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singateco posted:Another Reddit pandering. They added a redditor to the game fwiw I'm pretty sure it's someone doing the human equivalent of the horses neighing gag from Young Frankenstein.
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Aug 21, 2022 12:07
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This league became cursed for breaking the league naming scheme.
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Aug 21, 2022 12:22
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Another 2 friends I persuaded to give PoE a try promptly quit half way through act 1. That's 7 or 8 now who have peaced out due to that dumb as poo poo act 1 buff to everything.
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Aug 21, 2022 12:37
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Tai posted:Another 2 friends I persuaded to give PoE a try promptly quit half way through act 1. That's 7 or 8 now who have peaced out due to that dumb as poo poo act 1 buff to everything. How will they ever learn to enjoy the game unless they get a taste of the endgame, where survival is more of a quantum physics experiment?
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Aug 21, 2022 12:44
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The reflection of paradise tile gives insane exp at higher difficulties. Got almost 2 levels from a difficulty 8 one, and that was with the lake being 10 levels below me (82 to 84, lake was 72)
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Aug 21, 2022 12:55
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Something is definitely off with loot drops in general, I wonder if this is some side effect of the adjustment to rare monster numbers? Whether it was intended or not it feels really bad.
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Aug 21, 2022 12:57
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I can reliably do Gauntlets and get to the endgame on my very first character and I've practiced Brutus and Merveil on 1 HP characters so much I can do it on my sleep and I still dread the idea of encountering anything with +cold damage in regular Submerged Passage post buff just because of how you can get frozen and stunlocked in a way that doesn't resemble anything of the entire game. I don't even care about the Mud Flats in particular because I'm good at dodging Rhoas and I dread The Coast slightly more on Gauntlets for some reason, but the entire Act 1 is deeply ill tuned right now.
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Aug 21, 2022 12:58
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Elentor posted:I can reliably do Gauntlets and get to the endgame on my very first character and I've practiced Brutus and Merveil on 1 HP characters so much I can do it on my sleep and I still dread the idea of encountering anything with +cold damage in regular Submerged Passage post buff just because of how you can get frozen and stunlocked in a way that doesn't resemble anything of the entire game. i think i spent more time frozen in an a1 cold lake tile than i have in the previous like 6 years of poe combined
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Aug 21, 2022 13:00
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Larry Parrish posted:i think i spent more time frozen in an a1 cold lake tile than i have in the previous like 6 years of poe combined It's inane because there's like, no real way to counter it depending on what happens. I played Glacial Hammer this league because I wanted to feel like what happens if you just keep the Templar Starter skill and there were many situations where I couldn't have any reaction before being annihilated by Frostweaver mobs. I'm sure it would have been the same regardless of melee skills but the fact the map is tuned so that can happen is just bad and resemble nothing in the game, even for someone who plays extremely low-HP builds prone to being stunned or suffer ailments. Elentor fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Aug 21, 2022 13:06
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Elentor posted:It's inane because there's like, no real way to counter it. I played Glacial Hammer this league because I wanted to feel like what happens if you just keep the Templar Starter skill and there were many situations where I couldn't have any reaction before being annihilated by Frostweaver mobs. you're supposed to use your 3 trans orbs on your 1 ilvl 2 quicksilver and trade 1:1 for an unfreeze flask with someone who wants your piece of poo poo block recovery flask. duh
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Aug 21, 2022 13:08
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sometimes I think poe's design has absolutely nothing to do with 'hardcore' and Diablo and everything to do with Chris and friends really wishing it was 1999 again and they had no idea how to play any game really because all their previous experience was mario and contra or something. a lot of the stuff they want us to do more of like orb crafting is just a waste of your time and isn't fun at all. i feel like they have some dream that everyone will wake up one day and just go wow i ex slammed isn't that cool??? and that's the end of the thought
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Aug 21, 2022 13:12
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Larry Parrish posted:was archnem the league semi-recently where they said we were crazy for thinking it was unrewarding and we didn't know what we were talking about. and then like a week later they buffed the drop rates by like 2x. maybe it was scourge I'm pretty sure they said that about archnem mobs in Sentinel.
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Aug 21, 2022 13:15
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Larry Parrish posted:I checked my filter 5 times and thought it was just filtering chromatic items but I got one today with the proper highlighting and realized that nope, I just somehow didn't get a single chromatic item until A5. I went the whole campaign without a Quicksilver dropping 
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Aug 21, 2022 13:25
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I got the raining blood health potion MTX and it turns out it does nothing on a seething flask. I feel like I got pranked by GGG.
