Done with this league.

I'm giving this league a break for now not because of syndicate being core but the fact that synthesis is so unrewarding it's not worth playing at all. After 40 hours playtime in 2.5 days I have not seen anything remotely interesting that is related to synthesis league. It literally feels like playing standard with no items and a "new mechanic", that's all.
My thoughts regarding syndicate encounters, great if your not playing some crappy build and 3 encounters in a single map is hell of a lot of experience.

Sounds like you'll be back as soon as someone finds a way to exploit the system... which they will.

Syndicate is my favourite part of maps--not joking. That said, I can understand why people would want it to be optional like all the other Master content (beasts you can still walk around, I guess). Though I don't know what they'd need to do with Intervention to make it more avoidable without just removing it, which I don't want because I enjoy the encounters. Maybe have them camp near where they spawn instead of following you through the whole map?

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intersept wrote:

Also theres to much RNG in poe for me now. i dont want to gamble, if i wanted that ill go to vegas.

Uh.... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but RNG has been GGG's "hard" mechanic since Open Beta.

Content is "Hard" because the RNG on crafting / creating items is so massive. Once you get great gear, content becomes trivial, because it's not that the content is hard, or that you have to execute it in a specific way. You just have to have the gear to handle it. At least, up to the point I'm at in the game. t13 Maps, and Red Elder done, and the hardest part of the game (since I started playing in Open Beta), is beating the RNG Slot Machine to get the gear you need to stomp content.

When I said, in the VERY FIRST DAY after the announce of betrayal going to the core game, that it would be a TOTALLY DISASTER, people didnt gave a shit.

Now here we go... what a disaster.

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imLuCaSsS wrote:

When I said, in the VERY FIRST DAY after the announce of betrayal going to the core game, that it would be a TOTALLY DISASTER, people didnt gave a shit.

Now here we go... what a disaster.

Yeah and once again the same 5 people spamming on every thread that EVERYBODY hates this league. I just have this to say: goodbye! And please send me the 5 Alchemy Orbs you have managed to acquire before you leave.

same , man, im soooo doen with this
new league mechanic is dogshit, and item drops are so scarce, level 75 and yet to see even one NOTABLE DROP
POE = farm currency to buy good items from BOTS, you can use some MTX while doing so, to look cool
FAIL LEAGUE, i nee dto farm curency to buy from poe bots to gear up, w t h man....

Betrayal is a complete mess and I was tired of it long ago. Why is it still so overtuned? If you want to make everything that hard, fine, but don't just leave these ridiculous idiots 2x stronger than map bosses. Why is the pacing so awful? I will quit this league long before I see any syndicate payoff.

I'd be curious to know how people who dislike Betrayal because of its difficulty felt about red beasts in Bestiary.

I wasn't particularly fond of the Betrayal mechanics themselves (they felt very bland), but the new master system felt worlds better than the old one, and I never had trouble with Syndicate members. I can definitely see the desire to skip the Betrayal system this time around, but idk why you'd lose your collective shit over it being in the game.

Memory system seems more enjoyable on the surface, though I haven't gotten very deep into it. It's sort of like Delve meets that old PC game Pipe Dream. Trying to craft synthesis items would suck without spare stash tabs.

My only real complaint this league is my drop rate has been absolute garbage. I realize it's all RNG and whatnot, but I'm still allowed to complain needlessly.

tl;dr Synthesis seems pretty okay, definitely better than Betrayal, and I'm enjoying all the new skills/reworks/etc.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Really should finish the Acts before you give up on a league... but enjoy what ever comes next.

No they really should have included the Syndicate in Act 1 so those of us not interested in playing that garbage unoptimized content could have quit before we invested a days worth of playtime in the league.

I quit betrayal weeks earlier than I quit any other league since I started playing. Why in the ever living hell would I drag this shit out again when all the same frustrations exist in Synthesis that existed in Betrayal?

I seriously wish I had been aware of this before Synthesis launched, I wouldn't have even gotten excited about the league. At all. I'm pissed at GGG for gating it behind 15-20~ hours of gameplay. I was enjoying a great lag free experience then boom Syndicate spam everywhere. No thanks. I'm not putting up with this shit again.

If they had fucking announced this ahead of time instead of hiding it in patch notes near the bottom in fine print I doubt they would have had as successful a launch as they did. They have a financial motivation to sneak it in like they did. That's fucking scummy.