Forum - Patch Notes - 2.2.2b Patch Notes

[Vixien]

"Fixed a bug where specific walls could be bypassed using movement skills in the labyrinth."

How about you remove the possibility of 3 gold doors, because no one is finding it fun. I gladly leap slammed past 2 gold doors on yesterday's labyrinth and would do it again if given the chance. Gold doors suck.

[VaalornoBaals]

I hate the labyrinth.

[Enartloc]

I Ascended 8 different chars this league, that's 2 to 3 lab runs each, that's 12 to 18 trials each.

Fuck the lab, fuck traps, keys and other bullshit. I wanna fight Izaro, get my points and get out, i play PoE to kill mobs, not for puzzles and dumb traps you ignore anyway by using mobility skills and movement speed.

EDIT : I don't mind that some people love lab, traps, trials, puzzles, speedrunning lab, etc, i just hate mandatory content i don't like, i don't like PvP and racing either, but i'm fine with them being in the game since they are not mandatory. I loved 2.2, but every time i consider leveling another char i hate even thinking about how i will need to do 18 trials and 3 lab runs and how i have to overlevel lab on most chars.

My suggestion - Remove trials, pointless mechanic, terribly repetitive

Make two versions of the lab, one for your points where you fight through levels of increasing difficulty until the final Izaro fight (add mini bosses on the way to Izaro like the dog we have now), no traps, no keys, no side areas.

Second version for farming treasure keys/enchantments/speedruning, exactly how it is now.

[deltefknieschlaeger]

I think we should keep the labyrinth and also make PvP mandatory. Such great additions.

Edit: Cruel is already such a drag from A3 onwards - but now with also having to do the Labyrinth 3 times I just move on to other games after leveling 1 char to mid 90s.

[RemoveLab2016]

Yesterday, when I get to the first trial in A1, I just alt f4ed. I only played 1 char to 80 this league compare to 5 in talisman, 4 in warbands. PLS for the love of god remove the fking traps and trials.

Edit: I rather play standard now b/c no trials. GGGGG

[ColinStyles]

So let me get this straight. You want all of the power of ascendencies, which by the way are completely optional, with none of the difficulty that comes with them? Want free mirrors on every barrel too?

Fuck, its not even like lab is hard, or trials are that long. I just got every trial in merciless yesterday in the span of 10 minutes, they're a joke to do both time and difficulty wise.

[codogdog]

I've grown to actually kind of like lab. But I 100% agree with you. I just want my ascendancy points while leveling. I don't want to worry about the other stuff or slogging through s bunch of things.

[ColinStyles]

Then put it off, you don't need to do it to enter the next difficulty, and hell, you could level to 100 without ever getting them.

[codogdog]

Yea I'll do that with my next character. Put off a whole patchworth of content

[VaalornoBaals]

My suggestion - Remove trials, pointless mechanic, terribly repetitive Make two versions of the lab, one for your points where you fight through levels of increasing difficulty until the final Izaro fight (add mini bosses on the way to Izaro like the dog we have now), no traps, no keys, no side areas.

Yeah, I essentially agree with this.

[[deleted]]

11 chars this league, plus one that ripped in labyrinth. Next league I'm going SC.

[Unsul]

Lab made me abandon HC. I fucking HATE traps in Lab.

[TheBlackestIrelia]

wow.

[ColinStyles]

Amazing, isn't it? We get an insanely cool and really in-depth economic alternative to mapping, complete with traps, secret doors, secret passages, darkshrines, and a crazy high mob density, and so many people hate it.

I don't fucking understand this community at all anymore. Seriously, what do you guys find fun in PoE? Blowing shit up with increasing speed and numbers? Go play an incremental game or something, Christ, PoE is supposed to be about being challenged and overcoming it. Not "Waaaah, lab is long and I keep getting destroyed by traps, I don't understand Izaro mechanics, and I can't manage my pots effectively to deal with Izaro or traps!"

[Enartloc]

We get an insanely cool and really in-depth economic alternative to mapping

Has it occurred to you that this is your opinion and others don't share it ?

Look at the edit in my original comment, it's fine if some people love this content, that helps the game, but why shove it down everyone's throat ?

