YouTookMyAccountName: Path of Lightning Strike and Path of Lightning Spear are my 2 favorite video games
Bluefooted23: The only change I really want is a significant buff to self-casted spells. They havent been good in many years, and are nigh unolayable right now. They need help both offensively and defensively.
load231: Golems is just one single super niche build. I don't even understand how we still have golem related ascendancy nodes in 2025. Just remove them and put that stuff on uniques/jewels/passive clusters and give the ascendancy way more generic nodes.
Rogerztheurbanlegend: in regards to the ascendancies, I agree on the 2 you suggested, but I seriously believe Saboteur could use some love. When the whole theme of an ascendancy is done better on any other class, I think it's lost its place.
jackiechanswag: Im still praying for an assassin rework !
dante5526: Lightning strike is not mele, its a bow skill that has a mele hit portion, the double melee hit is not what makes it popular or strong, the projectiles do the heavy lifting for the skill, if you make it an actual melee skill and have the projectiles shoot out only if you strike an enemy and give the projectiles range scaling with aoe the playrate and power of the skill would disappear even without any numerical nerf
ShaunhanM: i dont think nerfing the rarity of EE down to T1 does much of anything, except make it much harder to get in hc/ssf. You need gear to do EE in the first place, making it rarer would only increase the starting cost by a bit.
mungfu: The live stream can't arrive fast enough. I'm soooo ready...
donburri: I'm hoping for one phrecia ascendency per base class. Each class had basically one polished ascendency that could act as a 4th option.
weiwang9622: As far as I can remember, scaling the same thing for both defence and offense is a must in PoE. Otherwise the build will just feel lackluster.
DanyHD02: Im hoping on top of the archmage nerf we get a slight numerical change to mines aswell to give even more space for some crazy selfcast buffs without forcing everyone to just run mines. Soft-planning to run energyblade spellcaster next league so a selfcast buff would be very hot
williamvanhauen9019: Feeding my insatiable hunger for any kind of Poe 1 content
dannyv233: Some pretty insane cope about elementalist, speaking as someone who has played about a dozen elementalists over the years.
Rick-sy6dr: I don't think Lighting Strike should be categorized as "melee"
chikofelipe3732: I was hoping for phrecia ascendancies going core. Everybody liked them ?
jamessunderlandseventh7410: Melee needs another buff, just dont buff LS again!
Meni_97: Cool video, what I wanna see is my favourite build viable again (seismic trap poison), not being over the top like before but in a position where its relevant, when you said the GGG style triple nerf I was thinking how many nerfs has seismic actually got and its not 3 at all
DCSkippy01: Makes me sad how bad golems are, even when talking about changing the ascension that uses them the most, the idea of using them for damage as a minion character isn't even brought up for tree changes :(
Jsharpeone: My realistic hopes:
-please a big meta shakeup!
-self-cast gets buffs overall (dmg and defense options). Archmage should not be the only really viable scaling option.
Copium hopes:
-Occultist gets improvements. I don't think the entire thing needs a rework, but it's design feels too all over the place currently.
-Elementalist changes: poor Shaper of Winter, that needs to be changed at this point. Golems, while cool, just feel kind of boring, i donno.
-chaos dot is strong again.
-assassin rework? really the last ascendancy I've never touched because it just feels too paper or only suitable for a 2nd/3rd build in a league.
-Would love Guardian buffs, the entire "link skills" part of that ascendancy is just useless.
Even if all that is changed is a meta-shakeup, I can't wait to blast POE again.
andrewholman5331: So happy 3.26 is on the way. I missed my POE1 Dreamcore videos on my lunch break.
TalkativeTri: i've missed these, cool list!
self cast buff pls, only played self cast spell once, ball lightning in Harvest!
bmnbl: The only thing that im "worried" about is what are they doing to Svalinn. Im ok with it being rarer/expensive or dropped from a Uber boss but it would be a shame to have that shield destroyed by nerfs. Still my build can do very good still with another good shields just not that tanky anymore.
andrewbako9494: I'm really hoping that self-cast spells in general get a buff. I'd really like to play ED without using totems.
Pharmacopium: Damn I forgot about all these balance nuances of base 3.25 because I played so much Phrecia.
method9312211: Prediction:
Nothing will get nerfed
TS will get buff to it's previous glory
Jun 03 2025