Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

[Tacgnol]

They should really just do away with mods that make maps completely impossible for certain builds. More challenging/harder yes, impossible no.

IIRC, Chris said a while back that they do this on purpose to stimulate the map trading economy, though considering they've now said their goal is to make map sustain much easier without trading, it seems quite counter productive.

 

[abija]

The irony being that on death effects have zero impact on zoom zoom builds as they are so far ahead by the time the on death effect hits.

Zoom zoom, kill boss, get out of boss room, die from what was left there before you got in. GGG are targeting the true zoomers.

 

[Jason Liang]

Short and succinct.

 

[Saark]

I remember seeing a thread about it, but it was like 2 years ago, maybe it was wrong.

That makes sense. Back then Slayer/Elementalist still had a different wording, i.e. Elementalist had "50% reduced reflected damage taken" and then you got to 100% by using Sybils or getting chest affix+running Yugul pantheon. Ever since they changed Slayer/Elementalist to say "Cannot take reflected damage" you're always immune to it, while just having 100% reduced reflected damage taken is easily counter-acted by any type of increased damage taken, like Sextant mods, using Abyssus, being cursed with Vulnerablity or simply standing on shocked ground or getting shocked.

 

[Sykar]

you cant die from reflect if you can't hit yourself

Just let your minions die!

 

[Baron Dupek]

Almost month passed since the league started and exalts are around 60c. What happened?
At first I though they were price fixers so I started trading with all my chaos in the stash... but then made few succesful deals and now I'm confused.

Made a lot of contracts with not a single ex dropped. And maybe with 1-3 crashes?
Made random contracts and surprise - exalt drop.
Few seconds later - crash.
Like a clockwork.

 

[Gerrard]

They banned a lot of bots.

 

[Saark]

They banned a lot of bots.

It's actually crazy how well they seem to be doing on that end. It's certainly helped by having Delirium be a Zana mod at 16c, which takes out a lot of currency. Properly juiced youre getting your currency back just in Splinters already (I'm averaging ~90 splinters per map, which is ~20c by themselves) and you get a shitton of cluster jewels, elder bases for exalt shard recipe and a variety of other loot.

Overall the league has been fairly bad for a lot of reasons, but the fact that they seemingly managed to keep bots out of the economy outside of trading-bots is a godsend and saved the league for me.

 

[Gerrard]

I think what the kids say in cases like these is "poggers".

There's only 13 listed on trade right now.

 

[Saark]

[/MEDIA]

Yet another league of aura-stacking being broken as fuck. It's getting tiresome.

 

[Saark]

 

[Gerrard]

So you bought all your gear and now the game is too easy? How could that have happened.

 

[Saark]

It's more about showcasing the ridiculous levels of scaling you can get on aura-stackers, despite GGGs attempts at nerfing it the last 7 or so leagues. It's getting to the point where every league just boils down to getting a cheap starter like TR, stacking up currency, buy Shavs and a bunch of aura jewels, and suddenly youre invincible and chain-run t17 100% delirious fractured maps with 100mil DPS and 500k EHP despite only having 6k ES.

 

[Lukifell]

I loved this game. But as you get higher level, gameplay really comes down to, "press a single button over and over and kill tons of stuff". Did it change since I last played or is it still like that?

 

[Perkel]

I loved this game. But as you get higher level, gameplay really comes down to, "press a single button over and over and kill tons of stuff". Did it change since I last played or is it still like that?

Still like this. Until their change their viewpoint of speed and monster pack size it can't be "fixed"

 

[razvedchiki]

maybe they will change it in poe2.

 

[Gerrard]

They just keep adding dumb shit like the Void Sphere skill (10 second cooldown r00fles) that doesn't fit in the current game at all.
I think they themselves bought the "PoE2 will fix everything" talk.

 

[razvedchiki]

poe2 is a chance to get rid of the bloat and start a new, fresh economy etc.

 

[Jaedar]

poe2 is a chance to get rid of the bloat and start a new, fresh economy etc.

There's a new economy every 3 months. Doesn't seem to be helping any.

 

[razvedchiki]

the leagues every 3 months and piling up standard is part of the problem.

 

[Jaedar]

the leagues every 3 months and piling up standard is part of the problem.

Playing standard and then complaining about the stale and bad economy seems like shooting yourself in the foot and complaining it hurts.

Not to mention that it is very optimistic to think GGG will reset standard when PoE2 rolls around.

Unless you mean "piling up" different mechanics, in which case I agree. The feature bloat is real and it feels like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas at this point.

 

[Tacgnol]

the leagues every 3 months and piling up standard is part of the problem.

Playing standard and then complaining about the stale and bad economy seems like shooting yourself in the foot and complaining it hurts.

Not to mention that it is very optimistic to think GGG will reset standard when PoE2 rolls around.

Unless you mean "piling up" different mechanics, in which case I agree. The feature bloat is real and it feels like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas at this point.

Yep. Standard is a testing ground for builds at this point.

Also yep, no guarantee they'll reset Standard when POE2 hits. Remember that POE2 is really just a big client upgrade with two different storylines you can play. The endgame merges into one regardless of which flavour of the game you play.

The POE2 moniker is really misleading.

 

[Sykar]

At least the character animations get upgraded. Those were starting to bug me because except for some exceptions most are just horrible.

 

[Gerrard]

If you can still see your animations then you don't have enough attack/cast speed.

 

[Tacgnol]

If you can still see your animations then you don't have enough attack/cast speed.

If you can still see any details on screen, your build isn't zoom zoom enough.