redpill me on this game, is it truly f2p? are all the armors still the same boring/trash looking unless you pay $60 for a good looking one?
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ye bruh its litty af ngl
No cap?
i dont care about looking cool
i care about inventory tabs
basically i hate diablo 3 enough that i dont care
>i dont care about looking cool
Good because you can't without swiping your credit card or autistically grinding league challenges for years on end for free gibs. Gachashit is less greedy than this fricking game.
you dont care about looking cool
bcs you look ugly
poe is for ugly people
im pretty sure you can look very royal with a Cherrubim's Maleficence
or the Lioneye's Vision
you need to pay like 30 bux to get enough stash tabs to make end game not garbage. that's it
current league you can earn two full armor sets if you do all the challenges so your ugly vaal pajamas can look nicer
about $20 for stash tabs which are required for using the marketplace which is required for endgame. But you can install the game and go through the story and get like 30 hours of gameplay for free.
Requirement is not absolute, you can play SSF, some builds (summoners) don't use a lot of items, so you can fare well (means clearing all endgame content) with 4 default tabs. A lot of builds require trading though, otherwise you have to spend years.
You honestly need to be very experienced to get by in SSF with only having the default stash tabs. Just think about how many slots are going to be taken up by shit like currency orbs or stash. You won't have much room to save up base items for harvest and recombinators.
Yeah seriously imagine being a new player and going SSF. Fricking nightmare. Anyone who says the game is f2p-friendly is out of their fricking mind.
I don't know, 4 standard tabs is like 1 quad tab - it's a lot of space. You don't hoard things like you would normally do: use your orbs and craft your items, don't hoard too much shit like Heist gear for swapping etc. My biggest gripe with default tabs would be that you can't set affinity to that (for those who don't know, "affinity" is when you ctrl+click an item, it automatically sorts itself into a pre-selected tab of your choice). I have done 36+ challenges on like 2 leagues with default tabs only, back in Warbands/Tempest days.
It's a nightmare even for experienced players. I have tried once - never again.
>is it truly f2p
you CAN play the game completely for free. the only thing that money affects is stash space. that said, in the end game stash space can quickly become annoying to manage if you don't purchase a stash expansions, especially as a new player with no real grasp on what items are important and what items can be gotten rid of. selling items is also a huge hassle without premium stash tabs
>are all the armors still the same boring/trash looking unless you pay $60 for a good looking one?
no, there are quite a few good looking armor pieces that can be found and equipped, but you are unlikely to put together a nice looking set without using skin transfers/filling in the gaps with mtx (both of which cost money)
all that having been said, the game is still my favorite game in the genre. give it a shot without paying, and if you like it spend ~$20 on stash space to smooth things out for you
Yeah its good. I even liked the writing, just finished this tonight. About to start end game. You should spend money on tabs, everything else is cosmetic. Stash is pretty generous by default though.
I recommend looking up a build guide before going in though.
This is a $310 cosmetic set
go play Last Epoch
holy fk do people actually spend that much money on a cosmetic skin?
by playing Path of Exile instead of Last Epoch
don't make the same mistake
is falconer/runemaster/warlock out yet?
no but we'll have multiplayer in September and at least one of those classes by end of the year.
The Venn diagram of PoE players and funkopop collectors are a circle.
I have never bought a Funko and think they are fricking disgusting.
You may want to redraw your diagram to at least include a tiny sliver where they don't overlap.
Cause I can also guarantee Funko collectors don't all play PoE.
Meh... I clearly jest.
Point is some people will splurge huge amounts of cash on seemingly worthless stuff (and then complain about the economy).
And some even of digital stuff that is a server crash away from disappearing.
It's all good, it's to my money.
Jesus, these captchas...
PoE whales complain about entirely different economy.
i feel like 90% of poe players are jaded internet boomers so i don't know why you think they'd buy funko pops
>optional items are too expensive
Try not being poor.
>spending $300 on a fricking armor set
>thinking 300 is alot of money
unironically end your life you disgusting israelite enabler
Get a job you troony neet homosexual
Nice try schlomo. I make six figures but I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars on a game where you have to swipe your credit card to look decent.
