Path of Exile Dev Tracker

In an upcoming patch, we'll be making some further small changes to the Lake of Kalandra expansion. This news post outlines what you can expect.

In a previous post, we mentioned we were discussing issues related to magic find/culling feeling mandatory as well as cases where it feels bad to get a lot of quality currency or flasks from killing a monster with specific Archnemesis modifiers. In both of these cases, our discussions are ongoing. However, in order to provide a bit more certainty, we can say that we don't have easy solutions for these issues mid-league and will be looking at what's possible for 3.20.

Upcoming Changes
We're planning to remove Gems as a possible reward from Tier 3 and 4 generic encounters in the Lake of Kalandra. For the most part, these will be replaced by Currency Chests.

We're planning to reduce the number of monsters that spawn in the Reflection of the Dream encounter. Additionally, we're planning to redu...

I have no idea why me saying "I don't know when this will go live" is being intrpreted to mean "this will definitely go live before the next league", but that's not what I said. I was directly asked if this bug was intented, which is isn't, and responded to that. My job is to fix the bug, not chose when the fix is deployed.

I'd be 100% down with introducing negative charges as an actual mechanic, but that would mean actually following through with the concept, so e.g. the player's per-charge bonuses should also go negative if their current number of charges is negative. That wouldn't change the fact that Discharge specifically says it counts charges removed, so until it can actually remove charges below zero, getting bonuses as though it did so is clearly wrong.

We've looked into this and can confirm that the increased rarity is applying but isn't displaying correctly, which we're in the process of getting fixed!

No, it won't

Generally yes, excepting any that can be eliminated as not being able to contribute (such as poison against a CI character)

What if i swap between repeats of the same cast, will it inflict brittle and chill over the single ice nova cast?

Yes.

Is that intended, hence the “Altenating” part of the item’s name?

It's not specifically intended, just a natural consequence of how things work.

Chill, if you swapped before the nova reached a specific target. Non-damaging ailments aren't determined until a hit is applied.

That is not true.

No, this is a bug, and one I fixed last week. I don't know when the fix will be put live, but discharge is fundamentally supposed to scale from the charges you remove, not ones you never had.

I cannot tell you if including IIR into the link of a hit-skill that then applies a DoT will apply the IIR to the DoT if the DoT kills

I can and it will. All DoT applied by skills have this behaviour, and have for a very long time.

Yes, damage-over-time effects from skills all do this

Interesting, it does appear that bypass isn't in place for one of the life-modifying functions (but is for the others, and for things other than life from what I can see). I'll bring this up, I suspect this is an oversight due to life using an override of the general modification function which does have that bypass.

This is really solid feedback. Thanks! I will share it.

I only said that it's hard to read and undermines the value of the feedback. So if you're wanting to provide feedback that will reach us, you're now better able to.

I totally understand. I guess the thing I'm trying to remind people of is that it's responsible for the good stuff too.

It's really hard to see people talk this way. "The vision" is the reason the entire game exists at all. It's responsible for more of the things you like than don't like but it's a term that's been co-opted by the community to be synonymous with "anything I don't like". Like I totally get that there are valid criticisms to make and my team is doing their best to make sure that the rest of GGG is aware of them. However, whenever I see someone package their criticism around 'the vision' it undermines the value of the feedback.

In the post where we announced that changed, we actually called out that it doesn't make up for it. It's not meant to, it's just a little something.

We are making it so that Eldritch Exalted Orbs, Eldritch Chaos Orbs and Eldritch Orbs of Annulment will drop in lower area levels. We are also buffing their drop rate.

These currency items are intended to fulfil similar functions to some of the removed Harvest crafts while continuing to be gated by rarity, though we're aware that they can only be applied to certain items and are still discussing whether similar solutions for other gear slots are appropriate. We understand that this isn't a full remedy for Harvest withdrawals but it should slightly improve the availability of powerful crafting tools.

This is correct. The "curse" gem tag is intentionally only for skills that inflict curses, not for gems related to curses in some way. The "Hex" and "Mark" tags are used on gems that have primary interactions with those mechanics without actually being curses.

The old incorrect stat that was previously used basically sets a bunch of calculated stats on the player to zero - one of those was total life gain on hit. But the claw implicits are local, so don't feed into a single stat for the character, but add to that separately based on which hand you hit with. So while the character's global total was zeroed out, the local ones still got added to that if you hit with the correct hand. Similarly, some life-gain-on-hit modifiers which are conditional on something about the enemy likewise are processed outside the character's global total stat and also weren't prevented.

The actual correct stat doesn't do anything with those calculations, but instead is checked when changing the character's life, if that change is gaining as opposed to losing.

We do put a lot of effort into trying to keep the wording consistent so people can make predictions - which is why when one of the designers noticed this one using "replenish" when nothing else did, we changed it (I'm pretty sure that string was old and was written the way it was to avoid the "equal to" phrasing, which is admittedly little awkward).

But the text describes the mechanics, it doesn't cause them - changing the text can't change the function of what the stat does*.

And if we ever do introduce "replenish" as a specific mechanic in PoE, then if it makes life/mana/es value go upwards, then it fundamentally will be a type of recovery, not something separate from it.

*except that one time with the cats, that was weird