+10 (Stat) Nodes

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Ozgwald wrote:

They are quite powerful and useful in some builds, allowing you to focus your gear in one direction while the nodes provide both the gear and gem combination requirements. I would not change them as such, however they are somewhat flawed and could not some love in other areas.

The issue with the nodes is that with the current keystones and different play-styles playing a role they often lose a lot of their value.

If you grab bloodmagic than intelligence nodes lose their mana contribution.
Ancestral bond makes you lose the accuracy value from dex nodes. Spell casters have no use for accuracy and there is no keystone or support to turn this into something useful (unlike strength).
Unwavering stance makes you lose the evasion value of the dexterity nodes, unless you grab IR (huge build limitation this combo 12 nodes minimal path between them, tree travel variation killer.)
Strength in general is only worth 1/2 its value due to being melee only. Tough the keynode and two gem supports do something for it.

Those are a few examples and than there is an issue with the scaling of evasion and accuracy. Due to this dexterity nodes lose a huge amount of value for players. Can't blame dexterity, more an issue with the design choice of evasion and accuracy. Yet if you compare the non linear scaling that dexterity bonuses have, compared to the linear scaling of both int and strength, than dexterity is very inferior.

It is also funny that what makes keeping accuracy strong, the chance to crit, thus the melee crit nodes are mostly found on the left side of the tree. Far away from the dexterity and accuracy nodes (do have the general crit nodes). Only bow users got it done better here (and dual wield is ok, ofc). It is also strange that accuracy or the chance to crit gets mixed up with evasion. This has become strange due to having reflect in the game. The system,

evasion, which completely lacks the ability to address reflect gets mixed up with crit and accuracy.

The last issue is that there are areas along the tree where the passive tree is not constructed according to the system seen across 90% of the tree. These often have to do with travel nodes and paths, where there might be too many of them or some notables are linked to the wrong +10 nodes. It is a bit to detailed to delve into these (also has to do with you EA changes and why they aren't "right" though they look right). Just assume these are present and they have a profound experience on starting areas, without most noticing. It is weird that GGG deviates, so I assume there must be a reason. If GGG don't share their vision and their choices for the game and passive tree, than all we can do is guesswork and come with what look like great ideas, that might be very stupid in the light of the game overall design.

If you got Idroo and skype I wouldn't mind to explain and discuss this with a few players. I overlooked some finesse before another player (kenshid) pointed it out to me.\

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/401625/page/3 The link goes more in depth about what I am saying I also got some pictures there. Since it is such an elaborate system a simple discussion is almost impossible on this subject.