As a seasoned Path of Exile player with countless hours spent navigating the labyrinthine Atlas and honing my character builds, I must say that this latest update has truly been a game-changer! The developers have once again demonstrated their exceptional skill at balancing, tweaking, and adding new content to keep us hooked.
This week, Path of Exile 2 received another update, primarily focusing on fixing bugs and enhancing the overall gameplay experience, given its smooth launch thus far. While most changes were minor, a noticeable nerf in the game caught the attention of players – the Cast on Freeze skill in Path of Exile 2. This buff skill was frequently used by many players to repeatedly trigger other spells, but due to a broad change in how trigger gems and ailments function within the game, numerous players are now deciding to abandon the Cast on Freeze skill altogether.
In the latest update for Path of Exile 2, released on Wednesday evening, you can find the complete details below. However, if you’re a user of the Cast on Freeze skill, focus mainly on the part about “Trigger Gems and Energy Gain.” Although precise figures were not disclosed, Grinding Gear Games has altered these effects to make energy gain dependent on monster power. This means that stronger monsters will now provide more energy gains, but weaker ones will grant less compared to before.
The update indicates that it’s much simpler to activate abilities from Unique Monsters compared to regular ones. However, you encounter a larger number of common enemies during combat.
Currently, players are handling the calculations themselves, and it seems like a disadvantage for those using Cast on Freeze. A player even demonstrated the pre-nerf and post-nerf setup on Reddit to highlight the significant reduction in effectiveness of the skill. This modification has left many players expressing regret as they’re now stuck with less efficient builds that can be respeced, but only if players have a substantial amount of spare in-game currency saved up, which they weren’t planning on using elsewhere.
Cast on freeze brutally nerfed
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I’d like to be added to the list. Currently, my character setup, or ‘build’, seems to be broken, rendering the ‘Cast on Freeze’ skill virtually useless for me.
Players of Path of Exile 2 were initially content with the changes Grinding Gear Games had announced, but their satisfaction has shifted following the release of this update. If you didn’t rely on Cast on Freeze, nothing’s been altered for you; however, if you did, it might be time to explore different options now. The complete list of updates for Path of Exile 2 can be found below.
General Improvements and Changes
- Passive Block chance now applies to blockable hits from all directions, as opposed to just hits from in front.
- Player size is now set to Zero units while dodge rolling instead of One unit.
- Some smaller monsters can now be pushed while dodge rolling. This includes monsters such as the Adorned Beetles in Keth.
- Inscribed Ultimatums and Djinn Baryas now display whether you will obtain Ascendancy Skill Points upon completing the Trial of Chaos or Trial of the Sekhemas respectively.
- Removed World Map Pins for encounters that were not from specific locations in Areas. ie. From Monster drops.
- Improved attack in place behaviour.
- Rain of Arrows and Firestorm now have a hit-rate limit to prevent cases of them absolutely obliterating very large bosses. This will have little to no impact outside of boss fights with very large hitboxes.
- Leech has been buffed.
- Boneshatter now more reliably hits your target.
- The duration of Armour Break has been increased to 12 seconds (previously 6).
- To improve performance, Incinerate now creates circular areas of ignited ground instead of segments.
- Added CTRL+Click shortcut to open the Currency Exchange at the appropriate NPCs.
- Added a button to travel to the Trial of Chaos on the world map.
- Added art for Close Combat Support.
- Added 2D art for the Defiance of Destiny Unique Amulet.
- Added “Ascendancy Skill Points” as a keyword, which details how sets of Ascendancy Points are obtained.
- Added search functionality for Gemcutting and vendor inventories when using a controller. Keybinds for searching Stash on a controller have also been updated.
- Added Gemcutting restrictions option for Gamepad.
- Added suggested Supports for Time of Need.
- Added an option for opening the Trade website to the main menu for consoles.
- Runes now sell to vendors for more Gold.
- Auras and Curses that affect ally or enemy resistances now display values in the Skill popout panel.
- Tweaked the audio of the Kiwi Pets, Chimera Pet, and Baby Crowbell Pet to reduce their impact in town areas.
- Reduced the defenses provided to monsters by the Magma Barrier modifier.
- Walking Goliaths no longer use their suicide attack if they are Rare.
