It's so BORING to do storyline all over again

Totally agree.
The game relies on experimenting different builds, but running the 10 acts all over again make it less enjoyable.
There should be an alternative way of leveling (see the only good thing about diablo)

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Shagsbeard wrote:

You can literally type /passives into chat and it will tell you which quests you need to do to get skill points.

Then you can click on that quest from the portal menu and it will literally light up the path you need to follow to complete that quest.

You really use the "I can't remember" excuse after complaining that you've done it too many times?

I know about that passives command, but having to go back and pick up missing passive points you've missed? Not solving the problem, though I admit it alleviates it. And what about respec points?

Yes, I really cannot remember. You're saying everyone playing this game should remember offhand, which quests give points, and which don't? If so, why are so many happy that this /passives command was implemented?

That's the problem with the selective few. They expect every player to run by their elitist rules. Know this game by heart, remember every quest, do speed runs in 8 hours or less, reach end game maps in a day or two, full masters level 8 by one week (or less, if you spam prophecy and pay for chain rotas). I have never reached masters level 8, and I have been playing this game on and off since 2012 closed beta. Level 7 at most, and I try to give the league my best, when I can. With the limited hours I have, why do I want to spend them on the campaign I'd already done to death? It's not leveling I mind, it's the freaking campaign I'm forced to do again every league, together with master rotas.

Most of the player base don't, or can't. They have lives, they don't reach the level of streamer efficiency. GGG cannot just listen and cater to people who play this game 24/7 and make choices, because there's that larger player base out there, you call casual or whatnot. We work, we support this game financially, and we hope to get in some gaming time before we sleep. That's life.

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kolyaboo wrote:

What did you do before the new acts? Now, that was boring doing same stuff over and over 3x. We were used to it but the new acts with one pass through is so much less boring.

You might also realize PoE ripped this off Diablo 3. D3 had the normal, NM, hell and inferno difficulties before streamlining them into one playthrough.

I think people need to be more objective when it comes to improvements. Sure, D3 isn't the game many hoped for, but it's not all crash and burn. Just because D3 has a feature, doesn't mean that feature is bad. Some people played D3 once in 2012, hated it and left, and continued to slag it for the next 5 years without knowing what has been going on.

Okay ... I gotta comment on this one.

Those three difficulty modes predate D3 considerably, PoE is based on D2 not D3.

Yes, I know that. As shit as a game D3 was, it did make many improvements over the years, though I still believe PoE is the better successor to D2. D3 made that change to difficulties, PoE followed suit because it was the reasonable change to make.

Now we have to acknowledge playing campaign ad nauseam isn't the future this game has to go by. People are willing to return for leagues, but not for the campaign.

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MBQ wrote:

People complain about everything these days, so the forum will be flooded with posts saying that someone had the chance to get better gears way earlier than them. How will your gears and skills look like? Does your character start at level 68 and your selected skill gems at level 15? Or 16? How do you decide that? Or if you start at level 1 and go to atlas, how do maps adjust to that? And I'd like you to be very specific on that last one, because the way I see it, finding balance in 160 maps is pretty hard right now already, with people running literally thousands of spider forests in a row.

Why D3 nephalem portal idea is bad? Players start at chosen personal hideout and at level 1. They receive not a Map Device, but Map Research device. When you enable it, it generates map for your character depending on your level and you can use orbs on it, maybe it will spend some kind of resource, maybe not. Yes, this would look like nephalem portal from D3 (im not D3 fan, but its not a bad thing to admit some good decisions). Anyway, guess what game designers who get payed on full-time work can invent? I think they can invent much more.

I've never played D3. I feel strongly about the distinction between virtually limitless funding and a hundred thousand a year though. Then again, just from the technical point of view, maybe it would work if you copy/paste the game further from the diablo franchise, many of my other points would still stand, specifically the fact that you're losing half the game.

And there would still be many people unhappy about the option to opt out, just as there are now who complain that there isn't that option. And I think any dev who cares about their own game (rather than shareholder equity) would opt to save game content, rather than remove it (or give an option to remove it, as someone has pointed out the difference in wording)

From reading there seem to be a sense of entitlement from the new players. I guess that is what happens when you get popular. You get the casuals who wants it all but wants to invest little :P

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ninedeadeyes wrote:

From reading there seem to be a sense of entitlement from the new players. I guess that is what happens when you get popular. You get the casuals who wants it all but wants to invest little :P

It's not a new player thing. It's an improvement thing. Yup, using the word "casuals" just like any self entitled elitist. PoE getting popular is a good thing, but people like you act all high and mighty about it.

I've been with this game a long time, since beta. I'm not asking for things, just because. If you tell me you can speedrun campaign in 8 hours, then give me an endless map for leveling to 70 in 8 hours as well. I'm not asking for faster or instant level 70 or whatever. I just can't stand running campaign again for every new character in every league, all that fetching and hunting, picking up this and that, wondering which quests give points and whatnot.

I wonder how much shit all these snowflakes would have flipped back in 2001. its rather amusing

Story is shit, game play on story mode is also shit. Skills books should be optional in, if you need it you can go and do those quests. There should be option beside require to do story every damn league

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Babymakerkiller69 wrote:

Story is shit, game play on story mode is also shit. Skills books should be optional in, if you need it you can go and do those quests. There should be option beside require to do story every damn league

That's just like... your opinion bro.

Doing the story every league is a great way to be introduced to new leagues mechanics, makes sure there is healthy and equal competition between players as everyone needs to go trough exactly the same initial steps.

Shame you don't like it but that's life. Sometimes you have to do things you don't like.

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Bone2flesh wrote:

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Babymakerkiller69 wrote:

Story is shit, game play on story mode is also shit. Skills books should be optional in, if you need it you can go and do those quests. There should be option beside require to do story every damn league

That's just like... your opinion bro.

Doing the story every league is a great way to be introduced to new leagues mechanics, makes sure there is healthy and equal competition between players as everyone needs to go trough exactly the same initial steps.

Shame you don't like it but that's life. Sometimes you have to do things you don't like.

did you just post your own fucking opinion too? think a little bit, you don't need to quote my opinion with your own opinions.

think a bit more before commenting, make a new thread about how you like story mode, 0 fuck were given.