Nope. >1 new League mechanic >3 old mechanics getting reworked (don't expect much lol) >SIX MONTHS worth of balance changes (which will still boil down to practically nothing) >The early game will be just as shit as always >The late game will be just as restricted in terms of build variety as always >Some new "chase" items attached to the Uber bosses
>stop buying yourself a 500$ character each season
Literally everyone ITT who complains about the game being too hard, most likely spends at least $100+ on RMT every league and never makes it out of yellow maps.
I would but Diablo 3 gets a new season soon and I'd rather play that for a single evening than play PoShit for one more fricking minute. F2P GAAS games NEVER AGAIN
You WILL kill Merveil
You WILL kill Vaal Oversoul
You WILL kill Dominus
You WILL kill Malachai
You WILL kill Kitava
You WILL kill The Brine King
You WILL kill Arakaali
You WILL kill Solaris
You WILL kill Lunaris
You WILL kill The Depraved Trinity
You WILL kill Kitava
I play with friends every league start and its comfy. We take our time. Atleast until we all go to bed, and then its every man for himself from then on
You WILL kill Merveil
You WILL kill Vaal Oversoul
You WILL kill Dominus
You WILL kill Malachai
You WILL kill Kitava
You WILL kill The Brine King
You WILL kill Arakaali
You WILL kill Solaris
You WILL kill Lunaris
You WILL kill The Depraved Trinity
You WILL kill Kitava
Am I alone enjoying working through the acts more than the mapping phase of the game?
Will it make game fun?
PoE is one of the least fun arpg's I've ever played.
Yes.
But with the exception of the improved melee sync expansion & early beta? Earlygame has been a wonky slog.
The problem is that combat is kinda fricking shit because its designed around absurd gem + item + skill tree modifier stacking.
And everything do to some degree play the same, since a side effect of skill gems is making things similar.
I can't believe I was happy when they added the new acts in. I thought it would fix the game. It turns out that doing the first four acts three times took way less time and was way less of a slog.
Why are people so caught up on having to do the campaign again, its not like all the content after that is mostly the same. The game is just a series of treadmills and people don't want to go on the first one.
None of this would be a problem if PoE were an actual game, focused on the story mode like any other game. Unfortunately PoE is hyper-focused on the autistic lategame grind, and you don't get access to any of the cool shit until AFTER you've finished the story, and so the story is just positioned as a chore you have to go through every single time.
>12 acts takes less time than 10 acts >has been playing since 10 acts were introduced and still takes 12+ hours to beat them every league
You might have a learning disability
>12 acts takes less time than 10 acts
It literally does, because the first four acts are considerably shorter than the second six acts. You dumb fricking moron.
OK, say he could do it in 6 hours. Is it fun now? Is that good? Yay! Best game!
2 years ago
Anonymous
bottom line here, shitter, is that if you're a shitter (you are a shitter), then you should stop whining about being a shitter and go play a shit game made for shitters like you.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm not the guy you were talking to and I haven't played PoE in years
When you play through the acts you get to experience PoE as it was. You get to slap a bunch of enemies and bosses and you gradually get stronger. Then you kill Kitava and the game becomes what it currently is. Trash.
>One evening to get through the acts >Then again because I'm not satisfied with my build >Then again when I get bored of my build >Then again because I want to try a new build >Then again when the season starts >Then again when I brick my build >Then again when...
You pretend like it's a one time thing a season.
Do you even build? >Go to Poe.Ninja >Look for highest dps >I did it mommy!
I refuse to follow a guide until I can clear endgame. If I get stuck, I roll anotha' one.
We on 4 anotha' ones. Furthest I've gotten so far, maybe one day I'll be as autistic as you! Tongue my anus gay.
>keeps making new characters because he's shit at the game >doesn't even bother to buy twink gear after the first one to cut leveling time by 90% >takes him an entire evening per character to level through acts >whines about being a moron
you're a special boy
One evening of incredible boredom and misery that could be spent doing anything more entertaining and rewarding. Get fricked, Chris, nobody likes your shit campaign.
Archnemesis modifiers might just be the worst goddamn thing in current season. It made leveling so much fricking worse than it already was >Hit enemy >Enemy reflects damage and inflicts bleed stacks on you >Helplessly watch as your HP drains to zero because you played the game
Great job, GGG. Nothing better than running into a modifier that just breaks the build.
Is there a flask to not get IceRing'd and gangbanged? A flask that stops those fricking lightning spires from appearing out of the ground immediately? Is there a flask that does makes you do damage to enemies with Crystal Skin, Sentinel, Gigatuan, and whatever the frick else?
Yeah, a flask fixes that. It couldn't possibly be so awful that everyone is running mageblood, stars, and some other bullshit all to avoid the bullshit.
Cyclone CoC Death Rite is the only shit anyone is running right now.
You've cracked the PoE code, anon. Slot your mandatory dash skill, and then just play the GGG-approved meta build that does so much damage you can just ignore the game entirely.
>Just get a mageblood moron
Yeah, eventually. Arch mods make leveling and before you get that 'mirror-tier counter play' feel like a dog shit.
This shit has been some of ggg's most unpopular stuff, and for good reason. But you'll shovel shit into your mouth and ask for seconds.
>waaah my butt hurts i can't clear yellow maps yet another league frick chris frick ggg frick poe >will definitely play next league and leave seething post on 4chins whenever topic comes up since im so experienced and versed
lmao
keep crying homosexual
2 years ago
Anonymous
>has to think about counterplay instead of just building for nine-digit DPS
Who's the real shitter
2 years ago
Anonymous
(you) obviously
2 years ago
Anonymous
Check you out. Shilling for a P2W online scam. Aren't you the clever boy? Who's a clever boy? You are! Yes you!
>Just get a mageblood moron
Yeah, eventually. Arch mods make leveling and before you get that 'mirror-tier counter play' feel like a dog shit.
This shit has been some of ggg's most unpopular stuff, and for good reason. But you'll shovel shit into your mouth and ask for seconds.
>Arch mods make leveling and before you get that 'mirror-tier counter play' feel like a dog shit.
Not really. They nerfed that a few days into the league, and it's not noticeable now. Plus, you shouldn't be fighting enemies while leveling anyway.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Hey folks, make sure to like and smash that subscribe button >It's Old Fat n' Sweaty here, with protips for new players! >Number 1, don't engage with the game at all! That's bad and costs you time!
Shame is, that's true. Just get fricking rid of the campaign or streamline the frick out of it. Just make it all maps at this point ffs.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I mean, yeah, I don't know what to tell you. I hate having to go through the campaign to, which is why I don't fricking waste time doing stupid, pointless shit like engaging with overtuned low-level enemies.
On top of the fact they keep saying that Archnem mods provide "clarity" so you can easily tell what mods a mob has at a glance when you mouse over.
Except.. it doesn't, cause the game doesn't tell you what those modifiers actually do. Sure, they have an obvious visual effect, but for example, Frostweaver gives a mob +50% Cold Res, 50% of Phys as Extra Cold, 25% of Phys converted to Cold, +50% Cold damage, AND Cold Exposure on hit. >A single common modifier gives the average magic monster extreme protection against your damage type, makes you take more Cold damage, AND does a combined total 87.5% MORE damage
I thought it would be easy to understand, until I kept dying to random bullshit. I had actually looked up the modifiers. There are some that literally do 7+ fricking things. That ain't fricking clarity. You've got to remember a paragraph to know what some of that shit even does.
If you look them up, they're easy enough to remember the summary of what they do.
Most of them just boil down to "More damage" plus a visual effect like the Toxic balls or elemental Bearer balls, Crystal spike piles, etc.
Although there are some standout ones that can frick you over if you don't know, like Bombardier giving Chain (which can chain off your traps/minions/totems back to you) or Executioner, which has that moronic Life/ES recover capped at 50% mod, which means if you don't kill it quick and it has any form of Degen, you're going to be stuck in one-shot territory unless you have a super strong build.
The coof fricked up their schedule. Though more realistically, they're just stuck. PoE is buried under ten years' worth of layers of debt in the form of shitty, degenerated systems and garbage patchwork fixes, that trying to "fix" the game with a sequel that doesn't start from a blank slate is a monumental undertaking bordering on impossible.
Should've just cannibalized their community with a standalone PoE 2 release, instead of the half-assed shit they're planning.
