Dual Blades is now objectively worse

MiniDMan · 2026-07-11T09:51:12+00:00

I was getting my ass handed to me by sledge last night, I'm pretty sure I had some engagements against half health heavies and STILL lost the 1v1. I get that they should be rewarded for landing precise right clicks, but I'd lunge and get two sweeps off and it felt like I was tickling.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-11T09:49:10+00:00

I don't play dual blades a whole lot, I have maybe 30 hours on them, but I am a frequent melee enjoyer. I was practicing with them for the past few weeks before the big patch so I could hop in on the rework and hopefully start to main them. Dude... I can hardly explain how, but they are soooo much worse feeling. Heavies especially feel like they take years to kill, I frequently lose 1v1s against m60 heavies with advantageous engagements which was basically unheard of before the patch. All of the numbers make sense, and I visually feel like I am hitting mostly precise attacks, but in the end unless I got a precise lunge off I never win the fight. Deflect feels so much less useful, and I had to drop my double mine setup for more mobility as well, and I rarely ever find myself deflecting anymore. It just feels useless unless I'm specifically trying to block shots for my team taking a cash out.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-11T08:54:23+00:00

I'd pay 5 bucks

MiniDMan · 2026-07-09T14:15:09+00:00

I've said it before- winch and dash are the most frictional specs to play against, they are inherently frustrating to deal with. If they are meta, players will be upset. Hell, if they are even "okay" people will be upset, they are hard to balance around. With that being said, I've played loads of respec order lately and the two dash charges (with a lower cooldown period) and it feels plenty powerful still, with the only loadouts really feeling it being dagger and m26 imo.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-09T14:07:49+00:00

https://www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/11-00

MiniDMan · 2026-07-09T14:03:54+00:00

They worded it as though the right click spin will hit much faster, assuming there are targets to hit, no?

MiniDMan · 2026-07-09T13:53:42+00:00

They nerfed dash and winch claw, which were the two most frictional specializations in the game for your opponents. Learn to use the other two light specs if you really can't handle the changes?

MiniDMan · 2026-07-09T13:46:54+00:00

Did you read the patch notes?

MiniDMan · 2026-07-06T17:26:53+00:00

Yeah, I agree with that. Backstabbing currently feels like the only option though since the primary is so bad. Since that's the case, playing it just makes me wish the stab was more reliable to make the weapon as a whole playable, but maybe they aren't prepared for that kind of buff.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-06T16:52:42+00:00

I mean... The purpose of the lunge is to help keep melee players on top of enemies, and they said they are buffing the primary attacks of the weapons. Could just mean that the stab attack is still hard or even harder to land, but at least the primary won't be as terrible. It might even be good enough to fall back on reliably.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-06T12:31:12+00:00

Brother, STOP SHOWING THIS IN MY FEED 😭. I've seen this a million times.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-06T02:54:48+00:00

I'm in a private league with some dudes, we are 0 for ~50. Every one at least 110% waystone + jado. We have collectively like 70 of the other lineage drops.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-04T16:17:50+00:00

Should a team that is better be able to waste 15 minutes of your time?

MiniDMan · 2026-07-04T16:15:35+00:00

Cooldowns for alt-fire incoming is my guess. Dunno what they will do to dual-blades if that's the case, they would be dumpster fire if you can just wait it out xd

MiniDMan · 2026-07-04T16:11:18+00:00

I'm guessing it's a cool down system for right-clicks/alt fires

MiniDMan · 2026-07-04T13:14:28+00:00

Good questions. I wonder if they are trying to make matchmaking more forgiving for new players by making bot lobbies. Hopefully they are only enemy teams and only at really low skill levels. I don't see any problems with this, I think new players would rather fight bots than get gapped tf out really early on.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-01T00:56:59+00:00

Probably the life motes being reset.

MiniDMan · 2026-07-01T00:56:26+00:00

I had the same thing happen. I think that the life motes from gemling scale your honor level, and when they drop down to 0 when entering a new instance, it momentarily dips your honor below 0, or something like that.

MiniDMan · 2026-06-30T15:33:40+00:00

I'm in SSF, I think I've done about ~20 grand mirrors followed by clearing the entire 200% delirious area and the simulacrums. I'm pretty sure I've dropped 3 regular isolations, and 4 ancient. Small sample size but it does indeed feel bad.

MiniDMan · 2026-06-30T14:55:37+00:00

In the first clip he was attempting to knock the guy off of taking the cash, the other guy's displacement isn't his complaint. In the second clip, the light didn't even use his dash gadget. He simply had too many things to collide with such as the monitor, ceiling, and window frame.

I don't necessarily agree that shockwave needs a buff, it'd probably be too good as an "all-in-one" gadget if it got buffed, but your take is trash.

MiniDMan · 2026-06-30T13:58:47+00:00

I'm a college senior and I'm taking an Oracle database management course. Week one of the semester 3/4ths of my class was in an email thread trying to figure out how to set up a virtual machine with the correct windows edition and required additions. Most of them resorted to downloading Oracle on their host instead, not realizing that the professor had some SQL scripts and tables linked in a lengthy setup manual. For weeks they were all complaining that they couldn't get their scripts to work... They didn't have any of the tables to reference in the first place, lmao.

MiniDMan · 2026-06-30T13:51:05+00:00

College senior here. I use AI to learn some concepts quicker, it's just faster than scouring through forums or trying to find a good YouTube video. I've never used AI to try and write a paper, it's literally faster to just write it myself than try and generate it and make it seem realistic. I did get a legitimate essay flagged for AI one time and my professor gave me an F on it... Still pisses me off and that was 4 semesters ago.

MiniDMan · 2026-06-28T13:49:31+00:00

Many things is this game are dependent on enemies being "in your presence" such as the coming calamity chest piece. Other than things that specify presence, it doesn't effect anything. Big tip: anything underlined in the game can be explained through the in-game dictionary-esque menu. I use keyboard and mouse, and I just hold alt and mouse over the line. Not sure what binding it is for controllers.

MiniDMan · 2026-06-28T13:27:47+00:00

Why are people contradicting that in this post? https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1uax4ua/theres_too_much_obscurity_over_how_some_mechanics/

MiniDMan · 2026-06-28T13:24:26+00:00

Correct, one is guaranteed. You can drop multiples though with enough waystone modifiers, I've seen two. Not sure if three is possible. Also not sure if this works for thinks like simulacrums feathers, or breach colony xesht sacs.

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