What is the purpose of breach?

Played breach since friday, for the most part I feel it is a waste of time.

Breach closes, even when I am killing monsters.

Drops are terrible. So far I have gotten 4 or 5 breach rings. Nothing special that I could of not gotten with an orb of alchemy or essence.

I have gotten to the point where I am reconsidering opening a breach. Nothing good is going to drop, so why bother.

The absolute best addition in recent times was the Perandus Coins. But for some reason it was left out of the core game.

Why waste time on atlas of worlds that only high level characters could use and breach that adds nothing, when players liked buying stuff with Perandus Coins and it was not added to the core game?

Warbands was a good league and so was Perandus. We need more leagues like those and less breach and atlas.

All players could experience Warbands and Perandus and that is what made them fun. Unlike Atlas that was for end game players.

I want to support path of exile, but not when the developers are not adding anything that is enjoyable. I did not buy an atlas supporter pack because atlas was for end game players. I doubt I will be buying a breach supporter pack because frankly, breach adds nothing of great value.

The Purpose of Breach?

Your playing a game where the objective is to kill stuff for loot. Breach gives you more, secret stuff to kill, for more loot.

Perandus was OK, but it gave out way too much good loot too quickly, people lost interest in it.

Atlas was never a League, it was an expansion. Essence was the League that came with Atlas.

You talk of Warbands, well, this is kinda like Warbands, except they are hidden, and you need to find Breaches to fight them.

Overall, I'm liking the league. More stuff to kill/loot. I find Breaches can be more challenging than normal content.

Fun?

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Rafein wrote:

Overall, I'm liking the league. More stuff to kill/loot. I find Breaches can be more challenging than normal content.

What I would like is more optional side quest, more towns, larger towns, more areas to explore, a mountain system with a network of caves that brings back memories of the original Diablo.

Instead, we get these little add-ons that add nothing of value to the game.

I really wish people would stop blaming QA. The QA team's job is primarily to Quality Assure the product - y'know, to find game breaking bugs and ensure functionality is working as intended. That's how QA is defined across the entire industry - to automate game testing and deliver a working product. Their ancillary job might be to identify things they think are too powerful, but that's not the job description and it's not like they can easily automate that.

It's up to the designers to decide what's balanced or not. If there isn't enough balance testing done, so be it, but you should really only be faulting QA if the game crashes or things just don't work - it's not their primary focus to say one stat is too weak over another.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Content Update 2.5.0

The Breach Challenge League:
Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start in a new economy. All of your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you're encouraged to join the new leagues, complete challenges and demonstrate your mastery of Path of Exile!

of course, there will be more, you know that, don't you? (lady dialla)

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Sahdrak wrote:

What I would like is more optional side quest, more towns, larger towns, more areas to explore, a mountain system with a network of caves that brings back memories of the original Diablo.

Instead, we get these little add-ons that add nothing of value to the game.

What you seem to want is a new act. It is coming with 3.0

Oh so far the rings are terrible. I'm hoping when I get to higher content they will improve. Assuming we're still alive to get them.

Breach is a breath of fresh air in PoE because it actually engages me, atleast so far it is. PoE monsters have been dumbed down quite a bit over the years with how strong we've become. That it's nice to have to think for a second in the game.

The rings do suck though. They are like a worse version of Talisman... and I thought we learned from that. The odds of finding a decent ring to even use during the breach is low. But even more so then that is... I have a feeling that Breach will become a Zana Mod later. ~If~ that is the case then... these rings will be so hard to come by that their addition will be pretty worthless then.

Now I'm just hitting ledge in merciless, and my character gear is pretty terrible atm, so we'll see if they continue to be engaging when I start gearing up. But so far, I'm enjoying the breach monsters.

(I only read the title)

more monsters, more loot, an excuse to use alternate-dimension aesthetic

that's pretty much it