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Early Access Announcements - Addressing your Early Access Post-launch Feedback - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

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DODGE ROLL CHANGES

A lot of players have expressed frustration about being trapped in by monsters. While it is intended that monsters are able to trap and kill you, we felt that the frequency of this was a little too high.

We will be deploying the following changes in an upcoming patch:

• Player size is now set to Zero units while dodge rolling instead of One unit

• Some smaller monsters can now be pushed while dodge rolling. This includes monsters such as the Adorned Beetles in Keth.

This should result in getting trapped less often.

Note that you can still be trapped. A player size of a zero can still not phase through monsters, but it can get through even the smallest gap between them.

CHECKPOINT CHANGES

A lot of players have been reporting that it can be tedious to need to retread areas of maps in order to get back to objectives that they already found.

We will be deploying the following change in an upcoming patch:

• Clicking on a checkpoint will allow you to teleport to other checkpoints in the area that are explored on your minimap

• Checkpoints have been added to all entrances and exits of zones to allow for teleportation

• A Checkpoint has been added to the midpoint of the first Dreadnaught area

We will be making further adjustments to checkpoint positions as we continue to gather feedback.

ITEM CHANGES

One of the major problems that players have been experiencing is feeling that the game is not rewarding enough. This is an area that we have to be very careful when adjusting because it's very hard to reduce drops if we increase them by too much.

We have identified a few key areas that we believe will significantly improve the experience that players are having.

RARE MONSTER CHANGES

We felt that Rare monsters were not rewarding enough. This didn't affect the campaign as much because there are more Unique bosses, increasing the overall amount of drops, but it's especially noticeable when playing in the endgame where Unique monsters are less common.

In particular, the reward that you were getting for the increased difficulty of rares wasn't lining up.

We have deployed the following changes:

• Rarity bonus per rare mod has been doubled

• +10% Quantity bonus per rare mod

• Increased the chance of rare monsters inherently having more modifiers as you progress through endgame

These changes will cause rare monster rewards to naturally scale up as you get to higher levels because the number of mods a monster can have increases throughout the campaign and into endgame. In addition, many other forms of map juicing will indirectly cause rare monsters to have more mods as well, increasing the rewards of these other mechanics too. Also note the change below to make sure each map has a minimum number of rares which will also increase the average number of rare mods, and thus increasing drops further.

CURRENCY CHANGES

We felt that players were not getting enough of certain currency either in the early game, or to sustain adding mods to maps.

We have deployed the following changes:

• Regal orb drop rates increased around 40%

• Disenchanting of six mod rares to give two regal shards instead of one.

• Lesser Jewellers orbs drop rates increased around 33%

• Reduced the drop rate of Chaos Orbs slightly as they are less valued and so that it doesn't consume so much of the "rare currency" drop pool. This causes currency such as Exalted Orbs to increase somewhat.

• Gemcutter's Prism drop rates increased by 500%

• Gemcutter's Prisms now increase quality on gems by 5% instead of 1%

 

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Große Dev note von heute. GGG hat offensichtlich ein gutes Händchen für Spielerfeedback. Massig nerfs der Schwierigkeit, viel Balancing und QoL




Gameplay Features

Like we mentioned last week, we’ll be adding the capacity to fast-travel between Checkpoints within an area, as well as adding many more checkpoints to areas, generally at all entrances and exits to areas, meaning if you find these first you’ll be able to instantly travel to them to continue exploring.

We’ll also be making Passive Point respeccing cheaper especially at higher levels. It had a relatively aggressive curve getting more expensive with character level, we have flattened that curve so it doesn’t exponentially grow as much. This should generally result in approximately 40-50% less gold cost for respeccing between the start and middle of endgame progression.

Trial of the Sekhemas

Players were finding Trial of the Sekhemas particularly frustrating in close range so we’ve reworked how Honour Damage scales when in close range, as well as fixing an important bug that was causing players to take far too much Honour Damage from Damage over Time.

Honour Damage now scales down based on distance to enemies, when in close range you’ll take 35% less Honour Damage, tapering off as you are further away from Monsters.
Fixed a bug where Damage over Time was dealing thrice as much damage to Honour as intended, and fixed a bug where Honour Resistance was only applying to two-thirds of that damage. (This was confusing for us too)
Skitter Golems no longer use basic attacks and instead now just explode.
Serpent Clans burrow and ambush attack now has improved visual telegraphing and cannot be used from as far away.
Volcanoes created by Rattlecage’s Fissure Slam now last half the duration.

