Patch notes when? Now!

[u/Community_Team]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3740562

[u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage]

Grim Feast can no longer be engraved in the Gemcutting menu. Existing Grim Feast Gems have been disabled, we aim to rework Grim Feast in the coming future. 

Oh boy

[u/forgot_my_useragain → u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage]

I was hoping the Grim Feast nerf wouldn't be too bad. I'll try to just pretend that it never existed. :(

[u/thedarkherald110 → u/forgot_my_useragain]

I mean if you start this league that would indeed be the case.

[u/azantyri → u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage]

the salt will blot out the sun, exile

[u/Andrew_AK24 → u/azantyri]

Then we shall cry in the shade.

[u/moal09 → u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage]

I mean, everyone saw this coming. It literally made life a joke compared to ES

[u/Monke_With_Stick]

Ingenuity doesn't work with the third ring from Huntress lolololol

[u/t8manpizza → u/Monke_With_Stick]

absolutely gutted regardless

[u/Eclaireur → u/t8manpizza]

I mean at the high end its still basically "remove your belt for an extra ring" which will definitely have use cases.

[u/Sidnv → u/Eclaireur]

Considering belts outside of charm slots have absolutely garbage mods, it's still best in slot for most builds.

[u/ConfidentDivide]

The Soul Core of Azcapa has 5% increased quantity of Gold dropped by slain Enemies (previously 10% increased Rarity of Items found).

actually hilarious, this number could be 100% and I think it would still be not used.

[u/MyAltAccount1310 → u/ConfidentDivide]

Lmao indeed, really wanna see how much will they cost compared to last league haha

[u/EPIC_RAPTOR → u/MyAltAccount1310]

1c lol

[u/Ok-Kaleidoscope-777 → u/EPIC_RAPTOR]

1c for 10

[u/the-apple-and-omega]

"Presence base radius is now 4 metres (previously 6 metres)."

wtf

[u/MasterTardWrangler → u/the-apple-and-omega]

They buffed sceptre mods to go up to 80% increased presence from 30%. Not really sure what that accomplishes other than making minion build itemization harder.

[u/kool_g_rep → u/MasterTardWrangler]

It gives less presence to any builds that don't use sceptres but use minions. Maybe for companion users so their minions arent that powerful ?

[u/DistrictPleasant → u/the-apple-and-omega]

Lol this is a huge change that is flying under the radar

[u/the-apple-and-omega → u/DistrictPleasant]

Like I can't even fathom the reasoning behind this. Just objectively makes the game feel worse and for what?

[u/Farpafraf → u/the-apple-and-omega]

finally light radius stackers can shine

[u/nationwtf]

Ingenuity getting re-nerfed an hour after the initial patch notes release is hilarious

[u/Monke_With_Stick]

The Sump Map boss has been renamed from "The Eater or Children" to "Brakka, the Withered Crone." She still eats children.

That's hilarious. It sounds like someone at PR insisted they changed it but Jonathan or Mark were incredibly unhappy about changing it.

[u/hulagirlslovetoparty]

“Many fire skills now burn grass” 

Good, good. 

[u/Illumidark → u/hulagirlslovetoparty]

The Sump Map boss has been renamed from "The Eater of Children" to "Brakka, the Withered Crone". She still eats children. The other best patch note.

[u/Hudell → u/Illumidark]

That old name was extra special in Portuguese where the translation to "children eater" would be interpreted as "child fucker" instead (no idea how they actually translated, but I would guess they had changed it to "child devourer" instead)

[u/lixia]

> Raging Spirits now has a Spirit Duration of 5 seconds (previously 4), and a Maximum 2 Spirits summoned per Spell Cast (previously 5).

Well they really didn't want this build to survive....

[u/throwntosaturn]

Fixed a bug where Quality on Sceptres multiplied the amount of Spirit they granted instead of granting Quality to their inherent Skill.

Just in case anyone else missed this, huuuuuge scepter nerf on top of everything else, holy crap.

