gzb4l421: ggg look at this : "i think we should nerf minions"

Rain1: Who else can't wait to play lightning arrow druid?

TwoFoxGibbon: Well since Druid is coming, and I imagine it uses, you guessed it, lightning, I don't expect it to be balanced in .4.

jimbob1568: Maybe everything else is too weak!

NuNufo: I've heard enough buff lightning damage

Deivil007: best i can do is nerf warrior

ggg-probably

1Brodon: I hope they make ignite/cold more intresting instead

TheDedloc: So is it better to nerf into ground unplayable or buff the other stuff... asking for a deadeye

DylanWatkins2011: I personally hope they dont nerf lightning. Id rather them just fix the others

saverx1775: sometimes i wonder if GGG just asks a magic 8 ball for balance advice. Should life get a buff?

"answer uncertain..."

SapereAude625: Despite being sure GGG knows about this i hope they would still watch it

balazsfenyes3880: Not just lightning skills are OP, last league i had a monk that was going with tempest flurry for clear and for boss-kill it one-tapped bosses with falling thunder and...... god dammit.

11131618570: So thunder bears?

PsycoMouse: The lightning issue exists primarily because shock is just way to good for scaling and exists on these skills easily. I dont know how to fix it i only notice things that are out of whack.

blazeku: I hope lightning stays meta cause in POE2 only this elemental damage does not make mid-tier PCs burn. Particles from shattered enemies are frying video cards, and not even start me on fire.

Tibasu: The patch is so close I'm not confident we'll see any changes to lightning specifically, but I do wish they just removed lucky damage so that variance in lightning is actually felt.

MannersPlease: The inconsistency argument is totally bogus even without lucky hit. The fact is, there's so many monsters and so much attack speed and cast speed in so many ways, no matter what you're doing to get multiple hits quickly in succession that you are going to be getting a reasonable, average damage across all your hits in literal seconds. It just does not matter in a game that is as fast-paced as Poe is. It's a technicality that justifies an imbalance when the technically doesn't have an actual meeting in the context of current gameplay. Means the imbalance is not justified in current gameplay too. Even without lucky hit.

devilcookie9924: HH equipped LA bear druid riding Rhoa

CrocanteOK: Tbh, i found lightning spells/abilities more enticing than poisons, bleeds, freeze/chill, electrocute, ignite/chaos ignite.

zikjegaming6652: Connor already did that video

ronniegirardot9613: I like how with GGG everything is always "how do we nerf" and not "how do we make sh*t better"

0.1.0 The warrior sucks, what do we do about it? Ah yes, leave him exactly the same and bring everyone else down to his level. Surely that is the solution! Worked great in 0.2.0! >_>

kayjay4: Funny, I haven't played a lightning build yet.

pictureperfect7547: No matter what road you take it will bring you to the same place if there is only one road all buff the other skills and that might be better

AlwaysBeQuestioning: Make the other elements more interesting. Make fire element ignite enemies and ignited enemies spread fire to other enemies or leave pools of lava on the ground behind there trail that damages other enemies. Make cold damage build up to freeze and shatter enemies that explode for more damage to enemies around them that applies brittle. Brittle can then make enemies shatter when they are killed and take increased crit damage and have increased chance to take crit damage. Lightning damage and shock are not the cause, they are a symptom. Entice people to move away from lightning by making the other elements more interesting, don’t nerf lightning to the ground.

KhornefIake: GGG: So lightning is the problem?

Community: Yes, please take a long look at lightning.

GGG: Got it! So Warrior and Minion nerfs incoming!

theStamax: As a poe ignite enjoyer i can't express how much i hate what poe 2 did to the ailment. Poe 1 always did this best amongst arpgs with ignite scaling very differently from hit based instead of just being a tacked on afterthought.

Poe 2 then comes along and copy pastes how freeze and shock work and makes it entirely hit based. So now you're building it like any hit based fire skill. Absolutely terrible and incredibly boring. Basically killed the archetype (or rather it never really existed in poe 2). Don't even get me started on how terrible the prolif is compared to poison. Poison and bleed somehow working like they should btw.

And you might say ignite is then useless for hit based fire. You are correct. This is actually a problem in poe 1 too. But that's solveable by making scorch an easily accessible ailment to swap to (smth they should frankly do as a mastery in poe 1)

I'm not even sure i like how freeze and shock work. They are just too easy to apply to everything including endgame bosses.

Rakschas666: Well to cap Deflection you really need it to be on the full set of gear, that is on all armour pieces, and invest in several of its clusters on the tree. Even Connors mirror tier LA build showcased here isnt capped on Deflection. Which is fine in that particular instance, but only as long as the build has various other layers of avoidance layered over non-rng based mitigation.

Dec 04 2025

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