Path of Exile: FAQ on Recent Game Changes

The FAQ video addressed concerns about game mechanics and changes, providing insights and clarifications on various gameplay elements.

### Path of Exile: Ultimatum FAQ Overview
* 🗡️  Dancing Dervish's Rampage generation via weapon swapping has been **removed to prevent it from becoming mandatory on every build**.
* ❄️  Hor Frost's **2-second freeze** from Warden's Oath of Winter is not affected by **freeze duration modifiers**.
* 💰  Gold drops scale with **item quantity modifiers**, including from **party members** and **map mods**.
* 🏹  Far Shot's new damage bonus applies to **all damage**, not just hits or ailments.
* 🛡️  Aggravated bleeding is a property of each individual bleed, not a state of the monster, affecting only the **specific bleed that triggered it**.
* 🛡️  Gladiator's Survivor node completely overrides **block chance on shields**.
* 🧪  The new Valdo's Rest area does not interact with the Atlas, and maps completed by Runners do not **affect your Atlas**.
* 📉  Eternal Domination's power has been reduced, with charges now capped at **max endurance, frenzy, and power charges**.
* 💍  The Taming ring now grants up to **100% increased damage per type of ailment**, rather than a flat **1000% increase**.

hi s here with another video, and in this video, I want to go over the recently asked questions. It's a FAQ, and they have some good answers, and there were a lot of things the community was concerned about. So yeah, I want to go over it in this video. Well, let's just crack into it. Dancing dervish feels like it'll become mandatory on every build. Can we prevent this, please? So what was going to change there was that dancing dervish. You basically get free Rampage by swapping to your offhand having it dancing dervish there, killing a few monsters, and then getting Rampage. And Rampage doesn't end as long as you're killing things. So it would just be a damage boost and movement speed boost, and it would be really annoying to keep weapon swapping to do that. So even though, like, it is just power we're asking for to be removed, it's like annoying power. So we did lose that. Hor Frost is an ailment, no regular debuff is

the 2C Freeze from Warden's Oath of Winter affected by freeze duration modifiers um no so it's always 2 seconds. It can't be longer. It can't be less. That's nice. Can't be less. Does gold scale with modifiers to Quant? What about resources from the settlers? Gold is a regular item drop so that means that party Quant Etc um will naturally cause you to find more gold so everything will scale it. We don't really have sources of Quant anymore except player Quant and rolling quantity on the map mining resources. You do gain skill with item quantity in End Game maps but at a reduced rate. There far shots new damage bonus apply to all damage or only a subset damage with hits and ailments. It is now more clear uh Oath of Spring Winter Summer work with mines or hits required to be from weapons. Any damage aside from Minions including spells totem trops mines however Unbound Fury uh does require you to hit yourself and will not be generated by other things so that's like

the spell berserk thing. How does Valor work? How do we generate it? By default, you gain one Valor on melee kill or melee hit against a unique, to a max of 50 per second. If you have two tinctures using Warden experience, her passive taking the Nature's concoction, does he gain two charges or four? Only two, right? So, we were hoping, or some people were hoping, you could have a flask in the middle of two flasks to like, well, run it permanently. How will the new VA pack work with Slayer leech? So, with VPA, it is instant, right? So, it doesn't. However, the overheal damage from Endless Hunger is assigned to the damage that kills the monster. So, with VPA allocated, it'll be instant from melee kills and normal from other kills. It is worth noting that the overkill leech is a separate instance of Leech from the its leech, which can be quite advantageous. However, none of the while leeching stats on Endless Hunger.

