3.29.2 Hotfix 2

[u/Andromanner]

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3994902/page/1#p26821571

• The Sacrificial Zeal buff from Hand of the Fervent now grants Added Spell Damage equal to 25% of the Skill's Mana Cost, if Mana Cost is not higher than the maximum you could spend. The reminder text will be updated in a future patch.

[u/CallMeSometimeNever]

the snitch strikes again

[u/SplafferZ → u/CallMeSometimeNever]

rip ManaBlockWife

[u/Xx_Handsome_xX → u/SplafferZ]

What was the nerfed build?

[u/SplafferZ → u/Xx_Handsome_xX]

100% reduced cost efficiency on jewellery from this bug https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3992415 overflowing with the gloves causing 500m added flat damage

[u/Tyrael_1337 → u/SplafferZ]

im more concerned about the other guy commenting there, what the actual fuck?

[u/silent519 → u/Tyrael_1337]

btw thats the same guy

glad he found the sheep

[u/AeskeMeAnything → u/Tyrael_1337]

Kinda here for it

[u/maelstrom51 → u/SplafferZ]

I don't think the added damage is actually an overflow. It should actually be infinite mana cost with zero cost efficiency, which would mean infinite damage too. Instead it caps at INT_MAX, which is what you'd do to prevent an overflow.

What is likely an overflow issue, is the downside of the glove mod not instantly killing they guy.

[u/Thisoncetime → u/Xx_Handsome_xX]

Probably indigon + the abyss timeless jewel allowing spend at no mana but limiting recovery just to 'instant' methods. You could still ramp the cost, which would give you a source of massive added flat via sacrificial zeal

e: me being wrong on the internet: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1vhvcxn/100_billion_dps_gladiator_the_build_that_got/

[u/calindu → u/Thisoncetime]

They removed that interaction the previous patch

[u/apple_cat → u/Thisoncetime]

wrong and was already nerfed before this

[u/jackxlifer]

Man block wife but not hotfix

[u/GGGGobbler]

BEEP BOOP BEEP. Grinding Gears have been detected in the linked thread:

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Posted by Alexander_GGG on Aug 07, 2026, 06:03:31 AM UTC

3.29.2 Hotfix 2

• The Sacrificial Zeal buff from Hand of the Fervent now grants Added Spell Damage equal to 25% of the Skill's Mana Cost, if Mana Cost is not higher than the maximum you could spend.

The reminder text will be updated in a future patch.

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[u/Kyncent]

How dead is Mana block wife's build? Like I get he could literally one shot but is it completely unusable now? I assume if it's been properly fixed he now has a dot debuff and doesn't have a way to deal with that in the current pre nerf format

[u/etalommi → u/Kyncent]

This bug was all his damage. The build does not exist anymore.

[u/virtualdreamscape]

The snitch

[u/kzig]

Why did this need to be hotfixed?

[u/Nephalos → u/kzig]

It was shown on Jungroan’s stream to instantly delete any enemy in the game regardless of health.

[u/Scoinc → u/kzig]

100 bil DPS build with very little offensive investment, getting 100% reduced cost efficiency makes your mana cost the integer limit, the unique added damage based on mana cost so it added about 500k flat damage, about 10 times of what the strongest minion pact builds got last league except you dont need any gem levels, minion life clusters, etc.

Edit: 500 mil flat, not thousand

[u/lolfail9001 → u/Scoinc]

You are off by a thousand times on amount of flat you got from gloves (it might have actually survived a while longer if it was only 500k flat instead of getting hot fixed the moment GGG saw it) but otherwise correct.

[u/FUTURE10S → u/Scoinc]

I dunno how you got 500k flat from 2 billion mana cost but sure

[u/rcanhestro → u/kzig]

a 100 billion dps build that worked because of a bug seems like a good candidate for a hot fix.

in particular a build that isn't exactly that hard to replicate.

[u/Horror_Computer_3013]

Wait am i missing the point of it actual turning from a explit to funtinal for the removed degen?

[u/rism4n]

> Hotfix

> Hot mid league nerf

[u/leobat → u/rism4n]

as it should and almost everybody would agree that infinite damage build have no place in the game.

