3 BUFFS & NERFS for Patch 3.25 | Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur Predictions

[@dreamcore_gg]

Who's excited for the full 3.25 reveal on July 18th?

[@omegasybers1110]

Glad rework?

[@dreamcore_gg]

@@omegasybers1110 Hell yeah!

[@prigi0niero226]

actually i was going to play a berserker heavy strike build, i wish ur prediction will be true

[@SpecShadow]

I do - so much promising stuff that can make be return to the game

[@AlexanderVoroncov]

Pls dont nerf grace, being hit so bad for eva builds ;)

[@joshuahensley9395]

i don't even really want to play gladiator, but goddamn is it time

[@capitatv]

True that. It’s time for bleed bow blad

[@dreamcore_gg]

REAL

[@5ean5ean22]

Bring back Versitile Combatant!!!

[@mcwmoose22]

Highly unlikely

[@sunny3545]

Bleed bow was playable when you had a gigacraft bow from grave craft 😂

[@wenjizeng89]

3.25:
1. totems removed
2. Berserker, Gladiator, Assassin, Raider all nerfed
3. Detonated dead buffed
4. Monster overwhelm buffed to 100 - 500%
5. Physical damage taken as removed
Mandatory T18 maps introduced to obtain fragments for uber bosses

[@Matte3334]

I dunno nerfing Determ whilst also not addressing overwhelm and damage taken as would be a GGG classic.

[@dreamcore_gg]

Please no

[@ElicatrothTV]

@@dreamcore_gg This has been the way for a while lol. Nerf something, make issue greater, fix next league.... maybe the league after that.

[@kostav4448]

i wouldnt be suprised too. ggg is VERY careful about death penalties. risk vs reward.
i can see their philisophy being "if dying is less punishing now, you can die more often right?"

[@yeahright420]

Whoops

[@IXxhpnotiqxXI]

​@@kostav4448ahh yes "The Vision™"

[@TalkativeTri]

I HAVE NOT WATCHED IT YET BUT I GUARANTEE THE WORD GLADIATOR WILL BE SAID AT LEAST 9 TIMES ;)

[@omegasybers1110]

Just 3 times actually

[@turkishproblem1444]

Yea. Didn't watched it aswell but gladiator really needs to be nerfed. So op.

[@archiei40x]

What about melee? I'm starting the vid now 😮

[@Windowlick_]

I kind of want a big shakeup to the defensives meta in this patch. Am I crazy to think spell suppression has become a problem too? It seems way more powerful than any equivalent on the left side of the tree. Maybe they could add a spell suppression aura to make it more accessible for the left side and reduce it's availability on the right?

[@loreneea4989]

spell suppression just needs to be on all bases considering how bad armor bases are compared to hybrid and evasion bases.

[@xXVintersorgXx]

Suppression is infinitely better than spell block which is the left side answer to spell damage. 50% spell block is roughly the same as having 100% suppression but spell block doesn't help your max hit. You just get blasted. Also you have to use rearguard on left side bow builds if you want to actually use block.

[@williamschubert4819]

It needs to be easier to get on items, not in a reservation gem.

[@The-Real-aPOC]

My prediction for 3.25 Settlers of Kalguur is that it will take me 3 hours on the character creation screen to choose a name that is not already taken.

[@bisha9347]

Real

[@Kukri63]

When they saying something about defences rework all i want is supression level of defence mechanic for the left side of the tree. Which is block obviously. I hope they will make blocks more accessive even when 2H

[@erutherford]

The problem with block, as it currently stands, is that unblocked hits do full damage and, of course, they don't let you have 100% block. Spell Suppression allows you to take half damage from any spell. Now if [lets say] a capped 50% block allowed you to take half damage from all "attacks" then we'd have something worth looking into.

[@QuintessenceHD]

Damage taken as is already a big investment though, it fits firmly in the GGG balance requirements. It is powerful but you have to build everything around it.

[@lolleonlolable]

"everything" huh ..? flask and a chest/helmet is like 80%, if your at 80% the armour you have is 5 times better. 10k is like 50k insdead of deter you can run like purity for example +maxres flask of the element that u convert the most, you dont need 100%conversion and 90%res for it to be good, most builds are just way better with just a lightning coil than without.
its just naturally WAAY better vs big hits, also vs all that pierce stuff.
get ur facts straight.

[@Tibasu]

Really hope phys overwhelm + taken as ele changes means I can finally use chest pieces other than lightning coil. It was really easy to get one at league start in SSF, but feeling like I have to use it on every build was pretty annoying.

