builds were still quite broken. Hence why it doesn't exist.

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Irorone wrote:

"Oh but it's difficult to get the damage"
Getting the damage has NEVER been hard in this game.
Surviving long enough to deal it has always been the challenge.

Depends on the build and skills really. I have made plenty of builds that had no trouble with deaths, but couldn't push out a lot of dps.

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whood wrote:

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I very much like this one. Now I'm hyped for the announcement and patch notes.

You really like that people will lose their multi-year characters, that it will remove the party-supporting supports, that people in the party won't have so much fun anymore. That the game will become more single player? This is so cool?

This is the complete incompetence of GGG, Like children playing with bombs. And time and respect for players is irrelevant.

You'll still be able to boost damage and survivability more than two times. Looks pretty balanced compared to what it's like now. 90% max res + 10 times damage boost from a single support character is broken now.
I played an aurabot before clusters as necro for mf, played it twice as a scion for delve and mf.
Full MF carry+support being able to run 5 orb juiced maps with 4 leechers is balanced, right?
Damage was so high on a delve carry he didn't have a tooltip.

You'll need to choose what auras to run and won't be an universal bandaid to any build.
Keep crying or wait for patch notes and try to adapt to those balance changes.

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Killerspintt wrote:

I never played RF, but from statistics it's played by 0.1% of players, those very few people just love using that skill. RF builds are not OP by any means, in fact thos builds are not to be recommended.

Why nerfing a "bad" build used by 0.1% of people, which struggles for endgame content ?

It doesn't make any sens.
Is the point to just make everyone disgusted abouit POE to push as fast possible the transition twoard POE2

Also why are you not simply and clearly explaining things in your manifesto, to the point of 99% of players having to check youtube content to understand if it is a buff or another nerf ?

Be more CLEAR, after explaining your damage tweaks that you call "balancing the game", just add something clear like : In the end, RF based builds will see their DPS lower by about 20 to 25%. There is nothing more simple than that for you developpers. Also it would have been good to also explain why you don't want people to play RF.

This would certainly help people understand what you actually want.

I read the manifesto, thinking that you buffed a weak build, thinking that this was how you see "balance", and was quite happy because it is also how I see "balance". But in the end you indeed nerfed RF builds (which I never played once again), showing you see "balance" totally at the opposite of how I see "balance".

First of all, you should make clear of how you see balance, because if nerfing RF builds is how you see balance, I can safely say that not even 0.001% of players are seeing balance as you are.

After ALL those podcasts with streamers, after all those hours and the hype about 3.16, you answer by nerfing underpowered and underused elemental DoT skills........seriously ?

Saying that I am dispointed would be an understatement. Imho, you really didn't understood, all those hours with streamers for nothing. Just like me when a teach a student for hours just to undertand.......that he understood nothing, disapointed.

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MaxOloloshka wrote:

I just laughing at u guys, so much hate so much toxicity and outcry noone even seen patch notes and full league details and u saying about this dead, this destroyed lol. This community become so much toxic near dota 2 community (that is the most toxic and that's why i leaved this game) btw 10k hours. Stop cry and wait until full patch notes and league details.

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Thanks for reading through to the end, and please let us know your feedback on these changes and this new approach to communication.

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I very much like this one. Now I'm hyped for the announcement and patch notes.

You really like that people will lose their multi-year characters, that it will remove the party-supporting supports, that people in the party won't have so much fun anymore. That the game will become more single player? This is so cool?

This is the complete incompetence of GGG, Like children playing with bombs. And time and respect for players is irrelevant.

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impulze3 wrote:

I played this build for 5 leagues now, improving it bit by bit every league.
About 15-20 mirrors of stuff, soon to be obsolete.