What is the Point of Dodge Roll?

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AceNightfire#0980 schrieb:

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i1332v#2731 schrieb:

U all kinda contradict here, debating where a dodge roll it's needed, when in fact, you can use it in towns and everywhere ...

Why can i doge roll in towns if i do not need to doge roll in towns?

Because GGG decided it doesnt bring harm to be able to dodge roll in towns.

of course, no harm when the hole town is narrow and to get to stash u must pass 2000 skinned players that will melt your video card, not to say loading times on that, all shaders and sprites, let's add more, like pets with sounds for everyone, of course ... act 2 caravan is a dream come true for my big fancy PC, with 1ghz connection to the satellite, let's add dodge roll to this, to make things, let's say minimal at very least ... i mean, yeah, the temps on that hardware, it's like a good oven in winter days, like me in a smithy crafting items doge rolling on heated video card charcoal

The OP isn't necessarily wrong. Dodge roll seems to be a core mechanic that's literally the worst. The act 1 boss fight is a prime example -- when he does the death from above thing the dodge roll seldom is far enough to get out of it. Compound it with clipping, lil jars on the ground blocking you, your own tempest bell blocking you, every monster on the map blocking you... its value quickly wanes.

Melee doesn't even have an enhance dodge roll or mechanic to avoid it so here we are in the deadeye league ... also known as ... POE1 where movement speed is king.

Dodge roll needs a fair amount of work IMO and GGG would be smart to focus some dodge roll love on the LEFT (NOT RIGHT) side of the tree.

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Kerchunk#7797 schrieb:

Guy, just say you personally don't like dodge roll. If you think dodge rolling makes combat less meaningful that's absolutely fine and very much your prerogative but, no. I'm sorry. The fact that GGG disagrees with you doesn't mean they "don't even know what the heck that means!"

to be fair, this is a very old sentiment that goes back to 2012 -- "GGG doesn't know what they are doing", "GGG doesn't even play their own game".

GGG is committed to doing what THEY FEEL is in the best interest of the games longevity and the company.

The games longevity is guided by "The vision", a term hated on deeply for years already by the day I started.


So I feel you -- but this insult is old as time.


PS -- I thought you might enjoy this detail... One league when fans were VERY upset at GGG and were really hard spamming "GGG doesn't even play their own game", a GGG dev started up a character in HCSSF public realm, finished the league without dying at level 97 in 3rd place on the server or something wild like that. I think the name was really basic like GGG_Official or something mundane.

But truth be told, I think it's possible a lot of the staff at GGG are much better than the average player, which should be obvious.

Would be hilarious when surrounded, if we dodge roll throught enemies, they fall like pines. xD