Game Balance in Path of Exile: Expedition

MashedMosha · 2021-07-20T00:45:16+00:00

read through the first paragraphs thinking they didn't nerf slams, then BOOM, seismic cry is now a quin-only skill.

SEND_ME_UR_DOOTS · 2021-07-19T23:24:50+00:00

Tears flowing down my face, I delete my 3.15 build folder. Open google chrome, type "ziz essence drain" into the search bar.

"This is the last time, I promise" I say to myself.

DuBB1T · 2021-07-19T22:48:26+00:00

"As usual, we've buffed firestorm"

Self-aware GGG

reonZ · 2021-07-19T23:15:00+00:00

As usual, we've buffed Firestorm

Someday

garmeth06 · 2021-07-19T22:37:28+00:00

RIP Diamond Flask, you served us well

The most notable change that hasn't been announced yet is to the Diamond Flask. It previously granted "Your Critical Strikes are Lucky". This single effect provided a massive boost to your critical strike chance, more than any one source in the game. Because flasks no longer provide that much power, it has been changed to provide 100% increased critical strike chance instead, more in-line with the power of other flasks.

Zera_2018 · 2021-07-19T22:52:07+00:00

Fortify AND Seismic nerfed?

Duelists in shambles.

frasafrase · 2021-07-19T23:29:34+00:00

Spells triggered with Cast on Death don't require you to pay the costs.

Oh thank god!

Gourok · 2021-07-20T01:59:08+00:00

League mechanic involves areas that spawn monsters after a delay, nerf everything but traps.

GGG being subtle like the brick to the face they just gave elementalist.

Akoltry · 2021-07-19T22:49:59+00:00

Focus's cooldown no longer expires while it's active, as players were able to keep Focus effects up almost permanently, which provided a huge amount of powerful benefits.

LOL rip that one guy who tried (kind of got) 100% focus uptime

CloudEnvoy · 2021-07-19T22:42:57+00:00

Holy shit they actually just completely removed immunity on ele and inq. MASSIVE

Gourok · 2021-07-19T23:07:32+00:00

So secondwind got the "taken behind the shed" treatment this time around, gotta admit that was not the gem I expected to be retired.

the_x_ile · 2021-07-19T22:37:31+00:00

ctrl + F "archmage":

"Archmage has had its damage based on the mana cost of the supported skill lowered (60% of mana cost from 108% at level 20)."

big nerf

Saonidas · 2021-07-19T23:37:35+00:00

"Abyss Jewels can no longer roll the modifier that grants a chance to gain Onslaught on Kill."

RIP to all the ppl that don't read patch notes and think they are unlucky not hitting Onslaught. Also, doesn't this just make everyone take phasing instead now?

Madous · 2021-07-19T22:55:01+00:00

The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%)

This is just painful.

Exdunn · 2021-07-19T22:40:21+00:00

"Poison now inherently deals 50% more damage."

Interesting.

CassiusBenard · 2021-07-20T00:21:50+00:00

Whew, glad they didn't nerf my boy Cast on Death. Was really afraid of having to keep enough unreserved mana to cast my spells.

Omisid0215 · 2021-07-19T22:49:05+00:00

Metamorph League called, they want their bow buffs

blade427 · 2021-07-19T22:46:49+00:00

"so enemies on Consecrated Ground no longer have additional base chance to be critically hit."

Well inquisitors got a rebound hit LUL

KamuiSeph · 2021-07-19T22:48:59+00:00

Flame Dash's cooldown time is now 3.5 seconds (from 3) and has 0-19% increased cooldown recovery rate (from 0-47%)

RIP.

The Second Wind support gem has been changed to have a much higher mana multiplier, and a penalty rather than a boost to cooldown recovery speed

Jesus.

Senistra095 · 2021-07-19T22:56:17+00:00

Onslaught jewel is kill

tddahl · 2021-07-19T22:49:39+00:00

After the rework to the Veiled item system in 3.14.0, we've reviewed how the Veiled Chaos Orb and Aisling crafts from Betrayal Safehouses work, and have made some changes to make crafting less deterministic in the outcomes, as the Unveiled modifiers can be very powerful additions to an item.

Less deterministic crafting yet again

Nicktator2 · 2021-07-19T22:38:05+00:00

Dying Sun still grants 15-25% area of effect and 2 additional projectiles. Thank the lord.

zajoba · 2021-07-19T22:48:08+00:00

POISON TRAPPIN LIKE IT'S 2013 LETS GO

ZombiesAteMyBrain · 2021-07-20T00:42:02+00:00

So Second Wind is now worse than useless for instant skills?

