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Well my point was, them having a pack shouldn't impact the patching process, it's probably different teams working on cosmetics. So you could have a nothing new league and still have the guys working on cosmetics produce a normal pack like usual leagues and it'd let the content teams take a break for an entire league to catch up/clean up stuff. Even if the cosmetics team is the same as the one that makes actual content assets and stuff, that'd still be ok, they can work normally on the pack but they'd have less work(no actual league content assets since it's just old stuff). So regardless there's no reason they couldn't make a good pack for a legacy league or any other type of league, their work doesn't change at all there. Meanwhile all the other devs can take 3months to work on code issues, balance, UI QoL changes and whatever else.
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I bought the 30$ bird one cause the bird pet is pretty dope. I then caved and bought the 60$ one too. I was hesitating at first because the helm looks absolutely retarded but the set + Deicide helmet looks awesome for me.
I think their best packs were the Shaper/guardian packs and the worst packs are the current War for the Atlas. Over designed vomit after Seeker tier.
I know this was a tangent but I don't care.
I think their best packs were the Shaper/guardian packs and the worst packs are the current War for the Atlas. Over designed vomit after Seeker tier.
I know this was a tangent but I don't care.
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They go to great length to ensure that the supporter packs capture the spirit and feel of the league.
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I looked at poeninja and it looks like Assassin is by far the least played I would consider playing. Thinking SSF wander now, easy to gear
I’ve always loved or hated the packs but in the end I know I’m supporting one of if not the best dev teams I’ve ever seen and a fun free game that’s has constantly been updated the 5 years I’ve played.
Bex alone is hilarious and their CS team responds with real people almost right away most times. Wish more games had teams and business models like PoE.
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Vaal skill rework preview has been posted.
Forum - Announcements - Skill Revamps - Part 4 - Path of Exile
As someone who's really only used Vaal Haste, Grace, and Reave, these seem like good changes. I never played PoE during the Vaal Fireball/Spark meta, but I'm betting some people wanting competitive clear vaal skills are going to be disappointed by the minimum soul collection cooldown. This might be a nice way to supplement clear skills with single target skills.
Forum - Announcements - Skill Revamps - Part 4 - Path of Exile
As someone who's really only used Vaal Haste, Grace, and Reave, these seem like good changes. I never played PoE during the Vaal Fireball/Spark meta, but I'm betting some people wanting competitive clear vaal skills are going to be disappointed by the minimum soul collection cooldown. This might be a nice way to supplement clear skills with single target skills.
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Arc is already viable! With poet's pen...
I wonder how that will work now. If you put Vaal Arc in a Poet's Pen, is it now firing off Vaal Arc any time you have souls and regular Arc otherwise? That'd be pretty fucking good. Even with the freed up gem slots, Vaal skills will still require a precious hotkey. I rarely ever remembered to use Vaal Haste/Grace even when I have them socketed and hotkeyed.
Vaal skill buff? More like Poet's Pen buff.
I wonder how that will work now. If you put Vaal Arc in a Poet's Pen, is it now firing off Vaal Arc any time you have souls and regular Arc otherwise? That'd be pretty fucking good. Even with the freed up gem slots, Vaal skills will still require a precious hotkey. I rarely ever remembered to use Vaal Haste/Grace even when I have them socketed and hotkeyed.
Vaal skill buff? More like Poet's Pen buff.
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Vaal skills cant be triggered. Same way a Vaal skill wont work in a cast on damage taken, it wont work in a Poets Pen.
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Biggest change to make vaal skills less shit is letting you use both the normal version and vaal version with 6L, that's gonna be pretty big, plus it saves some gem sockets. Might not be great for say Vaal Haste since you generally don't want vanilla Haste anyway but great for the attack skill variants. On the flipside, I don't think you can get 20+ Vaal gems? Since vaal gems can't be vaaled. So for high end it'll be a tradeoff between having a higher base damage or having an optional vaal skill. Should be kinda interesting. Should make a bunch of vaal gems more valuable though.
Liking all these changes they're announcing a lot. Ignite buffs they posted about last time weren't like, super great, but they should make ignite relatively viable again with the huge aoe from prolif and higher base damage, especially until they finally nerf ele equilibrium.
Wonder if they'll finally nerf Vaal Reave effect working on normal Reave with these changes. Maybe giving it something else.
Liking all these changes they're announcing a lot. Ignite buffs they posted about last time weren't like, super great, but they should make ignite relatively viable again with the huge aoe from prolif and higher base damage, especially until they finally nerf ele equilibrium.
Wonder if they'll finally nerf Vaal Reave effect working on normal Reave with these changes. Maybe giving it something else.
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The Cataclysm
Only way to get one.
/edit or i guess beastcrafting too. I didnt play this league.
Quick look on poe.trade, they arnt rare.
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Ah yeah didn't think of cards, makes sense. Most of them for sale are probably the byproduct of these cards failing and getting vaal gems. Then there's no advantage to using a non vaal gem if there's a vaal skill for the skill you want to use. There's not that many vaal skills though, they kinda stopped making them a while ago(other than vaal breach which is pretty specific obv). I wonder with these changes if they'll go and make more and just leave it like that.