[u/Racheakt → u/throwntosaturn]

Damn that is a big nerf to minion users

[u/DBrody6 → u/throwntosaturn]

That...that isn't a bug Mr. Patch Note Guy, Jonathan literally acknowledged that function as intended during the Q&A like it was completely normal. That's just a raw nerf, man.

[u/AlmightyPrinc3 → u/throwntosaturn]

I missed this well that’s crazy

[u/No-Advice-6040 → u/throwntosaturn]

Whaaaat. Thought that was the point of qualifying a scepter. Well shit.

[u/Tsplodey]

Introduced 12 Rogue Exiles - others like you who have been exiled and are openly hostile

Ehehehehehe

[u/scrangos → u/Tsplodey]

Isn't that just the public chat?

[u/Hartastic → u/scrangos]

"Oh great, Xandro Blooddrinker is talking about politics in global again."

[u/Lbgeckos2 → u/Tsplodey]

Great so they’re gonna kill me and call my dad names. Sick.

[u/Stuffandthingspriv]

I don’t understand the point of slowing down curse application, and then also preventing hex blast from blowing up blasphemy curses. Hexblast is straight up unplayable now

[u/Moomootv → u/Stuffandthingspriv]

Well clearly so you now have no way to get around spending 500+ mana to cast each curse and hexblast. Cant have people actually sustaining mana cost now can we, also dont forget that you can only blow up curses that passed 50% of their duration for the tripple nerf GGG classic.

[u/ArtisanAffect → u/Stuffandthingspriv]

It’s a dead skill now unfortunately. I could see if they removed the spamability with the intention of it being a heavy hitter skill you pull out every once in a while. But they slashed damage as well. There’s really just no reason to use it at all that I can see, given the amount of investment you’d need to put into it. I’m a bit bummed with the overall nerf to chaos in general. Chaos needed more buffs if anything.

[u/throwntosaturn]

I really thought I was braced for the size of the nerfs.

I was suuuuuper wrong.

[u/SimpleCranberry5914 → u/throwntosaturn]

The beatings will continue until moral improves.

[u/Moethelion]

Where is the global monster speed nerfs?

[u/BongoChimp → u/Moethelion]

Not going to happen this patch. In the ghazzy/dm interview they didnt understand the question when it was asked. Hopefully this improves in future patches.

[u/Far-Wallaby689 → u/[deleted]]

I’m convinced that Jonathan has no idea about how fast the mobs get in juiced high tier content. Everything he says from crafting to gameplay sounds like he only ever plays the campaign.

[u/gibby256 → u/Far-Wallaby689]

Even outside of juiced content it should be fundamentally clear. They had to make a dozen changes to the dodge system, monster movement, and monster hitboxes in like 2 weeks after EA released because monster speed was already way too high even during the campaign.

[u/EyeOfPeshkov]

The chance for Breach Rings to drop has been greatly reduced.

:( Expected, but still

[u/Holovoid → u/EyeOfPeshkov]

Well I didn't get a single good one from drops no matter how many lv 82 rings I farmed so I guess who cares

[u/OTTERSage → u/EyeOfPeshkov]

This is very likely to encourage Fracturing on breach rings. I would *much* rather craft on a rare/nice breach ring instead of pickup 1.8trillion shitty breach rings

[u/TheRaith]

Setting a stat to a specific value (such as Chaos Inoculation setting your life to 1 or Blood Magic setting your mana to 0) now occurs before conversion is applied to that stat, rather than being ignored by conversion.

So glad they changed this. Ghostwrithe and CI working was messing with my boomer POE1 brain.

[u/anikthias]

I dont understand the multi axis nerf of flameblast. What

[u/Immundus → u/anikthias]

Someone was playing it and asked Jonathan about trade improvements, so it was destroyed in the resulting Godzilla-like rampage.

[u/poderes01 → u/anikthias]

Both flameblast and hexblast were strange nerfs... maybe they hate all blasts?

[u/cromulent_id]

Why do they still think we want fluctuating buffs on chronomancer. Nobody wants this.

[u/lowkeyripper → u/cromulent_id]

Archaic designs from 2013, everyone loves rotating buffs .

