This League Development Cycle was Our Shortest Ever in PoE 3.2.0Posted by Richard Betts on March 6th, 2018 This league development cycle was our shortest ever, at 12 weeks, with several of those weeks consumed by people being away during the Christmas period. Our balance staff worked exclusively on getting the Ascendancy classes finished and balancing the new content. I am completely aware that you want skill changes, and would love to see some also. There's quite a backlog of mechanical skill changes that are planned, it's just a matter of getting time to do them. The points raised in this thread have been well heard! And if then after a league a specific skill was still underperforming you do it again with the next patch. Lock the balance team in a room for 8 hours and make them decide on 15 low risk changes that can be shiped in this patch, done. Sadly there seem to be other reasons at play here that probably cause this behavior : They stated in the past that it is a design principle that for example Reave needs to be weaker than Bladeflurry so a new player feels a clear power progression when getting new skill gems as rewards - so it seems they want to keep up power inequalities on certain skills for this goal. They can not make big advertisements with 5% buffs that will bring in more players and money, if you wait for a year and then bundle all the changes into one big bundle you can sell it to journalists as groundbreaking new buffs. The Balance team might have been working on ascendancy changes untill the last second(it was actually confirmed this was the case) and there simply was not enough time for even the safest and most minor of buffs. If this was the case please for patches going forward agree on some balance changes to weak skills at the start of development, so they dont just slip your development schedule. I work in QA for another company that also does frequent balance changes to their games, it does not take 20 people working for 2 weeks to buff Glacial Hammer by 6%. https://www.u4gm.com/path-of-exile Like it? Share it! More by this author |