[Megathread] Path of Exile

[Edge-]

Looking at the update thread - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3362856

Can't help but feel like they launched this league straight into the dumpster knowing it would be bad and never even considered addressing issues post-launch unless they straight up broke the game.

Which seems to have worked for them to a point - highest peak concurrency at league launch and retention appears to be solid as well (anecdotally feels like they've been doing more of a UA push on top of last league just being a damned good league) so whatever they're doing appears to be working given those metrics.

[Ghost of Cow]

Just did Innocence for the first time (and on HCSSFR) and that's exactly the kind of thing I'm signed up for. Darn hands were shaking the whole time, just waiting for the "You died" screen to pop up.

Fortunately it didn't, so hooray.

I dunno about all the league mechanics, I'm still a big newbie. Most things have been fairly entertaining so far, at least.

Edit: Kitava 100% should have killed me, but I guess avoidance applies to AoEs that you walk into? Anyway, I didn't die. Yay.

[Trifle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile...timate_weapon/

Why this league is so great: It really respects players time.

I almost want to find the fuller video to hear Carn rage about this, he really is the angriest French PoE player on the planet.

I'm pretty sure GGG have been "investigating" this issue almost since the league launched.

[The Oblivion]

Looking at the update thread - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3362856

Can't help but feel like they launched this league straight into the dumpster knowing it would be bad and never even considered addressing issues post-launch unless they straight up broke the game.

Which seems to have worked for them to a point - highest peak concurrency at league launch and retention appears to be solid as well (anecdotally feels like they've been doing more of a UA push on top of last league just being a damned good league) so whatever they're doing appears to be working given those metrics.

i doubt it has much to do with POE at all, the d4 arpg hype really spilled into people playing this league would be my guess.

other games got similar boosts, last epoch being the main other.

[Ghost of Cow]

i doubt it has much to do with POE at all, the d4 arpg hype really spilled into people playing this league would be my guess.

other games got similar boosts, last epoch being the main other.

Honestly, D4 was why I picked up PoE. Got that ARPG fever, heh.

[The Oblivion]

Honestly, D4 was why I picked up PoE. Got that ARPG fever, heh.

yeah I think that is the case for a lot of people

[Tojara]

That would be my guess as well.

Also, while the last league certainly took you away from maps for awhile, I felt like it was one of their peak leagues that they throw out every once and awhile. Obviously it was a little troll for melee, but this game has been troll for melee for ages. There didn't need to be overhauls to that league aside from them adding those rare items to beat the sanctum for various rewards like 3 weeks in. Other leagues like Heist, Expedition, Harvest and Delirium were also fantastic from a perspective of creating something new in game, however a couple of them (Heist and Expedition in particular) were just awful if you played them during the opening month. They (a lot like Blight) are fantastic additions to the game AFTER their initial launch.

I loved Sanctum and honestly I wish it was a master mission. I just can't see a world where they went through all that work making that area just to throw it away, I'd have to guess it goes core in some fashion (eventually).

Some of the items you can make are nutty this league, but it's not really a mechanic that you can interact with that often and it's a little bit convoluted to get a half decent tree to begin with. All sorts of shenanigan's with chance, scouring orbs and split beasts to reset if you fuck up. That's just the tree part, then you have to actually make the item afterwards. While I've been holding down fully charging every single one, the base cores seem to drop fairly often. But more often than not those are kind of awful for actually giving you a realistic chance of seeing any consistency. The really good ones cost close to two divines for a chance, and usually have the modifiers like can't downgrade, or increased chance of upgrading the level of a node. With one of the best ones being your nodes are more likely to stay (so if you're trying to change your base item with something else, there's a fairly high chance.. in PoE terms anyway, that you'll get the new one or at least keep the old one in a worse case scenario).

My base skeleton mage shield is. +1 to all minion skill gems, +109% minion critical strike chance, +15 fire/cold resistance, +13% block, +54% increased minion damage and 104 life. The tree is +80% life (20% reduced damage), +12% spell block (-5% block), +40% reduced effect of curses (-20% damage for each curse on you), and 50 life recovered on block. I don't think I can get much better, not am I going to bother trying to get a fifth node on that tree.

