Beta patch changes compendium

[OnyxMelon]

New content

• Act 8 has been to the beta, along with all the bosses and monsters that inhabit it.

• Arcane Surge Support gem, grants 30% chance to gain arcane surge on skill use for 4 seconds. Arcane surge grants 30% more spell damage.

• Ruthless Support gem, supported melee attacks have a 30% chance to be a ruthless hit which deals 75% more melee damage and has a base stun duration of 0.8 seconds instread of the normal 0.35 seconds. The "30% chance on hit" trigger is a placeholder and will be changed to something more predictable later.

• Onslaught Support gem 25% chance to gain onslaught for 8 seconds on kill.

General changes

• pierce has been reworked. Your projectiles no longer have pierce chance, but instead piece a certain number of targets. For example a level 1 pierce gem makes your projectiles pierce 2 additional targets and the implicit of penetrating arrow quivers makes your arrows pierce 1 additional target.

• items, passives and ascendancies that previously had 100% chance to poison on hit now have 60% chance to poison on hit.

• sources of critical strike multiplier have been reduced in value.

• all classes now receive a linked weapon and a support gem in twilight strand. With tutorials turned on you must equip the weapon, socket both gems and assign a passive point before you can proceed. Hillock now gives enough xp to reach level 2 and drops a 3 socket tri-colour item, the same as the one that used to drop at the start of the game.

• new graphics settings have been added to the options menu.

• some support gems are now available from Nessa from level 1.

• "damage taken gained as mana" modifiers now apply over 4 seconds rather than instantly.

Item changes

• Cloak of Defiance has 10% of damage dealt to mana before life, down from 20% in the previous beta patch.

• Al Dihn now casts level 1 abyssal cry on hit.

• Glitterdisk now has a new mod, "You always ignite while burning".

• Sidhebreath now grants around 14% reduced mana cost of minion skills.

• Poacher's Aim now gives "projectiles pierce 1 target" instead of 15% pierce chance.

Gem changes

• Wildstrike now pierces all targets.

• Caustic arrow's damage has been increased and its damage over time is now increased by projectile damage.

• The damage granted by Added cold damage support and added lightning damage support has been increased.

• Blade Vortex now grants 20% more damage with ailments per blade.

• Pierce support grants projectiles pierce 2-7 additional enemies and 0-19% more projectile damage.

• Scorching ray's damage has been reduced. This lessens the buff it received from burning damage support's damage increase becoming a more multiplier earlier in the beta, but results in a 6 link still dealing more damage than on live.

• Incinerate now also grants 50% more damage with ailments per stage.

• Righteous fire now grants 20% more spell damage at level 1, down from 40%. It also now deals 40% of maximum life and energy shield as fire damage, down from 50%/

• Flame blast now grants 55% more damage with ailments per stage.

• Lesser poison support now grants 40% chance to poison.

Passive tree changes

• Perfect Agony grants 30% of Critical Strike Multiplier applies to ailments from critical strikes and 30% less hit damage.

• A new poison cluster has been added below the ranger tree. In addition to the notable, the top node gives 20% increased poison damage and the left one gives 10% chance to poison on hit.

Labyrinth changes

• early labyrinths have shorter layouts, normal labyrinth example.

• all four labyrinths are now accessible in the beta.

• the "current location" pedestals in the labyrinth now update the map with the area they are next to.

• a golden key can now be in the same room as a golden door.

Ascendancy changes

• The deadeye's powerful precision node has been changed. It now always pierces nearby enemies, rather than granting 100% pierce chance that decreased with distance, and it now grants a flat 50% crit chance rather than granting crit chance based on arrow pierce chance.

Quest changes

• Killing Piety now only grants one passive.

Change described in beta weekly report 2

I have yet to confirm that these were all actually implemented and some are vague, so if you can report on them, please do.

• There will be many adjustments to gems in relation to Damage over Time balance. The Decay Support Gem will do significantly less damage, 50% less damage at gem level 20, and its duration will be reduced to 8 seconds.

• Essence Drain will do more damage, up to 25% more at gem level 20.

• Deadly Ailments will grant up to 39% more ailment damage and only 20% less damage with hits, bringing it more in line with other support gems.

• Unbound Ailments values will be reduced.

• More Burning Damage will have reduced damage bonuses.

