Balance is in a worrying state

Its not about nerfing. Its about buffing.
Look at poe ninja. Idk why GGG doesn't do that. Whole current season top DPS builds are
Bonestorm/cage
Plasma blast bleed
Those are top 2 builds rn.

Although there is a little improvement as between those builds we still can see other like comet, ember fusillade, ice strike.
Those are just few skills out of idk 100?

It's same thing as in Poe1 where they nerf one buff other, and everyone now goes for new builds like mad.

Motto is simple if all skills are buffed and op, none are.
Players are like energy, they always will go with the lowest effort methods.

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Majesthion#2427 написал:

How do you guys plan to finish balancing this game and complete the early access stage if you deliberately wait four months to make changes?

It feels like PoE 2 isn’t progressing in terms of balance. You fix broken things and add new ones, then people find new broken things, and you wait another four months before addressing them. The cycle just continues.

Possible Solutions.
1. Mid-league nerfs.
2. Public testing before league launches.
3. If everything is OP, then nothing is OP.
4. Separate public test league with constant changes.

Agreed on all accounts. It sucks GGG is not willing to do what's right and balance the game during leagues.

Normalize nerfs. No nerfs = no balance. No balance = boring/bad game.

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MathiasSoul#7397 написал:

Try Totems on Warbringer with Hateforge gloves and Shouts generate Rage. You'll change your mind real fast about those maces, my friend

Woo another ascendancy to get through the campaign. Its so much fun to do it 5 times a league.

the answer is actually pretty simple

1 big patch every 4 month sells more supporter packs than having multiple small patches

Dont let anyone fool you by other reasons, people complain and cry all the time. Not giving people free respecs when destroying their builds was an intentional decision, that creates the wanted outcome to have an excuse.

Yeah its a really boring Meta. Half the ascendancies are not reeally palyed and half of the whole playerbase is just Bloodmage, deadeye.

GGG really just needs to buff ascendancies

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comnom#5629 написал:

Wow this thread got silly.

Lots of armchair devs throwing around phrases like "clueless", "balance is easy/simple", "they don't play the game", "not good at their job", "need new hires".

This is the internet in 2025. People with no experience let alone expertise in a field popping off at the mouth, making everything worse. smh.

difficulty understanding abstract ideas indicates something about cognitive ability.

There is no such thing as "mid league."
The game isn't even fucking out, and won't be out for at least 1-2 years.

The fewer changes they make in terms of tuning, balance, tweaking, the longer it is going to take.

They need to have balance updates every week. They need to stop treating this game like it's a fully released product and come to the fact that it's nowhere even close to that.

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sephrinx#7591 написал:

There is no such thing as "mid league."
The game isn't even fucking out, and won't be out for at least 1-2 years.

The fewer changes they make in terms of tuning, balance, tweaking, the longer it is going to take.

They are treating the game like a full releases, new league every 4 months bundled with MTX sales and minimal to no changes inbetween.