Trivializing the game with a level 10 staff.

It's because most of the player power comes from gear, so your level is irrelevant, passive tree is useless

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IonSugeRau1#1069 wrote:

How is it possible that I can completely walk over everything with a level 10 staff till act 4 and probably even beyond?

Trade or no trade... this is not okay.



UPDATE:

Reached endgame with said staff and also proceeded to try a tier 14 normal map (lvl78) with no further upgrades at level 64.

Something I forgot to show in the video was that I do have some atlas points as well and "Boss difficulty" is +2 from Atlas passives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CQCn-CpPHs&t=165s

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/IonSugeRau1-1069/character/SpikyGorl

This is the difficulty the game is at right now and the kind of balance it strikes.

This is purely you misunderstanding the interaction for spells.

Spells power comes from their levels. did you complete the game with a level 5 skill gem? I think not. You have a +2 staff with 130% increased spell power. that +2 is less than 10% of the actual "Skill Level" that you have.

I am going to assume, seeing as you stated you have some atlas passives that you have a 3 or maybe 4 socket spell as well? I am also assuming that you used level 5 support gems in said sockets? Did you get an ascendency carry? Did you stack mana gear with the currency from your previous toon so that you can actually CAST the overlevelled spell? All of these things will make a huge difference.

Player power is probably a little high at the moment for certain skill combo's but this is not fundamentally the gears problem. It is purely the scaling of the skills themselves.

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Hoelun#0576 wrote:

It's because most of the player power comes from gear, so your level is irrelevant, passive tree is useless

Really?

Okay, I removed passive tree nodes in PoB and left only enough attributes to use the skills and gear I have.

Compared to my original passive tree, I now have -54% damage and -30% EHP.

Idk. If I picked up a piece of gear that gave me double more damage and a third more EHP, I'd not call it useless.