[@ulamss5]

they will change it by adding ways for some monsters to ignore them. it will still be mandatory, you will just randomly die even more.

[@chrisditmi7119]

i do so much wait for infos , im sure my hype will explode in the next weeks^^

[@Dahbomb88]

They definitely have to nerf Adorned jewel and T17 maps.

[@JulianBall-Simon]

i think it would be good if they put t17s one tier higher so t18s and put a thing between t16s and t17s so the jump isnt as high as it now is

[@erutherford]

I would have liked T17s as something [generally] tougher than basic pinnacle bosses but easier that uber pinnacle bosses ... Just retune the rewards & interactions down appropriately.

[@Jameshowardadventures]

Gladiator:
1. increases and reductions to attack block are doubled, increases and reductions to attack block also grant spell suppression at double value
2. if you've suppressed spell damage in the past 20 seconds, you have a 20% chance to take no damage from suppressed spells, if you've blocked an attack in the last 20 seconds, you receive 20% more attack damage
3. upon blocking an attack or suppressing a spell all ailments are removed, cannot be stunned

[@bennetschuischel5257]

In 1. Are you suposed to Deal more damage ore tage more
It is Not to clear Form the wo Ding, but otherwise this Sounds god

[@Jameshowardadventures]

@@bennetschuischel5257 nah just means on the passive skill tree 5% attack block will give you 10% block and 10% spell suppression.

[@frankiecoss7141]

2:23 I honestly love that moment, when Jonathan just goes "wait, why are melee totems like that?".

[@CTL]

I'm guessing expedition's 100% overwhelm was the armor equivalent of the cannot evade (and the ES equivalent was I guess 10% ES on hit), and cannot evade was also equally polarizing. Interestingly both these mods and many other annoying mods were also in Ultimatum. In some way, I do and do not like such polarizing mods - like it does become a fun puzzle to figure out that one build to do them to almost ignore as many mods as you can, but I really don't like how so many polarizing map mods there are, as those are the biggest part of the gameplay loop. I'm really hoping for a revamp of map mods (especially the t17 ones, and also how they interact with map mod effect), as it seems they haven't touched those much since maps were released.

[@Thurmos20]

Gladiator really needs some love!

[@Thurmos20]

@@evilgibson I agree. I think the bleed nodes should stay, along with the challenger charges, but everything else needs to be changed.

[@shlomgoldberg9136]

The mere idea of them nerfing player defenses makes me upset.
Oneshots have been, are and continue to be a massive problem for years and years now, and I have zero trust that they will fix it in PoE1 ever.
Building defenses on characters is already so painful, tedious and expensive - particularly with the powercreep on content with T17s, Valdos, Ubers etc.
I see only clear negatives about nerfing player defenses, particularly when PoE2 is coming after Kalguur. All they'd do with that is anger players, so its probably going to happen

[@Ryan_but_the_name_was_taken]

I would like a bleed rework so snipe and ensnaring arrow are not the best version by such a large margin. Not just a glad rework. Make it scale with attack damage in another way

[@HenriHakl]

While I will love having more unique weapons buffed - I don't think of that as "making melee viable". As far as I'm concerned, melee feels great for mapping - the only time I really feel envy is when my melee build needs to do bossing (or Sanctum). All the (armour and max-res) defenses I rely on in mapping are grossly insufficient vs bosses - and the only way I have any damage up-time is when I'm directly in front of Maven/Sirus/etc. I think I'd immediately equip a unique that prevents excessive teleporting on Sirus.

[@bromek3666]

Ah yes, Settlers of Cowgirl

[@daaaavidz]

At this point one thing is certain: there won't be nerfs to DD or to Int/Mana stacker builds just because that's what everyone wants. They will, however, globally nerf our defenses so even builds that are struggling will be affected.

[@chaosandcoffee]

LOGIN this video is so full of Copium and I am here for it

[@jamessunderlandseventh7410]

Melee truly is in desperate need of buffs

[@MrOtaku-pe6fj]

3:36 what skill/effect is that?

