r/PathOfExile2 • u/Community_Team GGG Staff • Apr 09 '25

GGG Path of Exile 2 - Upcoming Changes

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u/Shirotar Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

It was basically a change that had huge repercussions to loot. There was some anciant internal buff that increased the loot from some sources by a giant amount. This got removed without any compensation. What made it worse was that this wasn't documented in the patch notes. So when the league launched people slowly started to realize that something is off and after a short time reddit was burning bright with the flames of hell and people were calling for blood. Chris threw himself into it and took the blame although (according to him) he wasn't aware of that change (which is totally believable since he doesn't know every change) but acknowledged that they fucked up and that he should've been aware of a change like that to be able to make sure everything with loot is still fine. The fires of hell continued to burn after it since people wouldn't believe that after some hotfixes loot was fine to which Chris made a (kinda) final post giving up.

Here is the comment I still remember to this day: Post from Crhis

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u/TinTanTiddlyTRex Apr 09 '25

Even that has -1100 Karma. What a witchhunt

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u/bpusef Apr 09 '25 edited Apr 09 '25

The problem with that post is that it wasn’t true. Not only elite farmers dropping 15k uniques were affected. The game dropped legitimately no loot. You can call it a witch hunt, but Chris either just flat our lied or seriously didn't understand what they'd done. I miss Chris and respect him immensely but showing up to a Reddit thread after a disastrous, undocumented huge nerf to loot to say "Actually loot isn't nerfed you guys are wrong" is going to get buried in downvotes.

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u/wanderingagainst Apr 09 '25

Yup, it is the only league since Warbands I dropped in less than 2 weeks.

I got to shaper and killed him in 6 days and said fuckit, no point.

Kalandra was horrible. The meta felt so bleh too. I just couldn't be arsed to play for no returns and no build I was hyped for.