>GGG releases the NAME of a new expansion. Just a a name, literally nothing else. No other information.
>500 posts on Ganker of "LOL BUT HOW WILL THIS MAKE THE GAME FUN FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
homie it's a fricking expansion name. If the game isn't fun, that's literally your fault. You need to fix yourself, you are the broken, failed human being in the math equation here. The free video game releasing free content for you every month isn't the problem here.
>It's your fault for not wanting to put up with years of terrible changes and outright shit game direction.
But keep on defending their spiel, and all the shenanigans they pulled.
>If you know how to do anything but chaos-spam, you must buy exalts
Bro I can make more Ex in a day selling shit bases than you've ever seen in your life. You are literally incapable of understanding basic mechanics AND you RMT. I'm not the shit player here, you are.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>*running a tradebot 24/7
2 years ago
Anonymous
At this point, are you just shitposting about a game you've never actually played? I'm dead serious, how exactly do you see this video game if you are so bad at it that you think someone needs a fricking automated trade bot to...acquire basic amounts of currency?
Is your gameplay like, 2 months spent leveling to white maps, and then doing 1 map a day and calling it "grinding"?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Why wouldn't you use a trade bot? Trading fricking blows. What kind of autist would actually sit in front of his screen selling bases and flipping currency?
Surely they will make melee playable this time around. Just buff the damge or some shit. I just want to play sweep without having to get 50 ex worth of gear before it feels decent.
The only way they could make (true melee) playable is if it gets a 50% Less damage taken mod. But they won't ever do that because the options boil down to: >Something that won't work well >Something that becomes mandatory on all builds (and thus everything else has to find some way to "abuse" it) >Something that can't be "abused" such as a Less damage if you killed a mob with this skill recently mod printed directly on the gem, which wraps back around to not being useful
Walking wallets get hyped over nothing. Holy shit, you homosexuals are such consumer drones and don't even hide it anymore. What's revealed so far, the league title?
This patch they introduced a way to block specific mechanics you don't enjoy. The only non-blockable stuff is natty master missions and ancient shit like strongboxes and rogue exiles.
You don't even talk to people to trade, Anon. >Click the Whisper button and you get a generic copy/paste message >Paste in chat window >They invite you >Join >Teleport to their hideout >Wait for them to trade you >Put shit in window >Double check you aren't getting scammed >Accept >"Ty" >Leave >Leave party
I LITERALLY am incapable of comprehending what you people actually play the game like. Do you...like, actually use fricking Trade chat? Do you think that is part of playing Path of Exile? Do you fricking whisper fricking forum threads trying to haggle for random items and shit?
Black person. You go to Trade.PoE, you type in what you want, you copy the generated message with the listed price, you paste it into the chat window and hit enter. Then you just port to the person, do the trade with no talking required, and you have your shit.
I've literally never had a conversation with anyone while buying an item, because YOU LITERALLY ARENT SUPPOSED TO.
Why does he love burying what good aspects his game has under shit nobody likes?
People like crafting and running one type of content endlessly for some fricking reason, but trade is fricking miserable on purpose.
The fricking campaign is still mandatory on every character, when all the attention goes towards extending and improving the endgame.
Full ascendancy is mandatory, but you still have to go through four iterations of the long and boring lab on every character.
Why? Why does he love tedium so much?
The problem isn't the fact that the campaign is mandatory, it's the fact that it's shit. I'd have no problem with it if the map generator generated different feeling layouts and they added new types of enemies that made the game an actual challenge to beat.
As it stands now: the campaign is neither optional, nor fun to play because it lacks any challenge or variety, so it ends up being the worst of both worlds and is likely there solely because Chris Wilson is nostalgic for D2's structure.
>the campaign is neither optional, nor fun to play because it lacks any challenge or variety,
and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different? It would still be boring, it still wouldn't be challenging, it would just be a chore until you get to bosses
>and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different?
Because...then I wouldn't have to deal with the dumb D2-style quest-progression campaign plot shit and fight the same bosses in the same order and run through the same areas exactly the same way every time I want to just get to the actual game?
Because at least I would have a modicum of choice in what I actually get to do between 1 and 70?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different?
PoE's "fun" is derived from building your character and testing your build against an ever-increasing level of difficulty. The campaign is a mirror of this loop, except player's choices are limited and difficulty is low and can't be scaled up outside of GGG's rigid view of how difficulty should progress. So it's quite literally a worse, barebones version of the game that drags on for literally no reason other than...there's a story GGG would like you to experience? Who the frick knows at this point.
>oh sick I fight "big goat man" 10000x times in a row because it's the most optimal and least fun way to speedrun to 70!!!! >this is so much better!!!111!!11!!1!!!!!!
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yes, alternatively: don't make a game that only begins at level 70, moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>>this is so much better!!!111!!11!!1!!!!!!
Objectively, yes. It is better than literally just pretending to play through a campaign full of narrative quests and zones that add nothing to the experience.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>this is so much better!!!111!!11!!1!!!!!!
Yes
2 years ago
Anonymous
>game starts at mapping and the only content that gets added is for mapping >wonder why people hate the campaign and don't want to do it anymore after 1000+ hours.
2 years ago
Anonymous
all new league content has always been available right out of the gates of Lioneye's Watch you lying piece of shit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
if you do the league mechanic while leveling you are genuinely fricking moronic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
if you complain about having to "wait til maps" to interact with content that is available to you from the start of the game but you are actively refusing to participate in, you are genuinely fricking moronic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>and the only content that gets added is for mapping
...what? League content is in every zone from the beginning of the game. It always has been.
2 years ago
Anonymous
the league mechanic while leveling is largely ignored by basically everyone it DOESNT MATTER WHILE LEVELING, nothing fricking matters while doing the campaign the game does not start and the league mechanic does not truly start until you hit maps.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>people hate the campaign and don't want to do it anymore
that's super weird because the game somehow keeps getting more players each league, and the last time they lost players it had nothing to do with the acts.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>game somehow keeps getting more players each league
>and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different?
PoE's "fun" is derived from building your character and testing your build against an ever-increasing level of difficulty. The campaign is a mirror of this loop, except player's choices are limited and difficulty is low and can't be scaled up outside of GGG's rigid view of how difficulty should progress. So it's quite literally a worse, barebones version of the game that drags on for literally no reason other than...there's a story GGG would like you to experience? Who the frick knows at this point.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not to mention that the idea of having to slog through the same exact "quests" just to get your mandatory skill point books so you can have all of your leveling points is really fricking stupid and adds nothing to the process of creating new characters/builds after the first time.
I get if you want to force everyone to do it once per league, sure. But why the frick should I have to collect fricking skill books for a 4th or 5th time per league if I want to make a new character? Frick that shit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I get if you want to force everyone to do it once per league, sure.
I think even that's too much: just make make it mandatory once for each account, after that every character on that account can either play through the campaign OR start completing maps from lvl 1.
> so it ends up being the worst of both worlds and is likely there solely because Chris Wilson is nostalgic for D2's structure.
What's even worse is that it's not even GOOD like D2's. D2 might have 1-2 shitty acts (Act 2-3) but generally you can "rush" those in 2-4 hours and be done with them. Path is just shit from the get-go to do repeatedly.
True. I fricking hate PoE's story. It's slog when you need to clear it on second character too. But it's not so different from D2 where you need to clear normal, nightmare to reach hell. It's such pain too.
They could easily do it too. >"Leveling" Maps >Diablo 3's system where you can do shit anywhere with challenges for speed leveling >Endless Ledge style leveling, where it's a chain of zones that automatically reward you with quest points and Gems as you level up
>remove all power from gems/ascensions >move it to .00001% drops >now you have to spend 20 hours every league trading to just play the game
Genius. Surely using lame ass tricks to artificially boost player retention instead of making the game fun and less tedious won't have any adverse affects right?
Why are people so caught up on having to do the campaign again, its not like all the content after that is mostly the same. The game is just a series of treadmills and people don't want to go on the first one.
The endgame treadmills lead somewhere. I grind endgame content with purpose, I can see myself amassing currency, or progressing a crafting project, or accomplishing fricking something. Campaign is several hours for zero reward. It's not even a treadmill, it's like a shitty treadmill on the way to plug in the actual treadmill you want to use.
