Path of Exile 2

If they want to make every encounter meaningful, then they need to reward you. I fought a rare last night, against my better judgement, for 10 minutes to get 3 blues. None of which were bases I needed.

The thing is, there are certain classes and covid that feel great. Hell huntress has some great ideas that just need small tuning.

But in the end ff I'm not getting loot then what's the point of all this added challenge.

How's Diablo 9 comin along

Having a much better time now on my Minion Lich. Snipers and SRS with Contagion and Essence on harder mobs/bosses.

Jamanja was a bitch but pretty smooth sailing now in Act3. Got the Bird Boss Tornado bitch in Chaos trial so failed that one pretty bad. Will try again later.

Arbitrary said:

The nerfs were so numerous and so large than giving level 30 minions 79% more damage (from where they are right now) might not be enough for mapping.

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That was the other thing Kripp said - tooltip on minion damage showed a 70-90% drop from 0.1 to 0.2 builds before whatever this hotfix was. I forgot to bitch about that. I was doing easy mode grenadiers like every other scrub in 0.1.

Tide27 said:

I agree with this take. You want people in there breaking the game now, so that it can be fixed.

With the glacial pace of updates being made, I wouldn't be against the idea that they turn the currency loot up x10, so that people can play around with the crafting system, since that's what everyone is trading for now...is currency to craft.

This gives a ton of people access to systems to test, versus it being in a relative few small hands due to " economy ".

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Ya'll would have a point except they stated from the start that they're releasing half the acts, half the classes, half the weapons, and half the gems with an incomplete end game. While GGG deserves a lot of shit, this is pretty much the definition of early access.

Fogel said:

Ya'll would have a point except they stated from the start that they're releasing half the acts, half the classes, half the weapons, and half the gems with an incomplete end game. While GGG deserves a lot of shit, this is pretty much the definition of early access.

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A live service game where Jonathan explicitly stated they stopped treated it like early access with rapid changes when people complained about GGG bricking their builds. Once you decided to stop treating your own early access like it's early access and implement the full league model it's just the game. This is the game.

Ziz's interview with mark and jon started just now.

yet again trying to steal Last epochs thunder!

ooph, not starting off good.

Jonathan coming off horrible. Terrible ideas. he doesnt understand what is wrong at all.

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A live service game where Jonathan explicitly stated they stopped treated it like early access with rapid changes when people complained about GGG bricking their builds. Once you decided to stop treating your own early access like it's early access and implement the full league model it's just the game. This is the game.

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I do not understand why they dont just release fixes and give free full respec every time

Jonathan is so out of touch, it's clear where the problem lies.

Ziz tries to do his "everyman champion" shit and often echos the worst parts of the player base. He's a very good and knowledgeable player, but he tries to be a man of the people more than he tries to be a gamer and it comes off as whiny shit a lot. He's like the anti-Mathil where Mathil basically says like "this is their game and if you don't like it get good or get out". That's why the podcasts with Quinn, Ziz, Mathil, and Steel are good because they all counter each other and you get a better series of questions and dialogue.

Mark definitely is the man for the job. The problem I think is he has two jobs and Jonathan is actually buckling to the majority of QQers on a lot of stuff he doesn't need to rather than letting the game develop first and adjust second.

That said 0.2 was terrible for most people. A lot of steps backwards, and probably 60-70% of Reddit/Forums crying was actually justified. In previous PoE leagues I'd say that number was closer to 10-30%, so this was definitely a fucking rough time. These patches are nice and are getting fired off rapidly which is exactly what you want for fixes and QoL, but they're going to end up doing this to OP builds and people are going to lose their shit again. People only want EA to mean changes when it's all buffs and goodies, not when actual balance comes around.

Uriel said:

Jonathan is so out of touch, it's clear where the problem lies.

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Makes you wonder what his actual role/job was previous to being promoted when Chris stepped back and eventually left.

"we can't let you be faster then the monsters, you might not kill them"

idk, jon. how about make killing them a. not take 20 years for a white mob, and b. be rewarding?