RandomMagus · 2021-07-19T23:26:23+00:00

Is it just me or did they calculate the More AoE wrong everywhere? AoE hasn't been a straight radius multiplication since before 3.0 right?

14 radius -> 42 radius is 800% More AoE not 200%.

Also RIP everything that isn't traps I guess lol.

blackstarpwr10 · 2021-07-20T00:22:59+00:00

GGG: players are killing mid tier bosses in seconds and that makes it hard to balance

Also GGG:kill this boss as fast as possible before degens cover the entire arena lol

Giant_Midget83 · 2021-07-19T23:51:07+00:00

Nerfed smoke mine and movement skills, not having quicksilver and not being able to remove curses very well(temp chains).

Mapping is gonna feel like shit.... holy shit.

Kasuyama_ · 2021-07-19T23:01:12+00:00

GGG adds deterministic crafting once a year and they see people using it then immediately get rid of it. Great

high-water-mark · 2021-07-19T22:47:24+00:00

me: i don't really mind these nerfs. i think they'll make for a more interesting game in the long term, and prepare for a paradigm shift in poe 2

ggg:

The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%), putting more of a focus on enhancing a Quicksilver Flask's effect (with associated costs) rather than rolling a single modifier that granted almost as much speed as the Quicksilver Flask itself.

now it's personal

DizzyDaMan · 2021-07-19T22:39:01+00:00

As a much requested quality of life change, players can now see the effect of non-damaging Elemental Ailments on enemies and themselves, so you can finally determine how powerful your Shocks are on enemies and thus know what benefit they are giving you. This also applies to ailments applied to you, and the buff granted to you by the Cruelty support

Finally! Really happy to see this.

kingduqc · 2021-07-19T22:43:33+00:00

I was hoping we would see nerfs to monster spike damage 😭

Ylvina · 2021-07-19T22:40:55+00:00

wow, they murdered the diamond flask,

oh and: triggered skills can now be supported by arcane surge, but we changed the flat % mana regen into inc mana regen

Kageromero · 2021-07-19T22:46:57+00:00

Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool.

This is just...so anti fun. Why would anyone think to do this?

Potato_Shaped_Burns · 2021-07-19T22:48:12+00:00

The change to "of Adrenaline" is huge i would have preferred it be 10% to 15% but 6% to 8% makes it not worth rolling anymore.

Soku123 · 2021-07-19T22:53:22+00:00

That veiled nerf! Ouch

PlsBuffStormBurst · 2021-07-19T22:40:04+00:00

Storm Burst's base radius now increases faster with levels, resulting in +4 to base radius at gem level 20 (up from +2).

Hooray!

bonesnaps · 2021-07-19T22:40:56+00:00

Wew, elementalist just lost 100% increased damage from quad golem stacking.

Jesus christ. RIP my frozen orb build, whose skillgem already had very low numbers.

edit: We're not elementalist without ailment immunity anymore, so I guess we zdpsalist now bois. I'ma get some dirty ass cheeseburgers on my drive home from work to console me for my time wasted making a build last night.

CE2JRH · 2021-07-19T22:39:04+00:00

So...trap league?

FreedomToDrill · 2021-07-19T23:54:25+00:00

Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool.

They finally got everyone to kill Catarina for one league... and then immediately ruin it so it's back to not killing her

SpaceJinx · 2021-07-20T00:13:45+00:00

All I read was how they stripped my defenses with which I was already dieing frequently...

moal09 · 2021-07-19T22:54:34+00:00

Kinda disappointed there's no changes to Stormbind or Chain Hook

Both have been dumpster tier meme skills since their release.

rds90vert · 2021-07-19T22:42:59+00:00

MULTISTRIKE APPLIES TO TOTEMSSSS

Jousis · 2021-07-19T22:58:48+00:00

Time to release a video about a build whose damage just got nerfed by 60%.

And it's still good.

EDIT: 80%.

Streetstrats · 2021-07-19T23:23:05+00:00

Imagine changing some of Raider's Ascendancy nodes in 3.14 and rebalancing it just to straight up remove it the following league lol.

hammypants · 2021-07-19T23:44:39+00:00

wake me when loot 2.0

bamasmith · 2021-07-19T22:38:30+00:00

The Raider's Ascendancy node "Rapid Assault" no longer provides Onslaught Effect. The Onslaught path was too easy a choice relative to the higher-investment Frenzy Charge branch. We've also replaced Movement Speed on the small Phasing passives with Elemental Damage, as there was already plenty of speed available on that Ascendancy.