It's specifically because the campaign: >Has specific annoying walls just there to piss you off, like Merveil who has way too much HP just to slow the fight down >Most mechanics are intentionally gimped to provide less loot and have fewer available loot options or otherwise a mechanic isn't even in the leveling process, like how Metamorphs, Rituals, Harbingers, etc. are all exclusively in Maps and other mechanics like Incursion, Heist, Delirium, and Abyss specifically don't have some of their rewards available (Map room, nearly half the possible chest types, Cluster israeliteels that can roll certain notables, Stygian Vises), etc.
Merveil isn't a filter, just a huge slog. She has utterly bloated HP on a pretty boring fight that isn't particularly difficult. It's just long and dull.
because the story literally does not matter to most people and having to do the acts over and over is such a slog, i learned how to speedrun it from watching racers and even in the short amount of time it takes for me to complete it i still fricking hate it and it bores me to tears.
if you make like 5 characters a league it is, it's just a wall from the actual content of the game that they add too. if they had other ways of leveling it would be so much better.
bro it's 3-4 hours of literally nothing that matters until you actually get to play stuff that fricking matters.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>oh my god why do they even have levelling in the game? >it just wastes 3-4 hours of my time where literally none of it matters until you actually get to level 80 and do something that fricking matters >why do I even have to craft to get gear? it wastes so much time! chris should just mail me new gear every day that's better than what I currently have!
2 years ago
Anonymous
crafting gear does matter, leveling does matter, the process in which the leveling takes place does not matter and more importantly is boring and is required to do every time you want to play a new character, this isn't d2 where the story is also the content, the content that they add is always for mapping and more often than not you just ignore the league mechanic until you get to fricking maps.
PoE is probably the best game to play if you really need to take a nap. Game is so fricking boring until you are top tier geared and then it's pointless! Good shit.
Good lord, what is this? Like the sixth expansion? Seems like we get an expansion once a year at least, but I guess WoW is basically doing expansions every year.
BRO are they gonna make 2? what's the point of announcing 2 if they still gonna make shit for 1?
I wanna go back but it feels like a waste of time if 2 is gonna come out.
I don't even participate in Ganker threads about PoE anymore. It's just clearly 90% shitters whining because they never learn how to do the campaign faster and just b***h that 200 hours of gameplay on a character requires 5 hours of campaign gameplay. It's the same morons that think D3 letting you skip the campaign was a good thing. Don't even respond to them. Too many people flooded the game in 3.0 and try to impose their garbage taste on the genre. Don't engage with them. Just let them vomit their shit opinions out of their mouths and hide the threads.
>5 hours of campaign gameplay
5 insanely boring hours of pointless, unrewarding gameplay through an unchanging campaign that you've played dozens of times before. You need to be genuinely autistic to not mind this.
I'm not him but it's fun racing against it and trying to improve each time. It makes getting to maps actually mean something. It makes you want to protect your character more in Hardcore. It feels soulless just basically being given the end-game for nothing like in D3.
Autistic gatekeepers like you are why genres like RTS and ARPGs die over time. You're unwillingness to adapt to a bit more casual fanbase ends in your game dying. Some of us have lives. We don't want to sacrifice every second of free time we have to enjoy a game. Move on to something else if you can't adapt to change.
i would rather have a great game for 1 year than a game go to shit and live for another 10 years as a casualized piece of garbage infested by literal morons.
>PoE >steadily gaining players every league >not dying.
Black person what? frick off, i have a life too and that means sometimes i dont get to play as much as i would like to. That doesnt mean i want them to ruin the game for me or anyone else. you are an actual Black person please consider killing yourself you selfish chimp. you fricking move on to something else and i will continue playing my game that doesnt have moronic fricking ideas like yours.
Either you are fairly new, or you are coping hard with the fact that the campaign is a glorified tutorial and unnecessary time tax. Endless delve and heist have shown that there are alternatives, but it would render ggg's endeavour of creating a new campaign obsolete. And homosexuals can't feel high and mighty over people with brains.
Casuals simply come late to the finish line. It's still an unnecessary time tax. And you prove his point by turning into that homosexual with no skill and too much time on your hand. The acts are as engaging as an idle game.
You're right that 5 hours is nothing compared to what you get in the endgame.
I do wish you could skip the campaign on subsequent characters if you've already done it that league. I'm fine with the initial run through, I usually play with friends for that so its not that bad, but subsequent runs where I've got leveling uniques and gear and I'm just brainlessly spamming middle mouse and right click (mobility and main skill) is just a waste of time.
>all these shitters complaining about acts
learn to speedrun them, kiddos. there are people who literally beat endgame pinnacle bosses in HCSSF in under 48 hours. you don't have to be as good as they are, but acts are literally fricking nothing and can be zoomed in less than 4 hours on a fresh leaguestart if you aren't moronic.
reached maps once, immediatly lost all interest because i felt like my build was probably shit and what's the point to grind more after beating the game. what's the goal of maps?
>what's the goal of maps?
to progress through the endgame storyline and defeat whatever the current pinnacle bosses are, and provide a vast amount of variety to the endgame in general as opposed to running meph/chaos sanc/whatever 500x a night like a legit autismo.
Autistically tweaking your character to be more and more efficient so you can do harder and more maps faster so you can make currency so you can make a more expensive build that can tackle the hardest content and be even more efficient in maps.
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds
Note that its late in the league and most people are using gear worth multiple mirrors now, so either look at SSF builds or use the time machine feature and go back to week 1.
I'd build it myself and check the poe.ninja heatmap a couple of days in. You can adjust then. And get some ideas for unique items and other gear that way. Kind regards from a doomer.
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds
Note that its late in the league and most people are using gear worth multiple mirrors now, so either look at SSF builds or use the time machine feature and go back to week 1.
I'd build it myself and check the poe.ninja heatmap a couple of days in. You can adjust then. And get some ideas for unique items and other gear that way. Kind regards from a doomer.
why do filterbrains latch onto PoE so hard when it's been dumbed down time and time again for zoomers who want to be able to pay their way to the highest bosses?
You can't fool me. I've noticed over the last 2 years how each new league gets less hype. Used to be that everyone always shat on the current and previous leagues but wait for the new one. Now no one even cares about the new leagues anymore OR shits on previous ones. It's dead.
You know what the fundamental problem with this game is, other than the scammy always online bullshit? If you don't use the approved builds, you will get punished. Hard. The game actually punished experimentation. And that is terrible game design, doubly so for an aRPG. Because experimentation is what it's all about. Experimentation is the fun. Without it, you just have a slog.
your "build" is just some random shit slapped together without any synergy or thought behind it
thats why you struggle to even regular map bosses let alone real content
your experimentation is >"why do i have to spend so many regret orbs just to figure out how much %hp i should have to stop white mobs from oneshotting me"
and after still getting oneshotted, you quit and go cry about your miserable experience online.
game has plenty of build variety and crutches for morons yet you still can't succeed at it.
you quite literally have too low iq to enjoy such complex game, its okay, not every game is for everyone, go play some paper or diablo immortal or whatever
Take a deep breath. read what you just wrote and tell me you're not a gambling addict with a straight face. Guaranteed, you'll never admit how much money you've thrown at this game. Your obsessive aggression, inept way of creating a straw man and just the overarching sloppy blowjob you're giving GGG is proof of that. You're a legitimate loser. Which is why I am at odds with this game. It's a loser game for losers. Enjoy paying for stash space.
Anon, you're defending the fact that you're too moronic to understand the basic mechanics of a free video game, by claiming that people who are better than you are addicted to gambling and spend money.
Would it be better that your decisions matter less?
That you can respec and save your doomed character easier?
Or that the game is just easier overall?
>Scammy always online
Ah yes, a game with a connection to a multiplayer server is somehow...scamming you. Out of something. No one knows what, but somehow it is.
>If you don't use the approved builds
Bruh. You just get the appropriate levels of defense. That's it. Any skill, any gear, any build will work. You've NEVER EVEN FINISHED THE CAMPAIGN, so what the frick are you talking about "approved builds to play". Bro you've never even come close to having a "build", you don't even know what the res cap is.
No, neets need it to tell themselves that they achieved something in life when they grinded through it in one sitting. You can't take that away from them.