[u/DavR135 → u/lowkeyripper]

Nobody wanted those in 2013 either

[u/Monke_With_Stick → u/cromulent_id]

Time based ascendancy, timing based node. Makes sense on paper. Maybe there is a version of it thats good if they keep buffing it

[u/drBatzen → u/Monke_With_Stick]

Just need to make time freeze, freeze the timer on the buff and it might be a fun thing to play around.

[u/ilovecollege_nope]

Waystones can no longer drop at a lower tier than the map you are in.

This was mentioned during Q&A and said to be a bigger change to sustain than maps. Really good change!

Combined with this

Waystones dropped by Final Map Bosses will now always be one tier higher than the map you are in.

Should speed getting to tier 15 by a lot!

Removed chances for Waystones to drop a Tier higher from the Atlas Passive Tree, and lowered the amount of Waystone Quantity available on the Atlas Passive Tree.

Having to spend less points in map sustain and more on content is great too

Doryani now has up to 10 Waystones available to purchase, either at Tier 1, or one Tier below your highest-completed Tier.

And wow, on top of everything else, this too.

[u/godfrey1]

Added a series of enhanced Rare Monster Modifiers that are more powerful than the standard versions and more rewarding.

Some rare monster modifiers now scale at later levels, providing better rewards.

WELCOME BACK ARCHNEMESIS

[u/redlow0992]

The biggest sleeper change/nerf that impacts all players:

• Player base Ailment Threshold is now half of Maximum Life (previously all of Maximum Life).

Oooooooooooooffffffffffffffff. Are we on our way back to the nerfed POE1 ailments (on players) where mapping without being immune is not possible? Anyone remembers mapping with +cold conversion damage where literally every monster hit freezes the players?

[u/Blackbird_V → u/redlow0992]

Everything has become Prowling shade.

[u/Equivalent_Pace4149 → u/redlow0992]

Heavy Stun for 3 seconds instead of 1 and Cannot evade or block when heavy stunned. That's instat gib 🤯😵‍💫☠️

[u/golgol12 → u/redlow0992]

There's another nerf that this multiplies with.

Setting a stat to a specific value (such as Chaos Inoculation setting your life to 1 or Blood Magic setting your mana to 0) now occurs before conversion is applied to that stat, rather than being ignored by conversion

[u/therealflinchy → u/golgol12]

Oh holy shit. So now if you run CI you have zero ailment resistance as a baseline. Wow that makes it a lot riskier

[u/Excaidium → u/therealflinchy]

I guess you need to invest in %ES added to the ailment threshold nodes, and since it looks like you can still have a lot more ES, and the ailment threshold is now only half of your HP, you don’t need many points in it to have a higher ailment threshold than pure life players.

[u/8Lorthos888 → u/redlow0992]

wait what

I JUST got used to not igniting myself with pyromaniac pact wtf

[u/Dosi4]

Ouch Infernalist/Demonform butchered - dog taking 20% damage from hits gone, dash distance reduced, now you need to spend 4 points to get uncapped stacks, HP loss is now flat so reduce max life tech is done and so are big stacks. Means that you will now need to stack HP and use % regen rather than flat regen. Shame really, it was nice gear niche where you would want items without max hp and with HP regen.

[u/throwaway857482 → u/Dosi4]

I dont understand what dog does now?

[u/0MrFreckles0 → u/throwaway857482]

Just a walking ignite, yeah seems bad.

[u/Farpafraf → u/throwaway857482]

keeps you company

[u/Virel_360 → u/Dosi4]

Without the dog taking 20% of damage, long reign the Lich.

[u/dragdritt → u/Virel_360]

Yeah well, massive nerf to the range of presence as well. And quality on sceptres no longer increase the spirit. Its like they hate minion builds.

[u/8Lorthos888 → u/Dosi4]

and I thought my shitty build wouldnt get hit...

[u/padlock3456]

Ok, it's been up for 5 minutes. Someone tell me how I should feel.

Edit:

Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread.

