Totem leech nerf

Thank you for utterly wasting my time. I have spent almost every hour of every day playing this game since the league started in path of exile 2 0.3. With your patch notes earlier today, you gutted my warrior build to the point where I have to start a new character. I have put hundreds of hours in this game, and well over 100 more since league start. I have never had a nerf mid season. This is horrible. without the totem healing as much I am defenseless even with 90% armor, max resistances, and many, many, many other layers of defense. I can no longer heal enough to support my life cost for skills. You have seen the youtube videos. This was intentional. I was dying before the patch. it felt completely balanced. I could do all boss tiers, all map tiers, but had to avoid some modifiers like any other build and still would die once every 5 or so maps. Now I can't do tier 15 maps without modifiers with a boss. So again, really thank you for completely ruining the season for me, and the many other people who were using the totem fissure build.

- an exile who loved his build.

Same here. Warbringer fissure relying on totem leech is now completely broken. Thanks for wasting my time GGG.

Was these the nerf?

Fixed a bug where leech applied to you by totems via the Font supports was much higher than it should be due to not being affected by enemy leech reduction.

Fixed a bug where leech applied to you by totems via the Font supports did not account for level scaling in party play.

yes that was the nerf, I didn't even suspect it was a bug because it felt so balanced. I was not unkillable in any sort of way. Because of this change or bug fix my whole build is now unable to work in any capacity. What can I do?

full respec into another build
take all my damage and defense and put it into more leech life
or just leave the character and start a new one. this is the option I chose.

Respec to another build? I have already spent 20+ divine in making this one I would need all new gear.

to take any of my other nodes out for leech wouldn't work either. I have giants blood and im only 10 strength over. I did do respectable damage but not crazy, but taking out of my damage nodes aren't an option.

Even if it was just a bug it felt completely balanced without "leech resistance" to go further it ruined my build to the point where I cannot salvage it. There are multiple builds on youtube with tens of thousands of views about it.

This was not handled correctly by GGG and it should have been addressed to input this at end of season. About 120 hours gone. days of my life gone.

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BigBoom9240#8803 написал:

Was these the nerf?

Fixed a bug where leech applied to you by totems via the Font supports was much higher than it should be due to not being affected by enemy leech reduction.

Fixed a bug where leech applied to you by totems via the Font supports did not account for level scaling in party play.

FYI, those changes were for the 0.3.0c update.)

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Yet another example of why during betas,
free re-specialization ought to be given every minor update and not just every major update :
(Not every hotfix of course.)
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3632502/page/2#p25639059

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

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A different issue is (mandatory !) updates 'bricking' characters :
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3623617

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

And pray tell, how are you supposed to know that in advance ?

Anyway, you should probably re-use PoE1's one-time (per update) free full re-specialization system, but this time also for minor, rather than only major updates :

(See the RESET ALL PASSIVES button on top.)

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

It should be done for any major changes, and as far as I understand this (0.1.0d) is a major one ? (And not only for trigger gems.)

And since there will be likely a lot of major changes early on, might as well do it for every minor (non-hotfix) update (at least in the early stages of the open beta), to prevent endless discussions about why this update got a free respec and that other did not.

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

Yet another example of why during betas,
free re-specialization ought to be given every minor update and not just every major update :
(Not every hotfix of course.)
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3632502/page/2#p25639059

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

[...]

A different issue is (mandatory !) updates 'bricking' characters :
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3623617

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

And pray tell, how are you supposed to know that in advance ?

Anyway, you should probably re-use PoE1's one-time (per update) free full re-specialization system, but this time also for minor, rather than only major updates :

(See the RESET ALL PASSIVES button on top.)

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BlueTemplar85#0647 написал:

It should be done for any major changes, and as far as I understand this (0.1.0d) is a major one ? (And not only for trigger gems.)

And since there will be likely a lot of major changes early on, might as well do it for every minor (non-hotfix) update (at least in the early stages of the open beta), to prevent endless discussions about why this update got a free respec and that other did not.

I agree. That's a good idea. It's EA sp they should not treat this as final. I think GGG needs to be more aggressive and faster with updates but also give players a chance to respec on the fly for every hotfix, patch, regardless. Again it is EA.

Weird, I'm playing the same build and I was literally unstoppable with the totem leech stuff, now I actually take some damage.

Really odd you say that. it seems most unlikely that was the case. I had totem leech, multiple nodes into leech on passive. A bunch of leech from damage, Recoup damage as life. 90% armor without any buffs to go further I had scavenged plating plus buffs from turtle spirit, I had 87% of my armor applying to elemental damage, max resistances, Even picked up giants blood and grabbed a shield for 37% block chance, Encased in jade. With all that I was still dying like any other character.

It would seem something isn't adding up with your statement. I sacrificed damage to stay more tanky but still died once every few hours.


But to the comment above that one, yes a respec would be nice but again the currency I spent on this build would still be wasted. I'm built into leech, damage off kill ect. all my gear would need to be changed. I would much prefer if they would leave it until end of season. It would be like nerfing deadeye right now. there would be and uproar.

There's so much obvious stuff from PoE1 that were answers to issue in PoE2 it feels like different people made the games and are oblivious to other's existance.