I just want to play single player PoE, and no, not SSF, the only thing that does is put you in a different ladder and make you not able to trade, there's nothing inherently changed in the core game by ticking that box, you're just playing an inferior version of the intended game. Also this game being "F2P" is a fricking scam, you have to pay way more than the game's worth to actually fully enjoy it. Thia could've been a great D2 successor with an okay price tag and an actual solo experience, but then they had to go and do the exact opposite, it works for them i guess.
Biggest problem with PoE is the devs refusal to add a single QoL feature because >"YOU NEED TO FEEL THE WEIGHT OF EACH CLIP"
or >"WHY DON'T WE JUST GIVE YOU EVERYTHING FOR FREE AND EMAIL YOU A SPREADSHEET SAYING HOW GREAT YOUR GEAR IS EVERY DAY?"
I respect Chris' autistic devotion to his "vision" but I fricking hate it at the same time.
>the devs refusal to add a single QoL feature because
What QOL do you think they haven't been adding? You can't name any, because you're moronic, so it's likely you haven't played the game in 5 years.
thought this was just the reveal, did they finally revert the 3.15 nerfs that killed all build diversity and any reason to play the game? can i fricking turn off bloom now? somehow i doubt the game is saved, looks like another cash grab smoke and mirrors waste of time "expansion" league while the game remains in its shitty unplayable 3.15-and-onward state.
It's the profile of a zealous homosexual who came late to the show and overcompensates by playing it 90 hours a week, and telling you that the campaign is not a timetax.
I'm not sure what this picture is supposed to show? Someone proud of...killing Merveil in 2020? Someone proud of Steam achievements or having 2k hours played? You might as well show off your fricking sticker collection.
i hate that elementalist is a fricking golemancer for every fricking build
i hate that you can't specialize in a minion and have to run fricking carrion golem zombies spectres and whatever the frick at the same time i just want to do 1 without spending 921837183 currency
You're underestimating the Diablo name
Look at Immortal. Shitty mobile game yet it, what, profited $100m in a month or two?
I don't think GGG can compete with D4 outright, but maybe they can get their release in between the inevitable D4 beta (which'll whet the publics appetite for ARPGs) and its release.
>saved
Nerfs from 3.15 still in effect? Did they revert the Archnemesis mod integration into the core game? Did they finally buff melee to the point where it's worth giving any shits about?
Melee can do all but Uber Pinnacles
Slow as shit, admittedly, but even as cancerous as Sentinel balancing was I was able to do it with a Jugg/Berserker/Slayer Cyclone Ascendant
characters that league can start at Lv 68
Sorry, anon. That's a slipperly slope that leads to casualization.
You need to feel the weight of each click when doing every act with every character.
Also we're buffing all damage done by every enemy in each act by 1000% and increasing their movement and attack speed by 200%.
Finally, all player defenses and movement speed have been halved.
Enjoy the new league.
I mean I'm done with acts in a few hours anyway, doesn't really matter to me. I'd just like to more easily be able to try new builds.
Fricking sucks when you make something really cool in PoB and then you need to stomach 2-4h of acts, depending on how focused you are, only for it to suck ass like one of my builds last league.
You were complaining that you have to level through the acts to try your build
either way you have to level to 68
so I don't see what you're complaining about
2 years ago
Anonymous
I suggested new character starting in maps at 68 after you've done it once that league.
There'd be no leveling.
>shills defend fricking acts
It's illogical. Why are they doing this? Playing maps from level 1 let you do old league content. Leagues are full of trash uniques that are good for low level characters. It's good for character building
>for me its easy. when you do all acts on 1 character every new character starts at level 60 at white maps and you only need uber lab fornew charact
This would honestly solve it. If you've completed the game once, why be forced to re-run the ho-hum campaign that's already too bloated (I remember it being like 3-4 acts in 2013?) to do the end-game shit.
I mean even Ubisoft of all fricking people let you "boost" your party to do the expansion/end-game shit if that's what you want to do. Why can't GGG do that?
the reason ggg will never do this is because the early league has a period of ladder competition and meta/economy establishment that would be heavily disfavourably disrupted by the ability to instantly create characters in maps, and by the time all of that settles several weeks into league there are so few people left who would benefit or care that it would be a waste of time to change their entire system to implement in the first place.
i mean the new character would start at white maps at level 60 but totally naked with no items, so you couldn't get any advantage
you would still need to farm maps/items on your main char
>Follow a guide simulator
No thanks, not until they make it less punishing to people who want to play around with builds and not just follow the flavor of the month.
Is it going to make the early game not shit?
Nope.
>1 new League mechanic
>3 old mechanics getting reworked (don't expect much lol)
>SIX MONTHS worth of balance changes (which will still boil down to practically nothing)
>The early game will be just as shit as always
>The late game will be just as restricted in terms of build variety as always
>Some new "chase" items attached to the Uber bosses
how does this 'save' path of exile?
sounds like all the crap that made me quit in the first place
It doesn't, OP is an insufferable "antidoomspammer."
OP is also an insufferable "doomspammer."
He plays both sides for attention.
so he's a gay as usual?
Yes.
here's a classic
>Poe late game
>ever restricted in term of builds
stop buying yourself a 500$ character each season
>stop buying yourself a 500$ character each season
Literally everyone ITT who complains about the game being too hard, most likely spends at least $100+ on RMT every league and never makes it out of yellow maps.
I would but Diablo 3 gets a new season soon and I'd rather play that for a single evening than play PoShit for one more fricking minute. F2P GAAS games NEVER AGAIN
Shit game for severely autistic people with completely burned out dopamine receptors
>have to go through the ten shitty acts AGAIN
ughhhhh
Noo haha why are you grunting, they increased the """""challenge""""" to make it much more enjoyable!
You WILL kill Merveil
You WILL kill Vaal Oversoul
You WILL kill Dominus
You WILL kill Malachai
You WILL kill Kitava
You WILL kill The Brine King
You WILL kill Arakaali
You WILL kill Solaris
You WILL kill Lunaris
You WILL kill The Depraved Trinity
You WILL kill Kitava
You fricked one of those up, Anon.
I'll leave it up to you to figure out which one.
Ahahahahahahahah I VILL NOT BECAVSE I HAVEN'T PLAYED THIS DOGSHIT FOR YEARS
I will do all of the above in 3.5 hours and start maps while shitters are still plodding through act 3 like the morons they are
I play with friends every league start and its comfy. We take our time. Atleast until we all go to bed, and then its every man for himself from then on
You vill play through the story again and you vill be happy
Am I alone enjoying working through the acts more than the mapping phase of the game?
Yes.
But with the exception of the improved melee sync expansion & early beta? Earlygame has been a wonky slog.
The problem is that combat is kinda fricking shit because its designed around absurd gem + item + skill tree modifier stacking.
And everything do to some degree play the same, since a side effect of skill gems is making things similar.
I can't believe I was happy when they added the new acts in. I thought it would fix the game. It turns out that doing the first four acts three times took way less time and was way less of a slog.
None of this would be a problem if PoE were an actual game, focused on the story mode like any other game. Unfortunately PoE is hyper-focused on the autistic lategame grind, and you don't get access to any of the cool shit until AFTER you've finished the story, and so the story is just positioned as a chore you have to go through every single time.
>12 acts takes less time than 10 acts
>has been playing since 10 acts were introduced and still takes 12+ hours to beat them every league
You might have a learning disability
>12 acts takes less time than 10 acts
It literally does, because the first four acts are considerably shorter than the second six acts. You dumb fricking moron.
imagine tattling on yourself as a shitter who still doesn't know how to run 10 acts after all these years.
OK, say he could do it in 6 hours. Is it fun now? Is that good? Yay! Best game!
bottom line here, shitter, is that if you're a shitter (you are a shitter), then you should stop whining about being a shitter and go play a shit game made for shitters like you.
I'm not the guy you were talking to and I haven't played PoE in years
>oh no, I have to spend 4 hours doing this content...
>my life is fricking ruined I'm going to kill chris wilson reeeeeeeeeee
>that dramatic shift in tone and writing post-dominus
At this point the acts are the most fun part of the game. They ruined endgame.
explain
When you play through the acts you get to experience PoE as it was. You get to slap a bunch of enemies and bosses and you gradually get stronger. Then you kill Kitava and the game becomes what it currently is. Trash.
