Monk Invoker is Dead

[Marafabulous]

So I have a lvl 96 Monk invoker in endgame, and yes it was rather overpowered, but going from 500k dps to 50k is kinda crazy. I understand that killing Pinnacle bosses in seconds and avoiding all the mechanics is not great, therefore I was actually fine with the damage nerf. So I decided to spend the weekend to rework my skill tree, rework my skill gems with some of the new supports, change gear (which I have heaps of high level stuff) even spent a bunch of divines on different gear to try and salvage my poor monk. Just when I thought "yeah, this should work" I get stun locked and die multiple times. So I grab every single Stun Threshold node I can, base it off of ES, get extra stun threshold on my gear. Oh, now I get repeatedly Frozen. ok, so now I grab a bunch of Ailment threshold nodes and gear. Oh now I do almost zero damage, STILL get stun locked and frozen and still die. So my conclusion is that Invoker monk is pretty much unplayable in endgame. Even with Meditate to boost my ES to 10k I still got one shot by a mob. I am all for nerfing Meta builds, but now I cant even do a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ map without getting my ass handed to me from white mobs...WITH A LVL 96!! How the hell would a casual player EVER get to even try a pinnacle boss when a Endgame invoker monk now cant even clear a T15 map without getting chewed to pieces? Nerfing the damage is fine, but not when you also nerf defense AND make it so that you literally cant do a thing about it due to Stuns and Ailments.

[mtoma31]

Mate I was lvl 97 sorcerer u kında lucky stıll compared to mıne:)) they destroyed archmage conductıvıty . doubled mana costs erased 12 jewels and grım feast so how are we supposed to keep alıve wıth 29 pages of best ınventory same wıth u whıte mobs runnıng over me so wheres the fun playıng thıs game ? do we have to play a stupııd speared hadzabe guy :))

[Diggah Gija]

The Game ist dead since Update 0.2.0

[Xariot]

TBF every build is dead now, GGG thinks slamming your face against a wall over and over is the kind of fun it's players are looking for.

[DeadlyKitten]

I hardly get power charges now, it's like 1 every 10+ seconds if i'm lucky.
And no more screen clearing chain explosions.
Feels so slugish and boring.

[Marafabulous]

Yeah, its like they are trying to make us play the new class or the classes with new acendancies, thereby making us also rerun the campaign. They make as well have just reset the standard server, since all the previous acendancies are now useless.

[bibudis]

The game is not dead. The balance was restored. 500K DPS bro while others melted the mouse for 30k dps..... Are you serius? And that called it endgame!
Welcome to the real club.

[Xariot]

Originally posted by bibudis:

The game is not dead. The balance was restored. 500K DPS bro while others melted the mouse for 30k dps..... Are you serius? And that called it endgame!
Welcome to the real club.

dead game.

[Xursian]

its EARLY ACCESS stop crying, theyre patching ♥♥♥♥ and all the stuff money you put was for NON-GEAR-SPEC-ITEMS that you get to keep, chill.. games great, go take a break

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by Xariot:

Originally posted by bibudis:

The game is not dead. The balance was restored. 500K DPS bro while others melted the mouse for 30k dps..... Are you serius? And that called it endgame!
Welcome to the real club.

dead game.

rly ded

[Jan]

Originally posted by bibudis:

The game is not dead. The balance was restored. 500K DPS bro while others melted the mouse for 30k dps..... Are you serius? And that called it endgame!
Welcome to the real club.

The sweet spot would probably be somewhere in the middle.
Leave the main campaign and low map tiers accessible for the casuals and fun builds.

Get some more difficult side content and elite content so that the streamers and more dedicated players have something to bite their teeth out.

[THANKS OBAMA]

If you're gonna cry about your old character instead of trying to make a new one, this game ain't for you. So just downvote it and move on kek. It's like what kind of loser would cry about their build not being viable in global during a new release in PoE1.

Who cares. If you can't make yourself a new build or copy someone elses, cry more?

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by Xariot:

TBF every build is dead now, GGG thinks slamming your face against a wall over and over is the kind of fun it's players are looking for.

Watching big youtubers struggling against normal mobs is painful.
They did lower the hp in the recent patch but didn't touch the endgame maps.
And Ghazy. a big minion build player is strugling in T1 maps cause the enemies kill his minions faster than they respawn, and he was mostly running away cause of that. lol
It's a ♥♥♥♥ balance update.

[Xariot]

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

Originally posted by Xariot:

TBF every build is dead now, GGG thinks slamming your face against a wall over and over is the kind of fun it's players are looking for.

Watching big youtubers struggling against normal mobs is painful.
They did lower the hp in the recent patch but didn't touch the endgame maps.
And Ghazy. a big minion build player is strugling in T1 maps cause the enemies kill his minions faster than they respawn, and he was mostly running away cause of that. lol
It's a ♥♥♥♥ balance update.

Yup he's the guy I was watching to get the twitch drops. It's painful to watch how useless minions are.

[Jan]

Originally posted by Xariot:

Originally posted by DeadlyKitten:

Watching big youtubers struggling against normal mobs is painful.
They did lower the hp in the recent patch but didn't touch the endgame maps.
And Ghazy. a big minion build player is strugling in T1 maps cause the enemies kill his minions faster than they respawn, and he was mostly running away cause of that. lol
It's a ♥♥♥♥ balance update.

Yup he's the guy I was watching to get the twitch drops. It's painful to watch how useless minions are.

Watching such streams.
Or reading in forums from people who actually tried to adapt and rescue their existing 500+DIV builds just to find out that its impossible.

Either way it becomes obvious that the balance is a bit off.

[Marafabulous]

Originally posted by THANKS OBAMA:

If you're gonna cry about your old character instead of trying to make a new one, this game ain't for you. So just downvote it and move on kek. It's like what kind of loser would cry about their build not being viable in global during a new release in PoE1.

Who cares. If you can't make yourself a new build or copy someone elses, cry more?

As stated above, I would be happy with the nerf if it made the game more balanced. But it doesn't do that at all. This new update means if you don't play any of the new acendancies then you may as well give up. Thats not balanced, thats just shifting the future META builds to the new acendancies. Balanced means that EVERY acendancy of every class should be able to be made into a viable option. Obviously some may be slightly better than others at different things. But overall, all classes should be similar in playability. So when they nerf the current METAs into oblivion to the point where no matter how you change your build it just doesnt work. Its not balanced.