poe 3.25 Path of Exile 3.17: Enormous Melee Skill Buffs

Melee skills like Shield Crush, Bone Shatter, and Retaliation are significantly buffed in the latest patch notes.

### Path of Exile 3.16 Patch Notes Overview
* 🛡️  Shield Crush receives an **enormous buff**, making it a **top-tier skill** for melee builds.
* 🔨  Adored Perandus Signet is nerfed by **33.33%**, reducing its damage bonus from **150%** to **100%**.
* 🛡️  Unbreakable Juggernaut passive now provides **15% armor against chaos damage** taken from hits.
* 🔮  New Strength skill gems introduced, including **Crushing Fist**, **Vengeful Cry**, and **Exertion support**.
* 🏹  Retaliation skills are revamped, with new skills like **Glacial Shield Swipe** and **Crushing Fist** replacing old ones.
* 🎨  Significant changes to item quantity and rarity mechanics, affecting unique items like **Bisco's Collar** and **Ventor's Gamble**.
* 🧙‍♂️  Various skill gem changes, with buffs to many melee skills like **Shield Crush, Bladestorm, and Lacerate**.
* 🌐  Atlas passive trees, monster drops, and league mechanics are adjusted for **balance and gameplay improvements**.
* 💥  Delirium, Ritual, and other league mechanics receive tweaks, with changes to **monster drops** and **encounter difficulty**.
* 📉  Enduring Cry, Desecrate, and some other skills are **nerfed**, while others like Flicker Strike and Glacial Hammer receive **significant buffs**.

### Path of Exile 3.17 Patch Notes Overview
* 🛡️  Defensive changes: Focus on **block and spell suppression**, moving away from **armor stacking** for spell builds.
* 🗡️  Melee buffs: Many melee skills have been buffed, making **previously non-meta builds viable again**.
* 💰  Crafting changes: Perfect fossils no longer provide **30% quality**, affecting crafting strategies.
* 🌐  Trade improvements: Reservation effects now persist through death, making it **easier to manage auras**.
* 🔮  Unique item changes: Several unique items have been buffed or reworked, impacting **build options**.
* 🌲  Passive tree changes: New **notable passives** and **anointing options** have been introduced, altering build paths.
* 🏰  Delve adjustments: Changes to fossil crafting and divination cards may impact **Delve strategies**.
* 📊  Skill gem changes: Several skill gems have been **buffed or reworked**, affecting build viability.

These Are The Most AMBITIOUS and BIGGEST Patch Notes Yet...| Path of Exile 3.25: Settlers of Kalguur

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Patch Notes Highlights: Shield Crush and Bone Shatter Buffs, Adorned Perfidy Nerf

Shield Crush receives a significant buff, almost doubling its damage with a 3-5% increase in armor or evasion at level one, and a base scaling increase on the upper end.

Bone Shatter also gets a substantial 30% buff, with multiplicative changes on the shields.

33%, reducing its effectiveness in buffing melee skills.

The update also introduces new skills like Crushing Fist and Vengeful Cry, as well as adding new armor bases and uniques to the core drop pool.

Cyclone did not receive a buff in this patch.

Cyclone no longer adds extra attack damage at all gem levels, but its effectiveness has been increased, making it more playable.

There are new div cards, map options, and Grand Masters added to the game, along with significant changes to various skills and items.

Rage has been reworked to affect attack damage and has impacted the Berserker ascendancy and skill gems.

Tinctures have been introduced, along with new retaliation skills and clusters in the skill tree, offering exciting opportunities for different builds.

The new Shield Mastery provides 30% chance to avoid being stunned, making it advantageous for players.

Tier 16 Maps now have the Affliction League, with the Nameless Sea lurking in tier 16 and 17.

Monsters killed from all leagues and additional content can now drop Maps, and there have been significant changes to the mechanics of Delirium.

The latest update has also brought about adjustments to item quantity and Rarity bonuses, aiming to prevent abusive cases without affecting the average user's experience.

