1.0.0 Balance Changes

Really f$&@&$@ cool, pardon my censored language. The changes to 4Ls, and 5Ls, are extremely cool. Very, very good.

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Maps: Maps are the best place to find end-game base types and high Unique items. This is appropriate because they're gated behind high currency requirements (to reroll the mods you want). In addition, the highest ones are great for experience gain. They also offer the highest challenge levels for extreme players who want to test themselves against brutal combinations of mods.

This is a good recap but does not mention any change to the mapping system. Was there mention of removing the 'maze' affix from the map pool and stabilizing innate map base size rng?

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To solve this, we're making auras more powerful but are increasing their mana reservation costs. There are new aura cost reduction passives that allow you to specialise in having many auras if you still want to be a full-on aura character. Now each aura that affects you can really be felt and there's a lot more diversity in aura loadout. When we're testing high level characters it's amazing how different they feel when different combinations of auras are selected.

I sense yet another aura nerf coming. First inner force, then the various bugs you could abuse and now this. I do not want 30% stronger auras, I want the ones I currently have in their weakened form but at the very least I can run several of them synergisticly. Purity, vitality and haste instead of a vastly improved version of 2 of them.

Please for do not make it so I can only run 2 of them where as Currently I can run 3 but changing their mana reverberation from 40% to something ridiculous like 55%.
Youve beaten aura based builds to death already and most builds just slap on blood magic keystone (or soul taker), wrath, anger, grace and call it a day.

i play hc...and will play nemesis but atm i feel shafted...and im sure alot of perma hc players would feel the same...as before its a bittersweet feeling...exspecially when you just spent over 40ex++++ easy on crafting a gg bow or 2h wep....then theres staffs with there retarded rolls of both physical and spell (can reroll the crit but burnt out currency)...staffs r the worst thing to craft

Does this mean you will be buffing some of the 2hander unique's?

I like those most of these changes. Especially this:

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It's approximately 233% easier to obtain four linked sockets.

However I have some doubts about solo play. Playing in party will be FAR easier than it is now, coz of aura stacking. Solo players get nerf in return.. I really have doubts about that.

If I have a 2H weapon with the current highest tier damage affix, will it upgrade to the new highest tier? If not this seems to really screw over people who have mirrored 2H weps or just insane 2H weps currently. Any details you can share would be great!

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CookieVortex wrote:

Playing in party will be FAR easier than it is now, coz of aura stacking. Solo players get nerf in return.. I really have doubts about that.

exactly. auras were and still are some of the bigger reasons why group > solo in PoE.

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k0do wrote:

Is it just the % auras, or the flat ones too?

because if the flat auras are increased in mana cost too, thats a pretty big blow to the blood magic keystone :/

Most of the flat cost auras are changing to being percent based for cost as well.

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Qarl wrote:

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k0do wrote:

Is it just the % auras, or the flat ones too?

because if the flat auras are increased in mana cost too, thats a pretty big blow to the blood magic keystone :/

Most of the flat cost auras are changing to being percent based for cost as well.

Whoa o.O that was probably worth mentioning in the original post.

New Auras sound great and I also love 2handers and dots. :D
Awesome news! :)