Without knowing what these numbers are we really can't tell what's good until they release the 20/20 gem info.

[u/---Tsing__Tao--- → u/padlock3456]

Massive nerfs across the board 😅

[u/XelaTuobdog → u/---Tsing__Tao---]

Surely they've buffed underperforming skills just as much as they've nerfed, right?

[u/alphi3d → u/XelaTuobdog]

lol

[u/Sir-Sirington → u/alphi3d]

Lmao, even.

[u/dotareddit → u/Sir-Sirington]

might be their first rodeo

[u/Chaos_Logic → u/XelaTuobdog]

Overperforming skills got massive nerfs. Underperformers left unchanged.

[u/Pure-Huckleberry-484 → u/Chaos_Logic]

Ailment threshold cut in half, heavy stun 3x longer… it like their brainstorming sessions start with “are there any other fun aspects we haven’t made worse yet?”

[u/hesh582 → u/Pure-Huckleberry-484]

And monster stun values increased massively in endgame. Classic GGG triple nerf.

[u/Elrond007 → u/---Tsing__Tao---]

The vintage PoE1 experience haha, just slamming the huge metashift like Chris intended. Ngl can't wait for Gem info now

[u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage → u/padlock3456]

Grim Feast is disabled lol

[u/Far_Base5417]

Explosive Grenade cooldown is now 7 seconds (previously 3 seconds). Now has an Explosion Radius of 2-2.4 metres at Gem levels 1-20 (previously 1.8-2.4). Now has a Detonation Time of 3 seconds (previously 2.5 seconds).

Am I dreaming? Why?

[u/Zelniq → u/Far_Base5417]

They also nerfed Voltaic Grenades cooldown to 6 seconds (previously 3 seconds) and has a Detonation Time (aka Fuse Duration) of 2.5 seconds (previously 1.2 seconds)

I don't understand, all I wanted was to be a grenadier and they nerfed an already meh archetype to be worse.

Maybe they added some OP support gems? seems doubtful, why would they do this. Disappointing.

[u/Lyzandia → u/Far_Base5417]

7 seconds? Useless for ad clear

[u/CenturionGMU → u/Far_Base5417]

Also grenades have a slight random direction deviation which might be ass

[u/PwmEsq → u/Far_Base5417]

If you think that's bad, look at flameblast, no CD to 15s

[u/318Reflexion]

Damn they just 86'd grim feast. Chaos innoculation is now alot more risky

[u/AsmodeusWins]

Explosive Grenade cooldown is now 7 seconds (previously 3 seconds). Now has an Explosion Radius of 2-2.4 metres at Gem levels 1-20 (previously 1.8-2.4). Now has a Detonation Time of 3 seconds (previously 2.5 seconds).

How much are they drinking at the office?

Might as well give it a 3 month cooldown, because nobody is using that shit until the next update. Way to nerf one of the worst builds in the game to the point of being completely unusable lol.

[u/SimpleCranberry5914 → u/AsmodeusWins]

You’re gonna have to pre fire in your current map so it’ll go off in your next map.

[u/Interesting_Ad_945 → u/AsmodeusWins]

I can't fucking believe they made it WORSE!?

[u/Xeiom → u/AsmodeusWins]

They gutted Scattershot too so this skill really got hit hard.

I had a build that was using this as a main skill and it was way stronger than any of the other builds I cobbled together.

I guess this really is only usable as some extra side damage now. I guess only if the new damage numbers are any good too.

[u/Saisori]

rip hexblast

[u/paints_name_pretty → u/Saisori]

it was clunky before and now its even worse. cant be used on aura curses?? lmao who the f is going to cast curses and then hexblast now

[u/rocitboy → u/paints_name_pretty]

Its even worse. Cast the curse. Wait for the curse to mostly expire. Then cast hexblast. At its core it is not longer spammable at all.

