Path of Exile

• Medium-size hideouts can now hold four Forsaken Masters rather than three. Large-size hideouts can now hold seven Forsaken Masters rather than four. Navali and Leo both bypass these limits.

• Zana, Master Cartographer has a new voice actor.
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• Flicker Strike no longer causes you to drop Haku's spirit
  
  
• For Cast on Critical Strike, Cast on Melee Kill, Mjölner, Null's Inclination and Cospri's Malice, only one skill can be triggered per trigger event. The damage of Cast on Critical Strike and Cast on Melee Kill has been increased, as described in "Active Skill Gem Balance" below.
  These items and skills also have cooldowns which limit how often a skill is cast.

• Frost Walls created by you or your allies are now no longer considered enemies for the purposes of projectile collision detection (your projectiles will not collide with your own Frost Wall). This intentionally fixes the exploit case where a player stacks many Frost Walls around a boss and uses a skill like Piercing Lightning Arrow to trigger an excessive amount of hits.
• Cast on Critical Strike now has a 500ms cooldown, and will now only trigger one spell per frame when you critically strike. It now has 100% chance to trigger casts when you critically strike. It now has 20% more spell damage at level 1, tapered up to 39% at level 20 (1% per level). Note that the changes described above in "Triggered Skill Improvements" affect Cast on Critical Strike - spells are chosen in the order of their sockets.
  
  
  • Fireball: 50% more damage.
  • Ice Spear: 70% more damage.
  • Arctic Breath: 35% more damage.
  • Cleave: 19% more damage.
  • Sweep: 15% more damage.
  • Ground Slam: 15% more damage.
  • Sunder: 9% more damage.
  • Viper Strike: 11% more damage.
  • Double Strike: 13% more damage.
  • Heavy Strike: 5% more damage.
  • Glacial Hammer: 6% more damage.
  • Dominating Blow: 6% more attack damage (not minion damage).
  • Frost Blades: 15% more damage.
  • Lightning Strike: 9% more damage.
  • Wild Strike: 19% more damage. It now also gains 1% increased area of effect per level.
  • Static Strike: 16% more damage.
  • Reave: 12% more damage. Reave's base area of effect has been increased by 21%. Its per-stage area of effect has been reduced from 30% to 20%. It still has the same area of effect at maximum stages.
  • Vaal Reave's area of effect has been updated to match changes to Reave.
  • Lacerate's 30% Less Attack Speed drawback has been reduced to 25% Less Attack Speed. This is a buff.
  • Ice Crash's attack speed penalty is now 20% less (down from 25% less). Its secondary stage damage penalty is now 15% less (down from 20% less). Its third stage damage penalty is now 30% less (down from 40% less). This is a buff.
  • Static Strike now gains 1% increased area of effect per level.
  • Earthquake's aftershock damage has been reduced from 60% more (at level 1, tapered upwards) to 50% more at all Levels. Its mana cost has been increased from 6 to 10. Its aftershock area of effect has been reduced by 12%. With the wide-ranging melee buffs and adjustment to Earthquake, we expect to see a much more balanced use of melee skills.
  • Blade Vortex now has a stack limit of 20 (down from 50). It now deals 63% more damage at level 20. The number of hits per second causes substantial performance problems. The skill was also deemed too strong against bosses.
  • Magma Orb can now be affected by projectile speed modifications.
  • Discharge now deals 35% less damage when triggered.
  • Vaal Molten Shell now causes an explosion when it prevents any physical damage, rather than when it takes any hit.
  • The trap/mine behaviour of Bladefall has been made more consistent with other traps/mines. The blades fall from the mine itself, not targeting the location where the monster is. (They will fall in the direction of the monster though
  
  
  • Melee Splash now only has 35% Less Damage to Other Targets at level 1 (down from 50% Less). It now has 26% less at level 20 (from 31%). This is a buf
    
    
    • Pierce's mana multiplier has been increased from 110% to 130%. Its damage at high levels only has been reduced. Its damage at level 20 has been reduced from +29% to +19%. Given the strong utility of this gem, it doesn't need a damage bonus that high.
  • Poison now deals 8% of Physical and Chaos damage as Chaos Damage for 2 seconds (down from 10%). While we have future plans to fix Poison (addressing double dipping), this nerf brings it slightly more in line until we can make those changes.
    
    
  • Zana League Mods Available During 2.4.0:
    • There's now explanatory hover text on the map mods that Zana offers, so that you can see this data in the game client.
    • Level 2: Invasion (Cost: 2 Chaos Orbs, +20% IIQ, adds one Invasion Boss/Pack)
    • Level 3: Beyond (Cost: 3 Chaos Orbs, +20% IIQ, Beyond)
    • Level 4: Anarchy (Cost: 3 Chaos Orbs, +20% IIQ, adds three Rogue Exiles)
    • Level 5: Torment (Cost: 3 Chaos Orbs, +20% IIQ, adds three Tormented Spirits)
    • Level 6: Perandus (Cost: 4 Chaos Orbs, adds three Perandus Chests, chance for Cadiro to spawn)
    • Level 7: Domination (Cost: 4 Chaos Orbs, adds three Shrines)
    • Level 8: Ambush (Cost: 4 Chaos Orbs, adds three Strongboxes)
    
    
    

Byr said:

Patch notes are out and apparently to long to post to these forums, 10k character limit ftl.
Forum - Patch Notes - Path of Exile 2.4.0: Atlas of Worlds Patch Notes - Path of Exile

All in all, the things that needed to get hit were hit. Im sorry to see Warchief totems didnt get nerfed because they are still a little too good. Going to be seeing a lot of them this league I bet.

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Caliane said:

my icespear on coc barrage deadeye was good last league...

With CoC nerfs.. no longer icespear+essance.
would be better to just be CoC Icespear, and crit damage, or an added cold/etc.
Also, the barrage itself. since .5s CD on cast on crit. no reason to run barrage at all. Iceshot?
Get a tora bow, because again, no reason to get fastest bow possible.. causes bleeding, and ricochet+rupture.
Innate chain at no penalty to damage. tons of ranger projectile damage/speed, and crit/crit multi.
Passive Skill Tree - Path of Exile


though, I think ice spear 4 spell totem heriphant..

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Caliane said:

my icespear on coc barrage deadeye was good last league...

With CoC nerfs.. no longer icespear+essance.
would be better to just be CoC Icespear, and crit damage, or an added cold/etc.
Also, the barrage itself. since .5s CD on cast on crit. no reason to run barrage at all. Iceshot?
Get a tora bow, because again, no reason to get fastest bow possible.. causes bleeding, and ricochet+rupture.
Innate chain at no penalty to damage. tons of ranger projectile damage/speed, and crit/crit multi.
Passive Skill Tree - Path of Exile


though, I think ice spear 4 spell totem heriphant..

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khalid said:

Had a stormcall build all set up to go (templar inquisitor), but Frost Spear has long been my favorite ability mechanically but too weak to use since the nerfs to shotgunning. I will probably try it out (also as Templar inquisitor), with a backup to stormcall if 70% buff wasn't enough.

Haven't really been any decent ice spear builds in a long while, but I'm thinking 100% pierce (gem, nodes on tree) with HoT/HoI/CoH/AM with temp chains on hit gloves. Should be super low gear requirements to get to max crit in second stage, so think it will be a decent build to start with.

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Zaphid said:

You have to use flasks sooner or later, they are some of the most powerful bonuses you can have in the game.

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