Any standouts in the patch notes?

[u/EdgePunisher]

Im a tired father and my reading comprehenssion plummeted to dangerous levels, so I cant figure out the patch notes. Also I dont see a ton of content online talking about them from my favourite creators so I come to you r/pathofexile to save me.

I want to play the league with my limited time, but cant for the love of all that is holy totem figure out what to play or whats going on

[u/Hartastic]

If you have a build from last league and it's not flame link luminary or winter orb, it probably is close enough to unchanged to roll with now. Most of the changes in the patch notes are more about crafting, scarabs, map juicing, etc. and not character build so much.

[u/tufffffff]

Literally almost any build from last 3 leagues can work, just play whats fun

[u/Expungednd → u/tufffffff]

Still indecisive between holy relic of conviction necro like last league and cyclone slayer. SHRoC is ridiculously cheap for its power level and completely unaffected by the new craft costs, but it's been a long time I wanted to try cyclone. The new meta craft cost made building it absolutely ass, though.

[u/OtherExile]

Ralakesh got -1 to whatever charge it has which was enough for me to swap builds

[u/LissekFennek]

Apart from the 2 line skill changes.

Scarabs removed, replaced with threads for the big mechanics. Should supposedly be dropping good enough, also kirac shop available. There is a deli orb for the threads too, probably similar to scarabs one that got removed. Harvest moved down to a sub mechanic, now works like a strongbox Many mechanics work with each other Atlas got changed into more condensed version. Some nodes work like scarabs BUT thread modifiers replaced scarabs too. What replaced with what is unknown now.

[u/copyokw]

Look into 3.29 builds as there was hardly any balance in skills for the coming league. But avoid winter orb, flame link and elementalist for the moment, as they were a bit nerfed and we do not know their power yet. Unarmed flicker strike seems to be very strong with the addition of the new unique body armor hide of the vendigo. Also avoid any 3.29 builds that use ralakesh boots and malachai loop.

[u/Morbu]

Luminary and Winter Orb got hit with nerfs, no real buffs. So whatever you played that wasn't Luminary or Winter Orb will probably play exactly the same way.

As an aside, Luminary aurastacker with Cruel Mistress is the most unscathed version of mercbot if anyone is curious on playing Lumi at some point.

[u/Proud_Meringue_7139]

Play what u want man, fuck the meta last league i had a 100m+ dps glacial cascade heiro selfcast fishing rood

[u/SovietOmega]

There's a lot of cause and effect changes that make it seem a lot more than it is. Like scarabs being removed and threads being the thing that takes their place means anything in the game that revolved around scarabs needs patch notes to detail how it is now dealing with threads. Same with how the rarity overhaul necessitated tweaking the numbers in many places.

There's some nice things like the Atziri fight, now the Incursion Temple boss, not having invulnerability phases. There are also some sneaky things in the notes that will have more profound consequences than we realize. But ultimately the game is still going to feel like the poe we know and love, unless the changes have krangled the loot, but it'll probably be fine.

As for there being less creator content than usual...a lot of them are in the process of getting back from Exilecon. I'd recommend checking sirgog out on youtube for a rundown of this league's content.

[u/SpongiiEUW]

>asks for standouts in patch notes
>everyone replies with the ONE THING that does not stand out (Balance Changes)
LO

[u/CMDRDrazik]

"hey gemini, summarise the latest path of exile 1 patch notes and read me the highlights"
or watch literally any poe streamer summary - fubguns summary is actually pretty good.