Kind of sounds exactly what maps are except they're faster
The pacing and scaling is entirely different and you start having to interact with the terrible endgame side systems.
oh that's fair, side system bloat is fricking atrocious and they need to get rid of half of them
the atlas tree blocking helped a lot with this
Personally I hope they add more powercreep for the peak autists and then punish all the normal players for it later
itt
low iq morons crying about being filtered
>oh no one evening to get through acts
>One evening to get through the acts
>Then again because I'm not satisfied with my build
>Then again when I get bored of my build
>Then again because I want to try a new build
>Then again when the season starts
>Then again when I brick my build
>Then again when...
You pretend like it's a one time thing a season.
>he doesn't tweak his build to suit his needs and instead rolls 10 chars with a 1ex budget
you're just Black personing stupid.
to be fair trading for rares worth more than like 50c is fricking cancer
Do you even build?
>Go to Poe.Ninja
>Look for highest dps
>I did it mommy!
I refuse to follow a guide until I can clear endgame. If I get stuck, I roll anotha' one.
We on 4 anotha' ones. Furthest I've gotten so far, maybe one day I'll be as autistic as you! Tongue my anus gay.
>keeps making new characters because he's shit at the game
>doesn't even bother to buy twink gear after the first one to cut leveling time by 90%
>takes him an entire evening per character to level through acts
>whines about being a moron
you're a special boy
One evening of incredible boredom and misery that could be spent doing anything more entertaining and rewarding. Get fricked, Chris, nobody likes your shit campaign.
just get drunk bro
oh boy another expac where i have to only use my very hyper specific build where i cast maybe one skill and just auto attack
Archnemesis modifiers might just be the worst goddamn thing in current season. It made leveling so much fricking worse than it already was
>Hit enemy
>Enemy reflects damage and inflicts bleed stacks on you
>Helplessly watch as your HP drains to zero because you played the game
Great job, GGG. Nothing better than running into a modifier that just breaks the build.
you're supposed to play traps so you can ignore the reflect damage, anon. get with the times and play the GGG-approved builds already.
get bleed immunity flask you moron, corrupted blood existed since forever
Is there a flask to not get IceRing'd and gangbanged? A flask that stops those fricking lightning spires from appearing out of the ground immediately? Is there a flask that does makes you do damage to enemies with Crystal Skin, Sentinel, Gigatuan, and whatever the frick else?
Yeah, a flask fixes that. It couldn't possibly be so awful that everyone is running mageblood, stars, and some other bullshit all to avoid the bullshit.
Cyclone CoC Death Rite is the only shit anyone is running right now.
Flame Dash.
More damage and AoE/Chains.
More damage, more damage, more damage, more damage.
You've cracked the PoE code, anon. Slot your mandatory dash skill, and then just play the GGG-approved meta build that does so much damage you can just ignore the game entirely.
I agree it's fricking stupid. I'm just answering the questions.
lighting spires are legit shit
everything else has a counter play
git gud low iq moron
The only relevant counterplay PoE has to anything is to put another 10 mil DPS on the pile until mechanics cease to matter.
>waaah my butt hurts i can't clear yellow maps yet another league frick chris frick ggg frick poe
>will definitely play next league and leave seething post on 4chins whenever topic comes up since im so experienced and versed
lmao
keep crying homosexual
>has to think about counterplay instead of just building for nine-digit DPS
Who's the real shitter
(you) obviously
Check you out. Shilling for a P2W online scam. Aren't you the clever boy? Who's a clever boy? You are! Yes you!
>Just get a mageblood moron
Yeah, eventually. Arch mods make leveling and before you get that 'mirror-tier counter play' feel like a dog shit.
This shit has been some of ggg's most unpopular stuff, and for good reason. But you'll shovel shit into your mouth and ask for seconds.
>Arch mods make leveling and before you get that 'mirror-tier counter play' feel like a dog shit.
Not really. They nerfed that a few days into the league, and it's not noticeable now. Plus, you shouldn't be fighting enemies while leveling anyway.
>Hey folks, make sure to like and smash that subscribe button
>It's Old Fat n' Sweaty here, with protips for new players!
>Number 1, don't engage with the game at all! That's bad and costs you time!
Shame is, that's true. Just get fricking rid of the campaign or streamline the frick out of it. Just make it all maps at this point ffs.
I mean, yeah, I don't know what to tell you. I hate having to go through the campaign to, which is why I don't fricking waste time doing stupid, pointless shit like engaging with overtuned low-level enemies.
It's the most basic shit you can possible do.
On top of the fact they keep saying that Archnem mods provide "clarity" so you can easily tell what mods a mob has at a glance when you mouse over.
Except.. it doesn't, cause the game doesn't tell you what those modifiers actually do. Sure, they have an obvious visual effect, but for example, Frostweaver gives a mob +50% Cold Res, 50% of Phys as Extra Cold, 25% of Phys converted to Cold, +50% Cold damage, AND Cold Exposure on hit.
>A single common modifier gives the average magic monster extreme protection against your damage type, makes you take more Cold damage, AND does a combined total 87.5% MORE damage
I thought it would be easy to understand, until I kept dying to random bullshit. I had actually looked up the modifiers. There are some that literally do 7+ fricking things. That ain't fricking clarity. You've got to remember a paragraph to know what some of that shit even does.
If you look them up, they're easy enough to remember the summary of what they do.
Most of them just boil down to "More damage" plus a visual effect like the Toxic balls or elemental Bearer balls, Crystal spike piles, etc.
Although there are some standout ones that can frick you over if you don't know, like Bombardier giving Chain (which can chain off your traps/minions/totems back to you) or Executioner, which has that moronic Life/ES recover capped at 50% mod, which means if you don't kill it quick and it has any form of Degen, you're going to be stuck in one-shot territory unless you have a super strong build.
>That shit does what again?
>Die
>Oh, I remember now.
That's one way to learn I suppose.
bro ur staunching?
Bro your
BRO YOUR FLASKS BRO THE FLASKS
>still no AH
what's the fricking point?
>balance game completely around trade
>make sure your trade system is a soul-witheringly cumbersome as possible
It's the GGG way.
Will it make game fun?
PoE is one of the least fun arpg's I've ever played.
No.
arch-nemesis mobs still roaming free ?
Wasn't 2 supposed to be released by now? What happened?
2 is a vaporware
The coof fricked up their schedule. Though more realistically, they're just stuck. PoE is buried under ten years' worth of layers of debt in the form of shitty, degenerated systems and garbage patchwork fixes, that trying to "fix" the game with a sequel that doesn't start from a blank slate is a monumental undertaking bordering on impossible.
Should've just cannibalized their community with a standalone PoE 2 release, instead of the half-assed shit they're planning.
covid destroyed plans for who knows how many games at this point
Which is doubly hilarious when they outright said:
>The switch to working from home didn't negatively affect us
>GGG releases the NAME of a new expansion. Just a a name, literally nothing else. No other information.
>500 posts on Ganker of "LOL BUT HOW WILL THIS MAKE THE GAME FUN FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
homie it's a fricking expansion name. If the game isn't fun, that's literally your fault. You need to fix yourself, you are the broken, failed human being in the math equation here. The free video game releasing free content for you every month isn't the problem here.
>It's your fault for not wanting to put up with years of terrible changes and outright shit game direction.
But keep on defending their spiel, and all the shenanigans they pulled.
I just hope they fix game instead of making more broken shit.
Who cares that it's free if it's shit.
how the frick people get 14k ES?
You...get gear that stacks ES on it? Black person how the frick do you think?
I'm crafting and using pob to test builds, and i get nowhere near.
>I'm crafting
My dude you haven't crafted a thing in your life, shut the frick up. You don't even know what crafting means.
>GRRR I'M A CRAFTER!
>YEAAAHHH CRAFTING!!
>I BUY EXALTS FROM 3RD PARTY SITES
>I'M PRO CRAFTER GRRR
>he doesn't just buy exalts instead of supporter packs
NGMI
Same supplier. Not paying or playing is the only way to win.
>If you know how to do anything but chaos-spam, you must buy exalts
Bro I can make more Ex in a day selling shit bases than you've ever seen in your life. You are literally incapable of understanding basic mechanics AND you RMT. I'm not the shit player here, you are.
>*running a tradebot 24/7
At this point, are you just shitposting about a game you've never actually played? I'm dead serious, how exactly do you see this video game if you are so bad at it that you think someone needs a fricking automated trade bot to...acquire basic amounts of currency?
Is your gameplay like, 2 months spent leveling to white maps, and then doing 1 map a day and calling it "grinding"?
