How's endgame?

Been away for awhile, how is endgame here now?

do u still have to rely on trading to progress without winning the lottery?

Dysync is just a part of the game so won't bother asking about that, lol.

are endgame builds just a rotating FotM still or they figure out how to balance it so there's at least a few viable builds.

looks like there's daily missions now, are those any fun?

To be honest, apart from the map supply being improved thanks to the map master Zana, endgame is still the same boring shit. I don't really feel the need to trade, which is a progress I guess.

But these mini-expansions are not what the old timers are expecting.
Sure GGG improved on some flaws.
But I'm still expecting a serious content renewal and something which would renew the playstyles.
Right now 99% of high-level builds are still dependant on a dozen of rare uniques. In other words, skill doesn't mean much, the uniques make the builds.

As a currently-level-80 take what I say with a grain of salt since I'm not technically far into the endgame, but

To put it shortly: I'm having quite a bit of fun.

1) do u still have to rely on trading to progress without winning the lottery?
Sorta.... I make a fair amount just farming merciless dom/ doing maps and then doing the chaos recipe (1c for a full set of ilvl 60+ rares, 2c if they are all ilvl 65+ or unid, 3c if they are unid and 20% qual). Now that I'm running a fair amount of 70/71 maps (which arn't really the top tier, but are decently far) I'm also starting to find some decent rares that sell pretty well or are worth equipping myself. So far... i have 2 stash tabs of useless worthless uniques... so I kinda wish there was something more to do with those (unless there is, in which case tell me! lol)

2) are endgame builds just a rotating FotM still or they figure out how to balance it so there's at least a few viable builds?

There are many effective endgame builds, that being said there are still FOTM builds such as CoC-Barrage or Rainbowstrike, but these generally require a large amount of wealth to run (and are incredibly effective). I think there is something along the lines of 7-10 builds overall that can farm uber atziri with relative ease in the upper 90s, but Im sure there's others that can take her with some work. Also... I dont really consider farming uber atziri necessary to have a successful build, as you can do pretty well just farming the upper lvl maps.

2) looks like there's daily missions now, are those any fun?

Zana is my home bitch. I love this woman. She's all like "are you running low on good maps? Boom here's your daily with 2-3 dropping inside of it".. and for some reason every map she opens for me from my hideout tends to be 70+. Also Zana allows Mapception to be a thing... where you're clearing a map and you find her in it... and she opens another map in your map. The others are mostly useful for crafting items as they level up + housing (hideouts).

lol end game.
Have fun with your vender trash for alt frags like you did for the first 80 levels.
Remember you're in end game when that lvl 8 one chaos value unique drops too.
Just a few more exalts in trading and you can go shop for an upgrade!

I ripped on my level 74 ranger last night and was not really phased at all. It was then that I realized that I just find the endgame as it is fairly meh. Maps have a lot of variety and all but it being the only way to really grind out drops is idk it can get very boring.

we need like; endless dungeon each floor +1 monster level/ maybe random mods each area minus blood magic/ adjust exp curve as needed

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ry4444n wrote:

we need like; endless dungeon each floor +1 monster level/ maybe random mods each area minus blood magic/ adjust exp curve as needed

Fancy bosses or neato content won't fix the terrible drops or casino trading sim bullshit.
You'll be doing the same thing you're doing now in different surroundings.
Bad game is bad.

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ComKiller wrote:

Been away for awhile, how is endgame here now?

do u still have to rely on trading to progress without winning the lottery?

Dysync is just a part of the game so won't bother asking about that, lol.

are endgame builds just a rotating FotM still or they figure out how to balance it so there's at least a few viable builds.

looks like there's daily missions now, are those any fun?

No new endgame content has been added since Atziri.

Less with the crafting from masters but still generally needed.

Yes FotM is still a thing and will be a thing here and in all games until the end of gaming.

Some are fun others are completely frustrating but the novelty generally wears off pretty fast.

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do u still have to rely on trading to progress without winning the lottery?

No trading is necessary. Barely traded this whole league and have done great with the new masters and combined with all the new features implemented into the main game(master quests, exiles, strongboxes).

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are endgame builds just a rotating FotM still or they figure out how to balance it so there's at least a few viable builds.

There is like... 10 FotM builds at any given time. I'm not even sure what the current FotM is exactly. Diversity has been great and it's quite easy to name off 50+ endgame viable builds that are completely different from eachother. Of course there is a lot more but build diversity has not been an issue in a long time.

Just to give an example. The "FotM" builds named in an earlier post I didn't even know they were popular at all.

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looks like there's daily missions now, are those any fun?

Some are fun, some need improvement. GGG plans to add more master diversity with the next patch this week. There is a huge amount of variations already so they're nice. Zana can be quite fun.

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ComKiller wrote:

Been away for awhile, how is endgame here now?

do u still have to rely on trading to progress without winning the lottery?

Dysync is just a part of the game so won't bother asking about that, lol.

are endgame builds just a rotating FotM still or they figure out how to balance it so there's at least a few viable builds.

looks like there's daily missions now, are those any fun?

Its fine.

actually its a bit better than before, I have a character that is well on its way to farming atziri totally self found (every item on the character was found with that chracter and with ~30 iir).

B.