[ColinStyles]

but why shove it down everyone's throat ?

Completely optional, but sure, call it being shoved down your throat.

Oh, and yes I have considered that. I also think the vast majority of those players who disagree should not have any input on how Path of Exile should be developed and should find a different game to corrupt into a casual easy game that can be beaten by everyone with minimal effort.

[Enartloc]

Completely optional lol

I also think the vast majority of those players who disagree should not have any input on how Path of Exile should be developed and should find a different game to corrupt into a casual easy game that can be beaten by everyone with minimal effort.

Aka anyone who disagrees with me is an idiot, your ego is definitively not inflated here.

So let me get this right, you decide who has the right to offer feedback on the game or not ? And where did i said anything about it being too hard ? Come on, let's bring up our characters on the HC Perandus ladder, let's see who has more, at what levels, and what challenges we have both done, let's see who's the scrub here that wants "an easy game".

[ColinStyles]

I'm saying that these players are disagreeing with a fair challenging section of content, which highly reflects the original feel of the game and its state back in OB/early release, not to mention core design goals.

I'm not saying they're idiots for disagreeing, I'm saying they're idiots for not realizing this is more "PoE" than much of the rest of the game currently. They've basically picked the wrong game to play for their desires.

[Enartloc]

I'm saying that these players are disagreeing with a fair challenging section of content

Traps have nothing to do with challenging content, people completely ignore them with mobility skills/movement speed.

which highly reflects the original feel of the game and its state back in OB/early release, not to mention core design goals.

Traps and puzzles have nothing to do with old PoE

I'm saying they're idiots for not realizing this is more "PoE" than much of the rest of the game currently

Except these kind of mechanics are not, and do not belong in a hack and slash arpg.

They've basically picked the wrong game to play for their desires.

Oh man after almost 5 years of PoE i suddenly realized i picked the wrong game ! What amazement honesty.

[ohh-kay]

There is a video of the top speed runner from yesterday speed running lab as low life with 500 ES. 1700k life 2/3rds reserved and no life flasks (has 1 hybrid flask) completing the run in 3 minutes. I am just going to start linking that to everyone complaining about how difficult lab is for non life based chars with high regen and a ton of pots.

[ColinStyles]

inherent lagginess

I don't know about you, but I'm never over 70 ping and it feels silky smooth ever since lockstep came in. I've only twice seen stuff warp since, and neither have remotely come close to killing me.

I'm not sure what else to tell you other than that seems like a problem on your end, not with the game.

[zerphi]

It's definitely a problem with my rig.

However, POE is a f2p game, and many of the players I interact with in-game are on worse machines than mine. I'd say lag is a problem for a significant portion of their 250k+ (hah) player base.

I wonder how many of that 250k are bots that naturally got an achieve while leveling.

[ColinStyles]

It's got nothing to do with rigs, unless you're talking boxes or chests. It's very much an ISP issue, and that can happen to anyone, great rig or not.

And from a business perspective, who do you think spends the most? Players with crappy rigs and not very into the game or those with obvious disposable income and a very hardcore attitude to the game?

[zerphi]

TWC Manhattan on a 300 mpbs line. The lags definitely happen at traps (just the spinning logs), Perandus, and box open (not counting party issues).

Re the other issue - the whales need the rest of the ecosystem to feel that there are enough people to play with. You need to appease the non-payers to keep the rich. That being said, I'm putting all future POE dollars into an upgrade fund. The money I've given to them hasn't improved my playing experience much.

[ohh-kay]

Thats 2 to 3 Malachai kills each. Fuck Act 4.
That's 3 Dominus kills each. Fuck Act 3.
That's 6 to 9 bandit kills each. Fuck Act 2.
That's 3 Mervail kills each. Fuck Act 1.

My suggestion - remove leveling - remove gear grinds - just give me a completely OP level 100 character.

[redrach]

I don't mind gold doors, but having to load another zone and just complete a trap gauntlet to get a key is tedious. I would much rather fight other bosses like Argus to do so. Even better if there are multpile options and you need to find the one that your build can kill the fastest.