Endgame and Monster Balance

Generally the balance in Endgame Maps was more punishing than intended, so we’ve toned down the damage in a number of ways and disabled a certain on-death effect where the telegraphing was not as clear as it should have been.

Maps no longer have additional elemental resistance penalties inherently applied at Tier 6 and Tier 11 or higher Maps. It is now consistent across all of the Endgame.
Chaos Damage now also scales less aggressively over the Endgame.
Critical Strikes from monsters now deal 40% less bonus Damage.
Lowered the baseline monster density of Breach Encounters, primarily by reducing the frequency of the “Elite” monsters appearing.
Disabled the Volatile Crystals Modifier, we’ll revisit this in the future pending telegraphing improvements.
Purple Explosives created by the Volatile Plants Modifier on Rare Monsters now deal significantly less Damage.
The Siphons Flask Charges Modifier on Monsters now drains ten-times less Flask Charges per second. (This was unintentionally draining way too many charges)

These changes should generally result in an endgame that is much more survivable than before and we will continue to address problematic cases as they arise.

Character and Item Balance

We’ve made Charm Modifiers on Belts substantially more common and now appear at much lower levels. The "of Symbolism" Modifier now appears from level 23 onwards, and the "of Inscription" Modifier now appears from level 64 onwards.
Electrocute is now 25% harder to buildup. (But the Damage Penalty has been removed from the Support Gem).
Added a new Lightning Damage and Electrocute Cluster to the passive tree in between the Ranger and Monk sections.
It is now more difficult to chain-freeze enemies by reducing the amount of Freeze Buildup applied after a Freeze has been applied.
The Hunter's Talisman Notable now grants +1 Charm Slot. The small passive skills leading up to it now grant the stat it formerly gave. The Charm helper text has been updated to indicate that you cannot have more than three Charm Slots unlocked, so that we can add more sources of it in the future.

Skill and Support Gem Balance

Since launch we’ve unfortunately had to nerf a few skills that were far too overpowered. How do we define overpowered? Basically it's a situation in which a certain skill is so powerful that players feel no other method of playing the game is viable.

Generally speaking we are trying to do this in a way that doesn't make a build bad (but we can make mistakes!). Ideally any truly meta shifting changes will only happen at the same time as a content patch with a new league to play in.

But that doesn't mean we haven't been looking at underpowered skills and support gems. We’ve got a number of changes planned which should improve some of these skills. The full list of changes will be in the patch notes but here is a sample of what you can expect.

Improvements to Rolling Slam and all Shield Skills in the Mace section.
Improvements to various Bow Skills, especially the skills used to generate Frenzy Charges.
Improvements to Bone Spells and Chaos Damage over Time Spells in the Occult section.
Improvements to various Crossbow Skills, especially those at higher Tiers.
Improvements to some of the underachieving Quarterstaff abilities.

Alongside all of these Skill Gem improvements we’ve also done a pass over the Support Gems. We’ve added two new Supports and removed or lessened the penalties on many others, notably the Fire, Lightning and Cold Exposure Supports.

Added the Tremors Support Gem. Which can be used to give up to multiple more Aftershocks to Skills, with a damage penalty.
Added the Bidding Support Gem. Which can be used to give more damage to the Command Skills of Supported Minions.
The Fire Exposure, Lightning Exposure and Cold Exposure Support Gems no longer penalize Damage of Supported Skills. They now have a Mana Cost Multiplier of 120%.

There are also some notable nerfs to a few of the remaining overachieving skills:

Skeletal Arsonists Spirit costs now match the other two Skeleton Mages, this should result in a slight decrease in the number of Arsonists at a higher level.
A nerf to the damage over time component on very high levels of Tornado and Vine Arrow. These were never intended to be dealing damage themselves, but more so act as a way for other skills to propagate damage.
Magnetic Salvo can now only use your stuck Lightning Arrows as opposed to those created by your Party Members.

As we wind down for the holiday season we wanted to thank you all for our most successful launch so far, we could not have done it without all of your support. A lot of our team will begin to take some much needed rest over the next few weeks but we look forward to getting back in the new year refreshed and ready for an exciting year of development in 2025. Happy Holidays, Exiles!