what they need to do is to remove harvest completely, like they did with synthesis. It's too far gone now, and only solution is to come up with another crafting method, or better yet, bake harvest into the Lake. Make lifeforce just drop in the lake from the regular mobs and when mommy pops up, you can do all the lake stuff you can do now, plus harvest things at the same time. That alone would give an incentive to do the lake.
AN fags who can't drop loot should have 0 mods. They are pure shit and nothing more than time wasters.
This.
And honestly re: the reddit malding. It's pretty true, but there's also some legit complaints. This league has truly been absolutely dog shit and many people don't like the direction the game is going, which could not possibly be timed worse with D4 on the horizon. While I don't think D4 is going to offer anything like PoE does in terms of complexity and build diversity, I think that it's going to eat into a lot of PoE's playerbase because its going to be mentally braindead. Blizzard would be smart to make an "easier" PoE, so to speak.
By making so much shit so hard -- still, btw -- all they are doing is making players skip a lot of content and only do the most rewarding and most safe content. GGG had a previous vision of letting players choose which league content to do -- do what you want kind of thing. But we cannot do that anymore, because the balance is so out of whack. Ritual for example is one of my most favorites and despite it still on my maps, it's without question one of the most difficult things to do with archnemesis and is no more rewarding than it was last 2-3 leagues. Alva temple is dogshit in general. This is why so many people are running heists and doing legion this league. The return from a single legion with atlas nodes filled out is about on par with half of what a lake can get you and the difficulty is far less than something like ritual. Do a map with 2-3 legions in it, that single map will far exceed what a lake is gonna get you, even with tyranny on difficulty 16. The lake isn't worth it for sure. Heists is still going to shower you in currency and stuff and is one of the safest things to "grind and chill".
Archnemesis causes the same skipping of content, especially in its current state. See an essence with bad AN mods? Skip it. Get jumped by heralding minions, toxic balls, and mirages in a ritual? Alt+f4, or just skip ritual. The game has been made much, much harder to where just grinding and chill is no longer a thing, and yet has gotten much less rewarding overall, locking the jackpots behind lucky archnemesis combinations.
Mathematically it most likely works out, but for those that imply the mapping rewards and experience we had earlier in the league is the same as its always been is straight up delusional and almost no one agrees with you.
Reddit is right about these points. The problem is that there's a bunch of newbs that bitch about the league just to get on board with the general talking points when they clearly dont know what they are actually bitching about. It's amazing how "conformist" people can get. But there's a lot wrong with PoE right now, and a majority of the community sees that.
League retention yesterday is down to just 38.9%. It's dogshit, and the league is dead at this point. There's nothing GGG can do to save it.
