Pff not true really, in first 5 hours botters will beg for items to equip their bots.
Community Manager Adam F. on X said, there will be a blog about S9 with date, Ladder start is expected early December.
They will probably put it on December 6th when PoE2 will start lmao.
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Thanks. Updated OP with info.
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Season 9 early December and 22 Nights of Terror, I think 1 week later.
Cool to have the buffs so early in a ladder will be different and will help to level up a lot.
I know there will be PoE 2 on December 6th, but im a D2 fan since 2001 and will always play and enjoy every ladder reset.
Next goal is to level a Javazon to 99. Sorc, Pala, Assa done :))
Mosaic Assa was the easiest so broken op, but it takes some fun away compared to the 2 others to 99.
Really hope they change Mosaic in a way, 2xGul +2xMal with horrible visualsā¦
Cheers, see you all in Season 9.
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Nice! Another ladder of NOTHING NEW content, im anxious to read pegi 16 update to korea players, my korea friends will enjoy.
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If youāre only after ānewā, then you should be playing a newer game, or a subscription game where new content is guaranteed to come.
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Iām going to keep playing all the ladders like Iāve been doing for as long as I can remember, since you say that, maybe you should also play Diablo 2 Classic since youāre against new content.
What I expect in each ladder are balance changes like class and item updates (runewords, qols, uniques etc), maybe gem/rune stacking and nothing else, I would like to understand why you are so against this but I canāt, sorry .
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ā¦ Thatās not new contentā¦ That is balancing changes and quality of life. I never said I was against those things. Now quality of life has itās āfine lineā as wellā¦ New runewords are also a stretch, and lets be honest, do you really want another disaster like Mosaic being introduced?
New content would be a new act, a new class, new dialogue, new quests, new cinematics, etc.
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I think a good rule to follow if theyāre going to make future runewords, is:
Stick with pre existing item modifiers.
Introducing new item modifiers like āchance not to consume chargesā is what screwed us. Theyāre donāt have, or arenāt willing to invest the time to make sure these custom mechanics work properly and are somewhat balanced.
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Mosaic was the best thing ever happened to assassin class, because only viable build was trapsin, martialsin was pretty unused. mosaic changed the meta. and changing the meta is a core fundamental to maintain its player base playing the game. Im main necro and Im still waiting for them to improve other skills, because fire golem is pretty unusable and also skelly mages buffs were ridiculous.
Iāve been playing with necro for over 20 years and certainly a change in necro meta would be tear drops to my eyes
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I can say with complete confidence that Mosaic was a bonified lazy approach to making the martial arts tree usable. They could have went the more difficult route and reworked the tree to make it usable, which wouldnāt have made every Assassin claw (other than Mosaic) completely useless.
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Mosiac is a D3/D4 build. needs to be toned down, including its VFX. Or removed and rework Assa competely
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They donāt have to do thatā¦ They just need time to properly test, and more importantly, not be scared to nerf if needed.
If they donāt have time to do extensive PTRās, thatās understandableā¦ I would be fine with a 4 month ladder season being an unofficial āPTRā periodā¦ Again, as long as they arenāt afraid to nerf if itās needed. The player community has more knowledge of the game than Blizzard, their up to 24 years of game knowledge is invaluable in longer term testing. Blizzard can collect the behind-the-curtains numbers and figure out what needs to be toned down.
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Mosaic might have been a win for the assassin, but it was a massive L for D2R and the health of the game.
Iād rather have an underperforming build than one so overtuned that it completely ruins multiplayer, and clears faster by itself than all the other 7 participants combined.
Itās not like martial arts was unplayable before. It performed better than most melee classes tbh, cause of access to corpse explosion.
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Thats the key to it right there. They need to stick around to make corrections, instead of drop a huge problem on us and disappear.
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They farm torches too nowadays, or at least farm keys then you use your botted smiter and get a bunch of torches too. All the economy is down the drain after the first 48 hours
Tone down Mosaic build and give Barb, Necro and Druid some love.
Would like to try them out to 99 :)))
Mosaic in group is no fun at all, 1 button and all mobs are gone and other players leeching or canāt see shā¦t 
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If there was one new feature I wouldnāt mind seeing would be a rebirth function. Basically, takes an existing Non-Ladder character and rebirthās it as a Ladder character with all existing items/charms being lost to the digital ether unless moved towards the shared stash beforehand.
In any case, I may or may not be available that weekend because wellā¦ life happens. If anyone is open to a Cleric Paladin(FoH/Holy Bolt w/ Cleansing + Meditation), feel free to let me tag along. I truly miss multiplayer action given I normally walk the game solo. I know Meditation is kind of a waste of an aura early on given how easy Insight is to get but I think itās quite underrated with Prayer synergy(doubly so if I can get a Plague Sword for Cleansing). Then Iād roll an A1 Merc with Harmony for Vigor Aura for some real nice mobility fun.
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Donāt forget how easy it is to setup a prayer merc these days with a cure helm and insight.
That could free you up to run Conviction which is REALLY nice for group play.
That said if you do wanna stick with running meditation yourself, opt in for that early cure helm. Even level 1 cleansing does a ton of work. Put a vigor bow in your swap if you want the run speed option.
But yeah I wonāt be touching ladder again til mosaic is fixed. That build just invalidates all others, and is a laggy mess to play with.
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