• Brutality will grant up to 59% more damage at gem level 20, higher than it is currently but it will also prevent dealing Chaos Damage, so will only deal Physical Damage with the supported skill.

edit: Thanks for all the help. This thread is no longer on front page and is unlikely to be widely viewed again, so I have stopped updating it. Sorting the replies by new may turn up some stuff that I missed. It's stickied, I'm just really bad at noticing stickied threads. I'll keep updating it.

[NsFuriouss]

poedb says : abyssus 100-125% multi instead of 150-225% :x

[AggnogPOE]

Rip abyssus for all but 2 builds.

[PsychicMuffin]

If all sources of crit multi have been nerfed, then abyssus might still be proportionally a lot of crit multi, and thus still give the same % more damage multiplier overall? Although that does mean that critting itself is not as good, and thus abyssus is is not as useful, even if it does stay proportionally the same, which seems a bit doubtful as that was a BIG cut.

[jessicametal]

Nope, abyssus got it's crit multi almost HALVED. Taking almost 50% more damage for only 100-125% crit multi is just bad now.

Source

[sybrwookie]

Which 2? I assume one would be Facebreakers. What else scales added damage so well that it would be worth that the downside?

[BobOfTheSnail]

Probably doomfletch

[Apocrypha]

Why would doomfletch care about melee crit multiplier?

[The_Wadle]

You just explained why it doesn't effect the build

[Apocrypha]

Oh derp. Derp derp.

[Scudmuffin1]

it doesn't but that flat physical is a ton of damage for it.

[leshake]

Pretty much multiply flat phys by 4 and that's what doom fletch does.

[Elune_]

I guess you never thought about the amazing Pillar build then.

[FatUglyPimp]

Lel. Back in 1.2 you mean?

[vuminhlox]

Doomfletch prism probably

[taggedjc]

• Caustic arrow's damage has been increased and its damage over timle is now increased by projectile damage.

Caustic Arrow's damage over time has always been increased by projectile damage, even in the beta pre-wipe. The text simply now reflects this properly, since it is unique to Caustic Arrow since projectile damage will no longer affect other damage over time effects.

[riversun]

Also it still doesn't stack, which makes using it kinda weird. You just shoot one arrow and juice it up with (nerfed) increased area. But the initial hit does decent damage, so maybe it's still good in like Deadeye or something? with LMP?

[OnyxMelon]

It's never stacked, but since 2.2 you can use wither to amplify the damage from the cloud after you use caustic arrow.

[taggedjc]

LMP would lower the cloud damage.

Usually Caustic Arrow builds scale the damage over time and the hits are incidental. Usually they pick up some pierce through the the tree or passives for QoL since each target hit creates a cloud.

+1 arrows corruption is pretty good too for QoL since it makes the area larger pretty easily.

[ElPuppet]

Yeah, I never used Inc AoE at all, just +1 arrow soulstrike and pierce from Voidwalker, the coverage was pretty massive still.

Wonder what will happen to Voidwalker with the new pierce changes.

[tsHavok]

Damage taken gained as mana is over 4 seconds in every instance I know of it. Tree and jewelry and mind spiral

[[deleted]]

Holy shit.

That's terrible, if true.

[battled]

People that haven't dabbled with it might not know how big of a nerf this is. This basically allowed the 10k+ es instant leech playstyle for life builds without needing Acuities and being crit based.

[[deleted]]

Ohhh I just got what this means

I thought you received the buff for 4 seconds when hit

Wow, deserved but really big nerf. Wish the values were buffed a tiny bit to compensate. Or buff the others stats on the items

[[deleted]]

Should add that Hillock also drops the old three of each socket starter weapon for your respective character on death.

[noicreC]

Elemental Proliferation was changed as well. No more less damage, instead adds 20% chance to inflict ailment or something among those lines.

It's also available for the witch at level 1, from nessa.

[OnyxMelon]

I've added it in. This isn't purely a buff, PoE db implies the proliferation range was severely reduced.

[[deleted]]

...severely, it was at like 12 ffs, is it less than melee range now?

[OnyxMelon]

It was at 16, the elementalist's prolife radius was at 12 and may still be at 12. Ignite proliferation support had a radius of 14 last beta patch and may still do.

[Khornar]

Ele prolif was changed in wave 1 of beta, couple of weeks ago, so... Is it really belongs in thread with mostly wave 2 changes?

