Cast on freeze nerf and overall thoughts so far.

Why you had to take my fun away...I bought early access to try this build who was looking fun. It took me lot of hours/efforts to make it work fine but only for few hours...
I dont want to start it all over, i stop. Maybe cya in few months.

hello, for me cast on freeze is very viable still, you can see how i fixed that: https://youtu.be/gI8B7wDzzMA

I was just playing regular freeze build with cof and didn't see any patch notes on this site -upgraded my on freeze with my 3 quality gem I found over 70 hours of play. Now it barely procs. Definatly not nice as I am all in frost, and while freeze is still cool I wasn't using some spark random button, 1 shot whole map stuff.

Feels bad.

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Yep, thanks for the nerf, I'm done with POE 2 now. GG

GGG has been saying for a few days that there will be a nerf of this broken build... you should have listened ;)

My take on this as new poe player...

I have spent about 30 hours in the game so far levelling a sorc, similiar to the post i started with lighting arc and quite quickly felt weak to the point that i was forced to grind gold to try out CoF/frost. Was really happy with how it was feeling and had a feeling of "oh i can do this!" Literally just got to the point that the build was going to work at its full potential, after hours of getting specced and getting the right support, and now its been nerfed into the ground... why?? now im stuck and faced with either grind again for hours to get enough gold to respec (to a most likely underwhelming build) or play a new character which is just going to make me burnt out as i was excited for endgame.

I understand that having a million comets on the screen is not what you intended, but you have literally made CoF irrelevant now, thats not a nerf, you could have just removed it entirely.

GGG, the game is good, but all this nerfs early on is killing the experience. At the very least give us a free respec.

Is it possible that some players on OP builds were telling normal players that they needed skill. Well, now that COF is balanced they can go ahead and display their skill with COF.

This nerf on cast on freeze is a joke, my build is useless now.. a nerf ok, but this. I changed my skill to more meta energy, gems with meta but its still not playable. the skill was called "cast on freeze". But he doesn't do anything anymore

WHY? WHY???? Why all devs instead of making other builds viable they just ruin the ones people have fun with !!!!

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alaitos11#3828 wrote:

It is not as bad as it seems. We all have a lot of +cold dmg, so just turn off CoF, enable artic shield and you can still cast frostbolts, frost bombs + comet and it's working fine.

Whats even the point of Cast on Freeze then? Just remove it from the game if its not meant to do anything more than "+5% damage at the wrong time".

Also the progression arc is messed up. You should be excited to unlock new high level skills and these skills should feel powerful. But instead, almost none of them do.

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SkunekPL#4261 wrote:

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Yep, thanks for the nerf, I'm done with POE 2 now. GG

GGG has been saying for a few days that there will be a nerf of this broken build... you should have listened ;)

Where are the nerfs to other broken builds? Lightning rangers for instance?

Whats even broken?

is it worth making a new build now?

Is it only ok to make a build if it feels weak?