3.17 Nerf prediction thread

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Vennto wrote:

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Tetrus wrote:

@Vennto "It's correct to balance around the top tier players, as you can always improve to their level" Aham. Please tell us more.

What I mean is that game balance issues should be balanced around top tier players, as other players potentially can improve mechanics way more than any level of gear can make up for. The suggestion the game is too hard, stuff is to difficult, etc., comes from a place of missing game knowledge.

A few examples to iterate my point:

1. Yungroan finished the first awakener kill of 3.16 after roughly 12 hours in SC Trade. If you as a player take a playtime of 7 days, then it is not the right way to "reduce atlas grind", as you can improve the time by 80% with just better game knowledge and more effective play.

2. When Darkee sais armor is too powerful after finishing the entire game under very agressive mods in the Zizaran Gauntlet in under 2 days then this should be taken more serious than if an average joe who is missing key compontents of a defensive concept while also not being able to dodge mechanics manually mourns about still dying too often.

3. When tons of streamers show how to make 4ex+/hour in different ways then the comments of people saying the trade economy is still too grind-heavy should be taken with a grain of salt.

That´s my point - people ask the devs to cater to their shortcomings rather than to improve upon them. To clearly state this, I make this in bolt: I am not denying at all that time-investment is a part of this equation and that casually gaming people will never get the same results than people doing it professionally. But, and here is the big kicker - it is only one variable, and most likely the only one people are concerned about while others, like knowledge, creativity, mechanical skill, strategy etc. play an even bigger role when it comes to the core principles of PoE (aka clearing stuff and making currency).
Lastly, any other game that is played somewhat competetively balances around the top-end as it should be, I dont see why poe should be an exception of that.

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Anton__Chigur wrote:

everything that was used by more than 5% of the playerbase like every single league

probably all of the cool uniques that they added that kept people interested as well, can't have that