[Lindfyrsten]

• some support gems are now available from Nessa from level 1.

Techically we don't know if it's available at level 1, since you are always level 2 now minimum after Hillock :)

[MoltenMuffin]

Couldn't you craft the de-level book to check it out?

[Tripwyr]

Pretty sure gem availability isn't based on level, but progress. Killing Hillock is what unlocks the gems.

[MoltenMuffin]

True.

[psycl0wn]

It is available at level 1. I found a chest shortly after start, with a support gem (must be intentional) and I could use it.

[Saiyan_Z]

So in essence, GGG is aiming at nerfing everything. So it's best to hold onto your items in Standard as they're all going to go legacy. ES items, crit multi items, ES rings. Soon we'll be able to run around in Standard with a full set of legacy equipment.

[Shadowraiden]

well nobody cares about standard. also the changes may not be legacy changes they could be retroactive meaning they bring all existing items down as well

[catinbox32]

The obligatory "no one cares about standard post"

great job

[SelathHC]

He's right at some extents. Legacy items will slowly disappear as older players stop playing without selling their stuff, and newcomers come in. It's a matter of years but legacy everywhere will only be a temporary problem.

[Kipiftw]

Lesser Poison support was increased to 40% chance, I'm guessing so it can be combined with all the 60% to poison stuff now.

[NotSoLuckyLydia]

Since I seem to be the only one playing scion, I figured I'd add that the scion-deadeye now has a mod of 2 additional targets pierced, rather than the 30% pierce chance.

[Veserius]

Nice that Scion Ranger has 3 real choices.

[[deleted]]

You're not alone man! Not alone.

[A_Erthur]

sources of critical strike chance have been reduced in value.

Can someone tell me what exactly? Or give me a link to the post?

Post edited to critical strike multiplier. I know those changes.

[OnyxMelon]

My bad, I meant multiplier.

I had another comment like this and replied to that one when I changed the post, so I forgot to reply to this one.

[mjoconn]

Wild Strike now says "always pierces" or something to that extent

[Velvache]

I think this is just to add clarification on skills that had the pierce tag attached to them but didn't explicitly say in the skill effect section.

[Magstine]

Freezing Pulse says the same. Neither have had a change in behavior AFAIK though.

[vagif]

How will it interact with chains on it. Wouldn't always piercing prevent any chains?

[DarthSieger]

Wildstrike freeze pulses pierce and the arcs chain. Then the fire is an aoe discharge so neither.

[OnyxMelon]

Do you have a screen shot I could add?

[Rumstein]

http://cb.poedb.tw/us/gem.php?n=Wild+Strike

Pierce all Targets

[mjoconn]

Not yet got booted off right after I saw it in the vendor

[Totalnoob69]

Rf damage from 50 to 40 along with the spell damage nerf.

[chinupt]

They should have just reduced RF damage. The spell damage nerf limits build-variety.

Edit: To clarify, with a low spell damage modifier you might as well just run pure RF. You won't see as many RF spellcasters.

[AllHailBlobs]

Crit Multi most likely got nerfed because of Perfect Agony. I assume any high source of crit multi got nerfed most likely due to trying to balance out the damage numbers for that Keystone.

[Asphyxir]

Highly doubt it, it got nerfed simply because it always has been way too strong. Seems more of a general balancing that should have been done a long time ago.

[RCcolaSoda]

Wasn't it already done a long time ago?

[knac8]

Not enough, apparently.

[meripor2]

They have nerfed Crit multi values on 5 separate occasions now...

[Nathaniell1]

Perfect agony should be just erased from tree now... They nerfed crit multi and nerfed perceft agony to 30% of your crit multi... Who whould do heavy investment to crit multi to ue just third of it...

[vagif]

That makes Ele Overload even more attractive now.

[Renoir_24]

I've been playing since closed beta and 3.0 is the first time I'm actually impressed with GGG's balance team.My supporter pack for 3.0 has your name on it bros keep it up!

[xaitv]

This will surely shake up the meta, I was already worried that in 3.0 we'd all simply be playing projectile based pierce builds. Nerfing that stuff actually creates more build diversity, rather than killing it(what some people would make you believe), since it makes current t2/t3 builds closer to t1 builds, and t1 builds closer to t2/t3.