[u/Inialla → u/rocitboy]

You forgot they nerf the activation time too. From 1 sec to 1'5 sec ... they crushed it

[u/unexpectedreboots → u/Saisori]

Was planning on league starting lich hexblast but these notes make it seem unplayable

[u/space_banditooo → u/Saisori]

it didnt deserve to get hit so hard 😭

[u/Special-Arrival5972 → u/space_banditooo]

Right? This is insane lol. They just murdered the skill for some reason

[u/maxyignaciomendez → u/Saisori]

why they even nerfed hexblast, it wasn't even that good before

[u/GardenerGibbs]

A lot of people are really gonna find out if the new POE game is for them or not this season

[u/ZimmyDod]

THEY TOOK OLD HELLER OUT BACK AND SHOT EM?

[u/mkruiser23]

Flameblast now has a 15 second Cooldown (previously none), and now has 75% more damage per Stage (previously 200%).

Why did they nerf flameblast so hard? Am I missing something?

[u/xXCryptkeeperXx → u/mkruiser23]

It was a usable skill

[u/Diacred → u/xXCryptkeeperXx]

Barely, what the fuck is that adding a 15s cool down

[u/HelloImSzeplo]

Holy this is like the red wedding of patch notes. I'm sure the new toys we're getting will help supplement some of the power we're losing BIG COPIUM INHALE

[u/jpylol]

“Grenade skills now have a small amount of random variation in travel distance when firing multiple grenades at once.“

The fuck

[u/femol → u/jpylol]

Gotta give it to them for the creativity in annoying the player in multiple ways

[u/radoss72 → u/jpylol]

Idk why, but after reading all of the comments and then reading this one made me die of laughter. Thank you.

[u/vagif]

After reading the patch notes Last Epoch devs changed the release date to April 4.

[u/Immediate_Concert_46]

Was hoping for better Witch Hunter buffs.

[u/bigeyez → u/Immediate_Concert_46]

Yeah kinda baffled that the Acolyte and Witchhunter, the two least played ascendancies got only very minor buffs.

[u/GerwulfvonTobelstein]

"Mighty Silverfist's dodge roll now deals reduced damage."

They only thing I wanted to read.

[u/Clithertron]

Spark got nerfed, Archmage got nerfed, Stormweaver got nerfed. The GGG classic triple whammy

[u/Excaidium → u/Clithertron]

 Eldritch Battery now doubles mana costs, so it is quadruple nerf.

[u/Sp00py-Mulder → u/Excaidium]

When a build is ~50% of the playerbase, you drop the hammer from orbit. 

[u/frothingnome → u/Sp00py-Mulder]

Only if you have enough Glory, of course!

[u/12demons → u/Sp00py-Mulder]

Spark definitely had it coming, to be fair.

[u/unexpectedreboots → u/Excaidium]

All the uniques for that build got gutted too lmao.

[u/PaladinWiz → u/unexpectedreboots]

And non-uniques! Mana rolls have much lower max rolls now on pretty much every item!

[u/DAEORANGEMANBADDD → u/Clithertron]

Tripple?

The Dream Fragments Unique Ring now provides 10% increased maximum Mana (previously 20%). A Divine Orb can be used on existing versions of this item to obtain the new value.

&

The Everlasting Gaze Unique Amulet now causes you to gain 4-6% of Maximum Mana as Extra Maximum Energy Shield (previously 20-30%), provides 40-60% increased Mana Regeneration Rate (previously 50%), and +40-60 to maximum Mana (previously +50). Existing versions of this Unique can be updated to the new values using a Divine Orb.

&

All rare item can now roll less mana than before

[u/NebTheShortie → u/DAEORANGEMANBADDD]

"You can use a divine orb on an item to make it worse" is my favorite line in any balance notes.

[u/viniciusxis → u/Clithertron]

craziest part is that the build could've probably survived all the numerical nerfs but dropping the proj count by half is crazy

[u/natero9]

0.3 patch notes when ?

[u/SternBreeze → u/natero9]

1.0 in 2035 will fix everything, dont worry

[u/0re0n]

Ascendency changes look very disappointing so far. I don't think Chayula and Witchhunter are any close to not having < 1% play rate.

[u/BentEars → u/0re0n]

Add bloodmage to that.

