Path of Exile 2

The real patch notes are gonna be the datamine tomorrow night for all the actual skill numerical changes.

Crossbows are gonna fuck mega ass now with 2h damage rolls on them.

When is the new league?

ronne said:

The real patch notes are gonna be the datamine tomorrow night for all the actual skill numerical changes.

Crossbows are gonna fuck mega ass now with 2h damage rolls on them.

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crossbow was my first thought as well too. The question now remains is whether to follow the herd and go Huntress or rely on the tried and true Deadeye.

Surprised the only major nerf for monks appears to be Tempest Bell, I'd still melt shit with just with Flurry buffed from power charges

Probably, but I can't speak to that since I went with charged staff which uses power charges.

That sounds right, I got all my power charges using the skill that creates shocked ground then the skill that creates charges consuming shocks

• -The Cruel version of Candlemass' Essence now provides 5% increased Life (previously 8%).

yeah, life was too easy to stack.

• -Modifiers to curse effect have been changed to instead apply to curse magnitude. This means that they are additive with any other modifiers to the effect of the debuff on the target. For example, curse magnitude and slow magnitude are now additive with each other for Temporal Chains.

100% slow is now either impossible or, much much harder.

• -Player-created objects, such as Ice Crystals, no longer have a Monster Power value.
• -Ice crystals can no longer apply on kill effects such as Herald of Ash and Trampletoe's overkill.

oh fuck. totally broke ice mages. frost wall will no longer proc cast on crit. What a stupid choice. Should have a balanced it. in FACT, should have made ice crystals count as FROZEN for things like Cold snap.



Chronomancer

• -The Circular Heartbeat Ascendancy Passive Skill has been removed. Rapid River no longer has a prerequisite.

ok. but still weak.

• -The Quicksand Hourglass Ascendancy Passive Skill now grants "Every 10 seconds, gain 50% more Cast Speed for 5 seconds (previously Every 12 seconds, gain 50% more Cast Speed for 4 seconds).

terrible. this needs to be removed/reworked entirely.

• -Added a new Flood of Echoes Ascendancy Passive Skill that grants the Unleash Skill.

this might be ok. unleash as a concept works better with CDR, time stop, then just rng faster cast.

Stormweaver

• -The Force of Will Ascendancy Passive Skill now provides 1% increased Effect of Arcane Surge on you per 25 Maximum Mana (previously 15 Mana).

ooph. not gamebreaking though.

• -The Scouring Winds Ascendancy Passive Skill now causes Exposure you inflict to lower the affected Resistance by an additional 12% (previously 20%).

What a weird nerf. was not op in the first place.

• -The Strike Twice Ascendancy Notable Passive no longer provides 50% less Shock Duration. Instead, it now provides 25% less Magnitude of Shock you inflict.

• -The small Mana Ascendancy Passive Skills no longer provide 4% increased maximum Mana, and now provide 12% increased Mana Regeneration Rate.

bigger ooph.

• -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.

ooph.

• -The Eldritch Battery Keystone Passive Skill now has the additional property of "Doubles Mana Cost".

what the fuck.

• The Mana Blessing Notable Passive Skill no longer has 5% increased maximum Mana, and now provides 20% increased Mana Regeneration Rate.
  The Raw Mana Notable Passive Skill now provides 8% increased maximum Mana (previously 12%).

ooph. nerfing a bunch of max mana nodes. as if mana was not already a massive problem.

• -The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels.

..I notice you didnt list spells..

• -Archmage now causes Non-Channelling Spells to Gain 3% of Damage as extra Lightning damage for each 100 maximum Mana you have at all Gem levels (previously 5-6% at Gem levels 14-20). Non-Channelling Spells now cost an additional 6.7-6.1% of your maximum Mana at gem levels 14-20 (previously 5.35-5.05%). Quality now provides 0-10% reduced Reservation, instead of granting Non-Channelling Spells Gain 0-2% of Damage as extra Lightning Damage for each 100 maximum Mana you have.

big nerf...but not really enough. so, a flat 3%, instead of up to 9%, per 100 mana. And more mana cost.. reduced res, does enable more options. thats good.

• -Curse Skills now apply their Curse after a 1.5 second delay (previously 1 second).

makes sense. make it LESS useful in breach/rituals, etc. make it more required for blashphemy, or the instant ground aoe support. 10d chess move.