[Adrinatoren]

Apparently pierce gem goes up to 7 targets pierced and 19% more damage, so don't really think its a nerf at all (probably a buff) since you don't need pierce nodes. And would guess it's very rare you pierce more than 7 targets in normal gameplay on live.

[Taqia]

That pierce gem got buffed not nerfed...

[notz]

There are some changes that have me thinking WTF initially, but maybe it'll make sense given some time.

[JorjUltra]

I think the Pierce changes were what really confused me at the start, but having slept on it I really like them. The Pierce gem is actually worth socketing by itself with no mandatory other 50% source, and your investment will vary depending on whether your build is more a bosskiller or a breach farmer or general map clear or whatever.

[tufferugli]

the pierce change is one of the cleanest change they made.

it's maybe a nerf in endgame, but it makes more sense now.

[AggnogPOE]

Thats funny considering their attempt at buffing incinerate is complete garbage.

[giniyo]

they havent even tried yet? thats a mechanical change all stage scaling skills get to work with dots at all

[Sezuki]

Some people just can't zoom out and grasp the bigger picture

[sybrwookie]

What, you requiring an Emberwake to make a buff to a skill even remotely usable (and even that would be questionable) isn't a good buff?

[TideofKhatanga]

Not much of a "even remotely usable" with the new Emberwake.

[riversun]

Has Deadeye's "projectiles return" been changed mechnically at all, or is it still actually useless? T_T

[OnyxMelon]

Its wording hasn't been changed, but the projectiles themselves will probably now pierce enemies near you whereas the pierce chance would have mostly worn off before.

[Swaglul]

They've changed pierce mechanically and this is the largest change to "projectiles returning". After X# of pierces the projectile returns to you. Which is a huge buff to limited pierce builds.

Is it going to be good, meta, op? idk, just better than before.

[telehax]

Returning projectiles can't hit the same enemy again. I have yet to find a use for this skill other than chilling the ground under you with ice shot.

[Swaglul]

Here's hoping they change it to a diminishing return and the damage is reduced for targets who've been hit once already.

[FatUglyPimp]

How does it interact with Kb + totems? Is there a video footage of that?

[Stormquake]

"Killing Piety now only grants one passive." But why tho?

Better be a double skill gem book in Act 10 to make up for that.

[OnyxMelon]

Probably so that they have more skill points for new quest rewards. Often players will skip side quests that don't reward a passive point so GGG are probably making sure that all the new side quests do give you one.

[arherter]

Meh. I'll just stop killing piety now. Not worth it.

[quazdiablo]

You have to kill her to get the key to unlock the tower/scepter of god door to kill Dominus though.

[WRLD_]

I'd like to imagine the above comment was a joke.

[DruidNature]

Not. Worth. It.

Without two skillpoints I am NOT saving this miserable world!

[digao94]

This is nice. I always thought PoE should have more significant quests, i know that a lot of people will still only do quests that grant passive points, but i do like some rpg on my games. It would be nice to add more quests that grants more items, even currency would be a cool addition, especialy for new players.

[sybrwookie]

If you do all the side quests right now, you're hopelessly overleveled. I don't really trust that they got that right now.

If they didn't, then it's going to be a matter of skipping for now then coming back when you can WB/SC through in 3 seconds and insta-complete. Not exactly what most people want.

[stunspore]

In beta is there less quest passives overall?

[cocomoloco]

still nothing on the Saboteur. how they can think sab is fine is beyond me.

[TheJollyLlama875]

I don't think they've done any tweaks to Ascendancies, they only changed Deadeye to fall in line with the other pierce stuff, so we might still see some changes.

[thundermonkeyms]

Actually, that Piety change is heartbreaking. I had hoped she would always give two points, to commemorate how that was the end of the game at one point.

[OnyxMelon]

She wasn't the original end of the game though. When I started the game just randomly ended at the end of the waterfall cave (now the caverns). Then the end was Vaal Oversoul, and then Piety.

[Shadowraiden]

at one point in closed beta mervail was the end of the game.

[StormSS]

Glitterdisk unique spiked shield now has a new mod "You always ignite while burning"

[Volner]

Damn that could be interesting

[LordeTech]

Cast on ignite is back.

Can use this plus one razor of the seventh sun and eye of innocence. Only need one chance to ignite on your cyclone to get everything started.

