Cast on freeze nerf and overall thoughts so far.

I have the same feelings, since now my cast on shock almost stopped firing, my eyes hurt much less from the flashes, finally the sorceress became calm during the game and now I can focus on fighting my sworn enemy, i.e. white mobs. Great rebalance

I put the last bit of currency into the build. In order to somehow save it, the tree points were redistributed and gems were bought for meta energy. No chance. Switching to manual Comet doesn't help, in the cast time the white mobs will tear you apart. So all that's left is to spam Frost Wall - hope that the mobs bite and get on it "quickly", but that doesn't always work, so you then flee from the white mobs, which are generally far too fast. The defense is too weak despite relatively good armor because the tree points are used for other things. Yesterday I did t4 (had a lot of fun) - today it's too weak for T1 (super annoying), or can only be done with a lot of time. Out of interest, I looked around at well-known streamers on YouTube. Mostly groups that easily defeat bosses without any effort, run super fast through the maps and have screens full of items like in Poe1, Op endlessly.. but hey, we're nerfing them small solo player with her cast on. I'm out, what and with what should I now reskill to something new that will be nerfed again next week anyway. Why don't we just let us play for a few weeks first and take care of other things like the buggy endgame, the missing skills, acts 4-6 and so on... think about what's more important. why did I just buy the supporter pack... it's just not fun

Lightning rod/LA will never get nerfed.
GGG is in love with it.

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naekseru#5195 wrote:

This isn't a free-to-play early access game, and yet they're wasting players time. If the game is in the state you're describing, it should be in a closed early access phase with dedicated testers, not released to the public. I’m not here to test their game – I just want to play and have fun.

It doesnt matter if its free or not. You not understanding what you got yourself into doesnt change its purpose. EA is literally for testing and making adjustments even to core design if needed.

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When you nerf like this, you create distrust in the company. Now Im afraid of investing time into anything that may be feeling strong because it may just be nerfed to hell.

You are playing the game with the wrong frame of mind, you are intentionally picking the most broken(meta) build at any moment, when you find your own creation is "underwhelming", this is a YOU problem. Coming from a PvP standpoint, I personally don't like 'meta chasers'.

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Climet#7103 wrote:

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When you nerf like this, you create distrust in the company. Now Im afraid of investing time into anything that may be feeling strong because it may just be nerfed to hell.

You are playing the game with the wrong frame of mind, you are intentionally picking the most broken(meta) build at any moment, when you find your own creation is "underwhelming", this is a YOU problem. Coming from a PvP standpoint, I personally don't like 'meta chasers'.

What is the best outcome when nerfing? You fix the problem in with as little changes as needed and theb ideally the vision or spirit of the thing can exist in the way it meant to be.

Nerfing is not, delete the functionality of skill entirely so it no longer even functions as its name.

It was a 99% reduction in functionality.

Imagine if your 100dps auto attack was reduced to 1 DPS. it's over kill.

I'm just confused GGG is unable to balance.

Cost on freeze with meteors SHOULD be balanced to be normal damage in line with everything else. Instead they just deleted it from the game.

Being able to actually provide a nerf, while keeping in the game would be pro dev move. But they just deleted. That's what's sad. And dumb.

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xXIISK47IIXx#6513 wrote:

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Climet#7103 wrote:

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When you nerf like this, you create distrust in the company. Now Im afraid of investing time into anything that may be feeling strong because it may just be nerfed to hell.

You are playing the game with the wrong frame of mind, you are intentionally picking the most broken(meta) build at any moment, when you find your own creation is "underwhelming", this is a YOU problem. Coming from a PvP standpoint, I personally don't like 'meta chasers'.

What is the best outcome when nerfing? You fix the problem in with as little changes as needed and theb ideally the vision or spirit of the thing can exist in the way it meant to be.

Nerfing is not, delete the functionality of skill entirely so it no longer even functions as its name.

It was a 99% reduction in functionality.

Imagine if your 100dps auto attack was reduced to 1 DPS. it's over kill.

I'm just confused GGG is unable to balance.

Cost on freeze with meteors SHOULD be balanced to be normal damage in line with everything else. Instead they just deleted it from the game.

Being able to actually provide a nerf, while keeping in the game would be pro dev move. But they just deleted. That's what's sad. And dumb.

You don't get the memo, nor care to. Stop attaching so much emotion to a clearly broken build.

Here's the direct quotation and reasoning on why they did change that, try reading:

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Trigger gem energy gain was not in the right place and it was far too easy to use ailments to trigger spells. One problem with the previous system is that if we balanced it to make triggering happen in boss fights then the triggering would happen far too often during clearing. In order to address this we are now making "Monster Power" part of the calculation for energy gain. This means that it's far easier to trigger skills from Unique Monsters than it is from normal monsters, but you also hit many more normal monsters when fighting. Another issue was using low level skills with unconditional ailment applications such as Flame Wall to ignite enemies for triggering. In order to make the source of the ignite matter we are making the energy gain be dependent on the strength of the ignite. We have also rebalanced all energy gain across the board.

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Climet#7103 wrote:

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When you nerf like this, you create distrust in the company. Now Im afraid of investing time into anything that may be feeling strong because it may just be nerfed to hell.

You are playing the game with the wrong frame of mind, you are intentionally picking the most broken(meta) build at any moment, when you find your own creation is "underwhelming", this is a YOU problem. Coming from a PvP standpoint, I personally don't like 'meta chasers'.

First off, it doesnt take 200IQ to pick the ONE skill you are allowed to pick at level (11?) skill gem....its literally a choice between cast on freeze, cast on ignite or cast on shock. Then it doesnt take 200 IQ to figure out that casting the slowest most powerful skill would be ideal (Comet) so not everyone was "meta chasing" and most probably just naturally went there.

Second, this is FAR from the most broken build. I've seen about 6 other builds from other classes so far that absolutely crush this build in power level that can clear the whole screen with a click or two way better than Cast on Frost ever could.

As a casual player, just getting to play when my kids are in bed or when I'm done with work this hurts..

I just reached lvl 41, wanted to go comet..

FFS.. I am not restarting my build. If this isn't fixed I will most likely stop it till they fix it.. Also, because currency is scarce and items don't drop very often remodding is abominable.

This is what you guys probably intended when you brought Ruthless to the table of PoE 1..

I tried to continue playing but just gave up.

Did it need a nerf? Probably, yes.
Did it need to go from 11/10 to -1/10? No, no I don't think so...