Warframe makes four times what GGG makes without being scummy. The most expensive thing in Warframe you can buy that you can't earn are $50 cosmetics. That's $260 less than this single set of armor.
Lower prices = more people buying them = more money. GGG should try it sometime instead of selling exclusively to the whaliest of whales.
>6 figures
Oh I bet you do sweetie
You don't keep what you have by spending hundreds on a single MTX set. What a joke of a game.
In the image it says the full set is $84, only reason its that high is because its made from 2 separate combined sets which are $42 each.
People who buy this crap fund the game, so who cares.
If this is just a fox and grapes situation, the only reason you want this set is because of it's unobtainable to you, at which point if everyone had it for free, you wouldn't even want it.
Either way, you might have legit schizophrenia.
Set doesn't include the cloak, the wings, the weapon effect, the character trail, the portal, the stash. Just the armor set exclusively. Absolutely disgusting.
Do you need a hideout to match your little dress up too ya fricking dandy?
>I NEED THE HECKING STASHARINO AND 2 BACK ARMORS I CANT USE AT THE SAME TIME! HOW WILL I KNOW IF I'M IN THE MOOD FOR A CLOAK OR WINGS THAT DAY??
Yeah ok, legit schizo, are you the barry of PoE?
You know attraction to Purple is also a sign of sexual frustration ;^)
Even if it was only $82 that's insane for a single cosmetic armor (that you need to buy because all the free2play stuff looks like trash).
Take off the wings if that makes you feel any better. $260 instead of $310.
Why do people buy a Ferrari over some generic general car, functionally is the same.
Or you can buy some cheaper one for 30 bucks that comes with full set + weapon effect + footsteps.
And then you can use that forever or maybe supplement it with shit you earn from challenges
e.g. most good portal effects are either from $1200 supporter packs or free from playing the game.
>Or you can buy some cheaper one for 30 bucks that comes with full set + weapon effect + footsteps.
Where are those? Because this basic leather set cost $112 https://youtu.be/voEb94O_tF0
Supporter packs
supporter pack armors start at $60 minimum
this is what you get for $30
Oh apparently yeah, it's 60. Still less than 100 and I'm pretty sure you get points too so you get some stash tabs for "free"
you'd rather this than a game designed from the ground floor around you spending money on things that aren't cosmetic sets, you Black folk are shocked over any monetization
literal morons/israelites
While you are correct, you're being disingenuous on top of bad math.
>Stash + Wings + Cloak + Hood + Armor bundle + Weapon effect + Portal + Footprints = $309
>Inb4 "Bruh, you can't buy $309 worth of points!"
Yeah yeah. And as for the disingenuous parts,
>Ignoring the fact you can only wear 1 helmet/hood at a time
>Ignoring the fact you can only wear 1 of wings or cloak at a time
And now for something you outright ignored that makes this even more egregious.
This is only one third of the set.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3230823
Harmony is a combination of Heritage and Divergence, so the actual price if you for some ungodly reason wanted everything...
Is over $600.
GGG's cosmetics are disgustingly overpriced, but at least try to not be as homosexualy as them when shitting on them.
>disingenuous
how? If you want the set, you presumably want the option between those two things. Remove $80 from the price if you're so inclined. That's still $230 for a single set of armor and accessories.
They're upgrading the default armor in the game for PoE 2, where for the most part it looks better than current paid MTX.
Also adding a dying system so you can at least match your assortment of pots and pans armor.
More examples here.
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>Also adding a dying system so you can at least match your assortment of pots and pans armor.
I'm sure they'll monetize the shit out of it just like transmog.
Obviously, I think there will be a default in game ones, similar to free hideouts.
