Cast on freeze nerf and overall thoughts so far.

Y’all know it’s beta and obviously it was getting nerfed.

You can’t really have a souls like game where people just run around screen cleaning. Don’t worry I’m sure other classes will be balanced.

In the meantime play archmage..

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kuciol#0426 wrote:

I get the frustration but it is Early Access, what the hell did you expect? Even full wipe of characters is not out of question. Changes will happen, and will happen often. This is entire point of EA. Its not here for you to just play the game, its not a release.

The logic of what you're saying fails when the remedy to the change forces you to grind for gold to afford a respec with a gimped toon, grind for currency to change your gear to suit that respec, or grind a new toon from scratch.

Early access testing is fine, but the answer in response to big changes like this is to offer free respecs to all players. Early access is a reason for things to be in flux, but it is absolutely not a reason to stop respecting the time EA players have invested in the game.

Started playing Sorc with intention of going Lightning - it was ok for a bit then got super weak - i switched to cold damage and finally unlocked cast on freeze - i spent all my gold and uncut support/skill gems to do this switch - finally played a bit and really enjoyed it - got off the game ready and excited to get on later that day and play only to realize my abilities felt off - yup it was absolutely destroyed - not even nerfed - they might aswell have deleted COF??

I truly hope they do something like they did with witch and reducing from 8 to 5 on fire - like reduce the energy a bit not take it out?

TILTED

COF is deleted! xD

congrats!

im so mad i will buy diablo4 expansion probably.

Dude, I just wasted half day yesterday to reskill to Cast on Freeze with Comets and was finally having some fun with this game after struggling 60 hours and now they nerf it.
Thank you!

I just grinded my ass off and made it to maps lastnight. Had all sorts of respeccing to do along the way on my sorc to try and make it feel any good. Was using fire at the time and had tried lightning already. Tried cold and unlocked CoF, and it started feeling really good. Went full send into cold and started feeling really good. Spent all my currency on gear, a nice cold staff and respeccing. Woke up this morning super excited to get back into maps, had a blast on tier 2 maps for about 3 maps. Seen there was a server shutdown for patch. After patch my build could no longer even clear a T2 map and CoF was completely obliterated. Logged off and havn't logged back on, and i dont know that i will, at least for a while. My enjoyment of the game went from 11 down to 1 (out of 10).

Nerfs are to be expected and that's fine. But for the lub of jeebus, give some warning before obliterating builds into the ground. This is not a nerf, it is oblivion. Went from having to freeze 1 mob to trigger, to around 12+ needed to trigger. Can not clear anything anymore and my excitement about reaching maps, FINALLY, has disintegrated completely.

THANKS GGG

This is early access so I am down with a lot but...

2 days notice would have been nice. I invested a lot cos I was struggling into the original dude who came up with the build.

A few hours later, it was the sorc build being pushed everywhere.

Okay, it does not fit your mold/idea set and you wish to end it. Just... give us a few minutes notice?

Cast on freeze from 100 energy to 10? Is this a joke?

I genuinely dont understand the game philosophy anymore ffs...
The whole fun of POE to me, was the incredible mix and interaction between gems. Taking that away frankly makes this diablo 3 or diablo 4, gameplay-wise.... sorry to say.

Sorry, thats wrong. In Diablo you zoom around and blow things up to get showered with loot, which is completely meaningless after one day of playing.

In POE 2 you need the same time to walk through one map and get zero loot. Then your build becomes useless over night since somehow one class had a strong setup which happened to interact with one of the support gems and instead of lowering the damageoutput of said main skill a bit, they just basically remove the support skill from the game.

Means, even you you try to play their "vision" by having a build where every white mob is an endboss you can still be royally bricked the next time someone figures out something which the devs hadnt forseen with 10 years of experience and you happen to have such a skill in your setup.