• -Flameblast now has a 15 second Cooldown (previously none), and now has 75% more damage per Stage (previously 200%). It now has an Explosion radius of 0.6 metres per Stage (previously 0.4), and Quality now provides 0-20% more Cast Speed (previously 0-10%).

ooph.

• -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).

ooph.

• -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).

ffs... peak "no fun allowed".

• -The Discipline and Purity Auras granted by some Sceptres now apply to the player wielding the Sceptre as well as their allies.

a BUFF!!!!!! holy shit. yeah, that was odd, they didn't effect you.

This cements Scepter/focus imho for casters. I was already on that train in s1. malice or skel minion scepter, with ES focus. even for sorcs. sorcs could use the crit weakness, or minions to soul feast,lifetap. spirit/ES was better then the minor +2 to skills you could get on a wand.

• -Hourglass now causes Supported Skills to deal 30% more Damage (previously 40%).

hahahah. what the fuck? those +Cooldown supports were already TRASH. hourglass was 40% more damage, +10seconds cooldown added.

• Mana Flare now has a Flare Radius of 2 Metres (previously 1.6), and now consumes 25% of current Mana to deal that much Fire damage (previously 20%).

geeze. was already mediocre. they hate mana.

• Spell Echo Support can no longer support Triggered Skills.

eh. reasonable.

• Shock Siphon can no longer be engraved in the Gemcutting menu. Existing copies of this support will still function.

Shock siphon was not as good as grim feast. But, it was also removed. weaker mana version of grim feast.


Uniques: big nerfs to atziris, ghostwrithe, and gaze in numbers, but not mechanics.

• The Melting Maelstrom Unique Flask no longer has the property of "Recover all Mana when Used". This change does not affect existing versions of the item.

i mean.. shit was busted in Path of Out of mana 2...

Temporalis still a hard value reduction.


don't see any mention of Blink, cast on dodge changes.

• Jeweller's Orbs now set a Skill Gem to have the specified number of Support Gem Sockets, rather than adding Support Gem Sockets to a Skill Gem with a specific number of Support Gem Sockets already. For example, you can now use a Perfect Jeweller's Orb on a Skill Gem with two Support Gem Sockets to set it to have five Support Gem Sockets.

nice QoL. I had that. got a perfect before a greater. so it just sat there... this also means. 2 separate skills can be buffed.

• Increased Effect of Auras from your Aura Skills can no longer roll on Jewels or Time-lost Jewels.

ooph. ha. yeah. 100% slow def impossible now.

• Amulet modifiers that provide 5-6%, 7-8% or 9-10% increased Maximum Mana now have values of 3-4%, 5-6%, and 7-8% respectively.
  Belts, Gloves, and Boots can now only roll up to +105-124 to Maximum Mana.
  Helmets can now only roll up to +125-149 to Maximum Mana.
  Wands, Sceptres, Staves, and Focii can now only roll up to +150-164 to Maximum Mana.
  Rings can now only roll up to +165-179 to Maximum Mana.

.... I hope that not listing spells before was a mistake.

• The "Debuffs you inflict have 20-30% increased magnitude of Slows" Corrupted modifier on Gloves can no longer roll.

lol. they really nuked that 100% slow from orbit.

• Fixed a bug where Blink could be used to travel through walls.

RIP.

New class and ascendancies should be fair game since players havent had a chance to break those yet. Eying up the new merc. tactician one.

Caliane said:

-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).

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Thank God they nerfed maces.

Also fuck them and their heavy stun mechanics.

For mapping you'll build up glory as you go and then drop the hammer on the boss which will stun it and let you drop another hammer right away as it no longer has a cooldown.

Going to be worse on pinnacles though.

Arbitrary said:

For mapping you'll build up glory as you go and then drop the hammer on the boss which will stun it and let you drop another hammer right away as it no longer has a cooldown.

Going to be worse on pinnacles though.

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I took it to mean 20 was the cap so max one hammer per boss but I hope I'm wrong.

Yaamean said:

I took it to mean 20 was the cap so max one hammer per boss but I hope I'm wrong.

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The hope is that the one hammer you do hit with will stun the boss and give you enough glory to throw another hammer.

Heralds, ingenuity, HoWA, Spark, stay stacking obviously needed nerfed but what gets me is these cock suckers nerfed shit that already fucking sucked balls. I understand the high performance items and builds, but they went and kneecapped the retarded shit that sucked to begin with.