Path Of Exile 2 Players Are Giving Up On The Game After Huge Round Of Nerfs

Summary

• Trigger Gem system changes in Path of Exile 2 update have rendered certain builds unusable.
• Players frustrated with heavy nerfs in update, expressing disappointment and concern for the time invested
• Unattainable respec costs make high-level characters difficult to recover after updates.

Balancing updates were inevitable in Path of Exile 2. The game is only in early access, after all.

Path Of Exile 2's Launch Was So Massive It Broke SteamDB

A lot of people were trying to get into Path of Exile 2.

But the latest update, v0.1.0D, has nerfed certain moves, and therefore certain classes, to such an extent that players have said that they're deleting characters or even ditching the game as a whole as a result of it.

Path Of Exile 2's Latest Patch Has Broken Character's Builds

Path of Exile 2's latest update has destroyed certain builds, many of which are Sorc or Deadeye-focused. While certain nerfs were accepted by the community, changes to the Trigger Gem system have left some builds "unusable".

Effectively, the system has been changed in such a way that the probability of triggering some of the game's most useful automatic effects and attacks is now much, much lower, making builds that rely on them fundamentally useless.

This has caused uproar in the Path of Exile 2 community, with dozens of threads popping up on the game's subreddit and many players claiming the developers are not respecting their time.

Minute_Age3029 declared that they're taking a break after this latest round of nerfs because they're "Worried that investing any more time in a character is just going to lead to another nerf," a sentiment echoed by many. The latest round of updates was said to make "people fear experimenting and playing the game" because "a lot of people have invested +40 hours into their builds and, after a patch, their character is unusable."

The frustrations became so much for one player that they deleted their character, claiming, "There is no point in playing this game right now."

A lot of people have invested +40 hours into their builds and, after a patch, their character is unusable.

The crux of the issue for some players is not so much that their builds have been broken, but it's the gold it costs to respec in the game. The cost to respec doesn't change depending on how many skills you've unlocked, so resetting a whole skill tree is extortionately expensive, making high-level characters unattainably difficult to recover.

2024 seems to be the year of balancing issues in games. Marvel Rivals has already come under fire for how powerful Iron Fist is, and Helldivers 2 suffered multiple review bombings after the game received a series of unpopular nerfs.

Path of Exile II

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Path of Exile 2 is a major sequel to the hit free-to-play ARPG from Grinding Gear Games. It will add a new story in the continent of Wraeclast, new ascendancy classes, and reworked systems.