[u/Musical_Whew → u/BentEars]

Yeah was expecting way more changes to blood mage lol. They are adding 100 new support gems so who knows but still.

[u/throwaway857482 → u/Musical_Whew]

Was really hoping for sanguinamancy to convert part of mana cost to life, instead of just adding a bunch of life cost

[u/sOFrOsTyyy → u/BentEars]

I actually really like the bloodmage changes I just wish they also made Sangumancy not ONLY a downside. I wish it had less mana cost or something as well as the downside of life cost.

[u/rcanhestro → u/0re0n]

witchhunter got "buffed" by having everyone else nerfed.

also, crossbow skills received a decent amount of buffs.

[u/0re0n → u/rcanhestro]

Except Deadeye, who was probably already better at crossbows anyway.

[u/SpiderCVIII]

• Rolling Slam now has +1 second to Total Attack Time (previously +1.5 seconds), and the Mana cost has been adjusted accordingly.

• Sunder now has +1 second to Total Attack Time (previously +1.4 seconds), and the Mana cost has been adjusted accordingly.

Maces saved!

• Hammer of the Gods no longer has a Cooldown, but now requires 20 Glory to use. Glory is a resource that gets built up by Heavy Stunning enemies. The amount of Glory gained is based on the Stunned monster's Power. Quality is now +0-0.4 to impact Radius (previously 1% increased cooldown recovery rate).

Interesting change.

[u/Zestyclose-Rock2469 → u/SpiderCVIII]

To compensate for the faster animation of Rolling Slam we have now removed its damage component

[u/Sir-Sirington]

Hexblast can only be detonated when the curse has 50% or less duration remaining.

Goodbye Hexblast, I hardly knew ye. What a worthless skill now.

[u/Victronox]

Grim Feast deleted !!!!!!

[u/cchunkz]

"The Everlasting Gaze Unique Amulet now causes you to gain 4-6% of Maximum Mana as Extra Maximum Energy Shield (previously 20-30%), provides 40-60% increased Mana Regeneration Rate (previously 50%), and +40-60 to maximum Mana (previously +50)."

They might as well delete it completely

[u/PaladinWiz]

Hexblast just got nuked from orbit surprisingly … wasn’t that great of a skill.

Energy Generation - Basically halved from current.

Choir of the Storms - Back to being the original much weaker lightning bolt instead of Greater Lightning Bolt

Less Jewel Sockets on Passive Tree - 12 Sockets Removed

EB going to be rough on mana. Have those mana pots ready if you try to use EB + MoM

No Grim Feast … to be rebalanced at a later date, will not exist in 0.2

Atziri’s Disdain - Nerfed for Lich. Now only provides 10% damage taken bypasses ES and less Life as Extra ES. Blood Mage is crying. Will still be good on Lich since there is a node on tree providing 5% damage bypasses ES allowing max of 25% (27%? With corruption on Atziri’s Disdain)

[u/Seriously_nopenope]

Archmage triple killed

[u/NameDoesntFi]

"Waystones can no longer drop at a lower tier than the map you are in" awesome for noobs like me

[u/jmcomets]

I'm cracking up the uniques section is just giga delete nerfs all over the place.

[u/DrPandemias]

• The Encase in Jade Skill has been reworked. It now consumes all stacks of Jade to grant Guard based off of your maximum Life for each Jade stack consumed.

W

[u/Positive_Sign_5269 → u/DrPandemias]

yeah, that was one of those "wth were they thinking" skills before. Now it may actually be something.

[u/No-Rooster6994]

I don’t know why they added a cooldown to flameblast. R.I.P. to my poison flameblast titan. The most fun I’ve had in all my time with poe 1 and 2

[u/Lordbulbul]

The nerf to grenades is ridiculous.

[u/Spring0fLife]

Did they just nerf every playable build without giving anything in return? My excitement for the new version is half gone.

[u/kherazur]

Did they just…gut chaos skills?

[u/Elon_Like → u/kherazur]

They were already pretty bad.

