Herald of Ice with Polcirkeln Needs a fix

Right now, ever build can have its clear speed improved by incorporating a tiny amount of cold damage and Polcirkeln to trigger Herald of Ice.

Something needs to be done as soon as possible.

Not really.

I ended up dropping polci and clearing just as good (same huge explosions) with better spec on my heralds.


Polci takes up a ring slot for mediocre stats in a world where we have unset rings and breach rings with ingenuity belt.



Polci is fine, you're trading budget clear for a shitton of DPS/survivability you're losing.


(I'm clearly not talking about blatantly broken interactions like the Ruetoo build)

Well it is one of many broken things in poe2 right now.
I think ggg just let it be this "season" and with the next economy reset, i expect many nerfs. Like pyro selfdamage barrier invocation, archmage, attributestacking and this one are only a few examples.

I would like to see the line on Porcirceln changed:

"Enemies Chilled by your Hits can be Shattered as though Frozen"

to

"Enemies Chilled by your Spell Hits can be Shattered as though Frozen"

This interaction can chain whole screens of monsters, things like that were already nerfed and this one should be nerfed too if we are about to be fair.

I seem to not have gotten the point across clear enough.

you get THE SAME HUGE SCREEN CLEAR with both heralds properly specced. No need for a ring. Anyone playing heralds at real endgame content knows this.


Changing polci ring to only affect spells will not stop me from blowing the entire screen with my heralds, as I can reach the same effect without it.



There's far worse offenders that instead of taking up a ringslot and gimping your boss damage actually delete bosses on their own.


(just cuz u see mathil or whoever blowing everything up with something, doesn't mean it's the only way of reaching such effect or that there aint better options)

Then it is Herald of Ice alone that is the problem and needs to be fixed.

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RickyDMMontoya#7961 wrote:

Then it is Herald of Ice alone that is the problem and needs to be fixed.

Sure. But it isn't really an urgent matter, is it? There's more important things to focus on. I like my explosions, they are fun.

Keep your grubby little hands off Herald.

There's a reason GGG didn't nerf it completely WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THEY DID NERF ONE PART OF IT:


"Fixed a bug where Herald of Ice was still exploding shattered enemies when the gem was set to be used with your currently inactive weapon set."



You'll understand things much better when you stop thinking you know your shit and start paying attention to what the devs do and why they do it.

If herald was actually a problem, more changes would've been made, just like they just did with self feeding meta gem setups.



(we gotta stop acting like the devs are oblivious to stuff just cause you think it should be changed and then it doesn't get changed)

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DarKWolF90#6544 wrote:

(we gotta stop acting like the devs are oblivious to stuff just cause you think it should be changed and then it doesn't get changed)

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