Just caught up on the last few pages, and it seems my general malaise about this league (only my second!) is pretty common.
I've stopped caring about Nexus shit and just run the memories for xp/loot. I also noticed that if you have 10 un-placed pieces, when you do another one it replaces one you had (probably the last one, as it seems to always be the bottom right, but I never check to see what I had either). But fuck it, I don't care, half the time I set up a line of shit to do, and if I manage to get to the loot/mod one that was my goal, several times I've had it fucking decay so fast that I couldn't even path to the reward, and I literally just wasted that entire run for no reward. Fuck that. I get having the memories decay, but make it like the fucking Temple where once you set them up on your map, you have all the time in the world to run them. Having the reward node decay randomly super fast is just gay as fuck and makes you want to smash your monitor. Or me at least.
Also, I've been trying a couple builds, and I just don't like playing them. First was brands, and I get how OP they are, but it is pretty boring and just isn't my thing. Second is Herald of Agony, which I liked well enough at first (when my dps sort of mattered a little), but I'm already at the point where I literally just keep shooting Rain of Arrows until the crawler kills everything. My damage is practically irrelevant. And if there is a boss where I have to run around a lot...how the fuck am I supposed to cast RoA a lot to power up the crawler?? He poofs half the time because I only got a couple stacks on him, so now while I run around there is zero dps on the boss...which makes me run around more. I can't stop and unload a bunch of rains to let him stay up a decent amount of time, and it just pisses me off.
So, I think I'm going to go and play my favorite from last league, which is Vortex/Cold Snap/CI Occultist. Which also means I'm just playing the same thing again, except with a shitty new league mechanic that I don't even want to use the proper way. At least I'll be able to respec the HoA character easily enough, and I'm early enough in the league that I might actually get to endgame, which is a decent enough goal I suppose.
Mainly just ranting, but I really, really hate how you can't try out some builds very easily without a moderate investment. Yeah, I know a lot of you guys could get to where I'm at in a day, but it is still a chore for me, and I just hate how some builds you literally can't even try until mid-30s, and even then you don't really know how it will play at higher level. To someone like me, that's a non-trivial investment. Unless I go make a shitload of builds in Standard and try them out between leagues, but fuck me if that sounds even less fun.
Sorry, just not really loving this league at all, when I was really excited at first (Carcassone is a great board game btw). Off to respec my character!