Trigger Gems and Energy Gain
- Trigger gem energy gain was not in the right place and it was far too easy to use ailments to trigger spells. One problem with the previous system is that if we balanced it to make triggering happen in boss fights then the triggering would happen far too often during clearing. In order to address this we are now making “Monster Power” part of the calculation for energy gain. This means that it’s far easier to trigger skills from Unique Monsters than it is from normal monsters, but you also hit many more normal monsters when fighting. Another issue was using low level skills with unconditional ailment applications such as Flame Wall to ignite enemies for triggering. In order to make the source of the ignite matter we are making the energy gain be dependent on the strength of the ignite. We have also rebalanced all energy gain across the board.
Ultimatum Changes
- Generally improved balance across the board with Ultimatum monsters, bosses and modifiers. Mostly targeting outliers that were too difficult and bringing them in line.
- The monster density of Ultimatum encounters has been made more consistent.
- Stormcaller Runes, Blood Globules, Heart Tethers and Impending Doom rings no longer spawn while a player is on a lift or near the altars in the Vaal Soul Core room.
- Fixed a bug where Player Minions could get stuck at the top of the lift in the Trials of Chaos.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug which caused enemies to be Primed for Stun or Electrocute earlier than intended while in a party.
- Fixed a bug where Gemling Legionnaires with the Integrated Efficiency Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated could lose their 3 additional Skill Slots if they were empty when entering a new area.
- Fixed a bug with party member reviving when using WASD input where you could revive party members from too far away.
- Fixed a bug where “Waystones found have a chance to be a tier higher” on the Atlas Passive Tree wasn’t working.
- Fixed a bug where the Audio Mix setting was not being remembered when restarting the game.
- Fixed a bug where one of the small Passive Skills in the Fleshcrafter cluster was not connected to the Notable Passive Skill. It is possible for your Passive Skill Tree to be reset if you had this cluster allocated, apologies!
- Fixed a bug where you could not open a portal in The Riverbank in Cruel difficulty.
- Fixed a bug where some of Zalmarath, the Colossus’ skills could persist after their death.
- Fixed a bug where opening a full-screen panel while disenchanting could prevent you from performing any actions until you relogged.
- Fixed a bug where some fire spells, such as Volatile Dead and Incinerate, were not functioning correctly with Raging Spirits.
- Fixed a bug where “Buffs on you expire Slower” from the Prolonged Assault Notable Passive Skill and other Chronomancer Ascendancy Passive Skills was applying to Debuffs and other effects as well as Buffs.
- Fixed a bug where non-reviving Minions were spawning a Remnant from the Grim Feast Buff when dying in your presence.
- Fixed a bug Infernalists with the Pyromantic Pact Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated were considered to be on Low Infernal Flame if they were at 50% of Maximum Infernal Flame or lower, instead of 35%.
- Fixed a bug where the world map icon for Candlemass in Cruel was not updating correctly.
- Fixed a bug where you could be unable to upgrade Gems despite satisfying the Attribute Requirement by having the Adaptive Capability Gemling Legionnaire Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated.
- Fixed a bug where Fiery Death Support was not dealing damage correctly.
- Fixed Infusion Support Gems on Herald skills applying the gain damage as extra elemental damage to all attacks instead of just the damage from the Herald skill
- Fixed a bug where Expedition encounters could fail to generate in the Decay Map.
- Fixed a bug where Quality on the Sacrifice Skill was causing Minions to Revive 0-5% more slowly, instead of more quickly.
- Fixed a bug where the exit portal for the final boss in Trial of the Sekhemas did not visually display upon killing the boss.
- Fixed a bug where socketed Skills you didn’t meet the requirements for were missing their name in the Skills menu when using a controller.
- Fixed a bug where the Elemental Storm skill granted by the Stormweaver’s Tempest Caller Ascendancy Passive Skill could sometimes place the storm underneath you.
- Fixed a snapshotting bug with the “Loads an Additional Bolt” Crossbow modifier.
- Fixed a bug where the Contagion Skill was not spreading Poison.
- Fixed a bug where Tempest Bell could become invisible.
- Fixed a bug where NPCs were missing their name labels in Hideouts when using a controller.
- Fixed a bug where signing into a guest account on PlayStation 5 could delete your friends list in-game.
- Fixed a bug where you could sometimes be unable to enter your hideout on PlayStation 5.
- Fixed eight instance crashes.
- Fixed six client crashes.
- Fixed a client crash that could occur on Xbox.
- Fixed three client crashes that could occur on PlayStation 5.
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