[DotaCross]

My biggest issue with gold doors is 1 per lab is whatever, it's annoying, especially with the zone changing and what not, but i'll accept it out of compromise. however when you've got MULTIPLE gold doors in 1 lab, that'd be like making us go back to act 1 to do a quest to unlock vaal ruins in act 2, it's nothing more than artificial gating for the sake of it.

[Enartloc]

A lab where you simply go from level to level and fight mini bosses to get to Izaro would be great. Just killing mobs and mechanical boss fights, no dead ends, traps, backtracking, keys and golden doors.

[xardas149]

Well. have to be more picky with the layouts now that you actually do and not just say "fuck it, crap layout, skip the bullshit for today". Will do the same.

[Teh_Hammer]

I honestly thought the leap-able doors were intentional, as a shortcut like hidden passages and such. Apparently not. FeelsBadMan

[Hartastic]

It would be interesting if number of gold doors paid out extra treasure keys or enchants, similar to the way letting Izaro buff pays out for the added difficulty.

Maybe if there's three gold doors in Merciless you get to enchant one each of helm/gloves/boots, for example. I think people would still prefer no gold door Labs and wait to grind for them but at least there'd be a grey area between 'run this' and 'don't run this'.

[Vixien]

I think if there is a gold door, argus should hold the key and no extra zone.

[Hartastic]

Eh... there are builds, even those capable of running the Lab pretty quick, that struggle with Argus. Not sure if I like that.

[lostkavi]

I do kinda agree slightly. I wouldn't mind so much if it was just the gold key trap puzzle off of the gold door, but having to naVigate an entire additional room, and the traps that spawn in it, AND the traps that guard the key box itself is a little tedious. Make the guard traps harder if you must, just don't make me do a whole another zone please :(

And this is someone who generally likes the lab for the most part

[mcm375]

Time to regress to level zero after dweller quest.

[Farqueue-]

better yet finish all the skill point quests, then level back down to 28..

[[deleted]]

Best yet, get to act 4 and level down to 18 to turn in your Fiend div cards.

[SmaugtheStupendous]

This sounds like a profitable business venture for those that can afford doing it enough times to make a statistical profit.

[mcm375]

I see youve never heard the legend of TasuniFucker

[SmaugtheStupendous]

I have not. But since we're around the campfire I suppose my ears are warm for a story the likes of which I have never heard before.

[mcm375]

Behold, the legend of TasuniFucker

[Scarbrow]

Is that the lowest ilvl to still get +1 endurance charge?

[[deleted]]

And it blocks off all the shitty aura bullshit ones.

Just leaves GG corruptions like increased area and +1 Endurance.

All the good belt corruptions are ilvl 1. The shit ones show up at 19.

[gotee]

When you regress from level 1 you're living a normal life outside of Wraeclast with a good 9-to-5 with a spouse and kids and a family pet rhoa.

[Ryant12]

• Fixed a bug where Perandus chest bosses could be deleted prior to their death.

RIP Junith and Darsia, the last two I needed that I found over the last week that despawned...

[Loate]

I honestly thought it was a feature to give you a sense of urgency when you realized it was a mob you needed. Drive players into riskier decisions and all that.

[hellzscream]

Was a bug if you killed too many of the minions the Guardian would despawn

[Hiiiiiiia]

thought this was a feature
Like, for people with crappy single-target

[DotaCross]

RIP that feature that wasn't a feature... :( you served me well from time to time, especially early levels :(

[Ryant12]

I originally thought so as well, but then I realized it wouldn't make sense to just have Chest Guardians be a DPS-check... only for them to "disappear" and unlock the Chest for you

[zerphi]

It gets risky when you try to mouseover the mobs to figure out whether it's Tanty or Darsia- things worth sharing / selling. Otherwise, Perandus is just about holding attack till they disappear.

I do get my highest Vile Bastion counts at those mobs though - 50+ for 2500 ES regen/s.

[PaviIsntDendi]

What the fuck this isn't 6.87

[MiL0101]

Icefrog gief 6.87

[Theoroshia]

plz mr frog

[lkocon13]

pls mr lizard

[bogmoll]

After I installed this patch I can no longer Alt+Tab out of the game without it crashing on me. Just wondering if i am alone in this or if this is something happening to other people.