The downsides on the shields can sort of be worked around, which is sort of opposite of the weapon nodes. A lot of the minion nodes on wands are pretty lackluster and overall a lot of the second and third slot ones have such massive downgrades that they don't really add as much power as you'd think. But still, the shields you can make for totems/minions/mines/traps where your character isn't the one doing damage can be played around with pretty well.

[Trifle]

I think I've hit the point where I'm about ready to quit the league, after a whopping 2 weeks. My character isn't particularly great, but I don't really have any goals left to realistically chase. Item drops are an obvious joke, I'm 94 so there's not much motivation to level up for more skill points (it gets so slow!) and I've still only had 1 divine drop the entire league so I don't really have any patience for farming currency to buy upgrades either.

In short, playing the game further just seems like a giant waste of time. And not in the fun way.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

and I've still only had 1 divine drop the entire league so I don't really have any patience for farming currency to buy upgrades either.

I’m in the same boat just one divine which is absolutely ridiculous at this point. Got lucky and got a cortex on my last map tonight which will sell for a choas worth of another so there atleast that but all that will realistically get me is two chances to get awful trees on my shields.

[Edge-]

Lord I feel validated for complaining about how garbage rare mobs are this league. They're so antithetical to what GGG is trying to do in terms of slowing the game down, because without fail the best way to beat them is always just "more damage" due to the number of regen mechanics they have that absolutely gigafuck lower damage builds. Also how some of the hidden mods seem to be re-broken with shit like the 1500 fusing drop off a single mob.

[Fencers]

Was there a significant contingent in favor of monster regen?

[LilSaihah]

Was there a significant contingent in favor of monster regen?

Maybe the portion of the playerbase who are heavily investing into Dagger/Claw Cluster Jewels?
It's just so boring that I can't understand why you'd like it unless you're making bank off it.

[bloodwulf]

I feel like i hated this league week 1, but now i actually really enjoy it. Killed Ubers and have 3 characters at 95. It really clicked on me when i farmed 38 raw divines in less than 20 hours over one weekend. I was trying to build a totem bow but kept finding bows with "sells for 1-3 divines" so i bought up a bunch of fractured fossils at 50c (they are 3 times that price now) and stocked up on bases with high sell values. Leveled, then split, and sold both copies. Basically, i was doing exactly what i wanted (farm totem bows) and making a ton of currency in the process. I am starting to peter out a bit now, but that is perfect timing as M+ starts back in WOW in a week. I honestly liked this league better than Sanctum because it didnt take me out of maps (my favorite content), didn't have mechanics that literally ignored all the defenses of your character, and has made some builds really silly.

[Ghost of Cow]

This has been a fun ride at points, but I really am starting to be convinced that the reason GGG won't implement a combat log is that things just don't calculate right sometimes. Or things aren't displayed properly on a fairly regular basis.

I swear that some of my deaths - and occasionally some of the deaths I've seen from streamers - just don't completely add up. But eh, doesn't matter I guess.

[Fencers]

Path of Exile 2: Ngamakanui Teaser [Summer Game Fest]



7 minutes ago!

[Edge-]

So it was a whopping 40 seconds of actual gameplay. Feels kinda pointless unless this is part of a teaser campaign leading into Exilecon or something.

[Fencers]

So it was a whopping 40 seconds of actual gameplay. Feels kinda pointless unless this is part of a teaser campaign leading into Exilecon or something.

Well, yeah. It says, "teaser".

[Nerph-]

Looks great!

[LilSaihah]

If they make an open beta announcement or somesuch I'll be happy as a pig in shit. I think it's been at least a year since they did the last teaser.

[unfilteredJW]

So it was a whopping 40 seconds of actual gameplay. Feels kinda pointless unless this is part of a teaser campaign leading into Exilecon or something.

It's a teaser for the announcement for the teaser of the other announcement of the trailer for the teaser of the release date trailer.