Path of Exile

Nirgon said:

and you'd hope they'd be different than the other guys in this regard

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To be fair, it's somewhat "good" for the meta when they do it like this because it forces rotate skills and people don't play the same shit over and over unless they really like it(many summoners and cyclone boys for example). It sucks if you really liked the skill even when it wasn't overpowered, but for most people they just play what's strong, so while they bitch about the nerfs they'll just play whatever is strong the league after anyway even if the shit they were playing barely got nerfed. It's also a way(not necessarily a good way but a way) to make people consider playing the new skills they bother adding every league and reworked skills, instead of just playing old skills again.

As for Storm Brand honestly that's an obvious nerf, just make it so recalling the brand removes the archmage buff. It was mechanically flawed that Storm Brand alone(well Armageddon too I guess) could just pay the archmage cost once and then never pay it again while still getting the full humongous amount of damage, when Archmage is purely balanced around the fact it makes your skills costs a shit ton.

That and notable stacking which had to be the most retarded idea they had in a while. Yes it sucks if Timmy's 2nd cluster jewel in the league is the same as the first and they don't stack, but surely they should have guessed allowing stacking was going to cause many weird issues. At the very least limits, which they already had with treshold jewels for the same reason, from back when people played Grand Spectrum and stacked 25 of them.

Anyway same shit every league, people crying stuff is dead when it likely won't be completely dead, and then playing some new broken shit that's just as good if not better than the previous league. It's not like them nerfing shit somehow makes the game harder or slower, because they always add even more stupid shit.