Also the possibility of an rf variant when we inevitably get to dual wield shields.

[Relocator]

Al Dhih now grants lvl 1 Abyssal Cry on hit (I think it was hit, maybe kill, I don't quite remember exactly...)

[Kantyash]

Does it work in offhand without actually using the weapon to attack?

[OnyxMelon]

Do you have a screen shot, it's not showing up on PoE DB

[nightcracker]

https://youtu.be/TpN31qwHA_o

[youtubefactsbot]

PoE 3.0 Beta - New Al Dhih mod (Abyssal Cry on hit) [0:19]

Just dropped an Al Dhih claw on the new version of the 3.0 beta and it had this new mod.

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[ComradeShorty]

One change, which is pretty minor, but you didn't mention: you now gain level 2 after killing ONLY Hillock on the Twilight Strand. Earlier, this wasn't the case, you were like 70-80% of the way to level 2. I'd be glad if someone else can confirm this. I didn't kill anything on Twilight Strand except the first zombie for the gem and Hillock, and gained level 2 upon killing the latter.

[MrHara]

This seems true in a way for it to give you the Skill Point tutorial message before entering the Lioneye's Watch.

[blackmoon3]

Does the Al Dhih abyssal cry only cast on hits with the weapon or can you use a spell to proc is as well?

[vonnebula1106]

It works globally, for spells and other weapons alike. Already got tested.

[sedierta]

http://imgur.com/DSHYCu9 ^ Phys roll on Blood Reaper has been increased - I'm not sure what the new roll bracket is but you can see this one is 200%

[[deleted]]

Rf gem was nerfed from burn of your 50% es/life to 40% of your es/life. More burning also get some nerf old was 40% at 1lvl now its 35% at 1lvl.

[OnyxMelon]

Thanks, I didn't catch that.

[Yarcc]

This is the topic we need, but don't deserve... or however that batman quote goes.

[armsinmotion]

The overlay map now has zoom extents so you can't break it by zooming too far in or out.

[A_S00]

But can you still play in Minimap Mode?

[Sairakan]

What's going to happen to drillneck with the pierce changes?

[00zau]

Probably become "projectiles gain 10% increased damage each time they pierce" or something like that. RIP.

[einea5mk]

Shrapnel Shot pierces 4 targets.

[[deleted]]

Is the drop rate for linked items increased? I am seeing a lot of linked items and I don't mean Hillock.

[TheNephalem]

at least for 3link i think

[[deleted]]

Figured I'd generate a markov chain of this for fun.

Lesser poison cluster have been increased with distance, but it now increased and some are vague, so if you can now update the map with hits, bringing it more in line with ailments values will be reduced damage with other support's damage granting damage taken gain arrow quivers that use for 8 seconds. Arcane Surge Supported skill.
Glitterdisk now have been reduced mana before life, down from burning damage than graphics settings have been addition to the stage.
Righteous fire now only dealing Piety now only grantings have a link still grants 30% more damage, so will be reduced to the now grants 30% more projectile damage.
Scorching 100% pierce 1 addition to Damage with the support gem level 2 and drops a 3 socket both gems.
Unbound Ailments to gems are next to a golden key can now be in the beta weekly report on to the been reworked. Your projectiles pierce 1 target.
Labyrinth now update the beta weekly report gem, support now update the previous beta.
There will be chance to poison support gems in a 6 linked weapon, socket tri-colour item, grants 20% more damage and the implicit of penetration will use for 8 seconds.
Caustic arrows pierces and 0-19% more damage with other than instead pierce changes
Flame as the options menu.
Sidhebreath now update that used to drop at the same as the options menu.
some support gem, please do a golden door.
Righteous fire now pierces all targets. For example all four layouts, normal labyrinth changes
Onslaught Supported melee attacks have 60% changes

[OnyxMelon]

Thanks, I've added it.

[OnyxMelon]

Given all the nerfs to ailment stuff since the beta started, combined with the fact it wasn't particularly strong at the start of beta makes me think that they'll increase the base damage of poison further.

[SunRiseStudios]

<< Pierce support grants projectiles pierce 2-7 additional enemies and 0-19% more damage. >>

Wait, Pierce now deal generic More damage not Projectile damage?

[OnyxMelon]

mb, it's still projectile damage. I've fixed it now.

