As a standard player this league is a huge step back

Here are my reasons.

1. Map rolling is nerfed.
2. Endgame strats are ALL nerfed.
3. Overall loot is nerfed. I get that last league was a bit wild but the nerf is too restrictive now.
4. Performance is bad. Shader bars are staying full, even in HO, and there are literally 50+ threads on bug forums about this and not a single mention from GGG about the issue. Yes I have deleted my shader cache. Yes I have deleted my client.log, something is wrong for some of us.
5. No breach bloodline ascendancy in Standard, but we have all the others.
6. Gems are nerfed
7. I can actually hit alt during blight now and the game doesn't crash, not because performance was made better, BUT BECAUSE THERE IS NO LOOT.


I realize as a standard player we aren't really the core target audience.

However, seeing league players now hitting endgame with the same concerns about endgame and performance indicates to me that this isn't a user-specific set of issues.

As a pre-emptive strike for those who want to imply the performance issues are on my end, I run Win11 25H2, I have a 285K and a 5080, and I currently am top 25 on every benchmark on 3dmark with that setup.

Please look into performance.
Please look into loot nerfs.

The QOL changes are incredible and its awesome to see the team still putting effort into POE1 if you can review loot and performance I know I will be forever grateful.