Path of Exile vs Diablo 3 2017

D3 is a joke of an ARPG, but an ok arcade racing game. Blizz could rename D3 to Outrun 5 and it wouldn’t make a difference to the Diablo franchise.
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SaiyanZ wrote:
So the only categories D3 won was:

- it's easy to gear up
- it's easy for new players
- animations on mobs when you kill them

The video creator also gave a tie for class options but didn't even mention ascendancies.

D3 is better than just that though.

You can add:

- Quality of life stuffs, inventory size etc.
- Graphic engine is still quite superior. One needs a mod like D3 dark(removes the blurr and adds high res textures) to really notice that D3 is two levels above Path of exile technically. ambience effects, such as dust in the wind etc or the snow falling, the environment feels more alive than PoE.
-As mentioned yes physics, animations, not only K.O animations. Skills, characters etc, e.g. compare cyclone to whirlwind, whirlwind is the better one.
- Stability and hardware compatibility, D3 performs a lot better and is more stable, especially on low end systems such as laptops.
- AI intelligence, mobs knows how to regroup, kite etc. This is noticeable in the harder Greater rifts levels and thus really D3 takes more skill in the upper echelon than POE, although hand holding and noob friendly at first, high greater rifts levels is no place for noobs, especially hardcore can be painfully challenging on certain builds.

Where D3 falls short is really in the ARPG compartment, it offers very little character diversity and the itemization is quite poor, although the coming patch has improved the game when in comes to build diversity, frozen orb wizards and hota barbs are back etc.
End game is not as diverse or good as PoE, Greater rifts ad infinitum.

Last edited by wierdzodi#7807 on Oct 23, 2017, 12:46:13 AM
I think after 3.0 poe made a big step towards D3 - now ppl tend to use more build defining uniques and less gg rares in their builds. Also power creep is shameless.
For me look like this ->


D3 ws Poe

Skillstree Builds - Poe wins

Stash/guildstash - Poe wins

Graphic / world / maps - Poe wins

Bosses / Items balance - Diablo3 wins Yes poe missing combat logg, you can be "one-shooted from a boss you dont know what the boss does? Can be res, armor, or bad items, you dont know.


Diablo3 and poe are good games both of them. I play poe more now becase there more to do in this game.

For me Poe wins now =). I think blizzard working with something big when comes to Diablo world.

Blizzcon this year? maybe we see News about Diablo IV.






Poe veteran! Have been here sense November 2010.
Last edited by Starzon29#0382 on Oct 23, 2017, 4:25:48 AM
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I've played D3 since release and I absolutely loved it!
I only started PoE a month ago and like it even better than D3. Who would have thought ?
I legit can't believe someone said D3 is "harder" than PoE. That is some comedy gold right there.

ARPG is my poison, it's how I stay out of the caaino!

I go back to D3 every year or so and make it about 2 days. Long enough to start pushing deep rifts and get bored out of my gourd. There is no carrot there to my personal tastes.

And I still play D2. If I ever own a computer on which D2 is not installed, I will count myself out of gaming. I've been looking for a digital copy of D1 for a while, to no success. You can get it on disk on Amazon or Ebay for the price of your firstborn. For goodness sake , Blizzard, make that tiny game windows 10 compatible and sell it on your fucking store already.

I loved dial-up multiplayer in D1. Playing a chain lightning mage, blasting my barbarian buddy with friendly fire, and then picking up his ear and taunting him with it.

But I digress.
Here is a super intelligent analysis of poe from side of a veteran d3 player on blizz forums, posted recently :

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I played POE last night through act 1, about level 15ish. The gameplay and questing was ok, but in the end it left a bad taste in my mouth.

My friend who is a POE connoisseur told me to play the Tornado Shot build for ranger. He linked me the talent tree, which I had no problem with having that alt tabbed during the game. However, this morning I wanted to get an in depth guide on YouTube. For one, the picture of the ranger was a womanizing anime version showcasing her rear end. That was a red flag. The video had too much info for me to write down on paper, and I noticed there was an ad for the content creators website two times on the page while showing any given recommend unique armor. I go to check out the site, so y'know, I hoped to have the written guide alt tabbed along with the talent tree...

No. Just no. The website had a disclaimer saying the owner wasn't responsible for any harm to your computer the ads do. There were so many ads all over!!! Really bad virus infested ads, or at least they seemed fishy to me. When I clicked on the link for the tornado shot build I got a "loading screen" that asked me for five dollars to remove the adds.

The loading screen for the build itself had an add for the equivalent of a wow gold seller. Haha it was a site to pay real money for in game currency / crafting mats. This was another red flag!

So now I've decided to quit Poe. Since this is what the community is like. Womanizing, virus infested, and greedy for my money, which I don't have a lot of.

Ok so as I've said, I'm level 15 and just finished act 1. I've got a bad taste in my mouth from the game. Time to give my friend back the leveling unique armor and weapons he gave me. Open a trade. you must be level 25 to trade uniques.

Wow, just wow. I'm now being forced to play through to level 25 just to pay back my friend, so I can quit. So I guess I'll do that today, and hit up Destiny 2 tomorrow when it comes out.

Never going back to POE again. Yuck!


Hate to be that guy, but I think PoE process of account making should have an Iq test.
Spreading salt since 2006
Wow Necro, that guy is quite pathetic. I had posted this same video in the Blizz forums too but it was so toxic, no one could have a civil conversation in there. This forum is far superior with less narrow minded people.
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Castortroy89 wrote:
Wow Necro, that guy is quite pathetic. I had posted this same video in the Blizz forums too but it was so toxic, no one could have a civil conversation in there. This forum is far superior with less narrow minded people.


Well thats true, these forums tend to be more constructive. But at a times I'm no better than that guy, when I give in to the salt in me.

Anyway, around 6-7k hours put into poe and around 2k hours into d3. I can't compare these games, it is unfortunate that they are in the same genre, but at least everyone can have a choice what kind of game they want to play.

It's like people who like ketchup and don't like mayonaisse and vice versa, arguing is pointless, we just have to accept that some people like something and others dont.
Spreading salt since 2006

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