How many shaper set have you wasted?

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Fun fact, avoidance is bad against things, that hit you rapidly a lot of times.

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patlefort3 wrote:

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Fun fact, avoidance is bad against things, that hit you rapidly a lot of times.

Totally wrong. The weakness of avoidance is large hits that can one shot you if you don't dodge. A bunch of small hits will equalize the damage to about the amount that gets through your dodge chance.

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Halagaz wrote:

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Ok, in advance i'm very much triggered right now, i'm sorry if this turn into a rant, i'll do my best not to.

So the main goal of the post is to ask to anyone that farm shaper on daily basis, how much set did you wasted when you started, if you even have wasted any?

If you don't want to read a rant/ personal story just don't read further and move along.

So I play this game since closed/open beta years ago, i love the game, can't say it otherwise. Naturally i hate few aspects of it mainly extreme rng, as a late 70 Dnd player i like rng, but i just always hated extreme rng present in 2k+ grindy rpg designs 'and no, i'm sorry Diablo or any graphical muds don't share this with poe, this is EverQuest/Lineage designs). And second i hate gated content which this game is filled with and i don't know why.
In any case i was never able to make any of the gated content in the game since this league.

I have to say that this league was the best to me personally, for ex. everyone trash talk this league and praise breach, i hated breach, 2 of my first builds turned to be complete trash because of nerfs i wasn't aware of, so i swiftly ended the league because i wasted all my currency basically. This league was amazing to me.

So this league, i was really involved and beta tested it, that might have helped, these couple last few year it's more a come and go, and i'm not always involved/informed.

My plan was to do shaper content or that basically was it for me with poe, here i said it. That game shouldn't be that hard right? as i said i started rpg with the very first book of dnd, seen all the rpg development from paper to computer, was a huge fan or Garriot with Ultima, played the very first diablo box at launch ... i basically know most about rpg. I probably have the age of Chris, I probably have influenced more rpg developers than people can imagine (a couple example would be exile kind of design from Ultima online emulated worlds and spawn coming from doors kind of origin rather than coming from thin air once more from stupid 2k+ game design), but this is an other story, and i hope continuing doing so hence this post.

Anyway, my first char this league is a LL contagion/ed, this build was basically made sure to be still at full strength in the 3.0 update, so that was a great pick. Well this was amazing up until i was in front of the minotaur, both because of the boss design and the heavy ES nerf, this boss completely destroyed me and it was clear i had to make a specific build for this boss alone... What a bummer.

The league just started and i had amazing rng (strangely) this time, i have all the currency i need so i decide to make a melee specifically for minotaur. After a few attempts of failed builds, i end with a Slayer with a shaper sword, 6L Belly an absolute dream of a build using cyclone and heavy strike for single/aoe. The best build i ever made with amazing QoL, can do all maps except phys reflect. To note i never copy builds, i might pick aspects from FOTM builds, but they are always my own, as this is the main reason i love this game, it just reminds me the good old days.

So now i have 4 shaper set, and since the Slayer is really amazing i end up doing shaper with it. In retrospect this is my "error", if this kind of choice should even be an error, which is exactly why i make this rant, this aspect is the worst part of Poe, no matter what cause this. Being able to do your own build is the best aspect of the game, and sadly it is tied to the fact that only very few builds end up being efficient in doing specific "gated" content. The first aspect is the best, the second is the worst aspect of the game, why? It wasn't like that in the old days guys. Anyway, the shaper literally destroy me, and i loose 4 sets without even a kill because i'm a stupid stubborn guy, from the start i knew that build wasn't going to make it, but as i said it was even better than the LL/ed one in general. But fact is if i try tomorrow with my ed i'm confident i make a deathless shaper simply because of boss design, i might die once or 2 but never loose all portal simply because boss design destroy melee builds.. Still have more sets, but i simply rage quitted, uninstalled the game.

And last from anyone wandering, i did played HC the first few years.

So to conclude GGG, the way you handle your balance is terrible, you are just pissing people off. If a player decide for a build, unless it's complete nonsense trash, that build should be able to do all content if it have the items for it. Locking contents behind very specific build (aka ranged, 15k es, weird op item interaction that are borderline game breaking, or whatever) is just terrible. Any well "built" character should be able to do it all. But i (and many players) always had the feeling you had to abuse design loopholes in the game to make it, so is this a game to play a character or is this a game to play with coding mechanisms? If the later is interesting for a lot of people it should not be your main priority is it?

Regards.