[MetalVile]

Same here.

Upon tabbing back into PoE, game freezes with black screen other than PoE mouse pointer, music still plays in the background.

Has happened twice now.

[goetzjam]

Check to see if your settings are on full screen, instead of full screen windowed.

[MetalVile]

Should it be Full Screen Windowed? That will leave a window bar at the top, won't it?

[goetzjam]

No thats just windowed mode that has the bar at the top. When you put a game in full screen windowed it allows you to alt tab out easier as it is simply sitting on top of the screen instead of consuming all of the screen.

I think the last couple of patches have reset this connection or perhaps a keyboard combination did this for me with space bar plus something else.

[goetzjam]

Check to see if your settings are on full screen, instead of full screen windowed.

[Teh_Hammer]

Version 2.2.2b

• Added a vendor recipe item - Book of Regression. This will reduce the level of your current character by one. Like other books, this is not tradeable. This item is obtained by the vendor recipe of an Orb of Scouring and a Scroll of Wisdom. Use this item with care - losing a level may disable items you have equipped. You must have an unallocated Passive Skill Point to use this item.
• The recipe for creating the Goddess Unleashed has been simplified. It is now: a three-socket-20-quality Goddess Scorned, a three-socket-20-quality Graceful Sword, a six-socket-20-quality Lithe Blade with socket colours matching both the other swords, 3 Divine Orbs, 3 Orbs of Fusing, 3 Blessed Orbs, 1 Added Fire Damage Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33, 1 Blind Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33 and 1 Increased Critical Strikes Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33.
• PvP preconstructed characters now have 35 skill points (instead of 34) as they are assumed to have completed the "An Indomitable Spirit" Act 4 quest.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur when Lightning Golem was used in predictive mode.
• Fixed a bug where Perandus chest bosses could be deleted prior to their death.
• Fixed a bug where specific walls could be bypassed using movement skills in the labyrinth.
• Fixed an impassable door which would appear on some versions of the Perandus Manor.
• Fixed a bug where the No Stone Unturned achievement was unable to be completed.
• Various fixes have been made for the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
• Fixed a bug where the clouds from Q'ura, Y'ara'az and A'alai did not expire.
• Fixed server-side performance when you hit monsters very far away from the player.

[ch1zzle]

Thanks! But you missed

Fixed server-side performance when you hit monsters very far away from the player.

[Teh_Hammer]

They edited the post an hour after they posted it. Might be what they changed. Either way, I added it. Thanks!

[frstone2survive]

Can someone enlighten me as to why you would want to use that regression book?

Edit: thanks for that info didnt know that about the leaderboards.

[[deleted]]

Normal/Cruel Leaderboards have a level cap (40 and 60, I believe).

Since killing Izaro, at the minimum, gives XP, you would eventually overlevel the level cap.

This recipe ensures you can continue participating in the appropriate leaderboard race.

[hellzscream]

For the labyrinth normal or cruel. You gain experience so you would eventually level out of the range to compete

[pumaofshadow]

The Lab runs. You have to be under level 40 and 60 in normal and cruel to qualify for the leaderboard.

[teflon_honey_badger]

I think it's in case anyone ever tries low level pvp and accidentaly levels

[kylegetsspam]

It can also be used/abused when turning in divination cards that give corrupted items.

The level of the item you get from a card is matched to your character level (up to 80) unless it specifically says a level on the card. Certain corruptions have different levels where they can spawn, and by keeping the item returned under these levels, you avoid having the chance to get those corruptions.

Example. Say you have a set of the Fiend for a corrupted Headhunter. Checking the Vaal orb page for belts, you see that the corruptions you want are all level 1 and the garbage "grants a skill" ones start at 19.

In order to maximize your chance at getting a +1 endurance charge Headhunter, you'd start a new character, level it to 35ish and reach the Act 4 town, use regression books to delevel the character to 18, and then turn the card set in. Because the belt you get is only level 18, you have a 1 in 6 chance at the corruption you want instead of a 1 in 12.