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Aug 21, 2022 13:45
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Elentor posted:It's inane because there's like, no real way to counter it depending on what happens. I played Glacial Hammer this league because I wanted to feel like what happens if you just keep the Templar Starter skill and there were many situations where I couldn't have any reaction before being annihilated by Frostweaver mobs. I'm sure it would have been the same regardless of melee skills but the fact the map is tuned so that can happen is just bad and resemble nothing in the game, even for someone who plays extremely low-HP builds prone to being stunned or suffer ailments.
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Aug 21, 2022 14:00
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im in a7 and honestly it feels like the first week of sentinel all over again lol. like they just reverted all of the changes. less rares my rear end, it feels like the same number and they're generally stronger now. but one 3-mod boy dropped 60 whetstones so im supposed to be happy about that I guess.
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Aug 21, 2022 14:28
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I ran into a scourge/beyond boss in a t6 map, and it seemed incredibly tanky and almost one shot me. is that the normal experience with them? also, I too am not finding the archnem changes fun or cool. I don't like have tons gargantuans in my map
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Aug 21, 2022 14:29
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The only archnemisis enemies that I hate dealing with are when they show up in expedition or grove. Grove rares are disproportionally tanky and expeditions have a chance of bricking if a tanky one pops up enhanced by the other modifiers. Im going to disable grove so it aint that bad. But I love expedition
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Aug 21, 2022 14:30
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 This is the guy (Ben_ in the chat) that won the previous two leagues' boss race challenges. He is generally extremely positive of the direction of the game, even when the general public sentiment is not. Not a very good sign. InventorOfTrees fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Aug 21, 2022 14:44
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Clocks posted:I only play every other league nowadays (sometimes I even skip 2 leagues in a row!) because leveling through the campaign is like pulling teeth. So I didn't play Sentinel and decided to play now, for some reason, despite the fact that the only thing that's happened since then is more nerfs. I also tend to play every-other league because I noticed a pattern of good league bad league good league bad league, likely because they put all their effort into a expansion and then something simple between those, I think you probably started during the "bad league" cycle from the general atmosphere I'm picking up around PoE right now, though it seems like even the good leagues aren't that good lately due to most of their effort going towards PoE2 and it's not a good sign that anything they "beta test" for PoE2 on the PoE leagues is largely hated or rolled back and early promises of things the playerbase actually wants like gigantic piles of crap loot being replaced with well rolled drops and orbs of fusing removed from the game is pushed back until PoE2, if even then. Elentor posted:I felt like with the trapper the rares were whatever but getting to Delve 600 with Boneshatter was a real puzzle and I'm sad this dumb video came out wrong because it had me doing some of the poo poo that befuddled me That's exactly what I dislike about the new AN mods, there shouldn't be any random enemies that completely brick a playstyle or build if you randomly run into them or are locked into a part of the game where you can't bypass them, it's ok if map mods can brick builds because you control them and know what you are getting yourself into for increased rewards and worst case scenario you sell your ultra death map to someone with a build that can run it or throw it into a harvest recipe to change it, but if the only way to play the game was running 8 mod unidentified maps than the only builds anyone would play would be builds that can run every mod and anything else would be a liability to play as. Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Aug 21, 2022 15:08
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InventorOfTrees posted:
Poggers
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Aug 21, 2022 15:12
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3.13 with the current atlas tree. Gimme a private league with this and I'd play 20 hours a day.
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Aug 21, 2022 15:13
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I'm really interested to see if POE2 ends up being any more approachable to new players than POE1 is right now, or if they just double down on being impenetrable or even borderline hostile to new players like this game feels right now. The act 1 buff is one of the most bizarre decisions I can think of.
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Aug 21, 2022 15:14
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queeb posted:3.13 with the current atlas tree. Gimme a private league with this and I'd play 20 hours a day. But what about the balance?! This game that is fundamentally a singleplayer experience needs to be balanced around what other people do, even though the game itself does everything it can do have you not play with or interact with others
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Aug 21, 2022 15:16
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I'm still having fun in acts! I put an essence tile at difficulty 5 on the lake and couldn't kill two of the essences so I kited them forward into a harby zone and the constant on death explosions from obliteration helped take one down but the final essence mob was just too rippy and I had to nope out. I had a lot of fun with the tense play to stay alive there. I get the impression that most people here would have absolutely hated that. I haven't had much time to play, but today I have more so I'll kill kitava this morning and try to blast through white maps and see how my perspective changes.
