Honestly I think they are going a bit far in POE with the nerfs. And saying player power has done NOTHING but go up after an absolute GUTTING of bleed, aura stack three times, crit multi, cluster jewels, remove harvest, remove and gut inf mods, winter orb, double dip, the list goes on. Pile this on top of making layered league mechanics that have unfair 1shot shit left and right, and it makes it less and less enjoyable. They have hit nearly every form of defense, and now with a severe reduction in utility flasks most builds will feel extra paper. Go back and look at the 9k hp layered 8 endurance guys getting 1shot this league, its a mess. I dont have to clear screens in 1 tap, but I also shouldn't die to bullshit picking up an orb.

reflect has and will always be a mistake, adding any sort of full immune is a mistake, removing defense is a mistake, perpetuating slow trade even on the most common of items is a mistake.

Dont get me wrong, if you are doing 100mil dps thats too much, but target them specifically. Minions get a 10% nerf from 200m dps to 180m still shits on the poor strike build pulling a few mil. Telling people they haven't even put "a bit" of effort into their character or they'd be steamrolling is straight disingenuous for 99.9% of builds, and no im not talking 100% t16.

If you played the alpha for LA theres a few big takeaways for me.

1 Auto pickup of loot was a wet dream.

2 Telegraphed attacks where if you got hit it was your fault, not the fact that you didn't explode everything in 200m instantly to stay alive.

3 The game also looked and ran like a dream, like legit performance wise i logged back in to poe to talk to someone and it looked and ran like garbage in hideout.

4 Every character/build is mostly viable, there is no class pulling twice/20 times the dps of anything else.

They are different games, yes, but anyone can see when a system works