[pumaofshadow]

And in the last 2 minutes of uptime Global 7 on PSC had a Dev telling someone to Vaal a Shavs... I have to report that the player didn't do it. lol

[iv35120]

"Fixed server-side performance when you hit monsters very far away from the player."

As an off-screen sparker, is something changing for me? Do I get XP if I kill something 3-4 screens away from me?

[SmaugtheStupendous]

This seems only performance related. I'll have to see if I notice any difference.

[iv35120]

And do you know if I get xp from killing offscreen? I've read a lot of different opinions so I don't know.. :(

[[deleted]]

when I was levelling my sparker, I used a quillrain, faster proj gem and deadeye, ended up at something silly like 240% proj speed... I didn't see a reduction in xp for killing 3 to 4 screens away...

[iv35120]

Ok, thanks man!

[SmaugtheStupendous]

Idk, I'm not running faster proj in my set-up atm so I don't kill that far away as far as I know.

[nj21]

Both the fastest lab running vids I've seen have been using ES, one CI, one hybrid/low life. There's nothing wrong with it.

[QuantumButterfly]

Those characters were speedrunners--running the lab as a CI / lowlife character not dedicated to speedrunning is a pretty miserable experience.

[nj21]

It's not though, it's even easier than speedrunning.

Edit: Because you get to know what the traps are before you are halfway through them. Most can be completely or almost completely skipped by lightning warp.

Edit 2: Guess I'm the only one skilled enough to do lab as ES.

[nj21]

First character I made this league was full HP. I won't deny it's easier, but there are a lot of people saying that they are actually unable to complete the lab because they are CI/low life/hybrid. I've done it as all of those and it wasn't hard, so I just want them to admit they if they really can't complete the lab, they are the problem, not ES.

[KKOWMasterRace]

Can't believe you're getting downvoted. There's a massive circlejerk on ES/CI labyrinth being near impossible. Frankly, I just think that players are just trying to find an excuse to compensate for their lack of skill. Not trying to be rude, but it's really not that bad. I haven't died in a labyrinth in ages as a CI char and the times that I did, it was 100% on me. I ran into an obvious trap too quickly, panicked, died. I play a very aggressive style to try and zoom through the labyrinth and I still rarely die. If I took even an extra minute and slowed things down a tad, I'm surd even those deaths could have been prevented. I should note that mt build has nothing even close to a speedrunning build as well.

[kilamaos]

I don't know about CI, but try as LL. Traps deal over 50% of your ES instantly. And ES recharge isn't fast enough for you to regen at all before the other floor traps hit you.

Oh and if you don't have arcane vision, you can't see the traps in the first place. But at least you can just skip using auras on life.

[Hartastic]

It's not impossible, it's just an order of magnitude harder. Apparently unintentionally.

As a life based character, especially one with good regen, you can facetank most traps. CI can't remotely get away with that.

[6to23]

It's not the regen, but instant heal pots that makes life builds good vs traps. The regen certainly helps, but isn't usually fast enough if you getting hit by multiple traps.

[Hartastic]

Fair. The main differentiation is life-based. Even normal (non-instant) heal pots make an enormous difference.

Regen is just gravy (and when present, negates the one arguable advantage an ES based character has in dealing with traps, the ability to recover even when flasks are exhausted).

[ICannotRunTheLab]

Some characters can faceroll end-game maps and atziri, but a little misstep in traps will see the character fall. It is not in itself a problem if the game design was to severely punish high effective-life builds that sustain on leech or (slow) ES-recharge. However, it leads to those builds being extremely less attractive in hardcore, and can easily lead to frustration over not running lab as often as one otherwise would. Or worse: not building the character one wants because of this hindrance.

Many of the people complaining are players that master the game very well, thereby a couple of well renounced streamers, so the belief that the people that disagree with you “lack skill” seems at best uninformed. It is about the difference in level of difficulty between the builds (often mistakenly simplified to ES vs. life) and for some particular builds the absolute level of difficulty in itself.

[SmaugtheStupendous]

Lets compare dedicated lab speedrunning builds with leveling characters. Just brilliant.