[@MEMUNDOLOL]

my predictions are :
1) they gonna change all warcries and totems so that it gonna be unusable for melee but would give huge utility for ranged, as a part of their balancing strategy for melee, bcs people were upset that using warcries and totems mandatory for melee, in return they would give melee NOTHING
2) they gonna add more useful stats on a tree to the N, NE, E, SE parts of the tree
3) broken ranged builds gonna get minor nerfs
4) gladiator ascendency gonna get absolutely worthless rework and they gonna add more worthless bleed wheels
5) 1-2 most used melee masteries gonna be removed from the game
6) boneshatter nerfs
7) hyper buffs for bow skills, cos how can it be for bows to not be overbuffed for more than 1 league
8) bloodmagic moved from the tree onto some absolute garbage tier item or to some new item which gonna be the same slot as one of the essential health stacking items
9) few new crazy broken ranged-magic gems
10) wide range of nerfs for summoner archtype, and summoner streamers gonna love it for some reason? idk masochism?
p.s. yea forgot
11) double strike and dual strike both nerfed to the ground

[@vitordegasperisilva3432]

POE might not always change the way we want, but no game has gone so much ups and downs to change meta and give new experience to its players

[@HotsoupGG]

Pumping out videos lately, eh ? Appreciated! :D

[@DAR0k88]

I hope they don't accidentally nerf totems while tying to fix them. The trade-off for automating things is reduced power, so I fear they will give us automated totems, but only at 50% effectiveness, and no way to play it with the old style and power.

[@erutherford]

I wouldn't mind "nerfing" determination or other forms of damage mitigation IF the other side of the equation [monster abilities] are also adjusted accordingly. I remember playing a character with 300K armour, 90% plus all ele res, high chaos res, and got one shot as I only had things like armour, endurance charges, and molten shell [down I guess at that time] that bufferred me against physical damage. Quit the league right there as I had MORE deaths on my "tanky" character than I had the entire prior league on my "squishy" bow build that played in vastly more juiced environments.

[@ArticulateArena]

you know it's a meme when you predict actual buffs for poe patch.
maybe a 1 or 2 radius here and there but that's not a buff

[@DuIIahanS]

Can't wait for the GGG classic: "We've seen the rise in popularity of Detonate Dead builds in 3.24 Necropolis. So we decided to nerf Boneshatter's AoE pulse radius as it was too ranged for a melee skill." GGG 3.25... probably.
My body is ready for another shafting.

[@wolfcam4462]

Either that or they buff TS again for godknowswhat reason

[@sagi3933]

I shall set the sails ablaze, as I jump into the waters with passionate heart and a body aflame, guided by the ancestors of the Karui to seek out the bounties of the seas - IT'S FISHING TIME GUYS, LEMME COOK SOME FISH WITH RF CHIEFTAIN!

[@scottcrandall4897]

Dreamcore actually has a face!

[@user-ts4mz3jy9i]

POE is like a serious addiction. I quit this league after a build I made turned out to be terrible and I was super frustrated with it and the game. But seeing these ideas just gets my brain churning again, awakening old pathways, remembering how much fun it is. No. I've been so productive without POE. Can I go back, can I become obsessed again? If they buff melee I'm back in.

[@dczech4138]

Ancestral Totem Buff, best buff would be just removing them.
For Monster Overwhelm, I think best would be if monsters would have properly telegraphed attack which has "armor break/overwhelm" effect.

[@ThePainqT]

I hope they do something with syndicate, let catarina drop fractured items or let us get tatoos from there. Anything to make it more interesting.

[@mattiasandersson8693]

Shhhh. Don’t talk it into reality. Dont want more people farming betrayal lol. Easisest money ive ever made lol😂

[@erutherford]

What do you want to bet that GGG introduces similar Elemental & Chaos abilities that are similar to the overwhelm physical [in magnitude and frequency if not name]. Then they'll give us a new prefix on items to mitigate against phys / ele / chaos overwhelm which puts even more pressure on casuals like me that almost never have a 1 mirror-plus character.

[@dIggl3r]

@Dreamcore Does a nerf to DD needs to be a nerfs to VD too? I feel like VD need a bit of love, isn't it?

[@metamon2704]

Definitely hope the 'overwhelm physical damage' gets nerfed, it's too annoying.

[@YouTookMyAccountName]

the least they could have done was make melee buffing totems invulnerable (and probably not attack anymore). Other variations of temporary stationary boss-fight buffs exist such as sigil of power and arcanist brand (curse, flame surge)

[@Powerkeg]

Regarding the buff 1, in every teaser they've released so far there is a ancestral totem lying somewhere in it.

[@InkDevil999]

I am hoping for some Ward changes. It is something i have wanted for a long time. Ward has no support anywhere and there is realistically only ONE ward build and that is Wardloop. I do not understand why they even added it into the game if that was all they were going to do with it.

[@CouchOwner2]

i don't think the rebalance of unique weapons will really do more than bandaid things. it's an eternal power struggle they really need some way to mechanically rework. Last Epoch's Legendary Potential system is a fantastic way to address it. I'm sure plenty of people have imagined if GGG will test something similar sometime (not like Scourge).
I wonder if they could modify the corruption system to empower the implicits on items based on a secondary item's tags and mod tiers being used as a sacrifice. not a direct carrying of mods from the sacrifice to the target but an influencing vector. a marriage of the PoE corruption system and Last Epoch's Legendary Potential.

