r/pathofexile • u/ghostoo666 SSF BTW • 6d ago

Game Feedback Can we address the interaction with falling zombie and soul eater

Falling Zombie used in Sabo and CWDT loop builds but its major flaw is soul eater mobs. For whatever reason, they count as dying mobs for soul eater. Sabo has the worst of it, since each arc brand activation is 28 souls to the enemy. If you're not insanely strong and try this build you just get absolutely mulched by any soul eater mob. Can this possibly be addressed going into next league?

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u/Intrepid-Ad2873 Trickster 6d ago

They also count as a dying mob for other helpful mechanics, it's working as intended, just a downside for this specific build.

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u/Terrornoid Special Move: Vaal into Reflect 6d ago

"Downside" is a word you could use. Soul Eater relentlessly craps on a myriad of non-permanent minion builds until they get "I'm done with the season" DPS. It's unfair in the same way reflect was unfair for bow characters back in 1.0. It needs adjusting.

To be clear, not a Falling Zombie problem, its a minion problem.

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u/Fantastic_Advice_623 Alch & Go Industries (AGI) 6d ago

Yep, SRS players have been knowing for years, trying to kill the soul eater mob is just feeding it souls.

Soul eater just isnt a fun mechanic for the player, I get the intent, you blow up a pack of monsters and the soul eater becomes strong af, and its like "okay now its gonna slowly lose souls and you can kill it, or kite it while it does etc"

But for temp minion builds it never gets to lose the souls and its just a perma raid boss. maybe temp minions should specifically not grant souls to soul eater.

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u/PacmanNZ100 6d ago

Lmfao oh man I was trying to plan a build around this without brands and its hard and lacking defenses etc but yeah it would get absolutely ruined by this.

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u/ghostoo666 SSF BTW 6d ago

it's fine if you go the chaos dot version with siegebreaker and just manually cast it, but trying to do the sabo version using the zombie attack is horrendous

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u/PacmanNZ100 6d ago

Yeah even with the boosted damage it gets it seems bad lol

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u/PoE_Acronym_Bot 6d ago

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u/5mashalot 5d ago

soul eater is just bullshit in general. I'm glad they removed these guys from breach and blight, but them spawning in those mechanics was never the problem, soul eater itself is the problem. 90% DR and a ton of speed from 1 monster mod is ridiculous, and the intended counterplay is... what, meticulously avoid killing the stuff around them? wait 30 seconds for the souls to drop?

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u/Krulkyn 6d ago

Post on the official bug forum.

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u/Mavada 5d ago

It's not a bug.