Why do people hate Synthesis?

I think GGG stuff had alot of fun designing Synthesis league, so they projected this fun, thinking it will be that fun to play too. But the mistake is: fun of creation somth is actually far different from experience of using product after its creation. Those are completely different things.

I know this, because my profession is about create stuff for people, too.
Its huge mistake, and often when you have alot of fun creating somth, it will be unusable after you had fun with it. Its like a rule, really.

I will not explain, why, think its obvious.

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John_Ra wrote:

I think GGG stuff had alot of fun designing Synthesis league, so they projected this fun, thinking it will be that fun to play too. But the mistake is: fun of creation somth is actually far different from experience of using product after its creation. Those are completely different things.

I know this, because my profession is about create stuff for people, too.
Its huge mistake, and often when you have alot of fun creating somth, it will be unusable after you had fun with it. Its like a rule, really.

I will not explain, why, think its obvious.

I don’t think so. It was barely “fun” for this team. It was a rather desperate fight against time, with never-ending crunch. Look what happened. They released Betrayal, which was unfinished, not well thought out and not very liked. If not almost unlimited access to easy Sulpshit source, the possibility of getting rich quickly on crappy content (Harbour bridge runners) and possibility of getting to level 100 almost effortlessly, no one would play it after two weeks. So it would be exactly what currently happened to Shitthesis.

And now most funny part. Because this crunch never ended. That's why they're choking on their own shit now. Shitthesis is epic fail, maybe worst league ever, but now they should create “new content”, along with patching existing league. What they do instead? Patching… Betrayal still and this efforts goes bad. For instance, now half of Syndicate encounters is… empty. Fortress is empty, no enemies inside, no “doors” to destroy, Research laboratory happened to be empty too, no “evidences” or bosses there, only some monsters. Well done.

And there will be “grand finale” in 2.5 months. There will be shiny, “new” content, garbage and unplayable, while “team” will still try to patch Betrayal and Shitthesis and design dozens of MTX skins – this is most important part after all. Epic catastrophe

Wait, don't understand me wrong!

I do NOT hate Synthesis !!!

I just do not like the fact, that there is soooooooo much stuff you MUST DO now!!

Betrayl was ok combined with all the other mechanics, as it was one "tiny" encounter peer map + 5 map-like encounters every then and now which are perfectly linear AND HAVE NO STUPID TIMERS!
I go in, kill the trash as slow or fast as I want, kill some mini-bosses at then end and get loot. If I did it right and used some puzzel-brain, I get BIG FAT LOOT. If I'm lazy, I get some useless junk.

Synthesis?
EVERY singel memory part is a full map. Which takes time (for me) to clean and loot.

And no matter how well I planed or how much brain I used to build my pathes ... there is no way to have a guarantee to get decent or good loot!!

PS: did a nother boss this morning ... and AGAIN no unique!!
Just 4 terrible rolled yellows with one T8 life fractured mod or similar trash. NOT EVEN 2 OR 3 FRAC MODS :(. ONE fu.... noob tier mod at low tier gear!

Sooooo DAMN frustrating for a realy cool and nice idear :(

FIXES?
- remove purple timer bullshit after you equired the fragment (TRUE 3 charges, not 2+race shit).
- GUARANTEE at last one top tier drob with one fragment T1 roll (+1/2 random fragment rolls) FOR EACH SYNTESIS BOSS KILL

6 syntboss kills .. no usefull loot? NO THANKS!

I'll be honest, I haven't played this league at all. I took one look at the previews and looked at Twitch for the first day and though, this is complete garbage. This is not what an aRPG should be, this is not the PoE I want to play.

The Nexus hurts my eyes.
The memory puzzling is boring.
Collect, connect and run memories just to get kicked out the reward memory after 4 seconds by its timer mechanics.

sorry but i dont like it.
if i will keep playing this league, i will ignore the nexus.

this damn decay that ruins any gaming experience, GGG had the good idea to create an inaccessible league ...

So I tooled around in the Nexus for a little more than an hour last night - trying in my own way to maximize the efforts of Distant memories and buffing as many islands as possible.

I actually found myself enjoying it. I ran into a couple of places where stuff decaying behind me was irreplaceable with my inventory, and one instance where I failed to note that the island before a Distant memory decayed so I think the buff from that reached a total of zero islands, but at any rate I did not feel it was a complete waste of my time.

I had a couple of pretty buffed up islands, with shaper items and breach shards dropping, so it actually felt like I was achieving something.

I can see it improving dramatically if they allow moving islands, and I hope somehow improve the island activation, because for me that is the most frustrating part.

Synthesized items are still garbage in my experience to date. I don't get it. Why when I combine three items with, say, +% resists as fractured affixes the synthesized item does not seem to have anything to do with those fractures? Am I missing something here?

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Slaanesh69 wrote:

I don't get it. Why when I combine three items with, say, +% resists as fractured affixes the synthesized item does not seem to have anything to do with those fractures? Am I missing something here?

Yes, the same I missed first.

Let's say you have 3 Items with each 1 fractured xx% Cold res mod and different other normal mods. It will NOT automaticly take the fractured mod only. It will chose random of all posible combinations between fractured and normal mods.

So if you want to have a sure outcome, you must first use a scoring orb to remove all non-fractured mods! Which then result many times in blue times ... which you can't combin. So you have to use a regal orb to make them rare again ... but then you get again unwanted normal mods :(.

The only way to have a 100% sure outcome is by useing 3 items with each exact the same 3 fractured mods (for sure rare items)! For example all 3 with xx % energy shield + fix xx energy shield + fix/% combi energy shield. (xx can be any number, but the mods MUST be the same!!).

Good luck finding 3 items with same base + 3 exact same factured mods :(. The chance to get 6 right numbers while playing Lotto is bigger!

Or spend ALOT of time trading with ALOT of currency as everyone is searching this mods. As result even T8 rolls are INSANLY expensive :(:(.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Synthesis/oBKkKZhl
with just 2 fractured shield mods !! 55c for T8+T4 mods .. fu off!

Only trade-bot user can afford to buy 3*T1 fractured mods! WHEN DO YOU BAN THEM ALL?????

Which is just another nail for my argument: TO MUCH TIME SINK

Synthesis league is a joke. Area insta decay and don't let you progress. You die you loose all progress. Crafting is too bad...etc

There is no fun to complete it.

Best bad league ever.

I hope this shit never happen in core game.

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Rhilnix wrote:

Synthesis league is a joke. Area insta decay and don't let you progress. You die you loose all progress. Crafting is too bad...etc

There is no fun to complete it.

Best bad league ever.

I hope this shit never happen in core game.

It's core it's part of the story lol