Being a mediocre player gets you nowhere in POE

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鬼殺し wrote:

It's not fun in PoE because there is no off-road anymore. There is only the racetrack.

Well i agree 100% in that statement. I think PoE need some vessel for the 90% player that dont want to farm the same map 1000 times, other mmo i think is offering some other objective other than the last end game dungeon or boss. I would be happy if PoE add something like that or maybe add another long term league, maybe a casual league, a league that more forgiving like 100% more exp or other thing, that encourage people to try new build without that much time invested, just a dream of mine, not sure if it is a good idea.

I am one of those mediocre players too, and admitting it isn't hard. I get what I want from this game, and I do not try hard enough to accomplish the hardest content, and that is fine with me.

Never done Shaper (never tried)
Never done Uber Elder (never tried)

But I have done all of the shapers guardians and red elder, as well as regular atziri and every map, so I have decided that is good enough for me. If I get the motivation to do shaper then so be it. But alas, I have no reason to.

Thanks to currency farming, I can already buy any item that drops from those bosses. This game needs a little more incentive to actually kill the content in this game, besides bragging rights. IMO

Killing Shaper isn't for bragging rights, it is to test your build. I am surprised someone who can kill everything else hasn't tried him even once out of pure curiosity. Scared?

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DeathPunch79 wrote:

I am one of those mediocre players too, and admitting it isn't hard. I get what I want from this game, and I do not try hard enough to accomplish the hardest content, and that is fine with me.

Never done Shaper (never tried)
Never done Uber Elder (never tried)

But I have done all of the shapers guardians and red elder, as well as regular atziri and every map, so I have decided that is good enough for me. If I get the motivation to do shaper then so be it. But alas, I have no reason to.

Thanks to currency farming, I can already buy any item that drops from those bosses. This game needs a little more incentive to actually kill the content in this game, besides bragging rights. IMO

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This explains my playstyle exactly. To the OP, you are never going to be happy unless you realize that you as a human have strengths and weaknesses. Being a perfectionist isn't all it's cracked up to be. Set some reasonable goals, achieve them and be happy.

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鬼殺し wrote:

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Killing Shaper isn't for bragging rights, it is to test your build.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Shaper:

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The Shaper is one of the most difficult bosses in Path of Exile, if not the most difficult of them all.

Anyone who says killing the final boss of the end-game content isn't for bragging rights but to test a build is actually bragging.

OH THE FUCKING IRONY.

Well, you don't play this game, so it's understandable that you don't know what you're talking about, but Shaper has been power creeped to near trivial levels. He's also not the last boss anymore.

What IS ironic, however, is how authoritative you're trying to be despite not playing this game lmao.

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DeathPunch79 wrote:

I am one of those mediocre players too, and admitting it isn't hard. I get what I want from this game, and I do not try hard enough to accomplish the hardest content, and that is fine with me.

Never done Shaper (never tried)
Never done Uber Elder (never tried)

But I have done all of the shapers guardians and red elder, as well as regular atziri and every map, so I have decided that is good enough for me. If I get the motivation to do shaper then so be it. But alas, I have no reason to.

Thanks to currency farming, I can already buy any item that drops from those bosses. This game needs a little more incentive to actually kill the content in this game, besides bragging rights. IMO

What about incursion? You can do it anytime you want. Wouldnt you do shaper and uber elder if it was just as easy? or even breachlords.. without that much splinters.. I know I would.

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baronzo wrote:

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鬼殺し wrote:

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Killing Shaper isn't for bragging rights, it is to test your build.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/The_Shaper:

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The Shaper is one of the most difficult bosses in Path of Exile, if not the most difficult of them all.

Anyone who says killing the final boss of the end-game content isn't for bragging rights but to test a build is actually bragging.

OH THE FUCKING IRONY.

Well, you don't play this game, so it's understandable that you don't know what you're talking about, but Shaper has been power creeped to near trivial levels. He's also not the last boss anymore.

What IS ironic, however, is how authoritative you're trying to be despite not playing this game lmao.

I struggled with red elder running hierophant totems, primary weakness being difficulty increasing output with pure totems - if I didn't limit myself to totems and had another castable attack spell it probably would have been less challenging.

Point being is that its really disingenuous to claim shaper is a build tester when the majority of the player base never gets that far. I think the last ggg data had like 6% actually running top tier maps.

If you're going to be elitist about it, own it.

Otherwise, show me vids of random folks in 4-5 links with miscellaneous junk gear taking down shaper and uber elder. I've seen a handful of vids with low end gear succeed even deathless, but even then it was hardly "trivial".

Speaking of poelitist, I never got the point of gloating in an arpg - it's like broadcasting that you spend so much time playing the loot slot machine to accrue all this virtual wealth, since its far less about luck than just mindless mapping.

Then again, seeing how much forum gold has accumulated on d2jsp who knows how much real money has literally exchanged hands over these virtual items.

This week on "Being a mediocre player gets you nowhere in PoE"

- how to curb your expectations

- elitist's throwing around their shallow victory's and laughing with people that are not wasting their lives in the same manner as them(How dare they!)

- a sprinkle of ruler patience

Stay tuned for more in this epic forum bonanza.

Peace,

-Boem-

I meant it more when someone was boasting. Being a top tier player doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.


For example, in Swtor, it offered a game mode called galactic star fighter, a side mode at best. It proved to be largely unpopular, and the first efforts made by a player are often so horrible they never make an effort to try again.

I managed to eventually become one of those elite pilots. But even then, being a top tier player in a largely ignored mode is essentially being the best at something most people don't want to try.

But while its bad enough to like something unpopular - its even worse when small groups of top tier players drive off the fresh meat.

One of these players justified these player massacres as entertainment for his viewers, despite maxing out in the 20s and only consistently having 5-10. He wasn't particularly special amongst the top tier pilots either, he just only played with multiple wingman of similar or greater stature.

It was basically beating up on other folks who had no capacity to fight back and constant turning away of potential new pilots, something the mode desperately needed.

If I didn't do other group content, I would have lost interest far sooner.

But either way, despite being some of the best players of said mode, they essentially were douches about it and just kept scaring off the new players until they stopped showing up or just afk leeched.