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Aug 21, 2022 15:47
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So as I mentioned a few pages back I came back for this league from being away for 2 or 3 years. Basically gone since pandemic. I’ve gotten myself to act 7 but I think I’m done. Game is more difficult than I remember and loot sucks. I’m having a difficult time even following the guide because the gear it says to get isn’t dropping and I don’t have the material needed to craft it. I play SSF so maybe that’s just me making stupid decisions. I think PoE for me is in this weird spot where I *want* to like it’s complexity but I think the complexity has surpassed retarded levels. I have all these options but I can’t effectively use any of them because nothing valuable ever actually drops. I find myself pining for the loot piñata that is Diablo 3. I also loathe going through the campaign again every league. I wish I could just jump in and start doing mapping right away. I have this gut feeling that GGG balances this game based off of what streamers / no lifers are able to accomplish. Rather than taking a normal persons experience into account. I can’t play this game 8 to 12 hours a day GGG. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) xgalaxy fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Aug 21, 2022 15:50
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SSF is more difficult yes .
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Aug 21, 2022 16:00
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Clocks posted:I just wish I could understand what GGG is going for. I think they're going for making "hard mode" as much "the only mode" as possible. Tai posted:Another 2 friends I persuaded to give PoE a try promptly quit half way through act 1. That's 7 or 8 now who have peaced out due to that dumb as poo poo act 1 buff to everything. I feel like CW would cheer at knowing this.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:18
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xZAOx posted:I feel like CW would cheer at knowing this. Idk where the idea that CW is some sort of ARPG sadist comes from. Things should be hard, challenges should match risk, dying is exciting, ex orb slamming should be exciting... all things Chris has said a bunch. I want new players to bounce off... not a thing the rich man has said.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:23
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He actually has said he's okay with people bouncing off act 1 because it means they probably wouldn't stick with the game anyways.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:30
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ive had a lot more fun adopting the position that its okay if i skip a couple of stupid rares in each map
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Aug 21, 2022 16:32
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Archnemesis mobs need their health cut in half. No changes to their spawning behavior, no changes to their risk v. reward, just cut their goddamn health in half. League mechanic common tiles need to be much more rewarding. League mechanic special tiles need to be much more common. Mirrors should offer at a minimum 2 sets always, sometimes 3, or very very rarely 4. Right now it's standard league with a lovely incursion every 10-12 maps. Do not like. I quit Sentinel about a week in because it was standard league but archnemesis mobs ruin everything and it's looking like I'll just do the same for this league. Oh and per the chatter about leagues/challenges: I have played every league since closed beta to 34, 37, or 40 challenges with the exception of two leagues: Talisman and Sentinel.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:33
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InventorOfTrees posted:He actually has said he's okay with people bouncing off act 1 because it means they probably wouldn't stick with the game anyways. this is a misrepresentation of what he said. he said hes okay with players bouncing off act 1 when they look at the passive tree and decide they dont want that kind of complexity. because the game isnt going to get any less complicated from there. this is different from bouncing off the game because of stupid rare implementation
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Aug 21, 2022 16:33
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they should change the damaging cold ground aoe effect though. its barely possible to see and doesnt look any different from a regular, non damaging chilled ground
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Aug 21, 2022 16:35
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Jinnigan posted:ive had a lot more fun adopting the position that its okay if i skip a couple of stupid rares in each map I felt this way until my chests in the Lake became locked behind killing all of those stupid rares and skipping none. So you spend 5 mins fighting one rare monster for a chest of loot that is usually entirely filtered out... game is pain right now
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Aug 21, 2022 16:36
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I’m hoping that by the time i slog through into mAps something will change even if it’s only my build coming properly online Also buff lake chests
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Aug 21, 2022 16:37
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Captain Foo posted:I’m hoping that by the time i slog through into mAps something will change even if it’s only my build coming properly online Spoiler alert: it gets way worse in maps because loot in maps is absolute garbage. Like, in ten maps I dropped one single alchemy orb levels of garbage.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:41
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xgalaxy posted:I think PoE for me is in this weird spot where I *want* to like it’s complexity but I think the complexity has surpassed retarded levels. I don't usually bother with leagues but after giving it a try i like the mechanic but the rewards are shite so far (not at maps yet) but even for going through the acts the loot is pretty meh. If they don't alter the drop rate i'm off to Grim Dawn for a stable piñata experience.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:55
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The real ultimate stinker is when you slog through a high difficulty lake setup (because you're a sadist or something) and the final tile has a mob stuck in a pillar and immortal so you can't complete it and you leave with nothing. This has happened to me 3 times so far. Decided to just say gently caress it and I'm just straight up banking all my mirror tablets and ignoring the mechanic for now.
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Aug 21, 2022 16:56
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Wilekat posted:Decided to just say gently caress it and I'm just straight up banking all my mirror tablets and ignoring the mechanic for now. I've started doing this, until the mechanic gets patched three times. Surely when I run them all in two weeks I'll be RICH...
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Aug 21, 2022 16:59
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