I love POE but I've watched the Lost Ark gameplay

And I again felt my disdain for attack/cast speed. Maybe that's why I'm not that successful with my melee characters or maybe all of my characters for that matter. I've watched builds in youtube and one thing I don't really like is the animation of very fast attack/cast speed, it look funny, weird and unnatural, "ya! ya! ya! ya! ya!".. man, that's why I go for damage instead of speed or totems and traps. The gameplay I've watched in Lost Ark, the spell and attack animations are beautiful, the execution of the skills looked so good. And it felt like the player is not mashing a single button on the keyboard but timing his presses when the animation of a certain skill is done and execute the next skill.

Don't get me wrong, I love POE and for me it is the spiritual successor to D2. Maybe it's because of the type of gamer I am. I love how my skills look and execute. I love how my character looks on different armors and weapons it wields. I love a good story line and game story telling. I'm not really an end-game person, except if there is a very good story in there and interesting mechanics to be had. I love the in depth customization and crafting. And these I got from POE, more in some and less in others. The MTX in POE are fantastic and I am ashamed to admit that I used my coins on stack tabs more than on armors, weapons and skill effects that I liked due to funding constraints.

Anyway, I hope we can do away with cast/spell speed and just let the animation of our skills be more beautiful (elaborate) and powerful (in terms of damage). And wishing that my shower-thought for next expansion of skill gem fusing mechanics will come to pass. So I can have my frost blades-frost nova build without CoC, or storm call-spark gem build by fusing 2 lvl20 storm calls and one lvl20 spark. :)

All of these IMHO. And I've played POE just recently so not an expert. :)

How about you, have you watched the Lost Ark gameplay? Is it a POE killer?

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How about you, have you watched the Lost Ark gameplay? Is it a POE killer?

Lost Ark claims to be an MMORPG, not an action RPG so i don't know if they are directly compareable.
I would rather take a look at Lineage Eternal.

never heard of lost ark but if its an arpg also i dont care like im not interested in grim dawn and stuff. im quite happy with poe and have so much to learn. besides that i dont care about the cast animations im looking for loot oO

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besides that i dont care about the cast animations im looking for loot oO

hahaha! you remind me of my good friend and guild mate in WoW years ago before transmog items were a thing. He looked like a christmas tree with his gears, but they were very good for his dps character. I heavily teased him for that, and he told me, "Never mind the looks, just look at the damage counter." :)

There is no doubt that good games are on its way .

I have suggested several times now that ggg takes a break with the temp leagues focus and use their devs time more smart . Upgrading the core game of poe . Sooner or later there will be games that just are flat out better than poe . GGG should imo use all their devs on the core game before its too late .

Ofc games like lost ark , grim dawn , Lineage eternal ( and probably more to come like d4 ) will compete for the same playerbase that poe has .

I will play Lost Ark and Lineage Eternal the very instant they become available. There's no doubt about it.

Isn't Lost Ark just a console port?

Nope... looks like I had something else in mind. Neither game looks great. LE looks to be a mess. A in-house engine that's already 5 years out of date? No thanks.

LA also looks to be another Asian MMO. Again... no thanks.

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ThePathOfExile wrote:

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How about you, have you watched the Lost Ark gameplay? Is it a POE killer?

Lost Ark claims to be an MMORPG, not an action RPG so i don't know if they are directly compareable.
I would rather take a look at Lineage Eternal.

From what i've seen Lost Ark is definitely more of an MMO with some ARPG elements, there is apparently a trinity system with tanks and healers.

Also it was initially slated to be released in Korea and China in 2015, the closed beta actually starts next week for Korea. Expect the English version to come quite a while after the release of the Korean version, so you are probably going to be lucky if it comes out in English some time in 2017.

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Redfeather_1975 wrote:

I will play Lost Ark and Lineage Eternal the very instant they become available. There's no doubt about it.

the eternal on Lineage refers to the development cycle, constant delays to betas (closed beta was originally announced for q1 2015), no real new information recently and its been in development since 2011, it was given a release date of 2016 or later when the closed beta was due to be in early 2015 so god knows when it will be released now.

It is also quite strange that Lineage Eternal was announced in 2011 and it is not even in closed beta yet. But it looks quite like Diablo 3 (which is not a bad thing). If loot will be the most important factor in this game (and slaying mobs) i will definately take a look at it. I just don't like MMORPGs with boring quests which take forever to complete, or planting trees ^^