3.19 NERFS PREDICTIONS

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gageris wrote:

I guess the only nerf Mageblood might get is droprate. Back in a day HH had its drop rate reduced (via Doctor card drop chance).

Well, HH got nerfed so maybe GGG will tinker with MB.

I think GGG will nerf the fun stuff and give us something no one asked for.

They don't have time for nerfs because they are doing PoE2 to compete with D4 ...
But D4 will be for casuals and they will lose this fight for 100% if Chris's vision still will be realized...

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Xyel wrote:

Sources of energy shield/life gained on block - it's by far the most broken mechanic in the game, because it destroys the fundamental idea of "more enemies = more danger," often flipping it to the opposite where one sometimes runs into a pack of white mobs to heal himself up.

Nah. Not even close to most broken with Nightblade, transcendence, stacking, and more.

Plus this notion about more monsters being beneficial is true for dps, charges, and flask uptime. There is no reason to smash defensive layers in the game, when typically Aegis builds sacrifice DPS (like RF). I hate the survivability decisons = "broken". Do we really want to push more and more glass cannons?

Nightblade covers like one combo, which is lightning strike + nightblade + omniscience. I mean, nightblade is good, really good, but is that really the overpowered part from the combo? Imo that's omniscience, followed by lightning strike (which is completely out of line from the other strike skills (that the others suck is a problem of its own)).

Militant faith is used only in like 16 % builds on poe.ninja, that's not even top 10 most common, so that shouldn't warrant a nerf.

Stacking is imo the best balanced character building strategy in game - starts kind of weak, and then becomes progressively stronger with investment, which imo is exactly how the game should work.

In general, I would see as overpowered something that makes other similar things unviable in comparison - imo omniscience does that to all not-spell skills, and hp/es on block to defenses - look at the poe.ninja skill tree heatmap - the top left section being the only one red while the entire bottom right section is dark blue is rather telling to where the overpowered part of the meta is.

honestly the biggest culprit in lightning strike meta atm is brittle, which is absolutely ludicrous for an ailment.

Nightblade is that good though because its downside is invalidated, its like both crit gems rolled into one and you reset it whenever the value gets to where its balance point is intended to be.

These two together make it ludicrously easy to hit 100% crit 800% multi at which point every skill becomes fundamentally broken, lightning strikes only relevance is its ranged, and has a vaal component that works as an excellent boss ramp. I don't think any other strike gets as good of a boss vaal skill.

If they removed lightning strike hypothetically all those builds would work almost identically using frost blades or wild strike, they would just do less dps by the magnitude of no ghost boy to repeat for you.

Honestly to put it simply GGG need to realise every used meta skill currently has a cheese component, which means non cheese is too weak.

Nerfing Aegis Aurora and Melding would go a long way in shaking up the meta.
Nerf to those items would both hit Skeletons and RF builds massively.

My suggestion would be:
- Remove Max Cold res from Aegis.
- Increase resistance penalty from Melding by around -30 to make it harder to cap resistances.

Other than that:
- Recombinator nerfs.
- DD spectre bug fixed. (They use bugged spectres)
- Seismic Trap nerfed.
- Maybe a spell supression nerf (Reduced value from spell suppression fro gear, it's WAAAY too high and it's too easy to cap).
- Nightblade Support, it's broken.

Melding needs more than a change to its res requirement, it currently has anti synergy (I say anti because a penalty is intended to be addressed not solved by the item) for its penalty, ie it lowers your resists but its benefit is tied to something that puts them back up.

This is very similar to omniscience too, its drawback is invalidated by doing what the item already encourages you to do - stack stats.

You can't design penalties in this way because they don't end up having the intended cost, which then makes the intended power completely out of bonk. All I can think of is Xibaqua died for this :p. Getting 90 max chaos res was actually a reasonable build cost, Melding provides a better bonus for less cost than something that was substantially nerfed.

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Deadandlivin wrote:

Nerfing Aegis Aurora and Melding would go a long way in shaking up the meta.
Nerf to those items would both hit Skeletons and RF builds massively

I truly dont understand.

RF players, unless you are in the 500ex range, are doing a few million boss dps? (Mostly with fire trap)

This needs a nerf because you are tanky? RF folks will just go with Shaper shields and max fire res with melding. So basically all you have done is destroy a unique rare item, and annoy people. Good plan, give it the Starforge treatment.

Nerf ALL FUN
And pretend in exchange give us some sort of buff and QOL but those actually are deception .

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zzang wrote:

Uhm what is wrong with Reap?

Molten Strike in the list? Are people seeing the world upside down on something?

This is an older meme, but it checks out, sir.jpg

Anything that is fun or easy to play.

Fun : probably CWDT wardloop will be hit, making Scion useless again.
Easy To play : Seismic Trap.

Cuz instead of bringing things on pair GGG thinks it's better to just nerf or destroy...It's been like this since gaming industry has been created.