A realization about Path Of Exile economy, from watching Streamers

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binhddhn6 wrote:

The fun is actually the road to get there,not the destination.

while this is true, ggg going for full poweer creep instead of diminishing returns is making you always feel like you started the motor in the garage while others already enjoy the mountain views.

and those ssf and hardcore guys are fine with never leaving the garage at all.


imho, those endgame events shitting you with loot are supposed to be carrots that keep hanging in front of us all, allowing to have a bite from time to time.

not the top 10% donkeys sitting in them.

they should overthink their stance with having everything tradeable

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vio wrote:

and those ssf and hardcore guys are fine with never leaving the garage at all.

Can't say so, a lot of builds is quite endgame-viable in ssf, maybe not that shiny regarding fancy corruptions and enchants, but endgame is still perfectly doable with a bonus of your regular drops really having some "value" not measured in worthless pixel orbs.
And if you are nolife enough, you can play the same three and a half powercreep meta-schmeta builds from trade league with almost the same gear/dps.
Even yours truly can farm a bit more and make a budget version of that very smart harold "build", but i find it quite dull to sweat my ass farming some broken shit that will be nerfed in a month, also can't say i enjoy extreme powercreep in general.

Hardcore is another story, but mainly due to game itself having over9000 lags/bugs/disconnects.

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Phrazz wrote:

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jtggm1985 wrote:

I have to disagree with the "no forced content" bit there Phrazz, and I will explain why. While yes it is true nobody is holding you at gunpoint to kill sirus in the real world, GGG is forcing you to, at least once in the game world because he's part of the quest at the end. Same as shaper was, same as uber elder was, but they swapped those out for the shittiest fight I've ever seen from a mechanics perspective and reneged on their own word that chaos resistance wouldn't be super important when they put in chaos damage.

Edit: Grammar and spelling

It's a good thing, then - that I wasn't talking about Sirus when I said "crazy content". As you say, Sirus IS part of the main end-game story. What I was referring to, was 100% Delirium maps with triple Beyond and crazy stuff like that.

While I do absolutely agree that the fight has its flaws, it's pretty mechanical and can be learned. AND it can absolutely be done with -60 chaos res.

For you and some others, perhaps. For me and some others, perhaps not.
You can see Sirus' telegraph for his port, I cannot. While you can possibly react to the die beam, I cannot because I don't know where it's coming from. These are just examples. Different people will have different abilities and no offense but sirus is, by definition, crazy content (haha see what I did there?) for some people. Now, when you refer to content, you should be more specific because there's many crazy contents in this game, and quite a bit of it is required, for crafting, for lore, for challenges etc.

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You can't really track him he doesn't face his port location AFAIK its just a random port, your better off getting a feel for the timing and doing a blind movement skill on the cue.

9 times outa 10 you'll dodge it fine, the other 1 you'll find you are jumping straight into it which is F but for SC that ratio is fine.

Its a shame they kinda ruined it from last league tbh, he was about on the level of shaper (safe if you know the fight, bit more challenging on A8 but easier than UE overall)

The reworked one so to speak just feels buggy and random, on SC i'd just overwhelm with dps because there isn't any fun to be had in mastering the fight.

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dW2005 wrote:

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vio wrote:

and those ssf and hardcore guys are fine with never leaving the garage at all.

Can't say so, a lot of builds is quite endgame-viable in ssf, maybe not that shiny regarding fancy corruptions and enchants, but endgame is still perfectly doable with a bonus of your regular drops really having some "value" not measured in worthless pixel orbs.
And if you are nolife enough, you can play the same three and a half powercreep meta-schmeta builds from trade league with almost the same gear/dps.
Even yours truly can farm a bit more and make a budget version of that very smart harold "build", but i find it quite dull to sweat my ass farming some broken shit that will be nerfed in a month, also can't say i enjoy extreme powercreep in general.

Hardcore is another story, but mainly due to game itself having over9000 lags/bugs/disconnects.

hc ever sounded intriguing to me but when i look at my deaths even when playing carefully, i think i don't have the reaction time anymore to counter offscreen projectiles in 30 to 50ms with flasks or even kiting.

but then, making a hc build and quit the league on death would be something my girlfriend would really really like :), i will think about it.

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"enjoying the power creep", i realised today that the worst effect this weird "give professional players some playground" meta of ggg has on me is, that it makes every investment i make in the game feel like a wasted one:

every simulacrum i fail before wave 20 i think that abusing the meta would just make it a cakewalk and i just wasted the splinters.

every orb or shard i apply to buff on maps makes me think i probably waste all that by not being able to beat the boss with the deaths it causes before, i get 5 splinters, harolds got 200 out of it.

i see streamers dying while idling in active simulacrums and think it's not the game i originally loved and supported.
maybe i played it too much.

Economy in POE...KEKW

Watching literally pros play and comparing. Yeah I can't dunk like LaBron or dunk at all for that matter. Boohoo. Just have fun dude unless you're willing to make it a job like they do. I still play basketball even though I'm only a 5'8" part Asian dude and have fun. I played PoE forever and had fun for most part until Gen 3 but that's on me just got bored. Never worried about being like top streamers. Like I'll never be Labron James.

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vio wrote:

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binhddhn6 wrote:

The fun is actually the road to get there,not the destination.

while this is true, ggg going for full poweer creep instead of diminishing returns is making you always feel like you started the motor in the garage while others already enjoy the mountain views.

and those ssf and hardcore guys are fine with never leaving the garage at all.


imho, those endgame events shitting you with loot are supposed to be carrots that keep hanging in front of us all, allowing to have a bite from time to time.

not the top 10% donkeys sitting in them.

they should overthink their stance with having everything tradeable

Depends. I have literally found everything twice in this game at least. Two shavs six cospris and other A tier drops too. So standard SFF you could roll out of garage as casual. Just don't expect to do it in three months.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

You can't really track him he doesn't face his port location AFAIK its just a random port, your better off getting a feel for the timing and doing a blind movement skill on the cue.

Regards Sirus fight:

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vio wrote:

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binhddhn6 wrote:

The fun is actually the road to get there,not the destination.

Maybe that's why Diablo 2 was so good. It was fun during the adventure, and at the destination.