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Wasn't the soulrend merc doing 10x damage?

Play Luminary. But, as Arbitrary said, the version where you support the merc is bait. It doesn't matter even if they didn't nerf it, getting your weak merc to defeat a good merc while you deal zero damage is quite frustrating. Find any stormhand merc with Wrath, Conductivity, and Purity of...

I did Wrath abuse, so Perquil's Toe was required. I didn't use any of the Unique or Pinnacle implicits because I was trying to keep it to "starter", which is 10s of chaos per slot max, Paradoxica being the lone exception. But, either way, good catch, I agree the top end of aura stacking...

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/4013680 If I'm reading these correctly, aura stacking Luminary, where your merc provides you a flat aura that you abuse, is completely untouched. Well, maybe not completely, merc might need some defense.

Seems more like patching a core design issue instead of fixing the core issue itself(boring maps, too many waystones). Hmmm, that feels familiar. Maps too big? More checkpoints. Too much backtracking? Sprinting. The "purely optional" response is used in discussion of Kingsmarch mechanics...

Perhaps I misinterpreted your original point. What did you mean by "tying it in with QoL"? Arbitrary's post said it better than mine. If they can avoid that feeling, good.

The QoL with Kingsmarch mappers and shippers was never the issue. They were uninteresting mechanics that use mobile game incentives to keep you playing instead of actually interesting gameplay. Has that been addressed or are you going to be incentivized to login every so often to direct your...

I hope that's where they end up. The passive tree pathing puzzle is one of the best parts of character planning.

Kingsmarch was one of the worst PoE1 leagues, even if you discount it lasting almost a year. It's a shame they're deciding to reuse this mechanic.

Claims from the same idiots that removed life from the passive tree but left %ES for multiple leagues in a row? Or is there a passive tree preview somewhere? It's concerning much footgunning is going on in PoE2.

If they have a design space problem with crit chance(they do), it definitely needs addressing. I think this was the worst way to address it. The passive tree in PoE2 was already way too weak and this makes it worse. Player power was already skewed heavily towards items and this will make it...

Got its second DLC today. It's not exactly the same as most games posted in this thread(Vampire Survivors clones) in that there's no player power meta progression. There are unlocks. Which, I'd argue is a positive since it helps preserve build diversity. The original developer is no longer...

I honestly don't know. It's a fair question and I don't know why I'm not more insistent about sticking to regular working hours despite being sick of it. I've become more non-confrontational as I've aged and I don't like letting others down. Off hours work is often catching up on stuff I feel...

I'm still working through a significant backlog from the merger. None of our testing infrastructure worked with theirs, so I'm having to reimplement most of our test suites. We just got attachments back last week, after more than a year without them. Imagine diagnosing failures with the...

Yes, sometime during standup, but often during weekly meetings.