Why wouldn't you use a trade bot? Trading fricking blows. What kind of autist would actually sit in front of his screen selling bases and flipping currency?
stack flat es on gear
have some sort of addition flat stacking through stats like int
get %es and global defenses
maybe aura effect on top
Surely they will make melee playable this time around. Just buff the damge or some shit. I just want to play sweep without having to get 50 ex worth of gear before it feels decent.
Even if they buff the damage, melee will still be completely unviable for endgame bosses because going into melee range = instant death.
The only way they could make (true melee) playable is if it gets a 50% Less damage taken mod. But they won't ever do that because the options boil down to:
>Something that won't work well
>Something that becomes mandatory on all builds (and thus everything else has to find some way to "abuse" it)
>Something that can't be "abused" such as a Less damage if you killed a mob with this skill recently mod printed directly on the gem, which wraps back around to not being useful
After the last league im done. They had me hooked on the dopamine rush of 12/24/36 challenges but the i dont like the rework.
two more weeks and poe is saved
3 weeks, Anon.
The League starts a week and a day after the trailer.
Also, it's not going to save shit.
Walking wallets get hyped over nothing. Holy shit, you homosexuals are such consumer drones and don't even hide it anymore. What's revealed so far, the league title?
so, they removed all the league mechanic bloat?
Nope!
This patch they introduced a way to block specific mechanics you don't enjoy. The only non-blockable stuff is natty master missions and ancient shit like strongboxes and rogue exiles.
Is it still owned by chinks?
please give us an auction house i have severe social autism and cant talk to people for trades
You don't even talk to people to trade, Anon.
>Click the Whisper button and you get a generic copy/paste message
>Paste in chat window
>They invite you
>Join
>Teleport to their hideout
>Wait for them to trade you
>Put shit in window
>Double check you aren't getting scammed
>Accept
>"Ty"
>Leave
>Leave party
I spend 1-2 hours prepping myself to make a phone call. Making a trade in PoE is less social interaction than just seeing other people in town.
for starters they are not people they use a bot for trading while they are in their jobs
>whisper russian bot (for some reason it's always a shadow)
>accept party join hideout
>cyka blyat 2c?
>accept trade
>leave
c'mon it's not that hard
I LITERALLY am incapable of comprehending what you people actually play the game like. Do you...like, actually use fricking Trade chat? Do you think that is part of playing Path of Exile? Do you fricking whisper fricking forum threads trying to haggle for random items and shit?
Black person. You go to Trade.PoE, you type in what you want, you copy the generated message with the listed price, you paste it into the chat window and hit enter. Then you just port to the person, do the trade with no talking required, and you have your shit.
I've literally never had a conversation with anyone while buying an item, because YOU LITERALLY ARENT SUPPOSED TO.
WHAT THE FRICK GAME ARE YOU PEOPLE PLAYING
You forgot the part where you have to whisper 20 different people before you even get a single response of "sold"
>make campaign optional
there, i fixed it
Die.
Why does he love burying what good aspects his game has under shit nobody likes?
People like crafting and running one type of content endlessly for some fricking reason, but trade is fricking miserable on purpose.
The fricking campaign is still mandatory on every character, when all the attention goes towards extending and improving the endgame.
Full ascendancy is mandatory, but you still have to go through four iterations of the long and boring lab on every character.
Why? Why does he love tedium so much?
The problem isn't the fact that the campaign is mandatory, it's the fact that it's shit. I'd have no problem with it if the map generator generated different feeling layouts and they added new types of enemies that made the game an actual challenge to beat.
As it stands now: the campaign is neither optional, nor fun to play because it lacks any challenge or variety, so it ends up being the worst of both worlds and is likely there solely because Chris Wilson is nostalgic for D2's structure.
>the campaign is neither optional, nor fun to play because it lacks any challenge or variety,
and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different? It would still be boring, it still wouldn't be challenging, it would just be a chore until you get to bosses
>and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different?
Because...then I wouldn't have to deal with the dumb D2-style quest-progression campaign plot shit and fight the same bosses in the same order and run through the same areas exactly the same way every time I want to just get to the actual game?
Because at least I would have a modicum of choice in what I actually get to do between 1 and 70?
>oh sick I fight "big goat man" 10000x times in a row because it's the most optimal and least fun way to speedrun to 70!!!!
>this is so much better!!!111!!11!!1!!!!!!
Yes, alternatively: don't make a game that only begins at level 70, moron.
>>this is so much better!!!111!!11!!1!!!!!!
Objectively, yes. It is better than literally just pretending to play through a campaign full of narrative quests and zones that add nothing to the experience.
>this is so much better!!!111!!11!!1!!!!!!
Yes
>game starts at mapping and the only content that gets added is for mapping
>wonder why people hate the campaign and don't want to do it anymore after 1000+ hours.
all new league content has always been available right out of the gates of Lioneye's Watch you lying piece of shit.
if you do the league mechanic while leveling you are genuinely fricking moronic.
if you complain about having to "wait til maps" to interact with content that is available to you from the start of the game but you are actively refusing to participate in, you are genuinely fricking moronic.
>and the only content that gets added is for mapping
...what? League content is in every zone from the beginning of the game. It always has been.
the league mechanic while leveling is largely ignored by basically everyone it DOESNT MATTER WHILE LEVELING, nothing fricking matters while doing the campaign the game does not start and the league mechanic does not truly start until you hit maps.
>people hate the campaign and don't want to do it anymore
that's super weird because the game somehow keeps getting more players each league, and the last time they lost players it had nothing to do with the acts.
>game somehow keeps getting more players each league
>and how would running maps from 1-70 be any different?
PoE's "fun" is derived from building your character and testing your build against an ever-increasing level of difficulty. The campaign is a mirror of this loop, except player's choices are limited and difficulty is low and can't be scaled up outside of GGG's rigid view of how difficulty should progress. So it's quite literally a worse, barebones version of the game that drags on for literally no reason other than...there's a story GGG would like you to experience? Who the frick knows at this point.
Not to mention that the idea of having to slog through the same exact "quests" just to get your mandatory skill point books so you can have all of your leveling points is really fricking stupid and adds nothing to the process of creating new characters/builds after the first time.
I get if you want to force everyone to do it once per league, sure. But why the frick should I have to collect fricking skill books for a 4th or 5th time per league if I want to make a new character? Frick that shit.
>I get if you want to force everyone to do it once per league, sure.
I think even that's too much: just make make it mandatory once for each account, after that every character on that account can either play through the campaign OR start completing maps from lvl 1.
> so it ends up being the worst of both worlds and is likely there solely because Chris Wilson is nostalgic for D2's structure.
What's even worse is that it's not even GOOD like D2's. D2 might have 1-2 shitty acts (Act 2-3) but generally you can "rush" those in 2-4 hours and be done with them. Path is just shit from the get-go to do repeatedly.
True. I fricking hate PoE's story. It's slog when you need to clear it on second character too. But it's not so different from D2 where you need to clear normal, nightmare to reach hell. It's such pain too.
They could easily do it too.
>"Leveling" Maps
>Diablo 3's system where you can do shit anywhere with challenges for speed leveling
>Endless Ledge style leveling, where it's a chain of zones that automatically reward you with quest points and Gems as you level up
>diablo refugees mad that the game doesn't let them skip all grind and give endgame gear sets for free so they actually have to play for once
>remove all power from gems/ascensions
>move it to .00001% drops
>now you have to spend 20 hours every league trading to just play the game
Genius. Surely using lame ass tricks to artificially boost player retention instead of making the game fun and less tedious won't have any adverse affects right?
>will have to build RF again because lab is pure cancer
*sigh*
Why are people so caught up on having to do the campaign again, its not like all the content after that is mostly the same. The game is just a series of treadmills and people don't want to go on the first one.
The endgame treadmills lead somewhere. I grind endgame content with purpose, I can see myself amassing currency, or progressing a crafting project, or accomplishing fricking something. Campaign is several hours for zero reward. It's not even a treadmill, it's like a shitty treadmill on the way to plug in the actual treadmill you want to use.
