Warrior Titan got destroyed by the bugfix on armour explosion - Now what?!

The only build that made titan semi-viable in the endgame was killed off by the bugfix to armour explosion proccing recursively.

It wasn't even that good to start off since stampede's behavior is unpredictable and will randomly change direction with no real consistency.

Yet spark and deadeye variants are untouched?

What does GGG have against meelee and what I'm supposed to do now that I've sunk 70 hours into my character with no way to respec ascendancy.

- Fixed a bug where the Explosion from the Armour Explosion Support could explode inanimate objects.
- Fixed a bug where the Explosion from the Armour Explosion Support could trigger itself recursively.

Yep. Feels bad man.

Stampede was the only build I could get to work in high level maps that was even remotely viable- at best B-Tier.

Now it's trash-tier. My clear speed dropped by at least half- and it already was pretty slow.

Warrior-Mace is completely dead.

Its not completely dead imo but doing a few maps this morning it felt pretty bad honestly

since warbringer 'below 0 armor' ascendancy wont be fixed now until new year I specced out (at 30k per point, ouch) to the detonate dead enemies on shout, which mitigates some of the damage of this 'bug fix'

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kuek#5222 wrote:

Yep. Feels bad man.

Stampede was the only build I could get to work in high level maps that was even remotely viable- at best B-Tier.

Only it wasn't even a build.
It is not even abusing a skill.

It is plain and simple bug abusing.

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Skellymancer#5263 wrote:

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kuek#5222 wrote:

Yep. Feels bad man.

Stampede was the only build I could get to work in high level maps that was even remotely viable- at best B-Tier.

Only it wasn't even a build.
It is not even abusing a skill.

It is plain and simple bug abusing.

We all knew it was bug, what is your point?

Does a class only being viable because of a bug make any sense whatsoever, anyway?

This is stupid, the only mechanic that made warriors be played as a less clunky, slow mess was this armour explosion to me.

After struggling since launch, I finally stumbled into this way to play yesterday, and the future looked decent, but now I'm planning to quit for a very long time or get another character, because warrior was trash and just got worse.


The fact that you need to waste more than a dozen hours on the campaign to reach endgame is terrible for this as well.

Bumping

I think you guys should have taken the hint whenever auto attack was viable in end game because of attack speed penalties. It is not enjoyable at all. Do yourself a favor and play monk if you like melee until they make warrior better or add axes/swords.

bump

I mean it was and is quite obvious that GGG is going to crack down on all builds and skills that remotely work well and make the game fun.

You are supposed to sheeple and play one single skill or build each League after all. They don't know any other balancing than "make one thing OP per league". The days of "every skill works and is fun" are over since 2014 when they started hard nerfing the majority of all skills in POE 1.

POE 2 was not going to be any different, if anything, it is supposed to be a hardcore hackfest and not fun and casual to play.

How you all got melee to work is a mystery to me anyways, I tried it and constantly get my ass handed to me, the ranger, merc and summoner and sorc have an easier time destroying enemies and surviving than the heavy warrior.