[@sadomoreno5829]

Agree with Coc DD getting nerf. It sounds like melee is getting buffed at the cost of determination nerf but shouldn't they nerf physical shift to element if that were the case.

[@stallionmouse]

hot take, Glad is good with dual wield max block and taking attack damage is lucky, especially on something like dual strike.

[@Impavidor]

enkindling orbs, all defences not only armour, hopefully couple of acendencies

[@Xebtria]

I predict that whatever I will start with will be shit again and I will be forever lacking behind meta builds.
Business as usual

[@Tryfe712]

I see the gladiator strat is still on, predict a buff until it happens :P

[@MatrixLike33]

I just hope they don't nerf the fishing rods.

[@neck_acrobatics]

Berserker design has always baffled me. Every ascendancy has straight up power, no stings attached, but berserker is the only one that has tradeoffs.

[@taintacle7623]

I want the uniques all to be rebalanced so we can have more videos discussing forgotten uniques reborn. More videos to mainline~

[@Emoriatwc]

1.instant leech node nerf
2. Grace determination nerf
3. Suppression nerf
4. Archmage nerf.
5. Kitava helmet nerf
Thats just some nerfz

[@Jgtack]

I hope they buff Physical damage reduction rather than nerfing other defense options but it seeming like copium with the Determ nerf

[@NKB_POE]

maybe adorned might get cutted to max roll 100% effect

[@JL-jr3sz]

Raise spectre will now scan max spectre count and stop people having high hp spectre without investment in max numbers.

[@feveredmushroomHD]

Buff -Guardian no longer instantly kills himself when linking to either crusade minion from ascendancy!
seriously...why wtf does he have a link skill ascendancy with minions that kill himself if linked too....

[@ElicatrothTV]

Amazing..... I didnt know any of those weapons existed!

[@kokorochin01]

I just hope they scale down on all the loot showering......

[@MrEHD-fj1bz]

I think the problem with phy dmg is actually it's how armor function
it's just too complicated and weird compered to other defensive layers

[@dreamcore_gg]

I wouldn't say it's complicated, but it's definitely poorly explained in game

[@MrEHD-fj1bz]

@@dreamcore_gg maybe complicated is not the right word, let just say it's not how traditional armor work in RPGs .

[@jarlomenvgc]

I swear if Gald doesn't get buff/changed in some way this league I am going to be super sad haha...

[@kostav4448]

i agree like everyone else agrees on melee, ascendency and skill balance.
but everyone else agreed on this in 3.24 too
and in 3.23...
with T17 and scarabs being that problematic, i think we wont get a fix for all and i would rather have the loot fixed. i just cant stand another sh*tshow like necropolis.

[@jackiechanswag]

I will cry if assassin is not reworked

[@seb4sti4n666]

I think the Occultist also have a change. Some buff have change on her

[@5ean5ean22]

Since I'm a hiero main for years I've been waiting for a buff to thr Sign of Purpose Brand node on the accendency tree. It's completely worthless as is. I would like them to front load the activation frequency buff instead of backloading it so we don't have to use swift brand support.

[@gamezaza009]

Thanks for the Cope for melee buff wet dream

[@Braneran]

I might be coping, but what if this is a lvl 14/15 Determination Aura, so that's a buff

[@slowik8196]

My prediction is that they won't do any major changes before PoE 2.

[@dreamcore_gg]

What do you consider a major change? They added T17's last league, I'd say that was pretty major

[@faederSSF]

@@dreamcore_gg yeap

[@slowik8196]

@@dreamcore_ggBy major change i mean something that will do big meta shift like in 3.7 to 3.9, a big overhaul to some type of builds not only another layer of endgame. I'm tired of playing same builds over and over especially at league start. Last good league for me was Ritual, after that for me they made PoE 1 one big PTR for PoE 2, for exaplme they said on Baeclast that they made fog for PoE 2, and later they deciced to do Delirium league from it. Also they used to put league content after league to base game, how many leagues after 3.16 were implemented as they were since then? Maybe Sanctum, so for me PoE 1 is in maintenace mod and PTR for PoE 2.

[@mertuygun4825]

I am playing poe since beta and didnt even use determination once in any build i played yet.
Outside of armor stackers, armor has been always one of the meh mechanics in poe since phys as ele\chaos taken exist.
Lets see how they will buff armor \ phys stuff

[@morfea123]

00:33 what's the golden mtx ?

