poe 3.25 Settlers of Kore 325 Patch Notes: Under-the-Radar Changes

The 325 patch notes for Settlers of Kore bring significant changes, including the removal of Battle M's cry and Divine blessing, impacting various builds.

### Path of Exile 3.15 Patch Notes: Five Under-the-Radar Changes
* 💪  Battle Mage Cry no longer grants a buff that boosts **Critical Strike chance and allows attacks to benefit from increased spell damage**, significantly impacting **strength stacking builds**.
* 🛡️  Divine Blessing support gem has been removed, affecting many builds that relied on it to **cast auras without reserving mana**.
* ❄️  Hatred no longer causes you and nearby allies to deal more cold damage, changing its role as **one of the strongest damaging auras in the game**.
* 🛡️  Physical damage taken as elemental damage has been nerfed, reducing the **effectiveness of this powerful defensive mechanic**.
* 🔥  Rage has been reworked, with Berserker losing its **unique bonuses and rage sustain**, impacting many attack-based builds.
* " All of these changes have **significant implications** for various builds and playstyles in the upcoming Path of Exile league.

[Music] Hey guys, and welcome to a new video. Today, I want to talk about five things in the 325 patch notes for the Settlers of Kore that I think are a little bit under the radar or not discussed in all the live streams or not really in detail and what effect those could have. So, I would say let's start right into the action. The first thing that I saw was Battle M's cry. So, Battle M's cry no longer grants buff, which boosts Critical Strike chance and allows attacks to benefit from increases to spell damage. Okay, that is very, very important. Instead, the user nearby allies just have a buff boost Critical Strike chance. The thing though is what does that mean chance to allow attacks to benefit from increased spell damage. That basically means that almost all strength stackers are now basically gutted gone. Right? If we take a look at one of these like strength stackers, it's usually always the same. They're running red blade Banner played as a burer with iron Fortress. I'm stacking strength to

gain the damage from Al's war path and so on and so forth, but the important thing here is the battle mes cry effect on this, together with the um Iron W Keystone um, and getting the maximum power. War cres have infinite power from the red blade blade Banner, so basically you have this Shield. You war cry with battle mes cry, you get this 150% uh spell damage equals attack damage kind of thingy to convert all these things. So as a strength Decker, you can now um um scale spell damage out of it, right? This is basically now removed completely, so builds like the um strength stacking Reef or I don't know um static strike shock wave strength stacker or um the occultist with the um Frost weapon. I don't know what the frost breath. I don't know exactly what it was the name of it, but still all of these builds work the same, but without battle mes cry, all of them are basically dead. There is only one thing remaining, um, which is the kinetic um kinetic blast now has a 200% effect increase in

reduction to spell damage also applied to take damage from this skill at 200% of their value is now in kinetic blast as well as the I think in power siphon so so there are ways to get around that which is basically the crown of eyes which is basically doing the same as the battle mates cry the 150% uh increase in reduction stuff but the thing is as a strength stacker you still want to use a reare helmet with a modifier the um elevated Waller modifier I think gain accuracy rating equal to your strength and 1% increase Critical Strike chance per 10 strength so if you're missing out on that you just lose a a ton of Critical Strike chance and that's why people usually don't go crown of ice so you can now roll the crown of ice but it will be a lot weaker but with the revamp kinetic blast at least the Wonder strength Decker is still going to uh remain its power in terms of strength stacking but as I said a lot of these strength stackers are now

completely not working anymore based on the changes of the um battle mes cry. The next thing I want to talk about is divine blessing. So, divine blessing has been removed. For the people that forgot, divine blessing is basically a support gem that lets you cast an aura for a certain duration um so you don't have to reserve it, right? So, I will just say it as the example of the Eek knite where I use that with the eldritch battery and having energy shield cover your mana because those divine blessing things they cost a lot of mana, right? Sometimes like 7, 800 um so it's super easy to use your energy shield in form of mana to let those buffs be active. And this will be quite a big of nerve to lot of builds and and this is a variety of builds because I know a lot of builds that are using those kind of things. And I'm just going to stay with the EK knite example here. You're losing out on a on a complete aura here for damage which

will nerf a lot of these builds. There is um still one item left that will have the divine blessing, and this is going to be the the march of the Legion boots, okay? These will still have the only way of getting divine blessing, so all the armor stackers are still going to be very, very happy to at least have that one to activate their level. I don't know 100 Grace or something like that. Even though Grace and determination have been buffed H nerfed as well good divine blessing gone will be a direct Nerf to many builds. Keep that in mind if you're planing out your league starter or your mid-league, uh, kind of build. The number three on the list is hatred. So, hatred no longer causes you and nearby allies to deal more cold damage. Un allings gain 30% physical damage as extra cold. Um, it's getting up to 39. So basically what that means is hatred for me is probably the strongest damaging AA in the game. I will compare it now to something like

anger and wrath, because the one is like fire cold and lightning right so anger just has flat um damage which is nice to have, but you know a more damage multiplier is always better. Breath on the other hand, for melee skills, it gives flat lightning damage which is kind of the same as anger just in terms of uh fire and lightning um, but at least for spells it gives more spell lightning damage so that is quite nice to have, right. But hatred on the other hand, has just generic more cold damage or at least it had, so a lot of builds are going from either um the conversion builds, um for example eternity sh build or EK or something like that, right, where you just take a physical skill and go into lightning conversion, call of the Brotherhood into cold, and then cold of fire support into fire, and to gain like a lot of extra damage from sources of non-chaos is extra chaos damage, right, um also a lot of builds are just naturally going from physical into cold because of hatred, the uh waterers ey.

