Well done with breaking the Cast-On builds

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Cast on freeze was too strong, that's true. But now it's completely useless. A slight nerf, a few fewer procs would have been okay, but the nerf was too strong.
Now the builds are completely useless, many have neither gold for a respect nor currency for a new build/items.
..And maybe they can't farm with the current build anymore (because it broke)
And you can't change the ascendancy either.
Early access or not, it makes no sense for most players to spend 20-40 hours leveling a character that is completely unusable after a short time.
Of course, early access is there to test and make changes, but the game has to be fun for the player and give them the opportunity to test things without investing hours every time and losing everything again.


sorry for my bad English.

terrible decision with these skills.

I would have nerfed the energy generation by about 50%, then nerf comet's damage by about 20% and reduce comet's extra cast time by 50% on top of that.

cast on builds would still be fine for the most part, and people would be incentivized to try self cast comet builds

now cast on builds are trash, and no one will ever play self cast comet because that's even more trash

they're making the same mistakes they made in poe 1 with things like hexblast. I used to feel like the devs arent even playing the game in poe 1 days because some of the changes just didnt make any sense. we're back to that trend

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I'm done playing until they:

A) Give us a free respec

B) At least partially revert the nerfs

C) Druid gets released


The nerfs clearly weren't thought out AT ALL. You could have easily solved the OP-ness of them by limiting the number of triggers. All they would have had to do is either put a short cooldown on triggers or put a limit to the number of times per second/min/trigger that the triggered spell could go off.

Whoever came up with this nerf didn't put an ounce of thought into it.

It was a stupid and broken build, way too easy and OP for what it was and needed some balancing, but not this...
Typical GGG solution, just nerf if into oblivion, 100 to 0.
I hope they will actually balance it before 1.0 otherwise none of the energy Meta gems are usable.

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MarkoszHU#6033 wrote:

It was a stupid and broken build, way too easy and OP for what it was and needed some balancing, but not this...
Typical GGG solution, just nerf if into oblivion, 100 to 0.
I hope they will actually balance it before 1.0 otherwise none of the energy Meta gems are usable.

Have you played ranger?
Try it, I recommend right or left mouse button click

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I just jumped on and read the path notes and I now have zero interest in playing, if you're going to make such massive changes you need to give us some way of fixing our character. I know it's beta yada yada, that's fine, but give us a free respec token when you make such massive changes so we're not just stuck with a bricked character.

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100K to respec ... just another 5 hours of grinding with a build that no longer can kill stuff


Back to POE1 for a bit.