Expectations and Opinions

Game is great, mechanics, uniques and first impression.
act 1 was most accurate in PoE theme imo (probably because act 1 was created just after when PoE idea was born), I really liked brutus fight and seeing Piety studying something there as u interfere.
act 2 was ok,
act 3 is better in second half but it starts to feel a little off theme (especially in docks, solaris),
act 4 started to feel like an other game, thou piety and maligaro felt most in this poe universe. It was great to meet such historical figure as voll, but it wasn't such an impressive contact as it was the first contact with brutus. Doedre felt really off theme.

In the future I would like to see inherited some more live to this game, not just adding more content just to kill more variable stuff in more places, would like to see this game in more original PoE perspective as it was at first. Maybe adding worshiped deities with their lore, cults, their temples which u can somewhat interfere (like adding another's cult's head or items to sacrifice, similarly to darkshrines, just not that random). Adding new T1 uniques would also greatly help (like thrill of kaom's heart, shavrones wrapings), its ok that game is being balanced and kept in place, but it also needs to be extended, added more great stuff, which players dreams about.

Expectations are the first step on the road to disapointment.

There is, and always be, a fundamental disconnect between conceptualization and "reality".

Discussing personal expectations and opinions and calling it game theory accomplishes little more than frustration for everyone involved.

I like everything but Maps are horrible. I basically hate the end game. Never maintained maps and its same maps over and over. Ascendancy sounds really great though and should fix end game.

End game higher level map drops is not good, imo.

Once past lvl80 and into maps grinding can become really hit and miss, with good map drops few and far between, although I heard that GGG are going to rectify this situation soon.

Also, act 4 end game bosses are a bit crazy as far as damage spikes go, and *small* arena style fighting, eg: Daresso/Malachai is definitely not my cup of tea.

I really enjoy the game as a whole though, it's probably the best game I have ever played in many years of game playing.

Even though I don't play the new one month leagues, I can see the benefits of them to the game.

I hope that the new patch when it comes addresses some of the few small faults that the game has currently, especially the map drop situation.

Currently, I don't feel the urge or need to play anything else apart from PoE because it's a very good game.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Best necro ever.

Charan bb we miss you in ot <3


Anyways, I don't come in with high expectations to most games especially ftp but my enjoyment of this game in the 600 hours I've played has been pretty high and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. I've decided to keep a ripped hc char to test out maps and the end game, and while I enjoy it quite a bit right now but I can see why people get frustrated with it. Fortunately my playstyle works with it since I like to make alts.

I'm really looking forward to the new expansion as well so I'm sure I'll be able to put another few hundred hours in. The only issue I have is with how deadly the traps can be and the fact I play mostly HC with pretty spiky ping. I'm afraid that the ascendancy classes will be necessary and as such those of us who still use predictive as we don't have the precise control to navigate some of the traps.


TL;DR: My expectations have been more than met and I am looking forward to the new expansion with both fear and excitement.

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I hope those new physical damage spells and also new chaos damage spells gives a fresh air on some witch/shadow builds.
I know they will have some good surprises from RNG for talismans, hope for having some interesting builds towards them.