Then "Premium" ones from the store, like flamboyant RBG or "Celestial" paint.
if you filter out most shit mechanics like divination cards, oils, metamorphs you can get by with 4 stash tabs if you know what you're doing and you're playing ssf with one or two builds at most in mind
even if i only had 4 tabs i'd still pick up oils until i got my gg anoint, same with fertiles for vermillions+stygian
>refuses to allow players to turn off shadows, turning every frame into a blurry mess
>refuses to implement a sensible trade system
>is so cluttered you have to filter out all the useless garbage he game throws at you
>items are hidden behind several layers of RNG.
For example
>does the instance have a breach?
>which kind of breach?
>once you gathered all the splinters, did the boss drop the desired item?
It's just not an option unless you're either an autist or make money off of it.
>but muh passive tree
It's just designed to look "daunting", it's really simple stuff, moron.
Yes
Yes, but you can get (rather limited) cosmetics via challenges
Game used to be really great but I'd say it's become a bloated mess, kind of like WoW, full of old content and mechanics that are totally unnecessary.
Old skills occasionally get revamped but largely lay forgotten in favor of the meta and the fresh new things, the game has suffered from players optimizing the fun out of it and now the meta is essentially spamming near screen clearing single skills then spamming your movement skill to get to the next pack, then repeat.
I would say to wait for PoE 2.0 and see if that is better, though it's likely the game will succumb to it's vices and be not much different then. Some of my info may be outdated, I haven't played the game in a while, and for good reason.
>unless you pay $60 for a good looking one?
>$60
L O V I N G
E V E R Y
L A U G H
It doesn't have to be flashy. Even a basic ass leather armor set that makes you look like a ranger is $112 https://youtu.be/voEb94O_tF0
$42 for armor bundle
$18 for weapon skin
$12.50 for weapon effect
$15 for portal
$17.50 for cape
$7.50 for footprint
It’s not f2p you can’t make it through the end game without paying for stash tabs like currency/map tabs
That's what I hate about PoEgays. They call it a free2play game but the stash tabs cost you just as much as a retail game ($60+) and the MTX israelites you even harder.
it is NOT free to play and don't let anyone fricking tell you otherwise because they are full of fricking shit.
A. To play a trade league you HAVE to have premium stash tabs to be able to sell anything.
B. You will hit a wall with almost any build that isn't boring ass homosexual zizaran meta requiring you to get exalted orbs in one way or another to beat content.
The only way to consider this game f2p is if you are a solo-self-found player where nothing really matters.
>you need stashes to sell shit
What are these SSF players then?
I agree you need premium stashes just to keep yourself sane
SSF means you just only use the stuff and currency you find yourself and don't trade at all. Though if you're not a nolife in the game this means you'll hit walls when you start needing better gear and you won't have the shortcut of just trading with other folks
Just started playing this a few days ago, already plugged in 25 hours so far. Just made it to Part 2 and I'm enjoying it. Been playing as a necromancer and this game fulfills my desires of having an undead army and actually be strong enough to command it. Pretty good/10. Supposedly once i get to the "endgame"(whenever that may be) I'll be able to swap my gems into summoning a horde of spooky lightning ghosts. I like how the only thign that's really outside of 'F2P' is more banb space and pure cosmetics. The cosmetics are definitely the whaler's harpoons, but I've considered picking up a couble of tabs on sale.
skeleton mages is one of the better builds in the game
Enjoy it what you can, Anon.
If you manage to stick it out into endgame (which is at the end of Part 2), you'll start to realize just how much of a problem F2P bank space is. You'll probably still have fun, but it'll shift your perspective a bit, cause the "endgame" is the starting line for most veteran players. They binge through the Acts as fast as they can (10 hours or less, as little as 4 or so) to start the endgame.
True. But it's also fun to take shitposts seriously sometime.
I agree, all the extra white lines are a pain in the ass. And I saw a 6 character one to start my day that threw me off.
>oneshots entire screen
S O V L
>Boot up Chronicon cause a few Anons kept recommending it
>Kinda dinky graphically, but not horrible
>Skill trees almost straight out of TQ/GD
This looks like it might be fun, thanks.
Just remember that GGG is 100% owned by Tencent while pretending to still be an indie studio that needs """supporter packs""" for hundreds of dollars.
