10% xp penalty is far too frustrating

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DanielH#5404 schrieb:

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Inquisitor_Tyr#2394 schrieb:

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DanielH#5404 schrieb:

If someone wants a more brutal experience - give them "veteran mode" and let others have their casual mode.

I think you missed the Memo bro, the entirety of POE IS brutal mode.

Its complexity, challenge, and the adrenaline and dopamine that comes with it when you die right before hitting level, or hitting that mark as the case may be, are what make the experience memorable and worthwhile.

I am playing POE on and off for more than a decade. Times change. I don't think it's me who didn't get the memo of how games evolve.
XP penalty has nothing to do with the difficulty. This way of punishment ist just outdated.
I get my dopamine in Excel, calculating the best way through the skill tree. XP penalty is just unnecessary.
If my build doesn't work out, I see that because I am dying and can't do certain content.

An XP penalty is like elecro shocking my dog every single time he does something wrong. That just develops even more weird behaviour.

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Soop#0082 schrieb:

Skill debuff would be a better penalty anyway.

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DanielH#5404 schrieb:

I get my dopamine in Excel, calculating the best way through the skill tree. XP penalty is just unnecessary.
If my build doesn't work out, I see that because I am dying and can't do certain content.

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 schrieb:

50%reduced experience gain baseline.
Gain a stack of "1% increased experience gain" for every minute in combat up to 120%
lose all stacks on death. Problem solved

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Soop#0082 schrieb:

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 schrieb:

50%reduced experience gain baseline.
Gain a stack of "1% increased experience gain" for every minute in combat up to 120%
lose all stacks on death. Problem solved

I actually really like that.

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Brotie#3177 schrieb:

It's terrible, why in 2024 would you disrespect players so bad when that 10% could be an hour or more of their real life time, But like I dont delete my save file in single player games when i die or delete all my gear in wow, or uniinstall mods in warfraem etc. Like are pnuishing mechanices from the late 90's the "vision" that will see this game have 2k players in a year?

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Vinsdvalh#0247 schrieb:

I think a lot of players see the lvl 100 as an achievement they get over more casual or less skilled players. Some sort of exclusive gg boyz club.

A lot of players are afraid of losing XP and wasting part of their time and therefore play too safe and too slow and end up getting bored and quitting the game. Without the penalty maybe they would be trying to kill harder bosses and be engaged longer in the game.

Also, in POE 1, people afraid of dying are just paying people to run the boss for them, feeding some economy based on third party tools. If I was profiting from that economy, I would be probably against the removal of XP penalty, because the same is coming to POE 2.

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DanielH#5404 schrieb:

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Soop#0082 schrieb:

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Toaru_Majutsu_no_Index#1288 schrieb:

50%reduced experience gain baseline.
Gain a stack of "1% increased experience gain" for every minute in combat up to 120%
lose all stacks on death. Problem solved

I actually really like that.

I mean, that took us like 3 minutes to come up with something more innovative than "lose character progression upon death".