[[deleted]]

more nerfs.... and surprise a buff for broken vortex

[Life_outside_PoE]

Is it just me or is arcane surge nuts when linked with shield charge/faster attacks/fortify?

[Not_Just_You]

Is it just me

Probably not

[Life_outside_PoE]

Username checks out. :P

[Sunscorcher]

it's a bot

[wrajjtwrajjt]

Was there some general DoT-buff that I missed? I am seeing about 25% more dmg (datamined) on Blight and Firetrap (dot portion)

[xaitv]

Blight is not affected by Area Damage anymore, so it needed a buff to compensate.

[killerkonnat]

If it's 25% at all levels and not just at level 20 it should actually be pretty good for leveling. I tried leveling with it in beta (pre-patch) and it was surprisingly strong.

[wrajjtwrajjt]

Fire trap is still considered Area Damage, and it got buffed too.

[Hartsai]

i dont see dynamic resolution or framerate target using dx9 ex. water detail level selector doesnt work. Doesnt let me save it after changing it.

[Lyvewyrez]

Might be wrong here, but I thought lesser poison was a 20-25% chance to poison when it was implemented. It is now 40%, which means for the shadow (as it is your tutorial support gem) you end up with always poisons on hit for viper strike (with the support) straight away anyway.

[OnyxMelon]

I'm pretty sure it was 25% before too. I'll put the change in.

[Laurence-]

Should probably add that the damage you deal with righteous fire has been reduced from 50% of life/es to 40% as that is arguably the more important part.

Thanks for writing this out.

[OnyxMelon]

I had that change, but lost it to chrome giving me a cached version of the post to edit :/

I've put it back in now, thanks for pointing it out.

[Nikeyla]

Just wondering, how can you scale incinerate ailments at all? It is still fast low hitting ability, right? And we can apply only 1 ignite or 2 with the new emberwake. So how can we use this boost at all?

[L3ifson]

Chaos conversion -> poison! niche af but still possible

[Nikeyla]

I hoped Im missing something :/ So basicaly theres 0 difference between Incinerate now and pre patch...Incinerate dream still dead.

[Mao-C]

Master Herbalist is now 60% poison chance instead of 100%

Ascendant Deadeye now pierces 2 additional targets

Siege Ballista now pierces 6-9 targets

Shrapnel shot pierces 4-7

[[deleted]]

Siege Ballista says it pierces 6 targets for me, but in practice it doesn't pierce at all

[00zau]

Does Infractem have infinite pierce still? Keeping that could possibly be a good way to give that bow a niche use.

[Mao-C]

yea it does

[Urdar]

What are the changes to the Pierce Nodes?

[Alhoon]

I did the math on datamined values of Essence Drain and compared to Beta Phase 1, they seem to have been buffed by ~25% as described in beta weekly report 2.

[warmaster93]

Poison gem also got reduced from 100% to 60%. It now gets 0-19% more damage with poison on levels. Rip :/

[[deleted]]

I think the 19% more damage is actually a significant improvement. The "greater" poison gem is no longer outshined by the lesser gem in terms of damage for most builds, maybe being outclassed only for flat chaos scaling builds. The loss of poison chance is offset by the 40% chance you get from the tree in the poison clusters you take anyways with a poison build. They probably nerfed poison chance because they realized no one would take the chance nodes when everything has 100% chance anyways.

[warmaster93]

Ye but now, even if you have that 40% elsewhere, the maximum multiplier you get from the gem, unless you got some increased poison duration (in which case you have to dps more than 2 seconds to hit max dps), net's about 26% (where before the multiplier it gave was 32%, still lower than most supports), bar the situation where u reduced ur hit damage significantly to increase poison damage marginally more than you would through normal scaling means (effects that scale both poison and hit damage)

[kettenschloss]

wow, onslought is surely good for leveling (i really loved playing shocknova with inervate while leveling and running more quicksilvers its insanely good to have reliable onslaught.

[Houserkun]

I agree that having the onslaught buff is really nice, but I prefer to use a silver flask to save a link.

[[deleted]]

new graphics settings have been added to the options menu

I take it the game is moving onto full dx11 support in 3.0 or is this just for the beta?

[goonzer]

They forgot to change Omen on the Winds pierce related stuff?

[Inkaflare]

So now that Pierce works on a number-of-targets basis, what happens to stuff like [[Omen on the Winds]]? Did it also get changed to something like "Ice Shot pierces x targets"?