[@The_Engi]

KAOMS PRIMACY MENTIONED

[@HeavyClaw]

You forgot another Spark nerf

[@vitaliinomerovskyi4172]

I WILL FLIKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@fast1nakus]

#they_cant_fix_melee.

[@BKdebarber]

i will be leaguestarting chieftain infernal blow ignite, if they nerf that im going to be sad... 😭

[@MatteBlacke]

Kalguur? Maybe a ward rework?

[@SagitaAoC]

IMO The Adorned will be nerfed. It's just to good for almost every build. I can see it being 50%-100% or 75%-125%.

[@harshit233]

Really hope to see melee revived 😢

[@iKnowMungFu]

I know Assassin needs the balance pass but I need ONE MORE league with it as is...I have plans. Gladiator rework all the way though!

[@dreamcore_gg]

I think you've had enough leagues with it in this state 🤣

[@hatex2mo]

What's the plan? Come on now, you can't leave us hanging.

[@skyler1469]

ancesteral totems could be made into automatic casting or pasive AOE

[@TheOzQ]

Yeah honestly changing/splitting them into something like "warchief/protector blessing" with duration which you could slap on with automation support would be nice. Unless they ofc cook even bigger and fix the need for them in first place.

[@Basedard]

the 3 buffs are all Melee related so those aren't going to happen.
the 3 nerfs require too much work so those aren't going to happen.
Dreamcore keep dreaming because I want all of these to happen...they won't but disappointment is what dreams are made for.

[@KolinarK]

Buffs? Impossible.

[@UCWxg9HulEncwo7UDEyub-_w]

i think grace will get nerfed also, but buff the base armour and evasion from gears

[@dreamcore_gg]

This would be an interesting change if they got the numbers right

[@UCWxg9HulEncwo7UDEyub-_w]

@@dreamcore_gg almost

[@omegasybers1110]

Hope your predictions come true. That would be awesome

[@alexanderblae3879]

Does someone else loves his voice? 😂

[@Cryttanz]

A bit late on the april fools video, I wish they buffed melee but i've been wishin it for years. If anything they delete melee

[@barmiiiii]

yeah i hope they change those ancestral totems cause they are an annoying necessity

[@barmiiiii]

really hope for some melee and unique buffs as well cause i had such a cool idea with ice crash chieftain using the debeons dirge two handed axe that gives buffs if you shouted recently which is very easy now with the call to arms but in practice its very weak

[@codranine6054]

I just feel melee will never be top tier. Unless it’s like melee scaled with some type of traveling wave or projectile

[@deathwing1234]

Removing totems won't be nearly enough to fix melee. Melees damage is still garbage tier where a 10 modded two handed weapon does less damage then a level 20 fireball. Melees survibilty is completely nonexistant and will be nerfed while the best defense, triple offscreening remains. Ggg has given spells 400% more damage, see absolution while having never explained why glacial hammer got single digit buffs offiscated to look bigger then it is. The Stockholm syndrome is so immense that content creators that don't play the style have lost track of how far behind melee is compromisimg for me. So it won't be nearly enough.

[@frostysock3541]

for the love of god buff my gladiator and rework phys damage

[@gok408]

Armor was shit and more uselles now.Evade + suppres forever

[@MrBuns-yi2hk]

I hope that some self-cast and channeling spells get some buffs. Same for underused ascendancies and melee.
More specifically, chaos dot and spells. There is only one on-hit chaos passive tree...

[@francobuzzetti9424]

melee in general sucks even compared to melee-ish spells which also suck, you need SO MUCH gear to do the same damage (clear or single) as any spellcaster or a bow build , plus in poe you can't get hit by nothing without dying, which melee only can do while just exploding the whole screen which in itself is already top 1% of the builds

[@wolfarzene4471]

My PoE goat does it again

[@dogebestest7187]

Hands off Lightning Coil 😡

[@HiltModuleImp]

To be honest, I'm tired of these nerfs, especially when they create such annoying content like T17 or Archnemesis monsters. The fixes to builds or farming strategies during the league have just killed my interest in the Necropolis league. I'll probably skip the next league, or maybe even Path of Exile altogether.

[@Kitava.]

Minions will get nerfed again

[@johannes1022]

how much money can a man lose on betting on gladiator changes 😂

[@Remindw]

I hope they'll nerf/buff (however you look at it) t17 maps!

[@airrivalsprobe]

Expecting melee nerf

[@cIappo896]

Something that benefits melee? Hah