[u/Gnarwall9000]

player power/speed seems nerfed across the board. added cooldowns, killed skills that barely anyone uses (hexblast, grenades) first patch notes I've seen where I'm not excited about anything

[u/Lachiest]

By Tier 15 the bonus is double, allowing a single Tablet to now add four times as many THINGS as before

I love that the devs have embraced this

[u/Zinterax]

Raging Spirits now has a Spirit Duration of 5 seconds (previously 4), and a Maximum 2 Spirits summoned per Spell Cast (previously 5).

This seems like a change to make summoning SRS more annoying than anything.

[u/bpusef → u/Zinterax]

This is to give players the feeling of playing SRS before level 38 in PoE1 (a buff)

[u/alphi3d → u/Zinterax]

Not the last time they make a change like this

Wont change how many people use SRS because of how good it is but it sure is going to make it suck more

[u/kingofthefall]

Wow I actually don’t know what to play, everything sounds unappealing from all the nerfs

[u/Frodiziak → u/kingofthefall]

Amazon

[u/fullclip840]

Its super funny they said that over preforming builds will be nerfed. This looks like all builds got nerfed lol.

[u/sudrapp]

GGG with the reciprocal tariffs on fun, I see.

[u/t-bone_malone → u/sudrapp]

NERF APPLIED TO PLAYERS (Including Currency Generation and Meta-tude)

[u/BussySlayer69 → u/sudrapp]

"we are going to win so much, you are going to be tired of winning" - Johanthan Rogers, Art of the Nerf

[u/Skoopy_590]

Still reading Exile?

[u/Legitimate-Site588 → u/Skoopy_590]

Nah I’ll just wait for the content creators to tell me how to feel.

[u/ScuzzyScoundrel]

They just don't give a fuck about how useless half of the Chayula ascendancy tree is, semi sadge. 0 spirit for darkness still isn't a good tradeoff.

[u/i_like_fish_decks]

Hexblast can now only detonate Curses for which at least 50% of the duration has expired. This means it can never explode Curses that have an infinite duration. Curse orbs will be visually different when 50% of the Curse duration has expired if you have Hexblast equipped. The Explosion radius of Hexblast has been increased to 2 metres (previously 1.6 metres), and it now has a maximum of 3 Explosions per cast (previously 9).

Hexblast's damage has been lowered by roughly 17% at all Gem levels. The Explosion radius has also been reduced to 1.2 metres (previously 1.6).

lmao hexblast of all things got gutted?????

[u/Alone_Ferret507]

I'm a little disappointed that they seemingly nerfed the majority of functional builds while doing very little to actually help underperforming skills.

I like the changes to the mace skills total attack time, but I was really hoping they would do something to address the interaction with stun build up and Boneshatter.

[u/throwntosaturn → u/Alone_Ferret507]

I saw this coming a mile away - they don't think the underperforming skills are underperforming.

They think they're performing exactly as designed.

[u/SmallMacBlaster]

Dear GGG, three seconds is a long time. Sincerely,

Exile

[u/Mihauke]

As a few guys that played Flameblast and really enjoyed it, am i tripping or they just straight up deleted the gem?

[u/ilovecollege_nope]

12 Jewel Sockets have been removed from the Passive Skill Tree. Existing characters with Jewels in these removed sockets can reclaim their Jewels to their main inventory using the new /reclaimjewels chat command.

What? That's all the inner jewel sockets gone...

[u/Moomootv]

The Loyal Hellhound Ascendancy Passive Skill no longer causes 20% of Damage from Hits to be taken from your Hellhound's Life before you.

So Hellhound is just deleted then. Am I missing something? because hellhounds damage is pitiful and it falls over from a gust of wind.

Also why is recoup being removed from chronomancer? yet shes keeping the faster recoup node? Why not just swap the nodes if you want Rapids to have no prerequisite?

[u/Valynwyn]

"Corruption areas no longer implicitly have +1 to Area Level"

How do we get lvl 20 gems to drop then?