NERFED RAIDER LMAO?

Andreooo · 2021-07-19T22:54:24+00:00

How is this a buff

"The rotation speed of Flamethrower Trap no longer scales with increases to cast speed. It can no longer be modified"

iwanttemplates · 2021-07-19T23:35:01+00:00

Why can't GGG just increase the firestorm duration and limit by like 2 and call it a day? They keep trying to buff the initial hit but it'll just never work because of the shitty delay like storm call.

EmmitSan · 2021-07-20T03:03:25+00:00

I love that they removed ailment immunity from nodes that were “too strong” when ailment immunity was the only reason for taking the node at all

Like… no one invests 4 ascendancy points in fucking arcane surge.

Also, RIP elementalists lol

the_x_ile · 2021-07-19T22:56:11+00:00

"Golem Elementalist no longer provides increased damage per golem. The golem buff effect bonus on Liege of the Primordial now always provides 100% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems rather than scaling with Golem count"

RIP golemmencer?

Veteran_But_Bad · 2021-07-19T23:51:11+00:00

kinda upset that the nerfs to second wind really really hurt things like frost bomb from being viable as a main skill less variety... was this their goal?

the_x_ile · 2021-07-19T22:47:16+00:00

"The "Adrenaline" modifier on flasks now gives far less movement speed (6-8% increased Movement Speed, down from 20-30%), putting more of a focus on enhancing a Quicksilver Flask's effect (with associated costs) rather than rolling a single modifier that granted almost as much speed as the Quicksilver Flask itself."

damn, andrenaline gutted

the_x_ile · 2021-07-19T22:32:44+00:00

ctrl + F "fire burst":

" Fire Burst was reduced in damage and has a slightly longer cooldown"

expected, but stll :(

MrNubtastic · 2021-07-20T02:35:51+00:00

Thank god they nerfed hollow palm. Some of those slimy sons of bitches were reaching 600 delve depth.

N3v3rgr1nd · 2021-07-19T23:10:13+00:00

Veiled Modifiers no longer count as Crafted modifiers, so you can't easily remove them if you add the wrong modifier type while Aisling crafting. This has the advantage of now being able to ‘block’ modifiers you do not want to unveil

Also GGG:

Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier

lcm7malaga · 2021-07-20T00:02:45+00:00

6000 words to say we dont like that you dont find interesting our clunky "utility" supports gems so we are gonna screw all you

PandaGoesMoo · 2021-07-19T23:44:03+00:00

So are they going to introduce more ways to get aliment immunity on the tree because there’s so few places to get it now.

lookatmythrowawayy · 2021-07-19T22:49:50+00:00

GOODBYE DIAMOND FLASK, HELLO CRIT STRIKES SUPPORT

TheIllusiveGuy · 2021-07-19T22:43:27+00:00

When you're building a character, by far the correct choice is just to stack on all the multiplicative damage bonuses and ignore all the interesting utility support gems because their opportunity cost is just too high.

I feel like the same could be said about Rares vs Uniques.

The biggest powercreep in years has been the new influenced bases and double influenced items.

How hard they are to obtain doesn't affect how powerful they are. Richard Garfield learned this lesson 20 years ago with Black Lotus.

digao94 · 2021-07-19T22:40:53+00:00

melee physical damage support grants 10% less attack speed. melee is on a such great spot right now, it definitely deserved this for sure...

DBrody6 · 2021-07-19T22:44:17+00:00

and have made some changes to make crafting less deterministic in the outcomes

Yeah god forbid we have even the slightest control over the inane crafting system in this game.

Aisling's crafting bench that adds a Veiled modifier now first removes a random modifier, so it is riskier to use as a later step of item crafting rather than being an obvious final step because of its very consistent modifier pool.

Christ why not give it a vaal orb effect too while you're at it if you're that addicted to the "huehue you might brick your item!" feeling.

Well back to not giving a shit about Catarina I guess, silver lining and all that.

shag_vonnie_vomer · 2021-07-19T22:54:32+00:00

That last bit about crafting being too deterministic and nerf to the already rare veiled orbs was just the last nail in the coffin. If dropped items are bloody useless, dropping by the millions, then at least let us some control over what we craft.

SilentR0b · 2021-07-20T02:39:53+00:00

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