Announcing Path of Exile: Legion

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Geistermeister36 wrote:

None of this makes melee even close as competitive as ranged and spell builds. You failed to rebalance it. Honestly I'm not even surprised.

And seriously, you want to make a MELEE League and of 5 Unique Items that are either new or updated 4 of them are for spellcasters. And the one that isnt, is not even a good leveling item because it has reduced movement speed. WHAT THE FUCK ?

You really hate melee dont you ?

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UnclePobatti wrote:

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Upforsale wrote:

We have been promised a " simple, repeatedly fun mechanic, possibly a new fan favorite" I was looking forward to breach/beyond, or atleast abyss, something int the line of "here.. bunch of extra mobs with loots".

"Unfreezing" seems totally tedious, frustrating and time-consuming as well as punishing for non-crazy aoe builds or anything you can't control the targeting.

I'm not sure, and are leaning more on the opposite mindset.

Instead of being thrown into a death-zone the moment you leave Lioneye's watch and interact with league content for the first time, you're actually able to manually select the difficulty of the encounter. If I understand it correctly that even includes tagging chests and leaving the legions alone if you're totally outclassed or don't want to risk combat.

So it's the intention that weaker characters will purposefully tag fewer legion mobs than more powerful classes. That's great since you get agency which was sorely needed in the past few leagues where you were mostly beholden to and dragged-along entirely by the whims of RNG.

This extreme agency means that GGG can freely make these enemies super challenging without it feeling unfair or frustrating.

Trouble is, some classes and character types may have problems.

How does a Necromancer prevent his/her minions tagging more legion mobs than the player can comfortably handle? If you cast a spell like arc would that activate every mob at the same time and cause you to be trapped in the middle to be slaughtered? How do you cause a spell like arc or winter orb to only target specific enemies and not others? Even melee abilities now have additional splash-range so it would be tricky to avoid tagging more enemies than you really wanted to.

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micdy70 wrote:

someone know when exactly synthesis will end on console?

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Nomorenamestopick wrote:

I think the league mechanic would be better if you hit the ones you DID NOT want to fight, instead of having to hit everything twice. Hitting everything twice is going to get boring fast.