Path of Exile - Page 1686

On August 23 2022 09:13 haitike wrote:
Reddit is insane. So much negativity and crying about everything.

Altough GGG really screwed it nerfing the map loot and juicing so much and not even mentioning it in the patch notes.

On August 23 2022 11:53 Southlight wrote:
I'm still holding out hope it wasn't meant to be this drastic and they have a live build bug or something.

On August 24 2022 00:02 Sermokala wrote:

They addressed in their what we are working on that this was intended.

The second reason is that we removed a massive historic bonus to item quantity and/or rarity that applied to some league-specific monsters. We replaced it with a moderate (2-3x) increase to item quantity, to offset the fact that they often have more life than regular monsters and some cannot drop maps.

There have been no other reward-affecting changes that we are aware of, but we will investigate to see if there are any unanticipated consequences of some other change.

Our intention with these changes is to modify certain league content that was out-of-line with other content so that it has a similar reward profile. These changes are important, but we understand they have reduced overall rewards that players receive.

We are going to compensate elsewhere, but we don't want to just increase the raw number of items that are dropped. Most items are immediately filtered out. We want to increase the number of relevant items that drop.

Despite the changes we discussed yesterday, we still don't feel that things are in the right place regarding many of the issues raised by the community

On August 20 2022 14:53 HolydaKing wrote:
Didn't post here yesterday, but the league start hype is still real for me. Know what? I rolled Chieftain Artillery Ballista and it starts being quite OK! But I switched way too early, should have done so at like lvl 50 instead of instantly. Having near zero damage early on due to Marauder pathing made for a 15 minutes norrmal lab while rushing lmao.

On August 26 2022 16:45 Southlight wrote:
I think the SSF issue is mostly to do with end-game item progression with the crippling Harvest nerfs. I'm not really sure what options are left. Also loot droprate nerf in general has skyrocketed the prices of things on trade - some uniques went from like 5-10c to like 20e/d which is some crazy inflation.

It does seem like blue map sustain is perfectly fine though, and after going "hmm?" early in campaign my mapping sort of stabilized. It's in a "whatever" state now, where once Lake becomes less unrewarding it should give item acquisition decent bump, unwieldiness of the map and retries aside. I just worry about the ability to scale gear past a certain point.

On August 26 2022 17:49 Gorsameth wrote:
The MF groups that normally churn out hundreds of uniques quitting the league will no doubt have had a major effect on increasing prices, the supply simply isn't there this time.

On August 26 2022 22:03 Joni_ wrote:

Also there is a much higher focus on well-rolled uniques from what I can tell, since you cannot just divine them up. I'm not yet sure if I like that change, but at least it is interesting and makes it more reasonable to pick up some more uniques to see how they have rolled.

On August 27 2022 09:44 Southlight wrote:
I believe you can still divine the uniques - they're just harder to come by because the 6L recipe is gone and because you use them for some of the crafting bench options.

On September 06 2022 23:31 HolydaKing wrote:
Reached lvl 97, my highest level ever, on my Artillery Ballista Chieftain starter in SSF Kalandra league. It kinda happened since my char stopped dying even though I was doing 8 mod maps, shaper/elder guardians etc. So kinda good build I guess... Although I got decently lucky on my gear, had 6L drop fairly early and Rog delivered on a couple items, such as a decent bow.