My feedback as I do not know how long I can stand this anymore.

Dear GGG,
first of all: I appreciate your work on POE1. You guys making the best videogame of all times, after all :)


Merc league was my favoured one so far. This was because I found a mechanic (or even a few) I could do for weeks feeling rewarded for my play time (which was abyss troves finally, loved that so much). Never had that much dopamine while mapping in 10 years.

I had a blast finding out how to craft perfect items while recombinating, trading or farming T17 stuff for it (mostly bases) - it was frustrating at times and finally felt so totally great to succeed. crafted items to sell them and earned loads of currenxy. even fails were sellable. loved it.

State of Keppers for me:

Great start, early 6-links felt perfect. Fell down hard arriving in endgame. A week in I can't afford next upgrades to my build as I do not get the one lucky drop and everything I try is just a loss of time.

In short: you took both things away I loved so much in Merc and replaced it with nothingness. I think this will be the shortest POE1 league for me in 10 years + of non stop playing POE1.

+1

Just read the new post. Looks like I am not alone.
Well, hopefully there will be enough adjustments and they don't come to late. Destroying so much diversity with the combination of league-mechanic and nerfings all abroad the base game (map mpd on tree + scarabs gone), hope it is savable in short time.

And I got the feeling there were a trillion other stealth nerfs, like in Heist, which arent affected by mapmods or scarabs but feel so much worse

I agree. It was fun early campaign. Getting an early 5L was great. But late campaign breach was hard, and I don't want to do the endgame ones. I kind of wish I could just turn it off and just enjoy the rest of the game.

Playing sunder berserker and my experience has been entirely different. I am enjoying the league and currently just got into red maps, having no issues. Only found two to three divs worth of currency, but I'm still progressing, I don't see how other people are struggling maybe play a different build you can comfortably farm with?

+1

League Tree is kind of rewarding in early game, for the Endgame this gives you just a free Gamba Chance for MB or some expensives Uniques.


Mapping is not Rewarding as it should be.


Fix the Loot first, remove this trash Walls in the Maps, Reward the LEague Mechanic more.

Breach League 1.0 10/10
Breach LEague 2.0 3/10

Mercenaries were the best thing for replayability and diversity of builds in a long time and now they are gone.

Instead we have laggy purple unrewarding blob destroying half of our maps.

Going back to standard until I see massive reward improvements to this league, but since POE1 is two steps from maintenance mode I doubt it.

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ac429#4687 wrote:

I agree. It was fun early campaign. Getting an early 5L was great. But late campaign breach was hard, and I don't want to do the endgame ones. I kind of wish I could just turn it off and just enjoy the rest of the game.

My thoughts exactly. It's okay I'm not really complaining, i love playing in Standard and will probably do so.

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mnieradko#6070 wrote:

Mercenaries were the best thing for replayability and diversity of builds in a long time and now they are gone.

Instead we have laggy purple unrewarding blob destroying half of our maps.

Going back to standard until I see massive reward improvements to this league, but since POE1 is two steps from maintenance mode I doubt it.

yes diversity is wanting to play a lightning skill, so you slapped doryanis on your merc.

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Lonnie455Rich#2087 wrote:

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mnieradko#6070 wrote:

Mercenaries were the best thing for replayability and diversity of builds in a long time and now they are gone.

Instead we have laggy purple unrewarding blob destroying half of our maps.

Going back to standard until I see massive reward improvements to this league, but since POE1 is two steps from maintenance mode I doubt it.

yes diversity is wanting to play a lightning skill, so you slapped doryanis on your merc.

No, "diversity" is what people say these days when they mean "the entire game is so easy that it's impossible to make a mistake."

Especially compared to this league, which GENUINELY HAS incredible new build diversity: not just new skills, but new types of skills, and new ascendancies... and yet, everyone wants to talk about how much build variety there was back in Mercenaries, lmao

I wish people would just be honest and say that they want this game to be easier.