Help me convince a friend of the flexibility of PoE classes
" Did he just convinced himself there? "The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems."
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Tell him that he can use the same weapon from level 12 to 90 if he wants to!
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Pillar_of_the_Caged_God And for real, this weapon achieves decent dps, 50K ! Same than goddess scorned / unleashed or brightbeak abyssus ! Perfectly viable, but low end ;p I will never be good but always I try to improve.
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" I think his point was that some builds are effective much earlier and become even more effective later on, so it wouldn't make sense to use other builds that only become effective at level 85+. Although apparently some early difficulty is okay, as evidenced by his bow duelist. |
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Your friend made opinion on diversity of builds in Torchlight II by playing "first half of the first act"? That's some precognition right there. Don't get me wrong, I like T2 a lot, but it's far from being balanced and it's not nearly as deep/diverse as PoE.
To illustrate my point: 2 classes in T2 have straight up 25% all damage reduction for free. They both have ranged skills. % based damage reduction is pretty much the best defense in the game, those classes also have more legendary items with % dam. red. Other type of defenses/resistances become pretty much useless in new game+ and even earlier in the last act, since monster damage grows way way faster, than your ability to stack flat defenses. Like others have pointed out, it sounds like your friend is just seeking excuses to not play PoE (which is fine). Also Ice Shot is far from being the safest build, that place is firmly held by various flavors of totems. |
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Why would you lie to your friend ;p
Recomend him a two hand heavy strike build ;o Last edited by katchwi#2116 on Apr 20, 2016, 7:01:38 AM
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" We already have enough data to conclude that... is a waste of your time to convince him otherwise. After all he has a lvl 76 bow duelist, case is settled. Seriously though, a waste of time. The whole 'viability' debate is a train wreck. Flexibility and viability are two different things though. Last edited by knac84#3886 on Apr 20, 2016, 7:38:27 AM
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" That's entirely possible. He's a bit sour that when his character died in HC and dropped to standard he lost all influence with masters. |
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The first thing on which you and your friend must agree, is what the term "flexibilty" means. Make a list. Then in front of each point of the list, fill the pros and cons of both games (PoE / Torchlight II). Then you can compare on a solid and undisputable basis of arguments.
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" Ah, the good old "can't play softcore cause it's for scrubs, can't play hardcore cause progress is lost when you die" conundrum :). |
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" Well I guess he'd still have his influence on HC, but it didn't transfer over to standard so he doesn't want to play with me. And I don't want to play HC because losing weeks of progress to a single mistake or even worse, a network hiccup doesn't sound at all appealing to me. |
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