modifiers are insanely strong, and the more cold damage modifier now, it strictly only gives you like up to like whatever 39% fist as extra cold means. What about something like an um a build that is completely Frost-related? I was just about to say ice shot or something, but I think they're also like physical skills converted into cold, but there are pure cold damage skills, um, which will not even have any benefits of running hatred. And for that being a 50% AA is, in my opinion, a very, very weird kind of like solution as well for like um spells or anything, right, like that, right? So that's going to be kind of weird if you still want to run hatred, and it definitely lost the place as the, in my opinion, strongest um damage AA, uh, in the game. Number four on the list is the physical damage taken as okay physical damage from heat St. Oh God. So um, all these like of things, um, that is like physical damage taking as element as chaos or something, is by far the strongest way of mitigating physical.

damage or even annulment damage. When you say you have like um the Inc concent heart taking Elemental damage as chaos damage and you run CI, and those kind of things, the problem here is you have three Global defenses, right? You have like energy shield on the top side of your Tree on the witch area, then you have armor-related notes on the left side bottom side of the tree for the marauder, and then you have like an evasion based on the right side, whether it's going to be like the ranger starting or maybe right side of like dualist and stuff like that. And these are your primary sources, and these days not running armor at all is kind of like bad because physical damage is kind of like a real problem in this game, right? But something like a witch, which has like a very very hard time stacking armor or stacking evasion, even getting like spell suppression or something like that or even endurance charges now after the revamp, it's going to be very very rough. So the strongest way of mitigating damage is to convert the incoming damage.

and then have like 90% maximum resistance, or things like that, because if you have, for example, 100% physical damage taken as element, whether it's fire, chaos, lightning, whatever, um, then you just don't have to worry about armor because your armor is basically completely pointless. It's also like the best way of, like, percentage-wise, reducing the incoming physical damage, just because armor just works different than resistance. If I have 75% resistance to fire, for example, and I have 100% physical damage taken as fire, then this physical hit will definitely get mitigated by the full 75% resistance because this is how resistance work. Armor, on the other hand, works different. Even though if you open your spread, like your character details, and it says you have 90% physical damage mitigation, um, is basically a lie because it always depends on, um, how big this one single hit is, and if you have like 30k armor, it's super nice to have, to have, um, against like small and little and many hits, but if you get big hits, then your

physical damage mitigation will be like what 30%, maybe 40%, or something like that. So this is like the difference. But if you convert the damage, it's just the best defensive layer against physical, and a lot of these sources are gone, whether it's the Del modifiers or the temple modifiers. Um, all the Watchers eye modifiers are gone. For example, the purity of elements physical damage taken as cold, lightning, whatever Purity you have, or the generic one for purity of elements is also gone. Um, there is also modifiers gone completely. The only thing that is remaining is, for example, lightning coil with a 50% physical damage dness lightning, as well as a cloak of flame with 40%. Um, and you have like a dawn breaker Shield, which is also like kind of known. So it's not possible anymore to get 100%, but this is also going to be very, very bad for something like a witch character because energy Shield is just not that good compared to like armor, or evasion, and spell suppression stuff like that. And

the problem will be that with the determination and Grace Nerf or the flat value which GG states that hey that's not a big deal because your armor bases will have a lot more armor to compensate for that but for example as a witch character you're going to have like very big problems because you need to have hybrid evasion bases to roll spell suppression just because spell suppression is just generically one of the best defensive mechanic mechanics in the game so you're not going to have a lot of armor anyways right so you basically rely on determination Grace a jade flask and a grate flask um to get to like 20 30,000 armor to have at least some form of mitigation but the best way was to just convert a physical incoming damage into element which no longer or vastly got uh removed same as on the masteries and so on and so forth and the last thing that I want to mention is the rage thingy the rage uh what is it rework so what does that mean I personally

think that now with the changes the new um burer uh with having the warbringer completely changed and the rage r of ruins things like that so think about it. Rage usually gives you attack speed attack damage and movement speed generically for everybody right but um berser had these like kind of notes to Triple those effects and stuff like that so to make it a lot better as well as using berser berser got got completely it um the skill gam itself and no longer provides more damage with attacks. It doesn't give you more attack speed and you also lose the more movement speed modifier and less damage Tak so basically you can say burer just doesn't exist anymore. It does give you 40% increased um effect of Rage up to like 60% level 21 um but this is like generically now for uh attack based builds because generically rage now just gives you attack damage and that's it. There are things where you can change that let me go back to the rage rework.

