I actually enjoy synthesis and the memory nexus more than any other league

I do the following:

1. Farm Elder City Square untill uber elder influence pops
2. Do guardians and uber elder
3. Do nexus whenever a nexus boss pops up (every 2 or 3 maps or so) and I have enough memory fragments
4. Do betrayal and delve if they pop


This is extremely satsisfying since:

1. Sustain is trivial, I don't need to buy stuff (including maps). On very rare occasions I need to stock up on vaal orbs, chisels an white sextants.

2. Gameplay is just a hell lot of fun, I slaughter hordes of stuff, have frequent boss encounters and loot stuff. No mircromanagement, nof MF stuff just plain action. Also, due to synthesized bases there is basically no limit on how I can improve my gear.

3.) The drops are actually rewarding - I never before sold so many items in the 20c to 1ex price range. In particular the fractured items dropped by memory bosses are really great. Without any mf and with only doing what I love to do, I make about 2-3 ex an hour.

4.) I just love onlaught boots.

Why do I post this: this has changed a lot with the main synthesis patch. If you left before that time or gave up on synthesis: do yourself a favour and give it another try with the upcoming flashback event.

Im with you with this. People say league sucks and is shit when they go to "reward islands" and say they are not rewarding because they get couple c and "waste" 15 min to build bridge into it. They forget about shitton of monsters they killed for free in that time. The density in memory fragments is insane, no other league added so many "free monesters" before. People complain that GGG should stop adding complex league mechanics and give them good old "kill some extra monsters" like Breach or Abyss did while Syntehsis gives them literally hundreds of "free monsters" per map.

and then i get inside a memory fragment and get "1shoted" by 3/4rares ofscreen as soon as i start.

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spoc002 wrote:

and then i get inside a memory fragment and get "1shoted" by 3/4rares ofscreen as soon as i start.

Might be a build problem?

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spoc002 wrote:

and then i get inside a memory fragment and get "1shoted" by 3/4rares ofscreen as soon as i start.

If you are dying to Syntehsis monsters I cant imagine how you deal with Syndicate.

im glad you enjoy the league.

i can't wait for 3.7. i'll probably even skip out on the flashback race because it still has torment and synthesis. no thanks. and otherwise it really isn't adding much. i'd prefer a voided mayhem to a non-voided slightly juiced up version of the normal game.

they're essentially only giving you a couple sextants for free value on your maps. to me, that isn't worth rerolling all over again and burning out on leveling up all over again just before the start of a new league

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xMustard wrote:

i'd prefer a voided mayhem to a non-voided slightly juiced up version of the normal game.

Im pretty sure everyone (ar at least vast majority) of PC players would preffer Mayhem over this that flashback.

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spoc002 wrote:

and then i get inside a memory fragment and get "1shoted" by 3/4rares ofscreen as soon as i start.

This. I lost interested in this league after barely getting started on it due to off-screen monsters shooting at me. That wasn't the only reason I was turned off of this league, but it definitely played a decent role in it. I thought we were over that nonsense by now. Wasn't it like Onslaught or something where they fixed the Arc casters doing this? Blegh.

Edit: I wasn't getting one-shotted, or even dying, to this. It's just nonsense that doesn't belong in the game is all.

I dont doubt that you enjoyed the league.

But the fact remains that record numbers left and stop playing at an alarming rate.

One of the only takeaways you can glean from that is the league wasnt engaging, and some technical issues from betrayal as well as nexus maps didnt help.

From a numbers and technical performance point of view, this was certainly a low point for PoE.

Hopefully they can learn from it. No one expects them to be perfect all the time, but I do expect them to improve on missteps.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

From a numbers and technical performance point of view, this was certainly a low point for PoE.

Hopefully they can learn from it. No one expects them to be perfect all the time, but I do expect them to improve on missteps.

Exactly. I hated this league, but I don't hate PoE or GGG. I just chose not to play this league and hope they do better in June.