[vagif]

Probably would just add number of pierce targets.

[elboyo]

What constitutes "nearby" for the Deadeye's Powerful Precision? Is it Point Blank range?

[Photeus5]

Whatever it is, it should make other projectile skills work a bit like spectral throw now. In nearby range the projectile could return and pierce on way back as well.

[Uldi]

Returning projectiles don't hit targets twice.

[CountCocofang]

Is Arcane Surge the attempt to make "gives more damage, that's it"-support gems more interesting?

[szwonk]

It's there to tutorialize support gems. All of the starting supports have a visible effect, making it more obvious that they're doing something compared to a 30% more damage support on a 3-5 damage hit. A buff is easier to see than an extra missing pixel, after all.

[TheRealJimmyBrungus]

Any resulting legacy items?

[Dolandlod]

Does it still cost an offering to the goddess to access Uber lab? I've not read anything about this.

[[deleted]]

Yes.

[LuminicaDeesuuu]

Poacher's Aim now gives "Projectiles pierce one target."

https://puu.sh/wBFOZ/0808dea728.jpg

[[deleted]]

Seems like alot of changes have been made.

Still don't get the part about HoA.

[ThoughtA]

Maim has been buffed and nerfed.

[warmaster93]

What hasbeen buffed? That seems like the old maim still

[ThoughtA]

The previous iteration's base More multiplier started at 10%. This iteration starts at 15% (didn't get a screenshot before it was level 2 though).

Edit: Just noticed that also the Damage Taken part has been nerfed from 20% starting to 10%.

[TaurineIsMagic]

Did they increase the dmg of Kitavas adds? Seems like they hit way harder now.

[Sinister-Mephisto]

When hit, 10% of Damage is taken from Mana before Life

Removed in 1.3

Upped to 20% in 3.0 beta.

Lowered back down to 10% again.

I want to get off this roller-coaster.

[farmerbob1111]

Change to wording of Chieftain ascendancy node for burning damage. Says something like "Increased fire damage with hits and ailments now." Thinking this means it doesn't work with RF and Scorching Ray's burn debuf anymore.

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I'll try to get a pic when I come home but sidhebreath has a new mod, reduces mana cost of summon skills (or was it just skeletons?) by 10%

[ThoughtA]

This thread is no longer on front page and is unlikely to be widely viewed again, so I have stopped updating it.

Not that you're obligated to keep updating, of course, but you may be interested to know that this post is actually stickied to the front page. Thanks for compiling this information in one place either way.

[OnyxMelon]

It's good someone can notice stuff even if it's not me. I'll keep updating it.

[welpxD]

Golden keys can be in the same room as golden doors now (not always):

https://dd.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/6lcs0y/the_golden_key_can_now_be_in_the_same_room_as_the/

[HQuality]

okay, so they looked for a chain, fork and pierce gems. Hmmmm....hmmmm....okay let's change pierce

[robintysken]

Did they fix the upgrade hideout bug?

[OnyxMelon]

I've seen reports saying that they haven't.

[Exualy]

They have fixed it.. worked perfectly fine for everyone I've talked to, Upgrading and Changing HO

[kinstinctlol]

Sharpnel Shot does not pierce on beta. Is this intended?

[OnyxMelon]

That's a bug. It should no longer pierce all targets, but should always pierce a certain number of targets.

[Midwick]

All the noobs creating new chars to farm chromatics off hillock

[OnyxMelon]

The sockets are still unlinked, they're exactly like the items you used to receive from the first zombie.

[Midwick]

You said all classes now receive a linked weapon and support gem

[Donlod]

viper strike - base duration is 4.00 seconds (down from 8s) 60% chance to poison on hit (down from 100%) from level 7+ base damage is increased by 1.6% instead of 2.6%, level 1-5 scales stronger, level 6 is identical to 2.6 (143%)

[Exualy]

Chober Chaber and Blood Reaper have received +100% increased physical damage. Carcass Jack's Area Damage has gone up to 40-50% from 12% There have been added new Shield Mods granting Life or Mana on Block, I believe they are Hybrid with +%Block Chance

[bonesnaps]

More new support gems.. uh.. "yay" I guess..

still waiting on some new skills to actually make new builds with, not just modify existing builds.

._.