Eidal
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Path of Exile
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Korrupt
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Jesus I didnt think of that, I'll be much richer whatever way it turns. Piety & Dom farming both net so many orbs of alterations which I always convert into Jews and then into chaos.
Krag
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I very rarely trade for anything and I'm not even close to bothering with actually selling anything, so I guess I'm playing somewhat self-found. I just vendor some augs or alteration for wisdom scrolls when I run out.
With regards to the Rampage league I have to say I'm fairly disappointed so far (we might not know everything, of course, but I doubt there's much more to it), and that's not because I need more loot either. It just seems pretty lackluster. Exiles, invaders, strongboxes all brought something new to the game, whereas a rampage buff feels like just more of the same you'd do anyway.
Korrupt
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I think thats exactly what I did which was use frenzy but this was before multistrike.
@Eidal it was one of the replies on a reddit thread like the spoilers about the nodes from devs.
Mr Creed
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I love the ideas this game has, I really do. To the point that I bought more points then I need just to support them. But truth is their polish and notcode issues keep me from enjoying it for long, I usually pick it back up for a new league and leave within the week. Races are an exception and I always enjoy those, especially the crazy difficult ones, but I never got to mapping because of the general issues they dont resolve.
If you look at what the last mini-expansion brought, look at this one that's coming, and then look at D3 2.1 it is really depressing how weak Blizzard's delivery is and yet their superior engineering and polish ends up winning.
P.S. PoE needs a snow map, too much brown (and green)!
Yeah, the netcode is suspiciously bad. It's way, way worse than any other game of a comparable caliber. It's not only desyncs (though that's the worst part) but also just constant mini-lags. It's particularly visible when doing something like throwing a lot of items into the stash or an inventory full of stuff into the sell window. It feels like playing some old NWN server hosted in a dude's basement on a regular PC with household internet: it's playable, but the lag is a constant presence and really tarnishes the experience.
I think PoE has some of the best ideas in gaming history. The game's founding concepts are up there amongst the best five I've ever seen. Unfortunately, it's buried under a lot of really weird, low-quality design. I love the passive skill tree, but needing to spend 75% of your points on life nodes takes away a lot of the potential. I love currency objects, but the good ones are so rare that the only way to really use them is to be a trading tycoon. I love the item system, but good loot is so rare that the game feels unrewarding to play after a bit of time as you stop finding upgrades so quickly and are forced into obsessive trade mode if you want to progress into the real endgame.
Some of those things are improving, but very slowly and after such a long time that I'm not sure it's because GGG see the problem so much as just their need to try different things as expansions add up. Meanwhile, they've completely failed to deliver on their promise - and on the game's potential - of customized leagues and a wide variety of playstyle options. This is the very game that could have provided a self-found league, a cutthroat league, a craftsman league etc., but they've completely neglected that aspect of the game and provide only the 4(now 3)-month leagues as an alternative to standard/hardcore, with races being too temporary and competitive for many.
This was going to be the game that supported all the playstyles that people had been wishing that the APRG genre supported. GGG advertised the very thing in the game's infancy. They clearly have the infrastructure for it, they've promised to do it in the past, and there's very obviously a demand for at least a self-found league and a cutthroat league. However, for some reason, they staunchly refuse to with their league system what they advertised in the past, and what players have been begging for ever since.
I think PoE has some of the best ideas in gaming history. The game's founding concepts are up there amongst the best five I've ever seen. Unfortunately, it's buried under a lot of really weird, low-quality design. I love the passive skill tree, but needing to spend 75% of your points on life nodes takes away a lot of the potential. I love currency objects, but the good ones are so rare that the only way to really use them is to be a trading tycoon. I love the item system, but good loot is so rare that the game feels unrewarding to play after a bit of time as you stop finding upgrades so quickly and are forced into obsessive trade mode if you want to progress into the real endgame.
Some of those things are improving, but very slowly and after such a long time that I'm not sure it's because GGG see the problem so much as just their need to try different things as expansions add up. Meanwhile, they've completely failed to deliver on their promise - and on the game's potential - of customized leagues and a wide variety of playstyle options. This is the very game that could have provided a self-found league, a cutthroat league, a craftsman league etc., but they've completely neglected that aspect of the game and provide only the 4(now 3)-month leagues as an alternative to standard/hardcore, with races being too temporary and competitive for many.
This was going to be the game that supported all the playstyles that people had been wishing that the APRG genre supported. GGG advertised the very thing in the game's infancy. They clearly have the infrastructure for it, they've promised to do it in the past, and there's very obviously a demand for at least a self-found league and a cutthroat league. However, for some reason, they staunchly refuse to with their league system what they advertised in the past, and what players have been begging for ever since.
Krag
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If you still need those, I probably have some lying around in standard. I'll log in and check once it's done patching.
Eidal
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Hmm, I think a casual player would be far better off in a new league unless he plays self found zero trading, in which case it doesn't matter too much.