>100%
Wrong again.
Might as well be 100%.
Sure, but also the term "majority stake" exists for cases like this.
Tencent has nothing to do with GGG's usury. Tencent has a majority stake in Warframe and they're extremely fair with their prices and same goes for Last Epoch.
>You will need like $20 bucks worth of tabs just for quality of life
more like $60
so much for a "free game"
isn't $60 close to buying every single tab
$60 is buying a couple quad tabs and every mechanic tab you'd reasonably need.
God I hate tencent but I love PoE.
Ranger pubes.
deadeye armpits
You will need like $20 bucks worth of tabs just for quality of life
All the armour mtx are extremely expensive, like $200 for an armour set and a single sword sfx could be 30 bucks
you need at least $10 of premium stash tabs ($5 on sale) for it to be playable long term, other than that yeah its fire and forget
>is it truly f2p
No. It's pay for convenience, aka don't bother playing end game if you don't at least own all the important tabs and few premium tabs. It's like 40 bucks to get all the important ones (map, currency, fragment) and then few premium tabs to sell items. However once you've gotten all the important stash tabs, you really don't have to spend any more money on the game. All the recent specific stash tabs they've made have all been useless. Outside the three important ones I listed, I'd only get divination and essence but even without those two you can get by easily, just means you have to sell/use them more quickly.
As for cosmetics, most rares look hideous. There are some nice looking uniques but no set items like in Diablo. There are uniques that share the same aesthetic but those are a thing of the past at this point and most uniques that have a "cosmetic set" are pretty outdated at this point in terms of power. Armour mtx is hilariously overpriced, however GGG recently gave out two armor sets for free if you did the challenges, which might be a sign of things to come because this is the first time they gave full sets as rewards for playing the game. Also if you plan on buying a lot points to spend on the store, there is really no reason to not get one of the supporter packs. They match the price with points and you get some mtx on top of it.
I love the look of The Brass Dome and disable my armor mtx for it, doesn't help that build around the item like a crutch for most of my builds.
>redpill me on this game
No. This game for smart gamers. The game filtered more casuals and casuals hate poe.
This game is for people in the middle of the IQ bell curve.
>imagine believing in the iq test in 2022
u not middle
Some players have lived off their initial stash tabs successfully, although mule characters may be needed. A fair few specialized stash tabs do make a world of difference for quality of life however and premium ones especially make trade in non-SSF leagues a lot easier to initiate. Armor MTX is also expensive, but at least both of these things do have semi-regular sales at worst; the latter is on a rotation and per-league supporter packs (outside of this current league) usually come with an armor set + points.
With that said, despite actually making some good changes to the endgame for once, PoE is also in a pretty shitty state currently where it's more or less a streamer game.
just play ssf
sf tard
Well yes, anon could always go that route.
>wont play a game because characters look bad unless you spend money
>a game where you can't even see your character because the amount of shit going on
Holy frick that is actually depressing knowing people are like that. You used to get bullied for saying something so moronic.
That's exactly why the guy complaining about the $300 set is here, he got bullied out of the poe general for posting the exact same thing a few days ago
PoE is a israelite grindset simulator. Everything you do is to make more money, reinvest it to more gear to make more money until your build is complete and you stop playing for 3 months.
Anon... you just described an ARPG.
Nah, D2 is a single player game
>another sf tard
Why the frick would I play SFF? It's so much easier to just buy what you need.
SFF should be uncancelable and have increased quantity and possibly other extra ways to actually snipe key uniques
why play the game if you're just going to buy every item? I've got a buddy that plays like that and all he does is scour trade for bargains he can resell and trawls through youtube for currency farming strats. He's like crafted one entire item in his life
I craft if I can, If I can't, I buy. Can't really craft uniques.
> just buy what you need
play diablo
Why? Unless you're talking about Diablo 2, it's a shittier game.
poe have two modes
- original poe ssf and ssf hc leagues.
- rmt league(sf and hc).
The fact that nothing falls on the SSF is a myth. You can look at the poe ninja of ssf players with mageblade.