function with instant leech so I guess that does mean at least for mapping you will get both over Leach as well from all the overkill damage so do so you will have Overkill each that that'll probably feel quite nice while mapping. However for bossing like sure you could run the worm flask which you do but keeping that up all the time is quite hard right you're not going to keep it up all the time can you apply run smithing enchance to unique weapons so these are new super powerful enchants that we're getting and no and you cannot uh scour chance these into uniques either. Eternal domination feel a little uh Op with Ric cach do you plan to change that we're changing Eternal domination to cannot gain and charges cannot gain power charges to Max endurance frenzy and power so now actually frenzy got caught in the crossfire 2o that wasn't even involved before little unfair I think they kind of killed Eternal domination I don't feel like this is an ideal solution it might be a little overboard Eternal

domination and Relic is a little op. If you don't understand why, I can do a quick explanation. You could stack like 10 maximum endurance charges and you get the crazy damage mitigation from Eternal domination. And even though it had cannot gain. The way Rish works is you don't gain them, you just have them. And then you can convert them to brutal charges with the maven belt. And then you could gain brutal charges. So it was going to be very strong, it was going to be used in most builds. And I'm not surprised they nerfed it, but I think they went overboard. Does The Taming count all 50 shocks with W notes giving up to th000 increased damage per ring? It would have. So if you guys didn't snitch, we would have perfectly good rings. Every time somebody was talking about it, I was like, but here we are. It has been nerfed now massively. They still look like it'll be decent rings, but more of a softcore thing, not something.

I'll use on Hardcore, probably, 'cause now it's per type of ailment, yeah, I mean it still will be substantial damage on a ring so, but it won't be a thousand. What happens if you allocate both perfect Ag and Elemental overload? Basically nothing, can't deflect elements. Do sources of damage over time multiplier still apply when you have perfect Agony? No. And what sources of crit multi work with perfect Agony? Everything. It's very nice. How does aggravating bleeding work with multiple stacks of bleeding? This is an important one, and honestly, I am not 100% sure that I fully understood it after reading it three times, but I think I have a pretty good idea. And this is not exactly how we thought it would work. Being aggravated is a property of each individual bleeding debuff. That's bad. The way I initially thought it was going work before this explanation was that aggravated would be a state of the monster for a period of time, let's say 4 seconds, right? I thought you would hit

the target. It would be aggravated for 4 seconds, and all the bleeds would be aggravated. This is not the case stats that gr a chance to aggravate bleeding aggravate all bleeds on the target at once if they trigger. So other than the one that aggravates bleeding other older than four seconds. So that means that with an exception if I hit twice and then on the third the chance to aggate works. The first two ones are aggravated, the third one is not, and then I hit two more times, and the last next three bleeds are not bleeding are aggravated. Annoying the extra damage from aggravated bleeding is separate to the bed's normal damage. So if you aggravate 100 DPS, it's taking 100 normal DPS but 200 extra aggravated. If it like a normal 200 DPS bleed, then that'll take precedence over the normal damage from the smaller bleed. But the aggravated damage from the B will keep applying as it's the highest aggravated bleed damage. So now bleed doesn't really stack like

bleed doesn't stack the way ignites do, etc., and they have nothing like poison dust, unless you do Crimson dce, but then they can't be aggravated anyway, so it is just about the highest hit. However, we are going to change some of our builds a little bit because of this, because if you aggravate bleeding on hit and inflict a bleed on the same hit, the new bleed will not be aggravated. You'd have to hit again to aggravate it. The gladiator's jagged technique is the only way to apply an aggravated bleed in a single hit, so depending on the attack speed of the builds and stuff, some will be adjusted. If it's something that's hitting repeatedly and fast like, I might not need Jag technique on a gladiator, but for example on earthquake, you will absolutely need it. So we will be changing some things around because of this, so we do only have one stack of bleed, and with something with a reasonable attack speed and on bosses, it'll probably be okay to like.

keep aggravating it 'cause bleed does last quite a while but uh yeah we will we will it it's not the way I thought it would work how exactly does Gladiator determine Survivor interact with the block t on my shield it doesn't it completely overrides it you have this node you have 50% block on your shield no matter what just out the winter still require you to deal a certain amount of damage to inflict horest uh has to do enough to try to inflict a 1 millisecond freeze which is 6,000th of a monster's life so it looks very easy regret orbs still exist orus bars food resources are not tradable rage on hit with multiple sources will like they'll stack together so you can get 10 rage from a single hit you don't have to like only get one deadi ey frenzy node uh Works while using flicker strike um no you uh like it's the same as like you can use standing still with flicker so no what will happen to Race Rewards that have

