OH BOY, THE NERF HAMMER WILL COME HUGE

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Orbaal wrote:

Cool.

You just buffed poison blade trap, which is already a strong contender and fixed nothing.
As usual, players will abandon whatever got nerfed too harshly in their opinion and flock to the next best thing.
Could be traps or totems or whatever else allows them to stack poison through the roof in no time.

Now what? Surgically balance all phys based trap and totem skills or just nerf poison?
What happens if you did that? Player will flock to the next best thing, whatever that might be.
And on and on it goes.


Thats is PoE in a nutshell.
Its always been like that and your solutions doesnt change that nor does it fix anything - it simply moves the goalpost and thats it.

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Esubane wrote:

3.20 ended up having the healthiest meta in years, very large number of skills and ascendancies saw play at high level (99-100) in softcore trade which is by far the most popular game mode. How popular?

Almost 17k characters reached lv. 100 in softcore trade
Meanwhile there are 14,3k characters on HC trade ladder - levels 85 to 100
Softcore SSF has 14,6k characters with lv. 93 as the cutoff.

Class distribution at level 100, SC trade

Witch 33%
Ranger 18%
Marauder 13%
Templar 10%
Scion 9%
Shadow 11%
Duelist 5%

I'd say this is quite an achievement - Witch is by far the most represented but that has been the case in any league in the past 3 years (at least) with some of them approaching 50% representation. Out of other six only Duelist was doing kinda bad overall, with Champion and Slayer still being quite healthy.

They really don't have to do much work here, players have a good choice of skills to choose from and one league isn't enough to try everything. Obviously 3.21 will have new stuff that will shift the meta - but we don't need any big balance manifesto. There might not be one.

This league's main fault was chaos orb stack size. This is unbearable with 300:1 exchange rates. Please raise to at least 50 pcs.