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16 Jun

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Originally posted by [deleted]

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What?

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I laughed in spite of myself.

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Originally posted by Omibod

Will you guys change the notables available on https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2783927 to reflect the changed values/removed passives from the clusters?

Good question! I'll find out.

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Originally posted by KasseopeaPrime

Wait...wasn't there supposed to be patch notes? What is this thing?

Patch Notes come out tomorrow.

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Originally posted by Dhol91

So, can I use Transcendence + Imbalanced Guard and get the following results?:

- 70% elemental resists applies first to elemental damage

- then remaining 30% elemental damage can be mitigated up to 50% by using armour (which value would be doubled from Imbalanced Guard)

- physical hits would be reduced up to 50% by endurance charges and mitigated further with f.e. flask?

That all sounds about right but I am very tired so appologise in advance if I missed something.

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Originally posted by HoldMySoda

Does that mean the double Armour Effect you can get on gear will still be available? I take it they work the same, so grabbing both wouldn't make sense.

E: nvm. I see you already answered.

Yes, the keystone uses the existing mechanic, and the description used on the keystone is the new description used for other sources of the mechanic as well. The description intentionally mirrors the one for chance to deal double damage.

Since the keytsone explicitly gives 100% chance, getting more chance from other sources is not useful.

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Originally posted by bUrdeN555

Why not call it damage suppression or some other synonym that would not be confused with reduced damage taken?

Edit: or rename “reduced damage taken” to “surpresses %x damage”?

This was considered, but Physical Damage Reduction has been in the game for a long time with that description and changing it would involve a lot of changes to stuff players are familiar with that would thus create other confusion. It hasn't traditionally caused huge amounts of confusion with regard to reducced physical damage taken. It's definitely an option we'll continue to consider moving forward.

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Originally posted by Ti87tyk

Hmmm, what about "less damage taken" on Fortify, is that a form of damage reduction in this sense?

"No other mechanics" means no other mechanics.

The only existing sources of Damage Reduction in the current version of PoE are: * Physical Damage Reduction from Armour * additional Physical Damage Reduction (from endurance charges and several other sources).

3.11.0 extends Damage Reduction from Armour to other types. There are no sources of additional Damage Reduction for non-physical types.

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Originally posted by Nickoladze

Sounds like this keystone is good for low to medium investment armor builds to defend against big hits since double armor effect (not value, right?) is really strong against big hits but the trade off is that you likely reduce your phys reduction against small hits.

Really hard to guess breakpoints on this without running the armor calculation but it seems very good for early armor builds or just a brainless pickup if you're not scaling armor and it's nearby.

edit: Wording is different from our current "10% chance when Hit for double Armour effect" mods so now I'm just more confused. Doubling your armor number isn't very good AFAIK.

double armor effect (not value, right?)

It treats your armour value as double the actual value.

This mechanic already existed in PoE, but previously had a confusing and ambiguous description saying "double armour effect", which meant "uses the effect of doubled armour", but was easy to misunderstand as "doubles the effect of your current armour". This mechanic was already being renamed for that reason before this keystone was developed, and the existing source of the stat will match the new description on the keystone.

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Originally posted by Quote_a

Related to this keystone: what does the word "Defend" mean, mechanically? Is that new phrasing for the concept of being hit, or is it something more specific?

We needed a verb to describe using armour to mitigate a hit. Since armour is a defence, "Defend" seemed appropriate.

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Originally posted by 00zau

What all does Imbalanced Guard's "Maximum Damage Reduction For Any Type is 50%" do.

'Cause if that counts resists, it's worthless. And if it effects all other sources of reduced damage taken as well as armor, it'll be less good (but still highly usable!) than if it only effects armors DR.

"[TYPE] Damage Reduction" is only the reduction that comes from Armour, and sorces of "additional [TYPE] Damage Reduction". Damage Reduction for each type is ususally capped at 90%.

Currently, there are sources of additional Physical Damage Reduction (most notably this is one of the base benefits players get for having Endurance Charges), but no sources of additional Damage Reduction for any other type. Armour by default only applies Physical Damage Reduction, but this patch introduces ways to change that, and thus the keystone has to account for those.

No other mechanics are Damage Reduction. Resistances are not Damage Reduction. "x% reduced Damage taken" is not Damage Reduction (although the name of the mechanic is unfortunately similar).

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Originally posted by _dekappatated

Is the starforge nerf retroactive?

You can use a Divine Orb to get current values.


15 Jun

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Every expansion provides an opportunity for us to reassess the current meta, improve game mechanics that are currently weak and reduce the power of those that are excessively strong. You'll see more detail in the patch notes tomorrow but in the meantime, our team has outlined some of the changes you'll be reading about and the goals we had in mind while making these decisions.

Game Balance in Path of Exile: Harvest In Path of Exile: Harvest, we're putting much of our balance focus on Brands, Warcries and two-handed weapons. As a result of Delirium going core, we've also taken the opportunity to balance cluster jewels and their place within the game. We've worked to improve two-handed weapons with big slow hits by improving these investment options across the board.

We've also lowered the output of some of the most excessively powerful builds from Delirium like those that utilised the Purposeful Harbinger notable passive and the Archmage Storm Brand builds. Simultaneo... Read more
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Originally posted by PsionicKitten

I was going to respond with an evil laugh gif, but It got me thinking, which evil laugh gif best suits you? Bex, mind showing us which evil laugh best embodies your evil laugh?

I'd like to think it's something like this

but realistically it's probably something like this
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Originally posted by Whitedondi

Is it ok if some of my tabs from the league didn't merge to Standard (like half of them)? Should I wait or should I ask support?

I would wait.

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This can take an hour or so.

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Originally posted by Bex_GGG

Most likely some time in the NZ afternoon. So 3+ hours from now.

Just under an hour from now!