3.10 Has Greater Class/Ascendancy Variety Than Any League In Recent Memory!

Even the most popular ascendancy is sitting at only 13%, and there's only one ascendancy at less than 1% (Chieftain at 0.8). 16 out of 19 ascendancies are at 2% usage or higher. In terms of skills the balance is also looking good, with the only big outlier being Cyclone thanks to its flexibility and hence usage in a great variety of builds.

Source - https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds

i'm the 1%... playing a raider.

Well, technically I'm like 0,8% of 2%. SST Deadeye :D

Playing Shield Charge Juggernaut, the only build I know and love, lol!

Interesting. Storm brand surge due to Archmage.

Next is ED... weird to see that come back.

Ball lightning is a great boss killer (probably a lot of miners here)

Lacerate, bleed creates distance.

Ice Nova next, then some spellslinger suspects.

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dachoppa wrote:

i'm the 1%... playing a raider.

It is just those top players.

Thanks to bow nerf, few wants to try a ranger anymore. Ranger can't tank (evasion tanking) as good a trickster and these two leagues are much more demanding now, making ranger quite weak.

Perfect balanced achieved?

Greatest diversity to go with the worst league experience. Maybe we should stop nerfing builds so that the kids can pretend they're Faker playing a MoBA, and just bring back the Winter Orb and summoners, so that people can actually have fun.

Imo, the absolute core of any good arpg is "a very grindy power creep". My favorites are/were D2, Hellgate London, Marvel Heroes, PoE. Faceroll grinding to become an absolute god and shit stomp everything....that's the genre. There are plenty of pvp games that offer a steady dose of self hate and nerf hammers of boredom. Why is PoE trying to be some rage inducing wannabe esport, when it should be injecting more faceroll fun that the genre is famous for?

You know what isn't diverse? The level of fun everyone is having: none.

This league sucks, they know it sucks, and rather than trying to do a real fix..they're tippy toeing around it, hoping it'll fix itself. Cool, you gave out a micro transaction loot box..that doesn't fix the fact that the game is not fun and you're hemorrhaging players.

News flash: Dying over and over, is not "challenging"..it is not fun.
News flash: Dying over and over, for weak ass loot, is even less fun.
News flash: Having to farm your life away just to get rng'ed out on a boss that takes ridiculous effort to even fight, is even less fun.

The RNG required to even finish collecting watchstones is ridiculous, too. This entire league is flawed and not fun..I hope they fire whoever came up with these ideas.

Players online directly correlates with how fun the game is. Having no builds that can reliably do content, is not fun, and means there is no hope or point to playing the game. There's probably diversity in people attempting different builds on a quest to find a unicorn, only to discover that it doesn't exist, and quitting shortly thereafter.

I really wanted to avoid cyclone but felt pushed into it by the league mechanics given how rippy they were on release. I originally wanted to do something like heavy strike or a more natural melee skill but my league starter found standing still was a good way to die to something you didn't even see in the first place.