An illness, the attainment of BiS gear.

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grant_m wrote:

You raise a lot of good points in here, Boem.

You have the rare (among the posters in this forum) skill of being an experienced, knowledgeable PoE vet who's able to view the overall state of the game from something other than a self serving angle.

It's good reading. Thanks for the breath of fresh air, man.

The same goes to you kind sir. All for GGG and the betterment of it's quality material provided.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Tzaina wrote:

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Boem wrote:

I specifically left atziri out of this thread tbh.

1) it's a very mechanical fight that can be overcome by knowledge.

-Boem-

THAT GOES FOR EVERY FUCKING MONSTER/COMMMBO IN THE GAME!


Congratulations, you just won the dumbass-award!



Quit the ranting already, if you spent time accualy playing the game, rater then zerg around here on the forum all day: THINGS WOULD BECOME MUCH EASIER FOR YOU!

Spoiler

There is a special word for people of your nature, it starts with the letter I.

Go figure it out!

Wow did you completely miss the point or what?!

I dont think you need to be defended, even tho i did. I think i got carried away, and i just wanted to underline how important the stuff is to me.

Currently playing icespear in bl and im running into a wall, and ask myself everyday why the fuck i just dont play arc.

// no wait i lied, i know why i dont play arc... because 100.000 other people do! and i was foolish enough it had potential to clear fast if i just add proj speed, and some more crit, and some more this, and some more that. oh fuck now i need a 6link because i use vaalpact because i dont want to die to reflect, oh fuck dps still shit i should buy a better wand. goddamnit with all that investment i could gear 2 arc builds!

A fun thing is that developers constantly try to balance game... by nerfing gems, unique items, skill tree.... when the real problem is those rare weapons mods that let you melt everything on your way not even giving a chance for mobs to attack. Anyone who ever tried a tanky build may have noticed that lot of fights get harder/dangerous the longer you take, opposite to how easy "hard" packs or bosses can be when you just pop them in a second (yes, there is reflect, which is easily countered with max res/spell block for ele dmg and high life leech for physical)

I have no idea how "tainted" the game is with hacks/cheats but definitely there is way too much mirrored/"perfect" items around.

Putting the weight into the passive tree doesn't seem to be the way to go for build diversity.
I would personally love more passive points to spend. With that said I can completely see myself becoming the type of player that only does one build all the time. Especially when the passive tree becomes too much of a factor. Cause for the most part the passive tree rarely changes but the items you find in game often does.

In fact one of the things keeping builds diverse is items.

Think about it the prices of daggers go up a ton so people will gravitate towards swords to save cost.

Or the price of ES gear is insane so people will gravitate towards life builds even though in reality ES builds are probably the strongest.

best example I can think of right now is ziggyd's reaver he went dual wield swords to save cost early on in the league and it turned out pretty solid for him. If the gear costs didn't mater he probably would have just went daggers anyway.

^that would not really change. There factor of impact would just be reduced by 50% and it was just an example.

However, even in that case, budget sales would still happen.

I also don't mean additional skill points. what i mean is like a life% node having 3 flat life on it. Accumulated this would have an impact on a character. In reverse you can drop some of the flat life on gear, i am talking about the value's, highest T1 life roll on armor is 109 for example, this could easily be scaled down to 89 as a t1 roll.

I hope that somewhat explains what i mean. And again, it's just a random thought that i used to partially illustrate what this thread is about.

Peace,

-Boem-

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Shagsbeard wrote:

This is a general illness on the internet... doesn't depend on the game. People ruin games for themselves all the time and blame it on the game. They never learned how to play, only how to win. Winning a game like this shouldn't be the goal, because the game never actually tells you that you've won. Players don't realize it and keep playing a game that was over months ago and complain that the game isn't fun... when it's really up to them to play the game in a fun way.

Shags, as much as I have blasted this game over and over, your post has made the most sense to me and has brought some enlightenment that might actually give me a reason to try this again.

No sarcasm here...just respect to a well worded post.
Thank you for that.

Edit: find your own path "exile"...stop with being a cookie-cutting build of the week character.

Why bother to get bis gear when ggg break the game every update?
dont bother yourself, find another game or just play it as a casual (as intented?!!?) on the temp leagues.

this is an interesting topic. Boem is basically suggesting upping the baseline of viability of any given build of a x level character.

so that the pool of 'viability' of quirkier builds wont be dismissed by those who want to experience very endgame content

the thing is, personally I dont think it'll do a ton. imo it will just speed up the power creep, make a lot of builds actually more generic since now they will depend on power of nodes instead of gear (ie the opposite side of d3). people will still min max and do so with the tree, finding most efficient build in the tree and then magnifying it with best possible gear

Well, to my (limited) understanding, the difference of power between best in slot and the rest is stupid high and that creates all kind of problems.

Diablo 2 had less of a difference, isn't it?