can we please stop the power creep, already? (or better - reverse it)

game going down the drain every patch.

At this point, the amount of skills and mods is def a problem. And the keep adding more and more. My last hope is that there is gonna be some really big change for 4.0 but I doubt they would remove things they added just a couple of leagues ago.

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Head_Less a écrit :

game going down the drain every patch.

I respectfully disagree with that.

Every league, we have had more options offered to chose what we want to play. The problem is : players will take the path of least resistance by playing OP cookie cutter builds (like 47% of arc players in Betrayal).

The balance as i said is impossible with thousands of possibilities and players will find a way to always break the limits of the game.

Stat sticks were nerfs and yet we again saw level 96 players within the first 24 hours of the league. Those, are taking the path of least resistance.

I play PoE since 2013, and i would like some skills being nerfed to the ground, but with leagues and monsters balanced around cookie cutter builds and so called META, it will be hard to change things.

And what is the problem with that ?

Is it more a problem than a totem arc build one shotting mobs 2 screens away ?

It is a problem to make ascendancy bonuses available to everybody. I don't see any logic anymore behind theorycrafting. You see that as a positive move?

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Jdahl22 a écrit :

It is a problem to make ascendancy bonuses available to everybody. I don't see any logic anymore behind theorycrafting. You see that as a positive move?

I totally agree; ascendancy bonuses are supposed to be unique. That armour is STUPID.

Plus, this stuff slowly becomes more and more "mandatory" for a huge number of builds, just like Shaper/Elder affixes have currently become.

Curse on hit rings should never have been a thing; now people are like "did you get your Warlord's Mark ring yet? Build can't work without it." For SO many builds.

Now stacking endurance charges might become a thing for EVERYONE and not just Jugg - and then what, bosses will be balanced around assuming everyone has Acro/Phase Acro, MoM, and 8+ end charges? Plus near-instant life recovery?

Whatever happened to armour and evasion? Whatever happened to choosing life pools vs mitigation vs leech vs regen? Idk, I'm worried the only choice will be "all of the above" and any build that doesn't just stack every defense out there will look like trash.

Depends on what you call trash and what you call good.

Personnaly, if i'm able to go to red tier maps and kill Elder/Shaper/UberElder, i would not call the build trash event if it has only 60k DPS.

This is a subjective view by definition. Some will find trash build that don't cookie cut Uber Elder in 3.5 secs...

New ways of playing are not the problem, cheesing the content by stacking damage on top of damage is a problem.

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Azarhiel a écrit :

And what is the problem with that ?

Is it more a problem than a totem arc build one shotting mobs 2 screens away ?

both are huge problems.

and the OP builds can use the OP affixes, you know.

and what's the problem? SERIOUSLY? the game is so freakin' easy. that's the problem. OBVIOUSLY.

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Azarhiel a écrit :

Depends on what you call trash and what you call good.

Personnaly, if i'm able to go to red tier maps and kill Elder/Shaper/UberElder, i would not call the build trash event if it has only 60k DPS.

This is a subjective view by definition. Some will find trash build that don't cookie cut Uber Elder in 3.5 secs...

New ways of playing are not the problem, cheesing the content by stacking damage on top of damage is a problem.

...you just explained the problem.

the power creep is so out of control that "trash" builds can clear content.