Loving Bloodlines

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Starxsword wrote:

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Bolded part makes no sense to me

It is a hardcore league, it is meant to be harder. Bloodlines vs Torment, Bloodlines is harder. Invasion vs Ambush, Invasion is so very much harder.

What makes no sense is the idea that being in a hardcore league should entitle someone to more loot.

Bolded part = I agree

Underline = So wrong in so many ways. No one i know plays Hardcore for the sake of it being HARDER than the SC temp league. The features could easily be changed. People play hardcore because it's hardcore. I simply don't understand why people don't grasp the fact that HC players don't sign up on being ass-fisted with cheap mechanics and dumb features. They sign up on the concept of 1 chance / 1 life.

It's unfair to even mention Invasion. That league was the dumbest shit i've seen in any ARPG, ever.

I like the addition of effects, but some should be rethought.

"Otherworldly" needs explained... seems random.
"Bond of Chaos" needs to only hit you when you're in the bond... not just near it. And not stack with other bonds.
"P-link" needs to go. It's annoying as all get out, especially with larger packs.

There also needs to be a "PING!" for killing the last of a set... if not that some special reward or graphic.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I like the addition of effects, but some should be rethought.

"Otherworldly" needs explained... seems random.
"Bond of Chaos" needs to only hit you when you're in the bond... not just near it. And not stack with other bonds.
"P-link" needs to go. It's annoying as all get out, especially with larger packs.

There also needs to be a "PING!" for killing the last of a set... if not that some special reward or graphic.

Agreed, plink is awful.

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Cergic wrote:

People play hardcore because it's hardcore. I simply don't understand why people don't grasp the fact that HC players don't sign up on being ass-fisted with cheap mechanics and dumb features. They sign up on the concept of 1 chance / 1 life.

Cannot Agree more!
Pretty much everybody I know plays HC because dieing removes Items from the league and crates a much more stable economy.
And because it is more exciting and challenging if you only have 1 try.

Most of the players I know already moved back to normal mode (especially those with lvl 90++ in bloodlines, because it is such an annoying crap especially on high lvl)

HC is hard enough with all that insane spike dmg and (unique map) bosses even without goddamn 1-shot chaos bond leapers/chargers, invincible P-link devourers, Necrovirgil-Obelisk combos and all that stupid crap combinations of bloodlines which annoy the shit out of you.

Most Bloodline mods arent sooo bad on its own (but also not really fun), but combined with certain monsters and/or other bloodline packs together they are just retarded...
Not even mention how hard melee gets raped by bloodlines (not that melee is in a good spot in normal PoE, but with bloodline mods...)

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azraelb wrote:

bloodlines is total crap, super annoying and not rewarding at all...
There is a reason why more and more players quit Bloodlines and come back to HC again.

Yeah, that's the impression I got. One high level player did just that, quit bloodlines and moved back to permanent HC league, and when asked about bloodlines, he replied: "same as HC, but with regular mobs replaced with annoying mobs".

Bloodlines feature really should not become a part of the main game. At best, it's gonna be a Zana mod no one's ever gonna use.