It's specifically because the campaign:
>Has specific annoying walls just there to piss you off, like Merveil who has way too much HP just to slow the fight down
>Most mechanics are intentionally gimped to provide less loot and have fewer available loot options or otherwise a mechanic isn't even in the leveling process, like how Metamorphs, Rituals, Harbingers, etc. are all exclusively in Maps and other mechanics like Incursion, Heist, Delirium, and Abyss specifically don't have some of their rewards available (Map room, nearly half the possible chest types, Cluster israeliteels that can roll certain notables, Stygian Vises), etc.
>unironically filtered by merveil
the absolute state of Gankereddit
>I don't like something = FILTERED
The absolute state of your ass.
Merveil isn't a filter, just a huge slog. She has utterly bloated HP on a pretty boring fight that isn't particularly difficult. It's just long and dull.
because the story literally does not matter to most people and having to do the acts over and over is such a slog, i learned how to speedrun it from watching racers and even in the short amount of time it takes for me to complete it i still fricking hate it and it bores me to tears.
>is such a slog
it really isn't
if you make like 5 characters a league it is, it's just a wall from the actual content of the game that they add too. if they had other ways of leveling it would be so much better.
It literally takes a few hours, it's no where near as bad as you think it is
bro it's 3-4 hours of literally nothing that matters until you actually get to play stuff that fricking matters.
>oh my god why do they even have levelling in the game?
>it just wastes 3-4 hours of my time where literally none of it matters until you actually get to level 80 and do something that fricking matters
>why do I even have to craft to get gear? it wastes so much time! chris should just mail me new gear every day that's better than what I currently have!
crafting gear does matter, leveling does matter, the process in which the leveling takes place does not matter and more importantly is boring and is required to do every time you want to play a new character, this isn't d2 where the story is also the content, the content that they add is always for mapping and more often than not you just ignore the league mechanic until you get to fricking maps.
They've stopped balancing the game around 4 builds and catering to the steamer whales? Lit.
ssfhc is the only way to play it, if you trade it means you suck.
PoE is probably the best game to play if you really need to take a nap. Game is so fricking boring until you are top tier geared and then it's pointless! Good shit.
>She plays trade league
big oof!
>Another PoE expansion
Good lord, what is this? Like the sixth expansion? Seems like we get an expansion once a year at least, but I guess WoW is basically doing expansions every year.
BRO are they gonna make 2? what's the point of announcing 2 if they still gonna make shit for 1?
I wanna go back but it feels like a waste of time if 2 is gonna come out.
Are the fricking lightning clones gone yet? Did they at least make them actually noticeable?
>play free 1PM aug 19
isn't.. isn't it free to play all the time?
I don't even participate in Ganker threads about PoE anymore. It's just clearly 90% shitters whining because they never learn how to do the campaign faster and just b***h that 200 hours of gameplay on a character requires 5 hours of campaign gameplay. It's the same morons that think D3 letting you skip the campaign was a good thing. Don't even respond to them. Too many people flooded the game in 3.0 and try to impose their garbage taste on the genre. Don't engage with them. Just let them vomit their shit opinions out of their mouths and hide the threads.
>5 hours of campaign gameplay
5 insanely boring hours of pointless, unrewarding gameplay through an unchanging campaign that you've played dozens of times before. You need to be genuinely autistic to not mind this.
I'm not him but it's fun racing against it and trying to improve each time. It makes getting to maps actually mean something. It makes you want to protect your character more in Hardcore. It feels soulless just basically being given the end-game for nothing like in D3.
Autistic gatekeepers like you are why genres like RTS and ARPGs die over time. You're unwillingness to adapt to a bit more casual fanbase ends in your game dying. Some of us have lives. We don't want to sacrifice every second of free time we have to enjoy a game. Move on to something else if you can't adapt to change.
i would rather have a great game for 1 year than a game go to shit and live for another 10 years as a casualized piece of garbage infested by literal morons.
>gatekeepers
go back
>PoE
>steadily gaining players every league
>not dying.
Black person what? frick off, i have a life too and that means sometimes i dont get to play as much as i would like to. That doesnt mean i want them to ruin the game for me or anyone else. you are an actual Black person please consider killing yourself you selfish chimp. you fricking move on to something else and i will continue playing my game that doesnt have moronic fricking ideas like yours.
Casual fans have lots of options available.
Frick off we're full.
Either you are fairly new, or you are coping hard with the fact that the campaign is a glorified tutorial and unnecessary time tax. Endless delve and heist have shown that there are alternatives, but it would render ggg's endeavour of creating a new campaign obsolete. And homosexuals can't feel high and mighty over people with brains.
>unnecessary time tax.
aka a casual filter doing its job and driving the normgroids back to diablo 3.
Casuals simply come late to the finish line. It's still an unnecessary time tax. And you prove his point by turning into that homosexual with no skill and too much time on your hand. The acts are as engaging as an idle game.
>theyhatedhimbecausehespokethetruth.gif
>when no one agrees with you so you have to reply to yourself calling yourself based
You're right that 5 hours is nothing compared to what you get in the endgame.
I do wish you could skip the campaign on subsequent characters if you've already done it that league. I'm fine with the initial run through, I usually play with friends for that so its not that bad, but subsequent runs where I've got leveling uniques and gear and I'm just brainlessly spamming middle mouse and right click (mobility and main skill) is just a waste of time.
>all these shitters complaining about acts
learn to speedrun them, kiddos. there are people who literally beat endgame pinnacle bosses in HCSSF in under 48 hours. you don't have to be as good as they are, but acts are literally fricking nothing and can be zoomed in less than 4 hours on a fresh leaguestart if you aren't moronic.
I've spent the last three days doing nothing but making PoE builds in PoB and so far only one of them have been any decent, although its just 3m dps.
>Trade
>Nerfs
>Tencent
>Complicated league mechanics piling up
Won't play this game until all of these issues are resolved.
reached maps once, immediatly lost all interest because i felt like my build was probably shit and what's the point to grind more after beating the game. what's the goal of maps?
what's the goal of playing video games?
>what's the goal of maps?
to progress through the endgame storyline and defeat whatever the current pinnacle bosses are, and provide a vast amount of variety to the endgame in general as opposed to running meph/chaos sanc/whatever 500x a night like a legit autismo.
Typically the goal is to do the challenges for cosmetics, see how strong you can get your character to be, and/or experiment with the new mechanics
Autistically tweaking your character to be more and more efficient so you can do harder and more maps faster so you can make currency so you can make a more expensive build that can tackle the hardest content and be even more efficient in maps.
Saved? So Chris pulled his head out of his ass and reverted all his moronic changes? Awesome!
what ritual-harvest shitters like you don't seem to realize is that expedition "nerfs" WERE reverting their moronic changes in the first place.
>league starts the weekend before I go back to university
aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA
what website do i check for builds?I want to spin2win with the marauder but the only one i found on poe-vault is for an older version of the game
Go on poe.ninja, go to builds and look for cyclone builds on marauder.
Copy the cheapest one with reasonable damage
thanks bros
https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds
Note that its late in the league and most people are using gear worth multiple mirrors now, so either look at SSF builds or use the time machine feature and go back to week 1.
I'd build it myself and check the poe.ninja heatmap a couple of days in. You can adjust then. And get some ideas for unique items and other gear that way. Kind regards from a doomer.
why do filterbrains latch onto PoE so hard when it's been dumbed down time and time again for zoomers who want to be able to pay their way to the highest bosses?
The first mkstake is to think that PoE requires skill
You can't fool me. I've noticed over the last 2 years how each new league gets less hype. Used to be that everyone always shat on the current and previous leagues but wait for the new one. Now no one even cares about the new leagues anymore OR shits on previous ones. It's dead.
You know what the fundamental problem with this game is, other than the scammy always online bullshit? If you don't use the approved builds, you will get punished. Hard. The game actually punished experimentation. And that is terrible game design, doubly so for an aRPG. Because experimentation is what it's all about. Experimentation is the fun. Without it, you just have a slog.
your "build" is just some random shit slapped together without any synergy or thought behind it
thats why you struggle to even regular map bosses let alone real content
your experimentation is
>"why do i have to spend so many regret orbs just to figure out how much %hp i should have to stop white mobs from oneshotting me"
and after still getting oneshotted, you quit and go cry about your miserable experience online.
game has plenty of build variety and crutches for morons yet you still can't succeed at it.
you quite literally have too low iq to enjoy such complex game, its okay, not every game is for everyone, go play some paper or diablo immortal or whatever
Take a deep breath. read what you just wrote and tell me you're not a gambling addict with a straight face. Guaranteed, you'll never admit how much money you've thrown at this game. Your obsessive aggression, inept way of creating a straw man and just the overarching sloppy blowjob you're giving GGG is proof of that. You're a legitimate loser. Which is why I am at odds with this game. It's a loser game for losers. Enjoy paying for stash space.
