Is level 100 still impossible?

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krazymagic wrote:

So what is it that makes getting level 90 easy, but level 100 so hard? Just keep doing the same things you did at 88 and 89 until you hit 100?

You get less and less experience for the same kills and need more and more total as your level goes up. Expect to spend as much time from 98-100 as you did from 1-98.

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krazymagic wrote:

So what is it that makes getting level 90 easy, but level 100 so hard? Just keep doing the same things you did at 88 and 89 until you hit 100?

Lol. Touché.

It's called time man. When you hit level 97, a T15 map gives you like less than 1%. T15 maps don't grow on trees and even if you run them blue, they are still dangerous. I mean you're getting like 5m exp per hour dog. Rip and you lose 10% facking percent. TEN. You know how crazy that is after level 98 where you get like 500k exp per hour on T15s? You could literally spend 8 hours grinding and if you rip, gone. You are actually in the whole.

It's not that it's hard, it's just mindbumbling dull af. Like I'd rather smash my head against a rock than grind out the same 4 maps for 12 hours a day for a solid month.

That's why getting to 100 is full autismo. And for what? 20% increased physical damage, or an additional 5% life or 12% attack speed? Like the gains are just not there. Maybe if there was a reward for 100. Say Zana gave you a special map you could only run at level 100. Or you got a cool badge by your name. Or you could unlock a cow level...

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Shagsbeard wrote:

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krazymagic wrote:

So what is it that makes getting level 90 easy, but level 100 so hard? Just keep doing the same things you did at 88 and 89 until you hit 100?

You get less and less experience for the same kills and need more and more total as your level goes up. Expect to spend as much time from 98-100 as you did from 1-98.

yeah I think 99-100 is actually more than 1-98 like it's sickening how they tuned it around even no-life no-lifers lol

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krazymagic wrote:

So what is it that makes getting level 90 easy, but level 100 so hard? Just keep doing the same things you did at 88 and 89 until you hit 100?

The highest Area has level 84 I think. If you are to far away from that level, you will gain way less experience.
See http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Experience#Experience_penalties

And that formula for the penalty changes for levels higher than 95 to decrease it even more.

So if you are level 99 you gain only 6% of the normal XP from a T15 map (see http://poetools.com/experience-penalty/)

And if you die, you will lose 10% of your XP towards the next level. That means to actualy progess you need to:

- Do high level content (because lower level content gives literaly no XP)
- Do not die, because that puts you progess back very very much.

That together makes it realy hard.