Mathil's thoughts on Nexus.

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Mikrotherion schrieb:

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Imaginaerum schrieb:

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satanttin schrieb:

yeah because everything you do should be about reward? lol

ah yes I show up to work without getting paid too

What if... fun were the reward for playing?

But what is "fun"? It might be by killing mobs, completing challenges or building your own build. But for some, having a reward (looting) is the "fun".

So you can't differentiate fun from reward.

For some, having fun is the reward, & for others having the reward is fun.

The concept of the league is really great but it's obvious that very little testing was done on it prior to release.

I think they're going to overhaul it in the next few weeks. Best not to worry about it for now and just treat the league mechanic as free extra mobs.

Why should they do a damn thing? They patch the game once every 3 months. A huge portion of the team is working on 3.7 already.

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Johny_Snow schrieb:

Why should they do a damn thing? They patch the game once every 3 months. A huge portion of the team is working on 3.7 already.

3.7 nice

Cleave and ground slam can now hit 42 targets at once.
Heavy strikes knockback range is increased by 2 radius (this is a buff)
Cyclones aoe has been reduced.
Molten strike can now have a maximum of 4 projectiles.

We have introdued a new melee chaos skill that does 10 gazillion dps, can fill the whole screen and the mtx (on sale for just $50) is guarenteed to make you go blind.

Thank you for your support.

PoE is a ACTIONRPG. But the Nexus stuff is so counter-intuitive you have Google a guide that takes you out of the game. When you think you know what you're doing it takes too long to get the Nexus set up that's satisfactory.

Basically Synthesis,like the Labyrinth before it, takes the ACTION out of ARPG.

I appreciate GGG expanding on the ARPG format that Diablo created and have expanded on but sometimes all we require is ACTION!

For everyone having trouble understanding how the Synthesizer works and how to make the most of it, here you go - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2461503

It's actually quite intuitive once you know the mechanics, albeit unlike previous league content this one is much more late-game biased, which explains why so many people's first impressions of it are (and will be) negative.

The memory map, otoh, doesn't feel too good to mess with, even if you understand how it's meant to work (there's a video guide on that too, if interested).

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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.

Enjoyment *IS* the reward for playing games. It's not like your cashing in that gear on ebay or something.

You know the league is dogshit when even Mathil doesn't like it.

I agree with everything he said, especially about how "touch the thing, kill mobs, collect loot" leagues were way more fun and rewarding than this complicated crap we have now.