So are you playing betrayal league but actually doing everything else but the syndicate

Syndicate locked away,so I can play without losing more exp to those overtuned &^%#.. Loving that Delve is core (unhappy at gated sulphite amounts),Einar's always amusing,though his recipes leave much to be desired,Incursion a fun diversion,possible rewards..But Betrayal? I could care less...

Good that i decided to skip this league, seemed convoluted and boring in the trailer already. Made the right choice #feelsgoodman

I love the actual league mechanic, much more than most I've played in quite a while. Building the Syndicate, managing who is where, what their relationships are, and optimizing it feels good. My opinion is that this method is how Incursion's temple should be formed. You can grind it out, and there's no arbitrary number of cycles before you're forced to run it or restart. I love that aspect of the league.

The Syndicate members feel OK...when you're 15+ levels ahead of them and they're in a level 605 or so zone. This is the part of the league I absolutely loathe. When I was working on the 2nd half of the campaign on my first character and for the whole time leveling my second, I locked them in Research and just ignored it. The encounters don't feel good at all. They're routinely harder than the boss of the maps they spawn in (sometimes that even applies to the Necromancers and their spawn!).

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Good that i decided to skip this league, seemed convoluted and boring in the trailer already. Made the right choice #feelsgoodman

It's really not that complicated. Build a trapper and farm Blood Aqueduct/Foothills/Ossuary for a little bit and you'll figure it out.

Already leveeled to 100 on bsc.

currently 91 on bhc doing all content.

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semma_car19 wrote:

Spending hours to level Catarina, then to go into the fight and get 1 shot like a pigeon. Risk and time that it takes is too damn high and the reward is shit.
GGG really missed with the fight system this league, only thing worth in the syndicate are scarabs, so you have 95% of the ppl doing everything but trying to kill the end boss of the league, so ironic hahaha. Just wonder if GGG ppl who design these leagues actually try and play it, or I dont even know anymore....

I'm still new to the game and this is only my 2nd character, this one is in Betrayal the 1st one is in standard, so I expected to have many issues until I get the hang of it. As is, right now I am trying to concentrate on just leveling so I can get more skillpoints into my passive tree while at the same time farming up a little bit of currency.

That said, I used to do the whole Syndicate at lower levels, up to when the XP penalties were low. Now I got so sick and tired of it I avoid it altogether and completely.

I deleveled / demoted my Syndicate and gave them rivalries as much as I could. Screw the rewards, completely not worth it. This way when I get jumped by intervention, or the game places a fort in my way on a map that I can not get around of, I at least have a chance of being able to handle it and I do more often then not. But I avoid it completely whenever and wherever I can. I haven't even gotten to the final boss / fort and at least this time, have no intentions to do so.

the only time I ever do anything syndicate is right when I hit level, so I don't lose any XP on death, I'll go run one of the Act 9 or 10 maps or Tier 1 map and do something with them.

That said, I also gave up on Delves, which is a bummer. The azurite grind for ligth radius, resistance, flares etc. put me off so much and left such a bad taste in me I have zero inclination to continue. Also, I can't figure out how to blow up a wall. I watched a few videos on youtube, I guess I need better flares and / or dynamite, but like I said, to do so means azurite grind and that is taken to just too idiotic proportions for me, it requires people with special and unique kinda autism, like the Rorqual Miners and Binge ratters of Eve Online. I do not have that and never will.

I play games for fun and I have to say most fun I had in this game is the 1st 10 acts, I find neither the Syndicate with its 1 shot mechanics and all that crap, nor Delve with its azurite grind, fun or entertaining. The mapping thing pass the 10 acts is OK, but just barely passing.

I skipped this league. didn't look interesting to me. Hope everyone is having fun.

I just tried to do Catarina.

Lost a life wondering why I couldn't hurt her and why I couldn't regen my ES. If GGG recently tried to make this situation more clear to the player, they failed spectacularly. I tried to summon a portal and escape but it didn't appear. So I re-entered, to wait outside her door before searching again, only to come out the portal that hadn't appeared, in the boss fight, and lost a second life throwing myself into the DoT-corner trying to break the next glowing-lamp-thing (it died when I did, no idea why, couldn't attack it; the other one had done the same).

I then proceeded to lose all four remaining lives on the last quarter of her health ... to something. 7k effective HP with near-maxed resistances, one-shot (or very rapidly two/three-shot) by ... something. Repeatedly. I don't even know what. I could not tell what. It's hard to tell "what" when a giant death-laser pillar is shooting everywhere non-stop the instant you enter the room.

The rest of the syndicate has been unpredictably oscillating between "doable" and "way too much", and it is becoming taxing. As have the incursion events, actually; incursions in yellow maps make me want to tear my hair out. I haven't gotten to the red ones yet, and I can only imagine that will be when I stop playing the game again, to instead play something that isn't designed to be abusive.

Sorry, that was mostly off topic.

All the rework they did for this league is fantastic, masters, crafting, but they continuously fail with leagues, then it takes about 6 months for them to fix it. For instance, 1 shots from syndicate members with no indication what and when they will use their skills, the Catarina fight designs looks like a group of kids sat at a table and made it in 20 minutes. After killing 3 totems there is no place in that room where you are safe. I mean killing catarina on a lvl 70-75 map is easy, but the damage on 80+ is just ridiculous. I hope they realize that they need to make boss fights longer, in terms of good mechanics, more hp, not getting 1 shot with ridiculous damage

i locked the syndicate in the laboratory since i get unexpected disconnections very often when doing betrayal content

I just can't get into this league. Too much stopping to analyze these fucking masters. Homie aint got time for dat. I just like killing shit and moving on. This is why delve/breach/abyss etc was so cool...and leagues that slow u down like beastiary and this one suck

Oh and why are those stupid ghosts still in the game? Another shit league made core even... does anyone bother to corral them anymore? Or just insta gib em?