Sadly both games have bad itemization but POE have better some unique affixes Diablo have better rare rolls
for example this let you play meele with no weapon but then you find out that you can use only 1 skill Infernal blow
because other desync too much .
On ther side Diablo have better rare items rare items can actually roll better as uniques and you can't use 2x unique at once in D3 so unique is actually unique
Because uniques are very small part of drop and rares drop all time
D3 wins in itemization fight , also in combat because there is no desync you can smoothly whirlwind with 1000/second attacks and 80% mov speed BUT D3 losse in character customization
that could or could not be repaired in Soul taker Of reaper /or whatever it is called not gonna buy datadisc for price of full game
Fact that all players except some crit dagger users aim for same gear just like in D3 kills itemization You can't roll gloves that can compare with
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for crit
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for spell block
So rares are mostly not picked up just like in D3 and ppl rather buy some MIRRORED/i call it legaly dupped gear that is BIS and never care again
Perfect rolls are so perfect atm that some can have just like +5 energi shield
Don't get me wrong, I like POE as well. It's just that the game was heralded as the savior to D3's bad itemization. But in my experience, that's not the case. Was curious what other people who played both games thought about it.
I always felt POE was heralded as the savior to D3's bad character customization, not loot. It's clear the developers wanted acquisition of finely-tuned loot to be possible, but very hard to get. There's a lot of cool ways to customize your gear, which already beats D3 itemization imo.
If you open up the global chat right now in the game, people are going crazy over Vaal orbs. Its freaking awesome and its fun to see everyone so excited. I'd say that's a pretty good sign POE's in the lead. :)
Well DUH you're not supposed to be able to easily get a 6L. That's a BiS item... you think getting BiS items is supposed to be easy? Getting 6l is SUPPOSED to be incredibly difficult.
I love the itemization in this game. I'm playing invasion right now and I am having no troubles gearing my templar. He's level 59 and currently just entered a3 merc with this gear:
Oh, did I mention he's kicking ass? This is all stuff acquired from a fresh start. I see no problem with the loot. D3 it took them two years to figure out that a wizard wand shouldn't be rolling 250 strength...
Well DUH you're not supposed to be able to easily get a 6L. That's a BiS item... you think getting BiS items is supposed to be easy? Getting 6l is SUPPOSED to be incredibly difficult.
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D3 it took them two years to figure out that a wizard wand shouldn't be rolling 250 strength...
PoE itemization is great, you can find a use for almost everything.
Can a player do that without buying RoS? Like in D2 players could play endgame if they didn't wish to play the expansion. Is Blizz itemization allowing players who don't want to play RoS to do similar?
Well DUH you're not supposed to be able to easily get a 6L. That's a BiS item... you think getting BiS items is supposed to be easy? Getting 6l is SUPPOSED to be incredibly difficult.
I love the itemization in this game. I'm playing invasion right now and I am having no troubles gearing my templar. He's level 59 and currently just entered a3 merc with this gear:
Oh, did I mention he's kicking ass? This is all stuff acquired from a fresh start. I see no problem with the loot. D3 it took them two years to figure out that a wizard wand shouldn't be rolling 250 strength...
You call OP and idiot and then post your lvl 59 characters mediocre gear that will get you nowhere in act3 merc.
Just wow. idiot.
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In PoE I've got 20 characters lvl 40+ and I'm constantly making new ones trying out new builds/gear strategies.
Not all the strategies are self made of course, but that's what makes PoE so awesome, the ability to build different characters based on getting a single item (like the sun-belt trapper build) is amazing.
Using the excuse that you need a 5 link or 6 link to make a character viable to do end game is just bs, you can make both melee / ranged / totem / caster builds with only 4 link gear.
Being unable to make the perfectly optimized build of supreme damage due to not having a 6 link does not make the <6 link builds unplayable, as long as you can progress / kill stuff a build is viable.
In looking at your character list, I see that you don't have a character higher than 67. If you don't have a level 85 that you ran high levels maps with and deleted after it died in HC (which I doubt given that you seem to keep characters in Standard), you cannot seriously make that claim with a straight face.
Let's see how long it will take POE to figure out that a caster wand shouldn't roll +phys damage.
Why shouldn't a wand have Phys if that's the choice of build you want? Here's a decent build that uses it: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/691469