The changes have removed item quantity bonuses on all characters and shifted the focus to item Rarity.

Path of Exile: Key Changes in the Latest Update

Bisco's Collar is no longer in the game, affecting Rarity builds.

Spectre banking has been nerfed, disappointing Detonate Dead users.

Endurance charges now provide Elemental damage reduction, potentially changing gameplay strategies.

Additionally, there are significant adjustments to various skill gems, impacting a wide range of builds and playstyles.

Chaos damage over time skills have been buffed, including Ed Contagion and other related skills, making them more powerful.

Several skills like Bone Nova, Complex Trauma, and Burning Arrow have been significantly buffed, while Call to Arms has been nerfed in its effectiveness.

Various other skills like Cleave, Charge Dash, and Cobra Lash have been buffed, offering new possibilities for gameplay.

Additionally, some skills like Desecrate, Determination, and Dominating Blow have been nerfed, impacting their overall performance in the game.

Explosive Concoction has been buffed, potentially making it more effective, especially with the new Raider.

Flicker Strike has been significantly boosted, now offering much higher DPS and no totem requirement.

General's Cry has been nerfed, but the reduction in damage is outweighed by the flat damage increase for all skills, leading to potential abuse of General's Cry.

Additionally, Glacial Hammer has been massively buffed, potentially becoming a dominant skill for high DPS builds.

Vortex is not performing well and has fallen out of favor.

Several skills have been buffed, including Reave, Scourge Arrow, Shield Charge, and Smite, making them more powerful options.

Many other skills like Spectral Shield Throw, Static Strike, Sunder, and Tectonic Slam have also received significant buffs, potentially making them top-tier choices.

A new development is that Chance to Bleed support can now be used for skills that create minions, opening up the possibility for bleed-focused minion builds.

Earthbreakers have been buffed on the boots, changing the way the skill works.

Several melee skills have been significantly buffed, affecting the Trauma support gem.

The latest patch also brings changes to the Berserker and Chieftain ascendancy classes, making Chieftain a strong choice for slam builds.

Delve has been adjusted, but the impact on fossil crafting is not expected to be significant, and players can still expect to be profitable.

Changes and Updates in Path of Exile Delve

Beastcrafting in Delve is still viable despite the removal of one fossil, with players overreacting to the change.

The Unstoppable Hero ascendency has swapped positions with fortitude, making it easier to get Fortify for an early buff.

The Dead Eye class has been nerfed in terms of mobility and damage reduction, but the Warden class is expected to replace the Raider in Elemental melee builds.

Additionally, there are significant passive skill tree changes and adjustments to the Val pact keystone and warlord's call, impacting gameplay strategies.

Players can now create two different skill configurations by using rare gloves to run a pseudo 6 or 7 link retaliation configuration, along with a 6-link in the chest, making the build more powerful.

The update includes significant changes to minion offense mastery, cannibalistic right, Bone Breaker, Lust For Carnage, and other notable passives, providing advantages for specific builds and playstyles.

Several unique items have been nerfed or buffed, such as Adorned and Dancing Dervish, while K's Hearts has been buffed for slam builds, offering a guaranteed hit for maximum power.

Modifiers for Max fire, cold, or lightning resistance have been adjusted, allowing for overcapping with regular suffixes.

True block defense mechanism has been strengthened, while the Emperor's Vigilance may no longer be necessary.

New Eldritch implicit modifiers for body armors have been added, focusing on physical damage reduction.

Chance to block values have been increased, with a big focus on defensive strategies for the new league.

The update has also brought buffs to various builds, such as Dorian's prototype, slam builds, specters, facebreaker, and cyclone builds.

The speaker is unsure about the upcoming rune buffs and their impact on build combinations.

They are generally happy with the patch notes, except for the potential negative impact on certain types of builds.

The changes to various skills and the impact on different build types are still uncertain, but the speaker plans to create more videos to explore these topics further.