40 challenges rant - just needed to get this off my chest.

still no Aul, still no resonator with 4 socket :/

I dont like run the lab over and over
I run between 70 and 120 labs per league because it's very lucrative but there is no difference between league lab and standard lab

Note :From my point of view, a casual player plays 1h per day not 20h/25h per week

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ThoryX wrote:

still no Aul, still no resonator with 4 socket :/

Oh I had to buy the resonator, that was some crap. Heard something about a bad rng seed that would prevent 4s reso to drop but I think it was all tinfoil.. right?

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GoldDragon32 wrote:

Also, the Delve Boss challenges are just the dumbest thing ever. It's ok to have Challenges where you have to defeat the boss under a variety of easy to fail conditions. Its ok to have challenges to encounter very rare and hard to find bosses. It's absolutely not ok to require you to kill ultra-rare bosses in 4-5 easy to fail specific ways. We need to have repeated access to bosses if you want to have 'kill these different ways' challenges so that we can have a learning curve without buying access from other players.

Have to agree.

Delve challenges were horribly RNG gated. Delve Encounters II took the most of my time because of non-existent Whispering Gallery. I went sideways at lvl ~90 and spent like ~60k sulphite before found it. Just take a look at the screenshot (WARNING! Big image!)


Oh, and I consider myself casual too, having full time job and all.

Markroft: why did you ignore currency and city nodes?

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nxxyy wrote:

Markroft: why did you ignore currency and city nodes?

I really wanted to just find that blasted Whispering Gallery and get my 36/40.

I managed to achieve 40/40 in SSF just yesterday (felt really good and relieved). My last challenge was "cannot be hit by Kurgal's laser". It took me lots of attempts to get this cleared because a few times I thought I have gotten it but it turns out to be not, and it took me around 10 days (3 - 4 hours a day) before getting him to spawn again.

My main gripe for 40/40 will be 4 sockets resonator. I only found 1 and luckily it was early in the league. The RNG behind this challenge is just too much. Next will be spawning of Delve bosses.

I find Delve bosses challenges to be really fun though. Only the spawning part makes it meh. These challenges makes me think really hard when it comes to clearing them. I have to re-spec my character, or use a different character with different build to clear them. And this, I enjoyed it greatly.

By far, the best way to spawn bosses (for myself) is Breach. Collecting splinters makes it a more achievable goal. Except of course, Chayula. Chayula breach spawn rate is just too low.

I would add that mechanics of Delve bosses are really well designed. Especially Aul.

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鬼殺し wrote:

If someone in your personal daily life who doesn't play the game has never once mentioned that you sure seem to play that game a lot, or that you really like it, or any other indication that they notice how much you play...THEN you're a casual player.

PoE for me is a personal vice that I enjoy only enveloped in the deepest darkest embrace of darkness.

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kira1414 wrote:

I managed to achieve 40/40 in SSF just yesterday

Wow.. you ok fam?

i found the challenges were good this league. they actually made sense in the league unlike "make a large hideout" or "use these currency orbs". also, i liked that they were actually challenging.

the endgame grind needs another option, though, i agree. i did lvl100 this league because i never got to 100 before. all the time i spent fuel on d300ish so i don't die could have been used to push for d1000. in retrospect, i should have completed the lab chests since i was already halfway done with it. oh well...