SSF + Party?

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seanxjohnson wrote:

I've mentioned this before, and I'm a big advocate for this as I want to play and chat with friends, while achieving and looting everything myself. One way you could do this is locking drops to characters and not allowing trading. The only remaining issue would be carries, I have no idea how to prevent that.

You prevent carries, by making it a solo self found league

Huge difference D3 is an arcade racing game for 4 players, where one runs in front and 3 behind to leech xp or doing stupid GR, that could only be done at high levels by 4 player Meta builds. Solo players in D3 are rare.
In PoE it is all about doing your build getting your exp. I can imagine most of us are solo players, who join only party games to help or trade. My build, my loot and my journey.
Why should I play with other players, if the game gets more and more full of effects, that makes me see nothing.
PoE for me it is to have my special hero with maybe some build guide template but not like we all wear same sets and use same skills for each set. D3 is dead, it already smells dead.
played it for very, very long time, until I first started PoE. Since then I am addicted to it.