Path of Exile is a MAJESTIC incline

[tritosine2k]

Arcane cloak: 0.4%

That self cast buff went well. Better nerf unleash gem some more before they go overboard lol.

 

[ArchAngel]

Arcane cloak: 0.4%

That self cast buff went well. Better nerf unleash gem some more before they go overboard lol.

I find it hilarious that after all these years I still have more fun playing Diablo 2.
I guess I need to somehow buy the overpriced D2 with "better" graphics

 

[tritosine2k]

Let's hope this gains some traction ...

 

[Kjaska]

Ah this game never changes. Still same shit where you either kill enemies fast or they murder your ass. I got to low level red maps, started dying like crazy even with having a fairly good defensive character (but damage was not good enough to kill them before they start attacking). I don't know why I bother playing this game at all, trying to make logical balanced characters. There are crazy defensive builds that are immune to most stuff and it seems those are only ones worth playing if you don't clear screen in 1s or less

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Red maps are no joke now. On most builds you'll have to prepare before transitioning from yellows.

 

[ArchAngel]

Ah this game never changes. Still same shit where you either kill enemies fast or they murder your ass. I got to low level red maps, started dying like crazy even with having a fairly good defensive character (but damage was not good enough to kill them before they start attacking). I don't know why I bother playing this game at all, trying to make logical balanced characters. There are crazy defensive builds that are immune to most stuff and it seems those are only ones worth playing if you don't clear screen in 1s or less

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Red maps are no joke now. On most builds you'll have to prepare before transitioning from yellows.

That would require caring enough to get either. I quit playing after 2 weeks into new league, I just complained now.

 

[Kjaska]

I've finished my 40/40 (it was real easy this league) and am currently just chilling, doing 1 cycle of boss rushing every day until I finish Elden Ring and come back to actually harvest all of my boss invites I have accumulated.

The strat is soooo good for accumulating invites, guardian/conq/synthesis maps and just getting rich with no investment. You can get 1 big boss invite per 25 minutes, if you really ignore everything else.

 

[tritosine2k]

GGG 's design philosophy™ at work, traditional caster' s classes dumped in a roadside ditch supplanted by tankiestest© melee character casting screen-vomit® with molten shell determination aura & co™.

 

[Kjaska]

GGG 's design philosophy™ at work, traditional caster' s classes dumped in a roadside ditch supplanted by tankiestest© melee character casting screen-vomit® with molten shell determination aura & co™.

Nice 0,01% example you cherry picked there, nigga. With that level of gear you can make any skill on any ascendancy work. It's not even a 120+ quant invitation, lmao.

 

[Zeriel]

GGG 's design philosophy™ at work, traditional caster' s classes dumped in a roadside ditch supplanted by tankiestest© melee character casting screen-vomit® with molten shell determination aura & co™.

You're joking right? Ranged characters have always been absurdly better than melee. So much so they had to add "melee" skills that are just ranged spells.

 

[tritosine2k]

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GGG 's design philosophy™ at work, traditional caster' s classes dumped in a roadside ditch supplanted by tankiestest© melee character casting screen-vomit® with molten shell determination aura & co™.

You're joking right? Ranged characters have always been absurdly better than melee. So much so they had to add "melee" skills that are just ranged spells.

I don't call that ranged but AOE. Casting is "on the chopping block" and all they did was facilitate power creep for some upcoming chop. Why even introduce spell tags like "arcane" if it's a shorthand for shit. Kinda obvious game is getting reduced in complexity and I'm being nice here.

 

[Kjaska]

The only thing obvious here is that you're talking out of your ass and I'm being nice here.

 

[tritosine2k]

^ dude says this game and most of its community is not an echo chamber, behold:

ALL SKILLS (ANY LINKS)
Determination
73%
Molten Shell
67%
Enlighten Support
63%
Defiance Banner
60%

Not only it's a POGGERS echo chamber, you're a dopamine addict with certain anally fixated Tourette's vernacular.

 

[Peachcurl]

what's that list, percentage of use?

 

[tritosine2k]

what's that list, percentage of use?

https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds
3 out of top 5 skills is armor stacking

BONUS:

 

[Kjaska]

Oh, I see now what your problem is. You're a totem cuck in a league that nerfed totems. No wonder you're pissed off.

Yeah, people like defensive auras. What's your point? They were trash tier for years.

People will always flock to what is meta, because people want to feel good about their build. You can still make off-meta stuff work with investment. Do you want EVERYBODY to make their own, unique shitty builds?

 

[abija]

Well in a game with such build variety seeing most people droning towards whatever is meta and grinds faster is just... sad. And while ultimately the blame falls on the players, GGG sure encourages this behavior through the way difficulty and rewards are balanced. And the cherry on top is how much their actions contradict their words. (eg: we'd like to slow down the game, here enjoy incursion)

 

[Kjaska]

What game doesn't have meta-cucking? It's fucking everywhere. I hate it as well, but how are you going to prevent that in the age of the internet?

BTW build diversity is fine this league. Just because many prefer Determination + Molten Shell doesn't mean that everybody is playing the same build.

"we'd like to slow down the game" is not the only thing GGG says. They also say that they want a certain amount of tension to remain in the game. But autists love to pick out one sentence somebody once said, declare it as the difinitive design statement for the entire game for the eternity of time and point to it whenever they want to REEE.

Whenever GGG released a league that wasn't centered around clear-speed and required people to think or make choices, they hated it.

 

[Sykar]

Energy Shield is master race!

 

[Kjaska]

those boss rarity passives aren't half bad

 

[Baron Dupek]

"Engine improvements"? Better late than never, I guess? Maybe this time performance on Blight (especially Ravaged ones) maps will be better....

 

[Baron Dupek]

oh look, some flying turd boosting rare monsters
because that's what we need

 

[Kjaska]

Going frame by frame during the transitions doesn't seem to reveal anything. Maybe it's just GGG fucking with us this time. Or maybe it's the effect that will be used in the league mechanic itself. Looks like it could be a Legion + Blight hybrid. Regardless. THE HYPE IS ON!

 

[Baron Dupek]

New div cards
one of them, as expected, give you a MageBlood

and it's a goddamn potion seller reference

 

[Kjaska]

Inb4 it drops only from your own lvl100 character when you die in hardcore.

 

[ArchAngel]

I quit last league fairly early since it is still all same unfun turd every league. Maybe with PoE2 they are able to make a game that does not waste your time with so much unfun shit.

Maybe my mistake is that I keep trying self casters each league trying to capture that Diablo 2 Sorceress fun with all 3 elements (done all 3 versions) but this game is not made for that kind of fun without extreme grinding.