Good video. I know how you feel on Poe. I found the game after playing Diablo years ago. For me the game made me mad. Having a game that doesn't tell the players how it all works is trash. But after some ups and downs. I finally understand the game. 6 years later now. I STILL don't know it all. But that's on me, I hate build videos and using a 3rd party site just to play a game is bad game design. But Im still able to have fun.
ya man, that's all that matters right? It took me years just to be able to slap my own idea together and hit a wall in tier 12's, and i was very proud of that milestone.
Hey man, I think you make some valid points during the video, I will say I disagree with your take on the grind aspect of things. While I DON'T think it should be easy for people get a headhunter or a mageblood, I DO feel there needs to be some way to be able to get them without straight up burning out. I've got 10k hours under my belt and 8k of that has been since the covid lockdowns, so yeah by definition I would be in the sweaty no lifer category, that being said I tire more and more with the league start 80-100 hour grind to get my character setup. Leagues with broken economies are great fun if you have some really weird build ideas that normally would not be feasible. This league I decided to make a bunch of shaper/elder uniques and mess around with one of my favourite build types, I didn't play magic find, just my normal bossing build, boss drops were valuable once again so I could make decent currency to afford my degenerate build and I had a lot of fun doing so. Regarding the explodey totem build though, that one was my favourite ever, it felt great finally being able to farm the uber versions of bosses I usually farm the normal versions of, I get why they nerfed it but I really wanted to be able to play with it in standard, and unlike you I didn't feel dirty playing it, it was awesome, especially I theorycrafted it myself going hierophant with it. Also lastly, I believe difficulty should be a mostly linear curve with some spikes and troughs throughout the campaign, not completely front loaded like it currently stands, as it currently is the game is too difficult to onboard a lot of new players, I get that it filtering out people that wouldn't gel with the game is good but it also filters out some that would, because dying isn't fun especially to hillock or beach rhoas that just perma stun you.
Ya, I mean I had a lot of fun in these past couple leagues, (splodey totem and mf to the tits) but I still cant shake the feeling that its invalidating to a degree. Don't get me wrong, getting a broken build or a wacky league from time to time is fun, but when were talking about core changes with the game thats when I'm like, "is this a slippery slope"? I'm curious, what is an acceptable system for leveling alts that doesn't compromise the integrity of the game? Mercy systems? Or target farming? I just don't want things to get corny. GGG is like the last game co with integrity, and they walk a fine line when it comes to QOL... Speaking of they need to put instant skills back in left click WTF.
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Good video. I know how you feel on Poe. I found the game after playing Diablo years ago. For me the game made me mad. Having a game that doesn't tell the players how it all works is trash. But after some ups and downs. I finally understand the game. 6 years later now. I STILL don't know it all. But that's on me, I hate build videos and using a 3rd party site just to play a game is bad game design. But Im still able to have fun.
ya man, that's all that matters right? It took me years just to be able to slap my own idea together and hit a wall in tier 12's, and i was very proud of that milestone.
Hey man, I think you make some valid points during the video, I will say I disagree with your take on the grind aspect of things.
While I DON'T think it should be easy for people get a headhunter or a mageblood, I DO feel there needs to be some way to be able to get them without straight up burning out.
I've got 10k hours under my belt and 8k of that has been since the covid lockdowns, so yeah by definition I would be in the sweaty no lifer category, that being said I tire more and more with the league start 80-100 hour grind to get my character setup.
Leagues with broken economies are great fun if you have some really weird build ideas that normally would not be feasible.
This league I decided to make a bunch of shaper/elder uniques and mess around with one of my favourite build types, I didn't play magic find, just my normal bossing build, boss drops were valuable once again so I could make decent currency to afford my degenerate build and I had a lot of fun doing so.
Regarding the explodey totem build though, that one was my favourite ever, it felt great finally being able to farm the uber versions of bosses I usually farm the normal versions of, I get why they nerfed it but I really wanted to be able to play with it in standard, and unlike you I didn't feel dirty playing it, it was awesome, especially I theorycrafted it myself going hierophant with it.
Also lastly, I believe difficulty should be a mostly linear curve with some spikes and troughs throughout the campaign, not completely front loaded like it currently stands, as it currently is the game is too difficult to onboard a lot of new players, I get that it filtering out people that wouldn't gel with the game is good but it also filters out some that would, because dying isn't fun especially to hillock or beach rhoas that just perma stun you.
Ya, I mean I had a lot of fun in these past couple leagues, (splodey totem and mf to the tits) but I still cant shake the feeling that its invalidating to a degree. Don't get me wrong, getting a broken build or a wacky league from time to time is fun, but when were talking about core changes with the game thats when I'm like, "is this a slippery slope"?
I'm curious, what is an acceptable system for leveling alts that doesn't compromise the integrity of the game? Mercy systems? Or target farming? I just don't want things to get corny. GGG is like the last game co with integrity, and they walk a fine line when it comes to QOL... Speaking of they need to put instant skills back in left click WTF.