Well done with breaking the Cast-On builds

ya but 20k energy shield with 4k mana archmage is apparently ok

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Simple2012#6247 wrote:

I'm done now.
Not even going to try anything else.
I'm out.

Dude, why not? You're beta tester, please do your job. WHy did you even subscribe for the EA beta test if you refuse to do your job?

Remember when Helldivers 2 came out and everyone loved it and then the devs started nerfing everything people were having fun with and then they lost most of the playerbase because people got fed up with them just nerfing anything that got popular and fun?

Pepperridge Farm remembers.

funny that even ignite doesnt do shit for sorc/witch and im talking about 200 magnitude with full fire glasscannon with flameblast u die before finish cast (orb + flameblast u can play by yourself GGG sorry). And outside of flame wall u cant even consistently apply burn cuz of low overall damage and low crit. Demon form... I... bruh... I cant, its just a placeholder smh. IDK what it is after cast on* nerf now. Witch suppose to have options use life as resource and leech it back... they buffed leech... sure... now go and fire your QA team cuz you cant even cover life cost of the skill, not even use it as defence layer. So everyone played mana regen/stack. Now only cast on death left with amulet that skyrocket to 100ex in 1h and will be nerfed in 24, minions and ice wall + firebolt that so much cancer to play. So much diversity. And demon form plays with arc till it dies on t6 map cuz 0 defence, u cant play PP cuz you cant use shield and u just lose life regen and max res, u cant do low max life cuz u buffed DF degen, can do nothing if DF ended - so much about fire fantasy. HTF u ended up nerfing DF if it not even worked properly to begin with?

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cursorTarget#1174 wrote:

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Simple2012#6247 wrote:

I'm done now.
Not even going to try anything else.
I'm out.

Dude, why not? You're beta tester, please do your job. WHy did you even subscribe for the EA beta test if you refuse to do your job?

Ok give me gold to respec so I can do my job then.

I'm fine with the nerfs, I felt like Cast on Freeze comet is pretty broken(my build).
I'm fine with my future builds being nerfed too sure.

BUT to gatekeep respeccing because:
"Oh your passive tree decisions should have weight and be carefully crafted"
in an early access game where things are changing all the time is just dumb.

Make it easier for players to change builds so that players can try more builds and find more broken stuff for GGG to make balance changes easier.
It's a win - win if they make respeccing easier.

Exactly, the invoker part of the invoker is gone. the extra energy gain is completely pointless. Who the **** cares aobut 100% increase of energy from 1 to 2 energy when you require 300? What for? It's completely pointless.

Why nerf the trigger builds? Just delete the trigger gems instead. Because they have absolutely no point in this game anymore. None will use them, they're completely useless, they cannot be relied on.

PoE 1 and 2 is and has always been a game that require reliable mechanics to work. A trigger once every 3 minutes isn't going to keep you alive nor give you any quality of life. Especially not for the cost of 100 spirit and a crap ton of spec on the tree to make it useful.

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Dude, why not? You're beta tester, please do your job. WHy did you even subscribe for the EA beta test if you refuse to do your job?

I'm a CBT and early-access player. I feel like I'm being messed around with. I'm the subject, the game is the tester, not the other way around. And Early-access is not beta-testing. Early access is exactly as it sounds like, you get the game earlier than others, though usually with a few problems left to solve. But you're not expected to be a beta tester.


What also bothers me is the fact spell casters already suffers so much in comparison to attack builds. We don't have runes, we don't have quality on weapons, we don't have any flat damage on items and we also don't have any leech. So we're completely dependant on massive mana-regen on the tree and also on life and mana potions.
There is just way too many problems to deal with and now the damage is gone? They want us to do what? Attack with frost wall? Really?

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cursorTarget#1174 wrote:

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Simple2012#6247 wrote:

I'm done now.
Not even going to try anything else.
I'm out.

Dude, why not? You're beta tester, please do your job. WHy did you even subscribe for the EA beta test if you refuse to do your job?

Even then i invested around 30 hours to get my sorc going. It cost me over 270k gold to just respec, while i am not able to clear any t1 maps right now.

Fuck it, i wont invest another 46 hours to get to the same point just to get stuck again.

If you see us as testers then we should get a test enviroment, means trader with uniques to test uniques, free change of skills, unlimited gold etc....

Basicly i am now forced to lvl another sorc to test the sorc again, this is plain stupid.

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Lessonius#6752 wrote:

Well, Sorc is literally Archmage or reroll/quit now, everything else is miserable.

I mean, that is what I wanted to play. But archmage requires level 14 spirit gem and level 58 character. How am I supposed to get here when every thing else is so underpowered ?

+1

This has hit so many builds (idk, 70% of the builds out there being cast-on-x ?)

First of all we either need a viable full free respec, or just a vast increase in gold drop (the respec is a better choice then tho.)

But giving the caster archetypes some sort of survivability outside of freezing stuff would be neat. When the primary survival comes from things being frozen or having enough ES to take a few hits, and no way to leech things back. (And to be fair, even if we could leech, the spells deals such low damage (apart from comet) that its just unplayable.