Content Update 0.3.0 — Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict

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The Gore Spike Passive Skill now grants 1% increased Critical Damage Bonus per 50 Life (previously 40), and has swapped locations with the Sunder the Flesh Notable Passive Skill.

Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious, but I can't think of a reason why swapping the location of Gore Spike and Sunder the Flesh isn't a negative for build diversity with virtually no benefit anywhere else.

Very few Witch builds take Sunder the Flesh as it only really benefits Detonate Dead and maybe Hexblast from the Occult skills. Most other damaging Occult spells already have a 15% crit chance, and quite a few of the Elemental skills are 11-13% already so wouldn't benefit a huge amount. In fact, scanning through poe2.ninja, Sunder the Flesh seems to really only be taken for Spark & COC Arc. Those builds already get some benefit from Gore Spike, even if they may not really want it, so the node isn't a total waste.

Yes, Lightning Spear Blood Mage was very strong in Dawn of the Hunt, but Lightning Spear is already getting balanced down, and only half of those LS Blood Mages took Gore Spike anyway.

A Witch ascendency node that's primarily used by only one or two Elemental lightning spells being an inefficient prerequisite for a node that's useful to multiple Occult / Elemental spells AND some attack builds doesn't seem consistent with a patch that's aiming to improve build diversity.

If Gore Spike is specifically intended to only be used with spells rather than, for example, a gory spike (i.e., a spear), then it could be changed to grant increased Critical Spell Damage Bonus instead. There are already a few nodes like that in the Witch/Sorc part of the tree. At the very least, Sunder the Flesh could be changed to grant +5% critical strike chance to spells so that spells like Bone Storm / Bone Cage (i.e., spells that conjure gory spikes) that already have a 15% crit chance get some benefit from taking it.

The builds, the options!!
shields looking good, warbringer
and Chayula :D

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coffee19#6845 wrote:

The builds, the options!!
shields looking good, warbringer
and Chayula :D

Funny... shield is the one thing that I disliked. Feels much weaker now imho. As the base block chance is so low that will not be worth to sacrifice 2 handed weapon for that IMHO.

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Zacheous#3845 wrote:

"Two Campaigns. One Game."
Bring WASD to PoE 1.

Stop living in the past move over to poe 2 and embrace the future!

GGG don't ruin max elemental resists just because you implemented some armor before res technique.
Why replacing max ele res on every cluster or on every item with this, make new clusters for that on passive tree why am i forced to use that i don't wanna use that i wanna use max ele resists!

This post is directed mainly to Jonathan Rogers. Do you have a gambling problem or fetish that you are trying to force upon me? The crafting system is almost at the maximum disappointing and frustrating. It is a instant roulette of disappointment with no guarantee that eventually it will work in your favor. I tried to finish the campaign may times and I am one boss fight away from doing so at the closest but I always quit playing the game because of the gear progression system. The only real options at my disposal are go trade, which I find ungratifying if done is excess or make a sacrifice to the gods or RNG so i can get a decent item. As i see it in the last patch we will get some good new mechanics but in a proportional manner we will get more bad ones so the whole system stays the same as far as level of frustration. I want 3 choices of modifier from start to finish (transmutation, augmentation, regal, exalt and alchemy), I want to choose which modifier to reroll with with chaos and which to remove with annulment and so on. I WANT A REAL CRAFTING SYSTEM, NOT A SLOT MACHINE OF DISSAPOINTMENT then give up and go trade so I can progress gear wise.

When an update to all auras (character effect)

Any technical improvements? Performance boosts?

Hope they will improve drops for the loot. Cause some of jewels and items are not found in other dimensions. Like they are myth

WASD in a CRPG will always be a deal breaker for me.