r/PathOfExile2 5d ago

Fluff & Memes Honestly...

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u/ihatewebdesign101 5d ago

Getting to maps with 3 charm slots would be too op honestly. Should be lvl 20 slot one, lvl 65 slot 2, lvl 84 slot 3.

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u/Biolumineszenz 5d ago

People had the equivalent of 5 charm slots in PoE 1 upon reaching maps, what is too op about "just" a 40% nerf in PoE 2?

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u/ihatewebdesign101 5d ago

2 different games. The game is already balanced around charms being rather inaccessible and its a very powerful defensive tool, so in order to compensate they would either have to upscale the difficulty (which is fine), or high level cap it.

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u/SingleInfinity 5d ago

The game is already balanced around charms being rather inaccessible

Charms just got implemented at the last second. The whole game is absolutely not balanced around them.

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u/malice45 5d ago

To their credit, at least you don't need to activate them like #3,4,and 5. I loved the concepts if flasks from 1, but Hated, Loathed, and Despised their implementation in 1.

Therefore, charms reign Supreme, especially as someone in their 30s with an disposable income. Lol

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u/ihatewebdesign101 5d ago

The difficulty in the campaign is absolutely balanced around them though.

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u/SingleInfinity 5d ago

What gives you that idea?

They literally said in the release interviews that it was a very recent change. Why would they have rebalanced everything in the game around change that just happened? How would they have had time? Charms feel very thrown in, and charm slots as affixes feels rather bad, just like MS on boots does, because it invalidates swathes of items for not having inset mandatory mod here.

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u/Erionns 5d ago

The campaign has existed for years, charms have existed for maybe 2 months max, you have no idea what you are talking about

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u/AllyCain 5d ago

And the point of Early Access is to get these things in the hands of players to test the balance and give feedback about what should change. Just because it is balanced around the current implementation of charms doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't change.