r/PathOfExile2 • u/Community_Team • 2d ago

GGG Patch notes when? Now!

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3740562
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u/EnderCN 2d ago

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.

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u/ZimmyDod 2d ago

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.

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u/Probably_Fishing 2d ago

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

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u/ZimmyDod 2d ago

Wont notice the armor change

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u/bikkfa 1d ago

Just heavy stun them.

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u/Dull-Department-9444 2d ago

Flicker me is drooling

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u/cromulent_id 2d ago

My bonestorm build looking actually pretty good right about now.

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u/paul2261 2d ago

Should be very impactful for leveling with attack builds. Good for the new spear flurry skill.

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u/golgol12 2d ago

If your damage is from small fast physical hits, 50% to 100% damage increase.

If you do large physical damage hits, 5% increase.

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u/Goodnametaken 2d ago

For most people it won't make a noticeable difference. For people who care about fully breaking armour it makes a fairly significant difference.

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u/Bluedot55 2d ago

it does make armor breaking faster, which is nice for getting the payoff hits

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u/MrYorkable 2d ago

Physical damage and bleeding will be better

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u/GardenerGibbs 2d ago

How does this help? I’m planning on doing a bleed build

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u/MrYorkable 2d ago

Armor reduces physical damage taken and bleed is also physical damage

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u/Sir-Sirington 1d ago

Armor only reduces hit damage and doesn't do anything for dots.

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u/Kashou-- 1d ago

Armor reduces the hit damage which reduces the resulting damage of the bleed, but yes it does not further reduce bleed after that.

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u/Bierculles 2d ago

irrelevant, monster armour values were tiny at most anyways.

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u/chowies 2d ago

They nerfed the armour breaker mace skill. Don't rmb if they touched the the xbow skill. Maybe that's to prevent it them from being too strong?

I know armour breaker has an attack speed buff of 40% for dual wielding. Coupled with the math that broken or negative armour has a larger effect on smaller and more hits, maybe there's something there.

The warbringer ascendancy node that gives negative armour was untouched (I think). Still not sure if negative armor is worth building into

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u/Kashou-- 1d ago

Armour breaker is the worst skill in the game both in functionality and in practice. There is no reason to use it at all.

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u/chowies 1d ago

So far.

We still have no idea on value changes, any info on the 100s of support gems added, passive skill tree changes.

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u/GardenerGibbs 2d ago

This is a big buff for crossbows

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u/rcanhestro 1d ago

they also added a 20% increased physical damage against mobs with fully broken armour.