Sounds like you just don't understand how to build a character.
Anon, you're defending the fact that you're too moronic to understand the basic mechanics of a free video game, by claiming that people who are better than you are addicted to gambling and spend money.
The failure is you. You failed, no one else. You.
Would it be better that your decisions matter less?
That you can respec and save your doomed character easier?
Or that the game is just easier overall?
It sounds like you want one of these
>Scammy always online
Ah yes, a game with a connection to a multiplayer server is somehow...scamming you. Out of something. No one knows what, but somehow it is.
>If you don't use the approved builds
Bruh. You just get the appropriate levels of defense. That's it. Any skill, any gear, any build will work. You've NEVER EVEN FINISHED THE CAMPAIGN, so what the frick are you talking about "approved builds to play". Bro you've never even come close to having a "build", you don't even know what the res cap is.
That fat israelite Chris is finally letting us skip the acts?
No, neets need it to tell themselves that they achieved something in life when they grinded through it in one sitting. You can't take that away from them.
I just want to play single player PoE, and no, not SSF, the only thing that does is put you in a different ladder and make you not able to trade, there's nothing inherently changed in the core game by ticking that box, you're just playing an inferior version of the intended game. Also this game being "F2P" is a fricking scam, you have to pay way more than the game's worth to actually fully enjoy it. Thia could've been a great D2 successor with an okay price tag and an actual solo experience, but then they had to go and do the exact opposite, it works for them i guess.
Gonna roll my standard poison concoction pathfinder
Don't play anything else
Biggest problem with PoE is the devs refusal to add a single QoL feature because
>"YOU NEED TO FEEL THE WEIGHT OF EACH CLIP"
or
>"WHY DON'T WE JUST GIVE YOU EVERYTHING FOR FREE AND EMAIL YOU A SPREADSHEET SAYING HOW GREAT YOUR GEAR IS EVERY DAY?"
I respect Chris' autistic devotion to his "vision" but I fricking hate it at the same time.
>the devs refusal to add a single QoL feature because
What QOL do you think they haven't been adding? You can't name any, because you're moronic, so it's likely you haven't played the game in 5 years.
thought this was just the reveal, did they finally revert the 3.15 nerfs that killed all build diversity and any reason to play the game? can i fricking turn off bloom now? somehow i doubt the game is saved, looks like another cash grab smoke and mirrors waste of time "expansion" league while the game remains in its shitty unplayable 3.15-and-onward state.
>killed all build diversity
You're moronic.
>another cash grab smoke and mirrors waste of time "expansion"
It's a free video game.
>smoke and mirrors
bro it has kalandra in the name of course there's mirrors
>hehe, what do you mean the campaign is a timetax and glorified tutorial? It barely factors into my play time! Y-you just got filtered! xD
what am I supposed to be seeing here
It's the profile of a zealous homosexual who came late to the show and overcompensates by playing it 90 hours a week, and telling you that the campaign is not a timetax.
when did he tell me that
Every day since 2020
I'm not sure what this picture is supposed to show? Someone proud of...killing Merveil in 2020? Someone proud of Steam achievements or having 2k hours played? You might as well show off your fricking sticker collection.
They made an offline version for 40 bucks?
tl:dr please
Didn't play since Harvest. Now I can't stand the SEEEEED of PoE compared to D2R
I will never forgive Chris for this homosexualry.
Found this fricker in Archnemesis league. Could've had a mirror
I don't give a shit about PoE anymore. I wouldn't suffer the 10 act campaign again even if you paid me. When is PoE 2 coming out?
Just 100 more years for Chris' vision and PoE2, bro
More realistically they'll release it to compete with/cash in on Diablo 4 hype
i hate that elementalist is a fricking golemancer for every fricking build
i hate that you can't specialize in a minion and have to run fricking carrion golem zombies spectres and whatever the frick at the same time i just want to do 1 without spending 921837183 currency
PoE 2 when or is it vaporware at this point?
Or are they actively trying to square up to Blizzard and plan to release it next to D4?
>Or are they actively trying to square up to Blizzard and plan to release it next to D4?
this
squaring up to modern Blizzard is like punching an infant.
Diablo 4 is going to be a mess, don't even like PoE all that much
You're underestimating the Diablo name
Look at Immortal. Shitty mobile game yet it, what, profited $100m in a month or two?
I don't think GGG can compete with D4 outright, but maybe they can get their release in between the inevitable D4 beta (which'll whet the publics appetite for ARPGs) and its release.
>saved
Nerfs from 3.15 still in effect? Did they revert the Archnemesis mod integration into the core game? Did they finally buff melee to the point where it's worth giving any shits about?
Melee can do all but Uber Pinnacles
Slow as shit, admittedly, but even as cancerous as Sentinel balancing was I was able to do it with a Jugg/Berserker/Slayer Cyclone Ascendant
Ultimatum was the last good league
>first character each league has to do acts
>subsequent characters that league can start at Lv 68
Simple as.
characters that league can start at Lv 68
Sorry, anon. That's a slipperly slope that leads to casualization.
You need to feel the weight of each click when doing every act with every character.
Also we're buffing all damage done by every enemy in each act by 1000% and increasing their movement and attack speed by 200%.
Finally, all player defenses and movement speed have been halved.
Enjoy the new league.
I mean I'm done with acts in a few hours anyway, doesn't really matter to me. I'd just like to more easily be able to try new builds.
Fricking sucks when you make something really cool in PoB and then you need to stomach 2-4h of acts, depending on how focused you are, only for it to suck ass like one of my builds last league.
I mean you'll have to grind out 2-4h just to be able to try your build either way
it doesn't solve anything
Huh?
Most builds come live at Lv 68? Especially if I already have a character where I've gotten most of the items
You were complaining that you have to level through the acts to try your build
either way you have to level to 68
so I don't see what you're complaining about
I suggested new character starting in maps at 68 after you've done it once that league.
There'd be no leveling.
>shills defend fricking acts
It's illogical. Why are they doing this? Playing maps from level 1 let you do old league content. Leagues are full of trash uniques that are good for low level characters. It's good for character building
>try to start crafting
>look up on google and wiki
>3h video explaining how to do basic crafting
how would you solve the 10 act problem?
for me its easy. when you do all acts on 1 character every new character starts at level 60 at white maps and you only need uber lab fornew characters
>for me its easy. when you do all acts on 1 character every new character starts at level 60 at white maps and you only need uber lab fornew charact
This would honestly solve it. If you've completed the game once, why be forced to re-run the ho-hum campaign that's already too bloated (I remember it being like 3-4 acts in 2013?) to do the end-game shit.
I mean even Ubisoft of all fricking people let you "boost" your party to do the expansion/end-game shit if that's what you want to do. Why can't GGG do that?
the reason ggg will never do this is because the early league has a period of ladder competition and meta/economy establishment that would be heavily disfavourably disrupted by the ability to instantly create characters in maps, and by the time all of that settles several weeks into league there are so few people left who would benefit or care that it would be a waste of time to change their entire system to implement in the first place.
i mean the new character would start at white maps at level 60 but totally naked with no items, so you couldn't get any advantage
you would still need to farm maps/items on your main char
>The best version of poe is where you don't even play the game
Why not start at 80 with all your points and locked to t16
>another whatever fricking season of whatever fricking bloated shit now
who fricking gives a shit anymore. Frick poe
>Play free
What? I thought the game was already free
Is the game still hostile to SSF? Frick GGG
The game is casual enough now that SSF on almost any build is fine.
Why would they balance around SSF when less than 1% of the playerbase does it?
Hopefully Archnem is removed so that acts aren't even more of a pain than they usually are
Archnem going core (pre-nerf) was the best thing that's ever happened to the game
frick you
git gud
>Follow a guide simulator
No thanks, not until they make it less punishing to people who want to play around with builds and not just follow the flavor of the month.
>can't simply blow through act 1-10 and respec
>no option to skip to maps and just start from lv1 mapping
The story is singlehandedly the reason I stopped playing.
zoom zoom meta killed the game