Mathil's thoughts on Nexus.

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Reinhart schrieb:

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Biovital schrieb:

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Reinhart schrieb:

I am honestly disappointed with this league. The league itself is far from complex though.

Is this my reward?

What am I supposed to do with this?

All that hard work you put into it and you are complaining that you got a wand easily worth at least 49 mirrors?

It is the name right?

Yup it is an absolute T1 and Best in Slot Name.
Armageddon symbolizing the destruction of content and braincells while acquiring it. Needle pointing out the spiky aspect of your stick.

Also the two dots right and left to its name further amplify the greatness of this wand.

This stick cannot be beaten in terms of its destructive capability beeing long and spiky, erect straight on top of two balls framing its name.

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Biovital schrieb:

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Reinhart schrieb:

I am honestly disappointed with this league. The league itself is far from complex though.

Is this my reward?

What am I supposed to do with this?

All that hard work you put into it and you are complaining that you got a wand easily worth at least 49 mirrors?

49?? Stupid, at least 50.

It's not only about the rewards, the content itself doesn't feel engaging enough remember that this is an ARPG before beeing a lot of different minigames going with leagues and there are some standards that should be respected.

The pace is not here, the micro-management for items is too heavy, it's once again focused on killing trash to eventualy get something that will possibly allow you in year 2080 to craft something decent if you are lucky - that will be already outdated due to powercreep coming with each leagues all three months.

The selfcast "adjustements" are totaly ignoring the main issue with self casting ( well not all but for the most part ).

I'm not here to do some free shit talk about the league, the idea behind is great but i don't feel playing an ARPG with this content, either it should be some super fast engaging gameplay wich is what a lot of players show interest for, or a really slow gameplay but really hard and then a lot more rewarding than now ( not rewarding at all ).

I start to feel the game is reaching it's limits and need to take a new direction.

Or maybe i played too much these past years that's also possible :)

"i feel this is too much complexity, for complexity sakes" ©Mathil
More or less all my toughts in one sentence.

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BearCares schrieb:

If I'm not mistaken a lot of you were complaining about Delve until you finally took the time to get used to it. I think Synthesis is the best league mechanic the game has added so far. And that eventually once you allow your expectations to evolve, you will realize that it is an amazing additional content.

I don't remember that about delve. I remember people complaining about the disturbing amount of RNG required to find delve bosses, but everyone raved about the ludicrous amounts of drops and currency even lower levels showered upon unsuspecting players

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Imaginaerum schrieb:

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BearCares schrieb:

If I'm not mistaken a lot of you were complaining about Delve until you finally took the time to get used to it. I think Synthesis is the best league mechanic the game has added so far. And that eventually once you allow your expectations to evolve, you will realize that it is an amazing additional content.

I don't remember that about delve. I remember people complaining about the disturbing amount of RNG required to find delve bosses, but everyone raved about the ludicrous amounts of drops and currency even lower levels showered upon unsuspecting players

Nope, they raved after about 2 weeks of nothing but trashing the league. They didn't realize that the side areas had loot. They didn't realize they had to upgrade their flares and darkness resist. People said they quit after degening in the dark but they hadn't put one single upgrade in darkness resist.

You see, I was forced to 'white knight' that league too because the entire forum became much too negative. Then suddenly everyone got amnesia and started to claiming that they'd always loved it.

For me the league has been a huge miss, but I realize not all league mechanics fits every person. For me the whole thing feels like a chore and extremely unrewarding. I'll just farm up the stuff I need in ssf to give the new skills a nice try then wait for next league.

Personally I dont know if its the league as much as its POE has run its course - for those of us that have been around for 5+ years. What else could they add to make it that much different, specifically in 4.0?

This is why I am really hoping the "4.0 mega expansion" is a smoke screen for POE 2. Chris said they went into 4.0 with the mindset it needs to compete with D4. D4 is being made that is all but confirmed and to compete with it (I am assuming Blizzard learned their lesson with D3) GGG is going to need something fresh. What are they gonna do add more acts...God help us I hope not.

My hope is POE2 is underway in a new engine, tells a new story on Wraeclast, with a new spin on the best parts of POE while re-imagining some of the "lessons learned".

Reading the forums in the past few days, seems like I made the correct decision skipping this league.
I had a feeling during Delve that the following leagues will be severely outshined by it. It turned out to be true, at least for me.

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Nephalim schrieb:

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satanttin schrieb:

yeah because everything you do should be about reward? lol

Enjoyment as well but reward is a big part of it.

You can not ask a player to study nexus mechcanics, form a massive 20-40 link bridge with 200 total global nexus mods and have it drop 6 splinters and one map.

^ THIS!

Getting loot and getting better loot so the player's toon can improve is the core of all arpgs.

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BearCares schrieb:

If I'm not mistaken a lot of you were complaining about Delve until you finally took the time to get used to it. I think Synthesis is the best league mechanic the game has added so far. And that eventually once you allow your expectations to evolve, you will realize that it is an amazing additional content.

Delve was shit until it was fixed. Then it wasn't shit.

Had nothing to do with getting used to it.