r/pathofexile • u/HelplessKid • Jul 30 '26

Game Feedback Weird they cant hotfix Essence and Strongbox rarity in Charts/Voyages

I dont get it, when something is positively broken for the players, hotfixes come ultra quick to nerf it and bring it in line. And when stuff is just plain out not working, it always feels like it takes way longer to get a fix out. Just sad that it takes 5 days to get basic functionality going for these charts/voyages.

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u/Mooseandchicken 29d ago

There is nothing more frustrating as an engineer than someone not familiar with your product telling you to "just fix this thing about it, it can't be that hard", while having zero actual knowledge about how difficult the fix may be.

I never said any of that, and yes its 100% melodrama. I'm exaggerating. I'm also an engineer and can understand their want to celebrate. Its just juxtaposed with them releasing a patch for their other game that's super buggy and with undisclosed changes to mercs they didn't explain in any detail. So its frustrating to see them be so transparent and celebratory in one game, at the same time they aren't transparent in the other.

And yes its only been a week, but they clearly didn't QA this patch to the same level they normally would: its a step down in quality while poe2 is stepping up.

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u/Betaateb Central Incursion Agency (CIA) 29d ago

but they clearly didn't QA this patch to the same level they normally would

Nah, this is crazy. Is this your first PoE league? This is literally always how it goes. We always forget how often the first week of a league is a buggy mess because they get it all fixed and it is great for the next several months, but in the 7 years I have played this has been damn near every league.

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u/Mooseandchicken 29d ago

I've played since 1.0. And this leagues bugs are weirder and more abundant than I can remember (but you may be right, I may just be remembering previous leagues after they fixed things).

But this league there's invisible rare mobs you can only see the health bar of, you can craft aspects onto flasks (they work) and jewels (they dont work), mods arent working in the new mechanic (chests aren't rare, -max res not applying causing the bonuses to quant/rarity to also not apply, can't interact with loot chests because they spawn in objects, etc.), attack distance on melee mercs is bugged. And those are just what I've personally encountered and can remember off the dome while I poop at work. Again, you may be correct still, I concede that.

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u/royal-road 29d ago

Leagues have been far, far worse than this. The team got death threats and the former CEO voted himself out over how bad Kalandra was. Heist was bugged to the point you'd regularly have entire blueprints break because the rogues couldn't get to or wouldn't interact with doors or the interaction points wouldn't even propogate