[u/Zylosio → u/Valynwyn]

Bosses drop them on higher tiers

[u/lynnharry → u/Zylosio]

Good. One fewer ways to +1 area level to worry about. I hate that the area level is so important.

[u/pathofdumbasses → u/lynnharry]

Except that is just going to make it ULTRA rare if only bosses can drop them.

[u/SoulofArtoria]

• Continued to incrementally improve the sound, art, effects and environments. Here it is bois

[u/talenith]

we are so back, pathfinders

[u/Xyzzyzzyzzy → u/talenith]

* offer not valid for concoction pathfinders

Concoction Skills now require an unarmed weapon set. They no longer deal your base unarmed damage, instead dealing only attack damage specified from the Skill, like Marks. They now consume 5 Mana Flask charges per use (previously 3).

[u/LuckyHitman → u/Xyzzyzzyzzy]

RIP Widowhail pconc, it was fun while it lasted

[u/ssspicysosig]

Hexblast is dead lmao. Also wtf is that flameblast nerf??? I dont think it was super strong to begin with.....

[u/BHisa]

Why does essence drain still not drain?!

[u/Lantisca]

I guess they want everyone to play the new class. 

[u/beecostume]

There better be some amazing new support gems for grenades because the absolutely massive nerfs to them are embarrassingly tone-deaf. Holy shit.

[u/Rewnzor]

"Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread."

Ofcourse, that's the reason you're not posting numbers. Surely.

[u/Vunks]

Could they just save me some time and tell me what class and skills I am allowed to play this season?

[u/poe-it]

hype for the patchnotes turned into "it's so over" in the blink of an eye.

[u/godkim]

Can we get a Chris Wilson exile boss already

[u/Blackbird_V]

The Against the Darkness Unique Jewel now has a Medium Radius (previously Large). This change does not affect existing items. Modifiers that caused Notable Passive Skills in Radius to also grant 2-4% increased specific Attributes now have values of 2-3%. Existing items can be made worse with a Divine Orb.

Ok it's stuff like this that makes me laugh. Gives the natch potes a personality.

[u/EnderCN]

All monsters armor reduced by 30%. Anyone know how big of a deal that actually is? I have no clue how monster armor scales in the game.

[u/ZimmyDod → u/EnderCN]

If your plan is to poke the boss 2000 times in 3 seconds, its big. If your plan is to drop one massive fuck off hammer blow, you litterally wont notice it.

[u/Probably_Fishing → u/ZimmyDod]

You'll notice when you can't use hammer anymore.

[u/TheBigJizzle]

Armor still suck ass ? T.T

[u/bombRIFIC → u/TheBigJizzle]

actually significantly buffed,

they apparently removed a bunch of armor pen from bosses which is huge with how the math works on armor

and in a more tangential way, ES got DUMPSTERED and evasion also took some side hits, so armors "relative" power is way higher

[u/ibmkk]

Grim Feast can no longer be engraved in the Gemcutting menu. Existing Grim Feast Gems have been disabled, we aim to rework Grim Feast in the coming future.

mamma mia

[u/SupremeCripple_]

Morior got buried 6ft under with cement on top

[u/popejupiter → u/SupremeCripple_]

The Morior Invictus Unique Body Amour now generates with 3 random modifiers (previously 2).

Awesome! Weird for them to buff it, but whatever.

The following random modifiers can no longer roll:

[[Every good or worthwhile roll Morior could roll]]

Right. There it is.

[u/caiodepauli]

Arc no longer deals more Damage for each remaining Chain

Sigh, caught in the Archmage crossfire. It went from a top end 60% more damage on single target at 20/20 to 14% more. Oof.

At least they gave it 3 extra chains to be a better clear skill, so it's not entirely dead...

[u/djbuu → u/caiodepauli]

When everything else is more dead, maybe this is less dead.

[u/chiikawa00]

The Soul Core of Azcapa has 5% increased quantity of Gold dropped by slain Enemies (previously 10% increased Rarity of Items found).

What??? Went from the most valuable Soul Core to the most useless? Also, I guess there's no point in running Trial of Chaos anymore? Since the unique shield is gutted as well