XP penalty and likely 1 portal is NOT going anywhere
" You wrote all this to prove to me that: 1) Having invested all this in defenses and you still have to avoid some maps because your chances of dying, despite all your investments, are not low in them 2) You just showed me how bad investing in defenses really is You've probably spent considerable time searching for good gear, having to juggle mods around to max out all your resistances and having invested considerable resources into your character. And you still can't run all the content without worrying of dying. All of this running a tankier character class. Me? I bought a mid level weapon for 5 exalts and I can run maps faster and more easily than you. I probably clear faster, I have lower chances of dying and I have no mod restrictions on my waystones. I was playing braindead zoom zoom zoom PoE 1 style, by the way, so the game was nowhere near something I'd consider challenging. Your mistake is thinking my stance on this is because I think PoE is hard, but I don't. My stance comes from the fact that I am fully aware of how this game feels for casual people that just want to have a good time wanting to play a videogame. |
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" At first I was so concerned with the defences that the game looked harder than really is. After I said "F it" and went full blow DPS and MF the game became much more fluidy and easy. Investing in defences I struggled to clear T10-11 waystones Going pure DPS + MF forsaken resistances I'm zooming T16-17 (Irradiated + Corrupted) The place of defences in PoE 2 is laughable. GGG needs to made serious rebalances on Mob damage, because right now the best defence is a overhelming offence. |
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" "Objectively subjective" is a sophism, i alredy told you to stop relying on that because "Anything objective sticks to the facts, but anything subjective has feelings. Objective and subjective are opposites. Objective: It is raining. Subjective: I love the rain!". https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/commonly-confused-words/objective-subjective/ Also: Good: Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor. Right: Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality. There's no law against making a game as grindy as possible, but making it too grindy is not desirable in human nature. No one wants to feel their time is being wasted, example being the "minority", or so you people claim, of people that don't want to waste too much time into grinding, simply because they don't want or don't have the time to. You can objectively measure the time it takes to achieve something, clear the campaign for example, but even that is exclusively subjective to the skill of the player and their experiences in the genre or with the game (subsequent play throughs). It's literally why speedruns can exist. Objectively, you can optmize an speedrun, but that's beside the point. There's not really an objective way to measure if a game design is right or wrong because it's entire feedback relies on moral subjectivity. It's entirely upon the devs feeling if they want to make the game more grindy or not and it's entirely upon the players feeling if they want to endure it or not, and that is the fact we are discussing. Is the game design good or bad in nature. It's my opinion that it's bad game design because it needlessly prolongs the grind by removing resources in a Hardcore like manner. It's your opinion that it's good game design because it implies that players need to learn from it. So let's drop the sophisms and agree to disagree. |
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" Or just add more enemies like Eternal Knights... |
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" Right, punishing the players by the audacity of thrash their content because it is unbalanced, like they did with the pinnacle bosses "We want the players to watch the mechanics, bad player OHKOing our beloved ultra unforgiving cool Boss. You can't One shot Boss, no no no [read it with a snort and rage crying Dev voice]". Eternal Knights block counter/reflect is one the easiest to avoid, just get close and personal with them and evaporate them while they try to swing at you. Zuletzt bearbeitet von Fhrek#4437 um 22.01.2025, 09:48:41
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" You copypasted this reply exactly 12 times. Nice. |
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" Except for point 2 this is just a list of all the problems the game currently has. Less or even no punishments are not going to change anything, because clearly that's not the problem. If they want to keep the current system, GGG should start properly cleaning up visuals, pinpoint "unfair" deaths, rebalance damage and defences to be actually worth building around, increase build diversity by looking at the least played skills and actually designing around those skills to increase their viability. But they can't be bothered doing any of that so they'll just throw 6 portals back in, and people will blame the feedback section instead of GGGs incompetence. |
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" I was running rare T13 and T14's irradiated + breaches + bosses/corrupted on a 5ex weapon and a handful of 3-5ex gear. I still had to upgrade 2 or 3 slots though. 3k HP + ES, only 65% evasion (with Acro), not even all capped resistances (around 65-ish on most and 10% chaos). I won't lie, I didn't run many T15 maps. I ran maybe 3-5 semi-juiced irradiated ones. Killed a couple bosses on them and realized this game is basically PoE 1 all over again, which I had dropped 2 years ago because it didn't challenge me in any meaningful way anymore. I considered trying to make a chaos monk character, since I didn't see anyone doing it and it could be an actual challenge. Then I remembered it would take another 20-ish hours of campaign and the horrible ascendancy trials, so I ditched the idea completely. After around 80-90 hours on my character I dropped the game. Watching the latest Q&A made me lose most of all the hope I had for PoE 2. The only things keeping me from fully uninstalling are a sliver of hope and the fact I don't need storage yet |
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Keep the XP loss but make it 2-3 portals instead of 6. Dying still matters, but you get 1-2 more chances against whatever just one-tapped you.
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" yeah a chance to die again to the exact same thing lose twice the xp and come vent here and rage at how bad xp loss is :D |
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