Why GGG_Neon promote the PERMA freeze mobs and bosses?

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NotRegret wrote:

I hate to break it you but PoE is not a difficult game: it never was.
You need to put restrictions on yourself in order to have any challenge.

Partying is already game-breaking in of itself which is why many players choose to go solo.

Even within soloing there are game-breakers like duel totem.

Personally I think its GGG devs who don't want to nerf their own characters but even ignoring that its not like the game didn't have its share of EZ mode options already

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I_NO wrote:

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NotRegret wrote:

I hate to break it you but PoE is not a difficult game: it never was.
You need to put restrictions on yourself in order to have any challenge.

Partying is already game-breaking in of itself which is why many players choose to go solo.

Even within soloing there are game-breakers like duel totem.

Personally I think its GGG devs who don't want to nerf their own characters but even ignoring that its not like the game didn't have its share of EZ mode options already

What are you like high and mighty now because you did your own self challenge meaning it's ez mode now? The fuck kind of logic is that lol

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And end game? Just run safe maps or only do piety runs, sell off the trash to noobs, collect chaos orbs than buy all your big ticket items without ever running those dangerous high level maps!

All of these methods make the game super easy, just like perma-freeze.

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kasub wrote:

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And end game? Just run safe maps or only do piety runs, sell off the trash to noobs, collect chaos orbs than buy all your big ticket items without ever running those dangerous high level maps!

All of these methods make the game super easy, just like perma-freeze.

That doesn't make the game easy, that's just avoiding hard maps.. the challenging content.

You can't avoid hard maps and progress in the map system. Piety is not going to get you levels. The main incentive of mapping is to get a higher level.

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Dravkwn wrote:

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reboticon wrote:

Guy who does a lot of the balancing = guy who brought freezemine trick to the forefront, so what you say is at least somewhat flawed.

I'm sure you meant freeze mine tactic, and as far as flawed, you'll have to be more specific since increasing the dps of a frozen monster from 0 by 500% is still 0. You can balance a boss to a point when dps and defenses fall within a certain range, all or nothing in itself is very suggestive if not out right informative that there is no in between or balance point and thus you can't balance a boss or any monster around freeze mine.

Its highly effective and probably shouldn't exist without it being at least a dedicated build requirement. In its current standings anyone with increased AoE, elemental prolif, cold pen can use it. If they did something like making it so the only AoE that affected the skill was from your passive tree it would lose a lot of effectiveness for most players as they probably don't spec increased AoE. But this is mere speculation, still need more data for an accurate analysis and I'm not much of a data miner or care deeply enough to investigate heavily.


I do enjoy being the opposition playing counter point and when I'm too tired to game here is a good spot to debate things of interest or high activity.

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LorewynGaming wrote:

2: Does anyone really care? Something like this is going to happen every league. You don't have it into top 10 by playing 100% fair and legit, you need to have some cheesy strat's.

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LorewynGaming wrote:

2: Does anyone really care? Something like this is going to happen every league. You don't have it into top 10 by playing 100% fair and legit, you need to have some cheesy strat's.

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IamtheAxeMan wrote:

I am still upset at legacy uniques.