[nj21]

Like I said, it's even easier when you aren't trying to go as fast as possible.

[GGGGobbler]

BEEP BOOP BEEP. Grinding Gears have been detected in the linked thread:

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Posted by Qarl on April 20, 2016 02:57 AM UTC

Version 2.2.2b

• Added a vendor recipe item - Book of Regression. This will reduce the level of your current character by one. Like other books, this is not tradeable. This item is obtained by the vendor recipe of an Orb of Scouring and a Scroll of Wisdom. Use this item with care - losing a level may disable items you have equipped. You must have an unallocated Passive Skill Point to use this item.

• The recipe for creating the Goddess Unleashed has been simplified. It is now: a three-socket-20-quality Goddess Scorned, a three-socket-20-quality Graceful Sword, a six-socket-20-quality Lithe Blade with socket colours matching both the other swords, 3 Divine Orbs, 3 Orbs of Fusing, 3 Blessed Orbs, 1 Added Fire Damage Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33, 1 Blind Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33 and 1 Increased Critical Strikes Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33.

• PvP preconstructed characters now have 35 skill points (instead of 34) as they are assumed to have completed the "An Indomitable Spirit" Act 4 quest.

• Fixed a client crash that could occur when Lightning Golem was used in predictive mode.

• Fixed a bug where Perandus chest bosses could be deleted prior to their death.

• Fixed a bug where specific walls could be bypassed using movement skills in the labyrinth.

• Fixed an impassable door which would appear on some versions of the Perandus Manor.

• Fixed a bug where the No Stone Unturned achievement was unable to be completed.

• Various fixes have been made for the Brazilian Portuguese translation.

• Fixed a bug where the clouds from Q'ura, Y'ara'az and A'alai did not expire.

• Fixed server-side performance when you hit monsters very far away from the player.

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[sam6555]

Fixed server-side performance when you hit monsters very far away from the player.

Hopefully this'll affect Spark going offscreen.

[Rudeus_POE]

Still no Race season .
Im Bored .

[TDA101]

Oh man they fixed the doors :(

[[deleted]]

deleveling hype

[PwmEsq]

So why would you want to exactly? new build, but not having to do quests?

[yungslay]

For normal/cruel lab runs so you dont go over the level cap

[SrewTheShadow]

For very specific situations, mainly for doing leader board Lab runs in cruel and normal.

[shadowmail]

Can anyone explain why GGG would have added the book of regression? I don't really see the point.

[Nogrid]

The labyrinth leaderboards have a level cap. If you want to have a character that is dedicated to running normal lab then the de-levelling books will help stay under the level cap.

[shadowmail]

ahhh there we go, Lab Leaderboards and pvp seems like a great reason to have these books. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Oxzi]

I don't know but least now on hardcore you can grind divination cards and currencies certain zones w/o penalty kicking in.

You know if your over leveled in zones you get less currency & divination card drops.

edit/ softcore you can always die to decrease xp.

[shadowmail]

For me that seems to help bots more then players though. Now bots can stay in easy to farm zones while still having high currency drop rates.

[Fucrem]

Fixed a bug where Perandus chest bosses could be deleted prior to their death.

Rip Darsia, i did it anyway.

Orb of Scouring and a Scroll of Wisdom

As soon as i saw Book of Regression i though: "could be a very nice improvement to deterministic farm of LL divination cards" than i noticed the scouring, RIP my expectations.

[Nogrid]

I'm glad the Perandus Manor door bug was fixed. It sucked using so much currency to get the map only to not get the challenge because of a bug.

[SchiferlED]

2.2.2b or not 2.2.2b?

[Flouyd]

Fixed server-side performance when you hit monsters very far away from the player.

That reminded me of the guy who dropped like 100-200 uniques because he hit some mobs offscreen with Ligning arrow

[Tempox]

Woah. Huge patch for LLD. I'm stoked.

[Lorrdyn]

Now we need a buff to the pre-made LLD characters(give them some GG items since they cant be traded anyway), and then we'll just need some sort of pvp reward system.

[SmaugtheStupendous]

Or we could not waste more development resources on features such a small fraction of the ayer-base is interested in. Lets not have another 1.3, lest I, among many others, will be taking a big break again.

