Sad to say, but there is no more real POE expirience, MAKE ALL SKILLS ALMOST EQUAL FOR VARIETY );

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AbilityPoints wrote:

PoE is out of control and GGG can't get a grip. One shots and anti-player map mods and mob affixes are their only solution. Powercreep for players has gone too far and GGG can't help but give us more of it.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

Build flexibility is definitely down IMO but most of its the league mechanic, lots of defences are bad for it. That alone kills most interesting ideas if you play on HC

on SC just learn to play glass cannon and everything works, yes you are compensating for game failings with your own mechanical skill but that in itself is alot of fun especially on a potato skill.

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Farystar wrote:

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Aynix wrote:

Just because you are sheep following the streamers doesnt mean there are no players taht play this game 4fun and to test their ideas.
(I will tell you a secret, there is still plenty of those. THey just dont bother coming to this shithole called Forum or Reddit)

Since when i am following the streamers. I stopped long time ago, when they got the idea of accepting that only few builds are viable. If i followed the streamers and always make the best fast clear meta builds i could easily get all the achievements.

But i don't want to so i never get many challenges completed. I refuse to play best endgame builds. I always make my varieties and test things out, but the game doesn't let you feel the desire to continue to enjoy.

It just came to the fact whoever is willing to grind 24/7 and need to have no life to really enjoy this game.

In 8 years of playing the game i think i tried a lot of things, but never felt like my time was finally worth investing into the POE world and endgame content and that i managed to survive deathless.

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I refuse to play best endgame builds.

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satanttin wrote:

Guess OP is a sheep lol

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crunkatog wrote:

It's like any other game with options.

Not all options are going to perform equally against a set of conditions.

Skills that get shit done, get picked over skills that *look* cool but don't get shit done.

Once you find a skill or cluster of skills that gets shit done, you do your best to support it. Gear, ascendancy, tree, pantheon, bandits.

This is like any other "best practices" implementation, from choosing the best material for building high-performance cars or robots or implantable surgical devices, to hiring skilled staff, or scouting college ball talents.

Not everything or everyone will make the cut. And once they do, you've invested a lot of time and (money) finding them, so you support and minmax them.

And if after a while (10 years running for PoE) the general approach to supporting highly effective skillsets looks the same, it's because we have tools and numbers that guide these decisions. Not just a couple dozen streamers, but probably tens of thousands of players using Path of Building, looking at analytics-tickers like Poe ninja, and target farming/carrying specific things.

And like skills, not all pieces of gear will make the cut.

A lot of skills are neglected and underpowered and that's just the way it's going to be. GGG could go back and rebalance all those skills to make them pseudo-competitive with ice shot or cyclone, but they won't, because they have other things to do. They could buff or rework uniques that get no serious consideration from competent players, but they're actually fine letting these items remain in the gutter because it's not a priority.

They also know that even a small change to one of the bottom-rung skills, made in a vacuum, could have severe consequences, and they acknowledge that rigorous playtesting and tuning of power levels is not their strong suit.