Quant on them you will not be able to remove them in leagues like the upcoming 325 League. They can only be removed in hardcore or standard, but very few people have these anyway. This in very, very nonissue is the Barian skill on the warden the same as it appeared. It is better has been buffed. I think it's been buffed at least reserves 10% of Mana now and minus 30 flat 2%. It looks decent. It's substantial. Are all Affliction corpses being Reed yes, but with balance changes notably a lot of the AA ones could provide are less powerful. That is interesting because that means that we are getting the dark Mar Marinette back. And if you don't know how they work, if you have two or three dark marinett and use Guardians blessing, you can basically reserve a permanent Aura and they will just keep dying at different times and respawning. And if they all die at the same time, yeah, it's a little bit annoying, but it is basically a better divine blessing. So could be really

interesting. Is there a maximum number of trades in the currency exchange? 10. That sounds very little. That sounds extremely little. I am shook, but I guess they will be instant hopefully if you're doing trading right. So, do the maps your Runners complete interact with your Atlas at all? No. And I mean, I also expect that they will drop way less than we would. I'm not expecting crazy stuff from them, but either way, these are all the FAQs. I hope you enjoyed reading through them with me. Thank you so much for watching. I will be streaming on both YouTube and Twitch this coming league, so hopefully you'll tune in there if you like it. And either way, sub if you like the video, but more importantly, try to die less than I do.

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Clarifications on Path of Exile Game Mechanics

Dancing Dervish's ability to provide free Rampage through weapon swapping is being removed to prevent it from becoming a mandatory mechanic.

Hor Frost's 2-second freeze from Warden's Oath of Winter is not affected by freeze duration modifiers.

Gold in the game scales with modifiers to quantity, including those from party quant, but far shots' new damage bonus applies to all damage.

Valor is generated in the game by gaining one Valor on melee kill or hit against a unique, up to a maximum of 50 per second, and the new Vile Power Support gem provides instant leech from melee kills and normal leech from other kills, with the overkill leech being a separate instance from the regular leech.

Changes and Concerns in Path of Exile's Latest Update

Instant leech function for mapping will provide a nice feeling, but it will be challenging to maintain for bossing.

Unique weapons cannot be affected by the new powerful smithing enchants, and the adjustment to Eternal Domination's charges has been deemed excessive.

The nerf of The Taming's shock count has been criticized, impacting the potential of the rings in the game.

The Impact of Perfect Agony on Damage and Bleeding

Perfect Agony will no longer provide a crit multiplier but will still work with all other sources of crit multi.

Aggravating bleeding works by separately applying extra damage to the aggravated bleeds, with the highest aggravated bleed damage taking precedence.

The mechanism of aggravating bleeding is based on each individual bleeding debuff, rather than being a state of the monster for a period of time.

Changes in Bleed Mechanics and Build Adjustments

Bleed mechanics do not stack like ignites, and the new bleed will not be aggravated if applied on the same hit as an aggravated bleed.

The Gladiator's Jagged Technique is the only way to apply an aggravated bleed in a single hit, requiring adjustments to build strategies based on attack speed.

Bleed stacking and the need for Jagged Technique will impact build modifications, especially on fast-hitting skills like earthquake.

Discussion of Upcoming Changes in Path of Exile 325 League

The Barian skill on the warden has been buffed, now reserving 10% of Mana and providing a 30 flat 2% bonus.

Affliction corpses are being reworked, with some becoming less powerful due to balance changes.

There will be a maximum of 10 trades in the currency exchange, which may have instant processing.

The maps your Runners complete will not interact with your Atlas in the upcoming league.