Very stupid Decision to kill Frost blade of katabasis
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I don't understand why ggg balances this game like it's a pvp game with an esports scene it's a for fun mostly single player pve game and instead of them buffing useless skills they cripple the few fun ones this makes me sick
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Stop playing meta skills and you will never have ur build nerfed.
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They seem to follow the road of introducing new op alternate quality gems every patch, that they cripple down to zero every other patch. For standard play,
What this does is pretty much makes all your rare gear useless as well. GGG doesn't seem to like us having good gear, they seem to believe all the gear is their gear. |
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" Nah, they just dont like people playing same thing all the time. |
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" Because a sizeable part of the community wants leagues to be different from one another. They want the META to be different from league to league. They want crafting and the market to be different, and not just the same builds pushing for people to craft/trade the same items. They want players to have a new/different approach to new leagues. That said, I totally understand the nerfs of Hexblast, Lightning Strike and Molten Strike of The Zenith. I'm having a more trouble understanding the Katabasis nerf, especially the scope of it. Maybe they are trying to force players to play it as intended; through scaling DoT? What made players play Katabasis instead of the original FB? Bring me some coffee and I'll bring you a smile. Last edited by Phrazz#3529 on Jun 6, 2025, 10:40:14 AM
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" Its ridiculus damage effectivenes which made stacking added ele with it super strong. |
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" So they went Katabasis because it just straight out gave you way more damage than the regular skill and are surprised about the nerf? Bring me some coffee and I'll bring you a smile.
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FBoK has the same damage effectiveness as regular frostblades. I think what made it popular was the huge strike range which is even higher than that of the regular gem.
https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Frost_Blades_of_Katabasis I suspect GGG wants the skill to be some strange quirk where you scale both the gem and the dot at the same time rather than just being a regular strike skill with a more or less irrelevant side effect. I wonder if that's feasible though, especially now that it's damage effectiveness is one of the lowest in the game. Builds that utilize both hit and dot damage equally at the same time rarely, if ever, work. Last edited by Baharoth15#0429 on Jun 6, 2025, 11:01:53 AM
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" why are buffs never as impactful as nerfs? this is some bullshit honestly they cripple skills and only give weaker skills a little buff |
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" The only one i can think of would be viperstrike. But ye maybe they want it to be the cold version of viperstrike... idk. Never played the alt skill one, but i had a league where i did regular frostblades and it was pretty good. Nice for clear and sorta sucked for singletarget. I guess the alt gem had both? I was gonna say i still got the char on my profile, but release i respecced him spark later on, so nop. |
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