um so basically you have on your burer for example here the cve of the slaughter just says every uh rage also grants 1% increased attack speed which was rage by default and there is also somewhere a rage Mastery let me see if I can find one of these um where is the search button ah no help no support no ah R ra something here rage rage Mastery can I can I pick something here Alo but yeah there is a rage Mastery which also gives you like 1% movement speed per five rage so you can kind of get back to the old rage but with more and more investment and I'm wondering how good is the berserk the Berserker basically left because the warbringer note where you actually got a rage sustain from your war cries using a red blade Banner to gain like maximum Rage with one war cry um is completely on I think now uh you get like what five rage maximum or something with a with a full war cry which is just absolutely nothing

then the base value of rage is lower. Means um, rage was like 50 at base of default that you can like then use items to get more rage, more maximum rage. Now it's down to 30 and only giving attack damage while burer also got nerfed. So I just want to say that rage overall like we used to have it like on almost every build. Hey, if you can get in some rage sustain and I'm throwing in burer, it's going to be really strong for every build. Same as the um, the the rage helmet, uh, passions, ah freak, I I forgot the name of it. The new helmet that actually gave you cast speed instead of attack speed from range. This is also gone, right? So the rage Mages Caster kind of things, the good thing, uh, the good old rage sustain with Perma burer or good burer up time is also like completely gone. And this will also affect a lot of lot of builds. Good, these was my five kind of like hidden nerves in my opinion because I think they are kind of drastic for a lot.

of build for a lot of variety of builds uh affecting a lot of builds in the top side area based on the defensive aspect and stuff especially when it comes to like Elementalist and so on and so forth and we're going to see how this is going to turn out in the upcoming Settlers of kagor league and please let me know in the comments what your biggest losers kind of things or hidden things in the patch notes are that are maybe a little bit under the raadar but will have quite a massive effect in the upcoming leaks and uh yeah thanks for tuning in thanks for watching and see you in the next video [Music]

[PATH OF EXILE | 3.25] – 5 IMPACTFUL NERFS COMING IN THE SETTLERS OF KALGUUR!

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The 325 Patch Notes for the Settlers of Kore

Battle M's cry no longer grants a buff for Critical Strike chance and spell damage, significantly affecting strength stacker builds.

This change essentially kills off many strength stacking builds, as they rely on the previous effects of Battle M's cry.

The revamp of kinetic blast provides an alternative for strength stackers to maintain their power, but the use of crown of eyes as a replacement for Battle M's cry may result in a significant loss of Critical Strike chance.

Changes to Divine Blessing and Hatred in the Game

Divine Blessing, a support gem allowing the casting of an aura without reservation, has been removed, impacting many builds reliant on it for mana cost.

The only remaining item to provide Divine Blessing is the March of the Legion boots, which will still benefit armor stackers.

Hatred no longer causes players and nearby allies to deal more cold damage, affecting builds reliant on cold damage for skills like EK or elemental conversion builds, and making it less powerful compared to other damaging auras like Anger and Wrath.

Maximizing Cold Damage and Mitigating Physical Damage in the Game

Modifiers for cold damage have a limited impact on increasing frost-related builds, making it challenging to run certain skills like Hatred.

Mitigating physical damage by converting it to elemental damage and maximizing resistance is crucial, especially for characters with difficulty stacking armor or evasion.

Having 100% physical damage taken as elemental damage is the most effective way to reduce incoming physical damage, as it works differently from resistance and armor in the game.

Changes in Physical Damage Mitigation in the Game

Many modifiers and defensive layers for mitigating physical damage have been removed, such as the Watcher's Eye modifiers and the Purity of Elements effect.

The remaining options for physical damage mitigation include Lightning Coil, Cloak of Flame, and Dawnbreaker Shield, but it is no longer possible to achieve 100% mitigation.

These changes particularly impact witch characters who rely on energy shield, evasion, and spell suppression, as the nerfs to determination and grace make it challenging to achieve high armor values for mitigation.

Changes to the Berserker and the Rework of Rage in the Game

The Berserker's abilities have been completely revamped, with the Warbringer no longer providing additional damage, attack speed, or movement speed.

Now, the Berserker's focus is on increasing the effect of Rage, making it more suitable for attack-based builds.

The rework of Rage also allows for the potential to regain some of its old effects through the use of specific items and the Rage Mastery, but it requires more investment.

Rage's base value has been reduced from 50 to 30, now only providing attack damage, along with a nerf to Burer.

The removal of the rage sustain and the change in the rage helmet will significantly impact a wide variety of builds, especially those focusing on the defensive aspect, such as the Elementalist.

These hidden nerfs to rage are expected to have a massive effect on the upcoming Settlers of Kagor league, impacting a wide range of builds.