Forums are very quiet....

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LiMA6 wrote:

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Exxxiled665 wrote:

is it just me or are the forums very quiet lately? usually there is a lot more new threads and discussions...are people enjoying the league too much and forgot about the forums?

trade's dead also.

league's dead.

to be expected being one of the most garbage leagues ever made.

(am keepin it alive somewhat.)

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gallaghd wrote:

Im still here, trying to grind to 100

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LiMA6 wrote:

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rekikyo wrote:

I’m going to be blunt: Specifically Elden Ring has absorbed a lot of common forum mainstays including me, because without a wiki, the game takes dedication and is a far more modern and far more adaptive and more realistic game.

It’s also one of the first games I’ve seen since about 2006 that can be played offline. (I explicitly play it offline because for some reason Steam deployed Easy Anti-cheat which drastically overworks your GPU)

Once people have their play throughs and game pluses, some will come back here.

The other games have already lost their poe base, more or less, but Elden Ring is a masterpiece.

Since they keep wanna make this game more and more gamble/chaos spam oriented, and since you're sayin the game's good -- i'd encourage everyone to try also (ive never even looked at it). anything's better than poe at the moment. they couldn't even bother making archnem less annoying. they are probably busy making act3 harder right now (giggles...). who needs common sense right?

I personally am playin non-poe atm.

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Exxxiled665 wrote:

is it time to call in GGG's mascot?

Spoiler

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Nubatron wrote:

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LiMA6 wrote:

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Exxxiled665 wrote:

is it just me or are the forums very quiet lately? usually there is a lot more new threads and discussions...are people enjoying the league too much and forgot about the forums?

trade's dead also.

league's dead.

to be expected being one of the most garbage leagues ever made.

(am keepin it alive somewhat.)

It depends on what you're trading I suppose. I've probably done 25+ trades this morning, with the highest being 9ex and the smallest being 2C.

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rekikyo wrote:

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LiMA6 wrote:

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rekikyo wrote:

I’m going to be blunt: Specifically Elden Ring has absorbed a lot of common forum mainstays including me, because without a wiki, the game takes dedication and is a far more modern and far more adaptive and more realistic game.

It’s also one of the first games I’ve seen since about 2006 that can be played offline. (I explicitly play it offline because for some reason Steam deployed Easy Anti-cheat which drastically overworks your GPU)

Once people have their play throughs and game pluses, some will come back here.

The other games have already lost their poe base, more or less, but Elden Ring is a masterpiece.

Since they keep wanna make this game more and more gamble/chaos spam oriented, and since you're sayin the game's good -- i'd encourage everyone to try also (ive never even looked at it). anything's better than poe at the moment. they couldn't even bother making archnem less annoying. they are probably busy making act3 harder right now (giggles...). who needs common sense right?

I personally am playin non-poe atm.

Honestly I have no problems with GGG making Act 3 or whatever harder or even completely reworking the AI to make it more interactive than just "skill shot and nuke" power grinding. If 1 mob offered 10 times the challenge and Xp but there were fewer mobs, this game would be arguably better.

The problem lies in the fact that this mass mob situation with mobs weaker than a bowl of Oatmeal on the grind.... is what we're USED to. There will always be backlash against changes that result in disruption of any norm.

No. My problem with POE is that most builds get punished harshly just because of their XP loss vs item progression needs harshly, and the fact that most build realities have entirely different setups for Bosses vs mass mob clearing. As a result, players get comfortable running things like CWC with Spell Cascade or various other supports that create very good screen clear, but then the player will not realize that more challenging content needs to get rid of those -30% damage mods and replace them with more direct damage, which also means that you have to aim.

GGG has also become a game of "which defense works best while somehow having extreme offense," while this equation usually heavily flies in the face of limited skill points. (If you're an int stacker with Frenzy/Power Charges, you at best are going to have 40% suppression/block/Spell Block without Glancing blows, and it's really hard to cap all resists because the best stacking items have no resistances.

There's also the fact that the game caps resistances unless you allocate specific items/skill points/auras to combat it, while obviously making other auras and point allocations more attractive, and often in conflict.

For example, outside of using a Brass Dome, and Purity Auras, it's very hard to deal with both resistances and have enough Armour to really mitigate any significant late game damage. You might get armour tanky, but then get destroyed by ele 1 shots, unless you're somehow also leeching off 10 mil dps hits. You might get resists, but then get 1 shot by a blue mob for having only 4000 Armour because you're some ES build or Life/ES hybrid and the blue mob does good Physical damage.

At some point the grind also just becomes about farming, not completion.

When most people like to customize but the cost of customization is losing progression, the game just becomes unfun at times.