Nice nerf, thanks for wasting my time.

[4tw'xz0dus]

So, I´v been wasting exalted orbs on gear for EVER to get to the point where it feels good to play and get some momentum. That was yesterday finally, now my build is useless and you just decided that my time is worth nothing, it was not even that op i constantly kept dying. I know your trying to get the game balanced but just hammering people out of your game is not a good idea.

[WereChicken]

Originally posted by Arestris:

Really, too many people have obviously no clue what Early Access and in developement means ...
While I agree, that they at least could reset the passive skill tree with an update, in general it's obvious that those things can and will happen and that many times more until the game releases.

Which is why respecs should be free. Otherwise they're just punishing the players for playing the game.

[TheMasterBlaster]

Originally posted by WereChicken:

Originally posted by Arestris:

Really, too many people have obviously no clue what Early Access and in developement means ...
While I agree, that they at least could reset the passive skill tree with an update, in general it's obvious that those things can and will happen and that many times more until the game releases.

Which is why respecs should be free. Otherwise they're just punishing the players for playing the game.

No, which is why people need to manage their gold and keep a rainy day fund on hand when this happens again. gold management is a major part of this game and GGG will always be tinkering with gems in huge and small ways to balance the game. get used to it.

[WereChicken]

Originally posted by TheMasterBlaster:

Originally posted by WereChicken:

Which is why respecs should be free. Otherwise they're just punishing the players for playing the game.

No, which is why people need to manage their gold and keep a rainy day fund on hand when this happens again. gold management is a major part of this game and GGG will always be tinkering with gems in huge and small ways to balance the game. get used to it.

Yeah, this is a beta buddy. You might not know what one of them is, but they tend to have a LOT of balance changes. Your way will just see a lot of people annoyed and start bad mouthing the game as they will, justifiably, feel their time has been wasted.

Also tell me you've not used the respec system without telling me you've never used the respec system. The gold cost is too damned high, especially if you need to respec more than a handful of skills, like say if your build gets nuked by a balance patch.

[Veyta]

absolutely terrible decision , they said they wont nerf anything until season end if its not broken , which is not , still 40 levels and strugling and they completely nerfed the build . what a mess

[fx!]

Originally posted by CvB:

Originally posted by fx!:

Yeah it is pretty bad, I feel they should provide some compensation through a hotfix at this point, we will see. Also early access doesn't mean beta/testing environment.
My suggestion is to either wait for their response and/or play different character in the meantime.

Its still launch week. The majority of games has balance patches with nerfs and buffs the first couple of weeks.
Sorry to say but, it is kind of foolish to build your first character in a newly released EA game so that it gets completly bricked by 1 nerf to 1 mechanic. With no possible way of grinding gold for respec.

And on that, NO you should not be compensated for having to respec. Just grind the gold and stop being lazy. Sometimes you just have to grind, deal with it.

Fortunately my build wasn't affected so I don't really care and yeah, hard to grind gold when your character can't play. I see the reasoning behind not relying on single, potentially busted, mechanic but that is how some poe builds work. At least GGG should have given heads up as they did with other skills.

[GrandTickler]

they should save their nerfs for a new league

[JamesTBG]

Originally posted by Zenwolf:

I really find it hard to understand what people expect from a beta.
They said it quite clearly here:

Will there be wipes during Early Access?
No, there will not be a wipe. We will do new leagues but none of your characters will be wiped, they will just go to a league called Early Access (so they will never be in Standard). In some cases characters in old leagues might be somewhat broken by balance changes though. After launch the "Early Access" characters will still exist.

All this will eventually end up in a separate league of it's own probably a testing ground for future patches. So yeh the gonna mess with a lot of things before full release that is what beta is for.

Do you know GGG? They have a history of "strong balancing". Its pretty normal for them to say something is balanced, while the builds dependand on it are nerfed into the void. They clearly have favorite builds and things they dont like. In POE1 it was an uphill battle to convince them to change the flask system (automation). It took years. And now?

They have over 10 years of "experience". To say "ohhhh its alpha" doesnt count for me.

[Nefser]

Originally posted by JamesTBG:

They have over 10 years of "experience". To say "ohhhh its alpha" doesnt count for me.

Years of experience...tuning and tweaking PoE 1, not PoE 2.

They have to see where the extreme damage builds are and potentially flatten them, then perhaps bump things back up slightly to see where it can sit.

[REDMVGE]

it's simple, if you're having too much fun, expect a nerf. refund's on you, of course

[DeadlyKitten]

Originally posted by Nefser:

Originally posted by JamesTBG:

They have over 10 years of "experience". To say "ohhhh its alpha" doesnt count for me.

Years of experience...tuning and tweaking PoE 1, not PoE 2.

They have to see where the extreme damage builds are and potentially flatten them, then perhaps bump things back up slightly to see where it can sit.

That's literally what they've been doing in POE1... lol
And they still do that to this day if they find some broken skill.

[Twistedbro]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

God I hope they keep nerfing meme builds.
This is too funny.

My grenade build was nerfed, I equipped a different grenade and went on my merry way

[Pharos]

I wonder why so many players are attacking other players for valid complaints. The way they nerfed cast on x skills isn't good or healthy. They didn't "nerf an op build" they basically removed like 6 gems from the game and destroyed several ascendancy points in one knee jerk not thought out nerf. But hey, I mean I guess they need players on their knees giving them a handy about every single thing they do like they can't do no wrong instead of having a discussion on why nerfing the skills 20x over was way more then needed to reel it in to the correct power level.

Why would you invest into cast on x skills if you get one cast every 7-9 packs. Why would you spend over 10+ passive going into the trigger nodes. Why would you waste 1-2 affixes on spirit. Why would you waste jewel affixes on increased energy and why would you pick monk for their ascension about triggered spell. The 7-9 packs is after fully investing your entire build into triggers, not just using the base level gem. It's absurd. Stop flaming other players for a valid complaints and then pretending like you are better then them.

[PP]

omg more entitled gaming kid tears.... seriously grow up and delete that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ take.

[Tzunny]

They give at least compensations and FREE RESPECS at least ???

[radekim]

any time spent on EA is waste of time