Why would you make the Comet-triggering build UNPLAYABLE?

I'm playing as Sorceress, for about 30h of gameplay, I suffered from deaths, lack of damage, bad inconvient trading system.... And finally, I obtained the Cast on Freeze gem and the Comet gem, I was pretty happy with the trigger system and my build.

And now, after the patch, my build is basically unplayable. I have to freeze the enermy for about 10 times to trigger the Comet (I heared other triggers were also nerfed to the ground).

I just don't understand, if you(developers) thought the Comet-triggering build was overpowered, there're many ways to nerf it for a bit. You could have nerfed the damage of Comet, you could have increaed the spirit cost of the triggering gems, etc. Instead, you guys chose the worst way, now my build is completely trash. Btw the cost of respec is skyhigh I cannot afford it.

Could you please put some rebalance on?

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I just don't understand, if you(developers) thought the Comet-triggering build was overpowered, there're many ways to nerf it for a bit. You could have nerfed the damage of Comet, you could have increaed the spirit cost of the triggering gems, etc. Instead, you guys chose the worst way, now my build is completely trash

Indeed, this is the real crux of the matter. They could have brought cast on minion/ignite/shock into line with an internal CD, or put a less % damage multi on the meta gems...so many ways they could have balanced things.

They chose to delete the mechanics from the game instead. Cool.

The issue isnt that they nerfed the Cast on X skills. The issue was that every build needed a Cast on X linked to Comet to be viable.

Every witch/sorc/monk build was some variation of linking Comet to a cast on X build because the rest of the gems just arent scaled to do the same amount of base damage as comet and the Cast on X avoided the downsides of hard casting comet.

I definitely agree with the frustrations of most of the forums right now. GGG shouldnt have nerfed it this hard, GGG should provide some respec points and they for sure should address the main issue rather than nerfing the first thing they see.

The MAIN issue isnt that Cast on X was bad, it was that everything is so severely undertuned due to the below:
1. Passive skill tree is extremely spread out and at the rate you level vs the amount of power the mobs gain does not feel balanced
2. Skill gems arent balanced ( compare firestorm to comet )
3. Ascendancies provide little to no power.

We are still only 6 days into Early Access and the tuning knobs will be turned MULTIPLE times over the course of the 6 months +-. We need to have a mindset that this is BETA and that things will be adjusted accordingly in time. We are also still waiting for 6 other classes and each class is to eventually receive 3 ascendancies. Lets not jump the gun on anything right now

nerf all you need to nerf but for the love of whatever let us respec after. my skill tree is borked. i took a minion life node off and i lost 30 attributes?. i cant even use some of my gems lol. i cant afford 500k to respec.

They didn’t even just nerf comet trigger. I was doing a totally different build with cast on shock triggering Lightning Conduit and that is also totally bricked now. It wasn’t even crazy OP. It was just good enough to be playable.

This might be the worst patch I have ever experienced in a game.

About the nerfs, ok fine. If you don't want that mechanic to function as it was then I'm OK with the decision.

No free respec after completely nuking characters?
What. The. Fuck.
Skill/support gems should also be refunded.

Extremely poor moves like this are very concerning.
Getting real New World vibes from this. They went from 900k players to averaging 10k btw.

Yep
Im not going to be playing for a few weeks because the game just is too unfun.

Literally everyone who is in Maps got there with the Cheese or 5 man groups

I didnt go that way and the game has a really bad taste in my mouth.

Two years of waiting for a POE game only to get a Diablo/Souls game

Disappointed

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melkoriii#5637 wrote:

Yep
Im not going to be playing for a few weeks because the game just is too unfun.

Literally everyone who is in Maps got there with the Cheese or 5 man groups

I didnt go that way and the game has a really bad taste in my mouth.

Two years of waiting for a POE game only to get a Diablo/Souls game

Disappointed

I'm in maps, fully solo.

6 my friends are also in maps with 4 different builds.

Stop creating problem where there isn't one.

And it's not about skill, you just don't want to adapt. Its not poe1, its different game in same franchise, so play it as it is and there will be as much fun as in po1

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eN41#5559 wrote:

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melkoriii#5637 wrote:

Yep
Im not going to be playing for a few weeks because the game just is too unfun.

Literally everyone who is in Maps got there with the Cheese or 5 man groups

I didnt go that way and the game has a really bad taste in my mouth.

Two years of waiting for a POE game only to get a Diablo/Souls game

Disappointed

I'm in maps, fully solo.

6 my friends are also in maps with 4 different builds.

Stop creating problem where there isn't one.

And it's not about skill, you just don't want to adapt. Its not poe1, its different game in same franchise, so play it as it is and there will be as much fun as in po1

He clearly explains he has a problem -the game is not fun.
Stop gaslighting people.
You do not get to dictate what other finds fun, challenging or a good/bad game.

tried to safe sorc w archmage, 5% more mana / cast not sustainable on my mom sorc.
cast comet aborts 2 often - make it instant cast and drop w delay!
other spells deal 0 dmg :D

sorc dead.