Jaedar
Arcane
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You don't have to play "meta" to clear Incursions. I literally cleared Incursions on my homebrew SSF self-casting Arc ffs lol.
This is a good observation actually. For some people killing white mobs giving a shit counts as zooming, for some taking 10s to kill a rare mob feels glacial. Better to stick to specifics.Trust me, the level of the anti-zoom crowd's delusions is big enough that they'll look at your RF gameplay and call it zoom-zoom. Unless your progress is a glacial task of name-locking zombies and killing them in three hits, you're zooming.
(Imagine thinking arc counts as an off meta skill, just because it's no longer super amazing. It's one of the most basic spells in poe imo)
I think the difference is that in D1 there are no pinnacle bosses or story content or what have you locked behind massive wealth requirements. Sure, a zoom zoomer can farm dozens of baals per hour (or w/e people do in diablo) and a slow build might take 20 hours to kill baal the first time, but 20 hours is not an insane time investment to beat the game. A slow build in poe will take hundreds of hours to see the main content (just beating the campaign doesn't count, it's not for nothing all the redditors want to be able to skip it).This i also don't get - if you do this in basically any game, even D1, you'd stilll get less loot as compared to 'zoom-zoom' (170% runspeed javazon, teleporting mage that spams flamewall / hydra that clears whole screen) per hour etc and you'd stilll be disadvantaged (loosing time etc whatever people feel that they are lacking). Unless the game actively punishes you for more efficient gameplay (or uses something like P2W 'pay for one-time access to the game' shenanigans) , it'd still be slanted in favour of zoom-zoom. Unless your progress is a glacial task of name-locking zombies and killing them in three hits, you're zooming.
I think this is a division in single player / mmo style play. Except PoE doesn't have a clear demarker between "raid content" and "normal content".
I agree that incursion is not high bar (I do occasionally fumble it during certain map modifiers and/or clunky leveling builds). And if you don't have the dps to clear it your build isn't good enough to reach high end maps anyway. But along with regen mods it is also the first place the game will just go "no" if you are on a low dps build. So it always gets highlighted, because it's the most visible place where the game will go "you need to be at least this zoomy to ride".Those should be trivial for any half-decent build regardless of gearing.
The real discussion should be whether it is good or bad design for an aRPG to have this kind of minimum required dps checks that can't be compensated by grit and tankyness.