Softcore is just a dump for casuals and scammers like you.
>ssf players with mageblade
Yes, my friend got a raw HH drop this league(funnily the league in which it's "cheap"). Friends are also one of the reasons why we play tradeleague.
homie what, ssf was self imposed because there was only trade league in "original poe"
it's used to be diablo meet dark souls clone but now it's also a spiritual successor of Touhou
Not F2P at all. You need to spend like $200 in tabs and cool MTX so your character doesn't look like a hobo.
All you need is that 5 dollar "hide mtx" mtx and you apply it to your chest on Templar and play literally a hobo without pants.
>Templar
No way.
no
yes
It's so obvious when you people from the general crawl out of your board to make these threads. It's usually so nice to talk about the game in Ganker until you people show up and spam your shittiness that makes Ganker look sane by comparison.
one of the most boring games i've played, feels like a joke with a ton of people in on to get other people to try and waste their time with it
*WARNING* Do not play Nerd Casino. Going to an actual casino is frankly a better use of your time, much less playing a real videogame with actual challenge. This has been a public service announcement.
filtered by craft
Depends on what type of player you are and how deep you are planning to go with your builds.
plan on just beating the 10 acts and maybe getting to yellow or red map?
you would be stupid to not f2p.
plan on doing a 300ex meta building and push the uber uber content that only .01% of the player base will ever see?
probably gonna need some stash tabs
as for cosmetics, its not p2w its p2notlooklikeshit, but that's a personal opinion
>as for cosmetics, its not p2w its p2notlooklikeshit, but that's a personal opinion
That's egregious enough for me when you factor in the stash tabs.
what your character looks like doesn't really matter since your abilities will spam the screen anyway and are mostly what you're looking at.
i only regret spending time on two games and poe of one of them. don't play this piece of shit garbage game. the piece of scum developers don't even think of it as a game instead it's a skinner box trying to find new victims and keep the whales in their sunk cost mouse wheel.
the developer actually releases piece of shit skills which don't work and are garbage just so people use them and then have to reroll to try and inflate user numbers. people aren't as mentally moronic as the developer so they just quit instead though. the game has 200+ skill gems and pretends like it's got some complex shit going on, but 190 of the skill gems are absolute fricking dog shit trash which is simply wasting your time if you use it.
they don't even have the fricking decency to try and improve them instead they regularly gut them making them worse hoping people will invest more time into their skinner box. absolutte piece of shit developers.
>i only regret spending time on two games and poe of one of them
Same but I think the monetization is fine, I spent 20 dollars over 500 hours. The game sucks because the genre sucks and is literally a retirement home casino for people too bad to reach diamond in LoL or Dota or CS.
the genre doesn't suck the piece of shit slime developers who try and make skinner box do. d2 developers didn't think "how can we make a skinner box and steal peoples time from them???". they genuinely just wanted to make a cool game and though the randomized items/loot stuff could make it exciting and fun.
look at the elements d2 had in it and compare it to the piece of shit garbage games the trash made afterwards.
where is the hostile ability? the ability to join others games and kill and fight them was a core mechanic of d2, but all the piece of shit developers who try and milk the genre ignored it. when blizzard north was working on the actual sequel to d2 they were making an mmo with human interaction not some solo play skinner box micro solo/4 man instanced dungeon loot casino.
It has one of the best monetization systems on the market right now. You can play the game without spending anything, but eventually once you play the game enough you will need a stash tab or two. But that only means you drop 20$ and you're good pretty much forever. Cosmetic microtransactions are on an expensive side, but they're fricking cosmetic, so who fricking cares.
No and yes.
Progress in poe is gated behind hundreds of fragments that drop one at a time and you need 4 to 300 of them to do anything useful, so they'll slowly accumulate and fill your stash making it impossible to store much of anything else. Every few months another 3-5 fragment recolors are added just to frick with you and push you to buying more stash tabs.
A currency tab and a map tab are the bare fricking minimum required to play poe past completion of the campaign and they cost $25-$30 together if memory serves