Well, that's the crux of the current discussion 'le zoom is bad' here - some 'dexers believe that they deserve loot simply because they play the game, not because they applied some effort to get it (which can be either to get optimally geared or spend time to play it safe (defense-oriented hc-like builds, for examplle) or suboptimally). I encounterred the same in MMOs - lots of people cried that raiding is too prohibitive in WoW so Blizzard created LFR in which bosses can be killed by competent 5 people without any help from the other 20 bums who came to get welfare epics etc.
Well, don't do those maps / reroll them, what's the issue? Everything has its limitations, it is not like that you get corrupted unidentified maps and die to reflect etc. RF is probably the most well rounded of them all, with single/dual curse setup there is at most 2-3 mods that are bad / dangerous (-% all res, no regen, -%armour and block), everything else is passable within reasonable limits.
Jonathan believes otherwise, and I also think if drop rate disparity is very high then substantial part of the playerbase will be more inclined to play SSF rather than trade (as trading is a hassle and, I think (as I've never traded in my time in PoE), you need trade-enabled tabs to trade properly)
No, we think we deserve to have fun for time invested. That you consider games should be chores and work is a you problem.
It's not a map mod, it's a rare monster mod. Or was, maybe they're stripped all that shit out by now after 5 leagues of outrage, and wanting to butter up the playerbase for PoE2. But the league I played RF in, there were like, 3 or 4 skills in the entire game that couldn't be bricked by some retarded AN mod that was balanced around you choosing which mods to tackle. You had shit like enemies immune to chill or wither disabling like 150% more modifiers worth of damage on builds coupled with insane resists, health multipliers, and so forth. RF was popular that league precisely because it dodged a lot of them (blocking, evasion, debuff immunities, reflect type shit) but they had something for everyone, and in the case of RF it was mobs that would turn your regen off when you were near them or some shit. Not too bad if you had some endgame ready character with 95% fire res, but a pretty nasty surprise for an SSF player. And of course enemies that took like 5% damage from fire, but everyone was dealing with shit like that. It was so thrilling to load up an expedition map and find out it was just bricked because some random enemy stacked 4 defensive layers and regen. Didn't help that the league mechanic that league was just fucking streamer bait with 0 actual value to the average player.
Following a guide to make a meta build in trade league isn't applying effort. It's literally the opposite of that.
Well, skip them then. Would you complain that 6-7 essence mob with nemesis mods (like 'cycling resistance' which is probably the thing you are talking about) assrapes you and runs faster than you? Turn off regen only works if you stand on the blue circle, if you are inside or outside of it there's no mana burn effect or whatever it is called.
I consider it a hobby, not a job. Hobbies generally require time investment, proficiency and effort. Same logic was forced by people who pushed Blizz to do LFR - 'we pay the same 15 bucks as the raiders, why we don't get access to the cool loot from raids'. Same idea of 'this game is not a chore', " I'm a pregnant father with 9 jobs and 5 kids" etc. It is not that you can't just skip chores by playing trade as I already suggested, the current league is very rich currency-wise, inflation is rampant so you'd get gear in no time.
This is true, though it shouldn't be like that. :/
Great idea! Except it's in a league mechanic, so skipping it means bricking a logbook, or a temple, or a blight map, or... you get the picture. This is why having mechanics based around full clearing a group of monsters in a time limit is retarded. If it were a rare thing you opt into it wouldn't be so bad, but it's where 90% of the loot in the game is at, and more than half the fucking gameplay for that matter.
Bricking a logbook
Did you actually do sanctum? It's hard not to brick it, especially if you don't think when you press the buttons. Skipping one monster won't ruin any temple run, blight run (and it's the same thing as with any part of the game - there is no 0% guaranteed chance of failure). The only way to fail something is if you get DC'd because of server crash, I've lost putrid cloister like that yesterday or two days ago, was really mad at GGG.You can play piano builds if you wish. For example, on my standard RF inq, i have more skills than buttons (i'd literally use ES shield thing that pohx prozelytises, but i don't have a button for that) and all those buttons are meaningful increases to DPS/survivability
As I said, sounds like a You problem. I never felt I was doing a chore while playing D1 or D2. PoE1 is first game ever (not just aRPG) where it feels like a chore or a job at times. Fuck that.
Trading in PoE is def a chore. Running through the campaign can def feel like a chore (depends on build).
Builder skill is what makes it an rpg though. Personally I hope high end building will become more accessible, and won't require data mined info.
If they've actually done what they claim, I'm predicting the exact opposite. All the ritalin addicts are going to run into the first enemy they've seen in 5 years that doesn't fall over before they can read it's name and immediately alt-f4 to jump on reddit and whine about how the game is impossible and they don't have time to hit something more than once because they have 3 wives, 2 jobs and 18 children to take care of.