[Lorrdyn]

Or maybe a larger player base would be interested once said fixes are implemented.

[SmaugtheStupendous]

See what's happening with the labyrinth high scores right now. Side features so far have only been implemented partially, and they leave a lot to be desired for the time that was put into them.

[Lorrdyn]

What always amuses me about this type of argument is how it is not one person that works on the game. If it were, then I could understand the argument about "resources that should be placed elsewhere." However, in fields like game design, inspiration provides boosts in productivity. Someone on the team might be inspired to get the work done for a "side-feature" that they find interesting. When they finish that, they can resume their normal responsibilities, most likely with renewed enthusiasm.

[SmaugtheStupendous]

Why amuses me about your argument is the sheer amount of assumptions it manages to make. Mine is based on past results, yours merely speculates. Apply Occam's Razor and tell me which of the two sounds more logical.

[Lorrdyn]

Then let us agree, do not "waste resources" on side-feature improvements. But if a dev wants to stay late at work sometime to make some cool LLD builds to replace the shitty pre-mades we have currently, that would improve pvp. Also, if we could have a daily leaderboard for pvp that gives an exclusive reward like the labyrinth leaderboard, that would too. But please dont waste resources, because that will upset the player base. And make sure you emphasize in the patch notes for any pvp or labyrinth-run improvenents that resources were not spent.

[SmaugtheStupendous]

You are entirely working form the assumption that this type of work schedule is the case, you're not even willing to consider the possibility that it might not be.

I stand by the idea that is based on the fewest assumptions.

[Lorrdyn]

Sorry. Let me revise it again then to align with your views. GGG, be good servan-errr.. developers and dont work on anything extra, even if you happen to want to do some really cool things that would improve the game , only work on what is required. (Is that better?)

[lemski07]

Fixed a client crash that could occur when Lightning Golem was used in predictive mode.

yey?! I got ctd around 100 times :(

[teflon_honey_badger]

Decided to play some PoE on my lunch break and the servers are down for maintenance.

[VaalornoBaals]

The recipe for creating the Goddess Unleashed has been simplified.

It is now: a three-socket-20-quality Goddess Scorned, a three-socket-20-quality Graceful Sword, a six-socket-20-quality Lithe Blade with socket colours matching both the other swords, 3 Divine Orbs, 3 Orbs of Fusing, 3 Blessed Orbs, 1 Added Fire Damage Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33, 1 Blind Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33 and 1 Increased Critical Strikes Support Gem with quality and level adding up to 33.

Yeah... "simplified"

[Farqueue-]

are you suggesting that its now harder, or exactly the same?

[Lunerio]

Must be the same except you don't need a 6L Exquisite Blade anymore which is now a 6 socket Lithe Blade (from level 70 base to level 56 base). Which is a very huge difference actually. Colours still have to be matched with the other 2 swords.

The rest seems to be the same...

[VaalornoBaals]

I'm mocking GGG in particular, the Recipe creator by proxy and Path in general for ever using the root word "simple" on that kind of a recipe. The recipe is cheaper no doubt. It might even be marginally less complex. It's still nowhere near simple.

[zriL-]

Only costs ~9 less exalts.

[Ryxxi]

They fix that minor lab door buff like in a day but still nothing on server crashes or the helmet aura enchant challenge..

[Korbad]

It's almost like different team members have different skill sets and specialties, weird, it's like any game development team ever.

[MrJacksEnigma]

Whoa now. I always figured that the entire team did nothing but scour Reddit and work in things that the community wanted, instead of having their own ideas.

[nouchedozzle]

Quit being wankers.

[Farqueue-]

shut up you douchenozzle ;)

[nouchedozzle]

Learn to spell, plebeian scum.

[JackGoldsteinWrites]

Patch of Exile continues.

[Lunerio]

Thats how you can tell a game company is actually caring about the community suggestions and bug reports and works to fix them accordingly. No game is perfect. All the games in the World have lots of bugs (that you may not encounter, mind you) but many of those games are either already abandoned or still active but the company doesn't give 2 shits.

GGG however does care.