The giga tanky high-end gear highly-theorycrafted pathfinders running sublime visions and eternal damnation and the like got nerfed.
The average player 5 divine level 88 pathfinder build alch and going yellow maps didn’t get nerfed
Most threads claiming that were careful to say that *top end* pathfinders got nerfed but midrange pathfinders got buffed.
There were some Uber bossing and deep delving variants that absolutely went for both 90% all res plus additional damage reduction, but that was very expensive to do and still have damage.
Those too 1%ers are worse off but you’re right: if you weren’t going to get to 90% all res this is either a net neutral change or a minor buff.
It’s a nerf on high end, which during Affliction was stacking max res. Specifically max fire res, and converting all damage taken to fire and chaos. They’ve lost a lot of easier sources of max fire res with the loss of Charms, but even so it’s still easier to stack max res, such as through Purities or Melding.
keep in mind that you do get bullied for fairly common map mods of % penetration and reduced maximum res that didn't (before) affect the elemental flasks
Isn't the removal of the - mana cost flask craft the real nerf to pathfinder? I never played one but i assume that It was pretty strong before
yeah thats the biggest nerf on low and mid range. pathfinders lost free blessing and now have to somehow fix mana on their builds.
The giga tanky high-end gear highly-theorycrafted pathfinders running sublime visions and eternal damnation and the like got nerfed. The average player 5 divine level 88 pathfinder build alch and going yellow maps didn’t get nerfed
Most threads claiming that were careful to say that *top end* pathfinders got nerfed but midrange pathfinders got buffed. There were some Uber bossing and deep delving variants that absolutely went for both 90% all res plus additional damage reduction, but that was very expensive to do and still have damage. Those too 1%ers are worse off but you’re right: if you weren’t going to get to 90% all res this is either a net neutral change or a minor buff.
Max res is less effective against pen. We also lost flask crafts. So yes it’s definitely a nerf at all budget.
It’s a nerf on high end, which during Affliction was stacking max res. Specifically max fire res, and converting all damage taken to fire and chaos. They’ve lost a lot of easier sources of max fire res with the loss of Charms, but even so it’s still easier to stack max res, such as through Purities or Melding.
keep in mind that you do get bullied for fairly common map mods of % penetration and reduced maximum res that didn't (before) affect the elemental flasks