Content Update 0.2.0 -- Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt

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

Good to know...

I'm really sad that all the values on everything are going faster and faster toward the half point percentile. Already the passive skill tree is so diluted to not provide noticable upgrades point by point most of the time, already the codjoling of gameplay toward multiskill rotations hampers most of the gameplay choices you can make to be unviable. Now that the hatcet has come down even harder I feel most choices are going toward being meaningless most of the time untill a random spike happens.

No more T18 in the game, nice improve of late game !

Looks like a big nerf for Hunter. Cold skills look dead. Rangers should now also play fire too is probably the plan. Everything is slowing down, Quiver skills are also down. Looks like it's tailor-made for Fubgun.
Let's hope that the Huntress will be a good alternative to the really cool gameplay of the ranger before the patch.
Lots of changes, lots of content.
I'm really curious if it picks me up again as violently as the first time. This is not meant to be a criticism, it's just the feeling after reading the patch notes.

Just as I suspected: they’ve nerfed virtually every viable endgame build into the ground. I’ll further speculate that this game’s Steam rating will get nuked into oblivion.

Given the sheer amount of grinding required just to get the currency needed to participate in the endgame (unless you want to deal with trade scammers and no auction house), I’m gonna make an educated guess that player count will drop significantly. This is exactly what Blizzard did in an attempt to balance power with content frequency. The issue with this game is there are already too many cheap one shot mobs and unforgiving mechanics, so if this is as bad as I think it’ll be I’ll be moving on (along with plenty of other players, I’m sure).

What a shame. GGG had an opportunity to be better than Blizzard, but it looks like the dev team is being guided by Jonathan’s hurt feelings over the world first arbiter one shot. No wonder one of the cofounders left.

Nerfs, nerfs everywhere...

U better create new league for poe1....

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Phoenixotica#6095 schrieb:

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Daxgalex#6239 schrieb:

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Phoenixotica#6095 schrieb:

No. I wanted to continue to enjoy all of the characters I put so much work into while also exploring the new class/ascendancies. Now all my characters have been nerfed into the ground. There's no joy in that, no matter any new "shiny" they put there.

They made the game not worth my time anymore.

Try Animal Crossing, might be more your speed

Nope. Last Epoch is working just fine. Keep practicing, though. Someday you just may find a semi unique burn to call your own.

Wasn't a burn at all. You don't seem to have the emotional capacity to cope with a live service video game. Something like Animal Crossing never changes after initial release, you can relax and enjoy building up your town without worrying about it being changed.

Minecraft may also be worth looking into.

It's funny that many of those who write that they are unhappy with the changes and "threaten" to leave the project will most likely be the first to wait for the server to turn on at 10 pm 04.03.

The game is designed to challenge skills and challenges, and people want to "cook" in broken builds and not even conduct experiments in other areas.


xD

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nenekovich#4796 schrieb:

It's better to remove the demon form now, they give it a tremendous nerf and don't leave any kind of reward for transforming, knowing that transforming means going unarmed, meaning you lose 10 possible passives.

whats this tremendous nerf? shorter dash distance? life loss no longer based off % max hp so you aren't forced to play with a 250 health pool?

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Bakau1#2914 schrieb:

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slownlow#6864 schrieb:

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Bakau1#2914 schrieb:

Take note GGG -= over 90% of people hate these changes - so go and ensure these nerfs are not implemenmted - WE DO NOT WANT THEM!

you are the very vocal minority. Nerfs are needed. Power creep is awful and ruins the game longterm. Go play D4 if you want unfettered godlike power. Played the most broken builds in the game, and in turn, got bored and uninterested very quickly. GGG realized their intended vision of making combat more meaningful was blown past in mere days into the game. This patch is probably what GGG wanted from the start. 90% don't hate these changes, not even close.

I am not in the minority most people think this patch is garbage - I have gone over all the posts and have had it confirmed most people think the nerfs are too much

Lots of us are absolutely fine with them, we just aren't as driven to post about it as the angry ranters are.
I suspect many of those complaining the most engaged heavily in RMT and are now pissed that items they spent actual cash money on are now worthless.
It's a game, there are new rules, there will be new builds and lots of people will play and enjoy them.