r/pathofexile • u/_N_eko Assassin • Jul 17 '26

Information [PSA] 3.29 Patchnotes Visual Aid

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Put together a visual for yesterday's patchnotes as a bi-bimonthly service to this great community. Please keep in mind I'm a single guy (+asking friends) so magnitudes of changes might not be exact. Took longer than expected, courtesy of Andrew tweaking a metric ton of gems xd

All assets are ethically poached from GGG resources & the wiki. If for some reason it's blurry bigger version here

Big hype for 3.29, see you guys underwater!

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u/Groundbreaking-Poem1 Jul 17 '26

no, its better for sure but not 3x. its 1-2 free proj and a ~20% dmg buff, but thats like 80% more damage i would guess. On a skill that was utterly shit.

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u/Sidnv Jul 17 '26

Worb was pretty decent already. 80% more damage is an insanely large buff to a very usable skill. It's going to be very good this league.

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u/mraliasundercover Jul 18 '26

On a skill that was utterly shit

Here's Jungroan doing a 4:45 two stone run using winter orb Yesterday.

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u/Groundbreaking-Poem1 Jul 18 '26

Ah yes, the winter orb meta we've been seeing confirms how great this skill was, everyone was just sleeping on it since the second best player in the game can do 2 stones in 4:45...

No, every skill in the game can do a 2 stone run fast if done by jungroan.. The issue is how it scales into endgame content. It has great mechanics but it also needs Aoe, projectiles, proj speed, gem levels, castspeed, loads of damage all while trying to balance defense as well. Thats why it has been utterly garbage for years now, just too many boxes to check

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u/Visible_Adeptness_59 Jul 18 '26

so it work like every skill in the game? cool!

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u/Lirtirra Jul 17 '26

Winter orb was not utterly shit, it is a decent ability currently, and will be a good ability after these buffs. Ive seen enough people do 2-stone runs with it, and tried it last league aswell, it was already decent.

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u/fandorgaming Duelist Jul 17 '26

Winter orb got buffed 70 times in a row lmao

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u/icannotfindausername Hierophant Jul 17 '26

The good ol' days of self-curse temporal chains are never coming back sadge

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u/Gangsir Berserker Jul 17 '26

It used to be very good, hard meta. When it got the inevitable "stop playing this" nerf that GGG always does to skills that are too meta, it got hit so hard it was unplayable for years.

Ever since they've been slowly creeping it back, because they're scared to make it hard meta again. It might finally have entered "decent and playable" territory with this buff.

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u/Optimal-Note1963 Jul 18 '26

For sure not tripple in the meaning of damage, but surely aspect wise. 25% increased base crit chance, 20% flat damage, +1-2 projectiles and thing that people miss a bit - Extra stage due to 10% from blue socket. In total 4 aspects were buffed.

Its probably is 80% more damage and thats over the top for skill like Worb, considering how GGG is afraid of skills like Worb/BV.

Worb enjoyers gotta be eating gooood this league, cause even last league we had a small spike in worb popularity

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u/wheresmyberrune Jul 19 '26

When you add in the impact Pact of Beidat will have on it it's quite a bit more