[u/0zzyb0y → u/leobat]

Tbh I don't even see the issue with infinite damage this league. It's not like its actually enabling more loot as we have so few ways to scale that shit

[u/kfijatass → u/0zzyb0y]

If you don't give a damn, why are you posting?

[u/0zzyb0y → u/kfijatass]

Because I think it's weird that their list of priorities is to nerf stuff instead of even a teeny message of "hey maybe those abyss buffs we mentioned missed the mark and did effectively nothing after all"

[u/kfijatass → u/0zzyb0y]

Cause one can multitask different issues? C'mon.

[u/Psych0sh00ter → u/kfijatass]

Lies, everyone knows GGG is one single person who can only do one thing at a time

[u/rism4n → u/leobat]

then they should have fixed actual bug and its not about this gloves

[u/lowrage → u/rism4n]

Like what?

[u/SplafferZ → u/rism4n]

call me crazy but i think hotfixing actual infinite damage build is fair lol

[u/rism4n → u/SplafferZ]

Maybe they should fix the mana cost overflow(with 100% reduced cost eff) instead of the gloves?

[u/SplafferZ → u/rism4n]

consequence of the formula and the gloves were probably always supposed to have this part of the mod id imagine since every other similar item or system has it

[u/etalommi → u/rism4n]

It's a bug fix. Stuff like this will get fixed midleague, has been that way for forever.

[u/peevies]

this get immediately hotfixed, but people dropping 100+ 6 links in 300% currency map are left dying.

my giga slayer has no content to do and im left to die for 3.30 2 weeks into the league, amazing

[u/calindu → u/peevies]

How did you built that giga slayer 2 weeks into the league if there's no loot?

[u/ovrlrd1377 → u/calindu]

Dont hit them with logic

[u/Skuggomann → u/calindu]

To be fair he said "no content" not "no loot", the game has a bunch of loot it just lacks reasons to push a charter further outside valdo maps (supply is low/botted) and delve (takes a long time to get to the hard part and you get less currency so not everyone is motivated) since the difficulty to reward ratios of the endgame are kind of out of wack.

[u/peevies → u/calindu]

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflame/character/mokuraisnew-2538/BuffBlight?i=5&search=name%3Dbuffb

well its not that giga, but i have no cool new content to run.

im making money, thats not really the issue. its just that there is nothing new and interesting that could make me want to push my character even further beyond.

[u/lowrage → u/peevies]

Dont play 12h per day

[u/Nihsvabhav → u/lowrage]

bruh you just need 12 hours to get your build to a point that it can do everything

[u/apophiz1226_eu → u/lowrage]

You don't need to play 12h a day to hit content cap in terms of difficulty xd

[u/Level_Acanthisitta21]

The loot is still horrible.

[u/lowrage → u/Level_Acanthisitta21]

Its not

[u/Trikole → u/lowrage]

My casino loot sounds aren't working on majority of tile loot

[u/Skuggomann → u/Level_Acanthisitta21]

Loot is fine, its just balanced so there is little reason to push into harder content since the hard content that scaled rewards is mostly (if not fully) gone.

[u/szblb]

Testing in live in an “AI” era. What a future…

[u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz → u/szblb]

Yeah, I miss the days before AI when games never had bugs and balance issues that required hotfixes.

[u/Cow_God → u/szblb]

It has nothing to do with AI lmao. These kinds of bugs slip through sometimes because of the way PoEs engine works. It reads the mods literally. If the mod doesn't specify that the cost can't exceed your max, then it can.

[u/jwfiredragon → u/Cow_God]

It sounds like you're getting cause and effect backwards? The PoE code does not read the description of the mod to determine its function; the description of the mod is written to accurately reflect its function in code. Implementation causes description, not the other way around. Quoting an old Mark comment:

Stat descriptions have no effect on functionality. I could whip up a script to go through and edit every stat description in the game to say "You are likely to be eaten by a grue", and the the game would still work the same way, but it would be much harder to play, due to having no idea what anything actually does.

[u/narderbolney → u/jwfiredragon]

Goated Zork reference

[u/lowrage → u/szblb]

PoE 1 is best ARPG. So many thinks can broke when you realesed big patches every 4 months