Blight league has been great

Thank you for the hard work GGG. I've really enjoyed Blight league and I guess have had more luck than most regarding Blight encounter bugs.

I reckon you did a wonderful job of combining 2 different game genres (ARPG and TD) and Blighted Maps have really been a great and intense addition to Path of Exile.

Would love to see an Uber Blight Map. Thanks and 2 Thumbs Up!

Worst league ever. And even if performance would be decent, this gameplay is boring and not fun-involving in any way IMO. I hope they will be smart enough not to add this to the core.

Fact that I have only played Blight for 4 days and it is unlikely I will be going back--with Borderlands 3 and Surge 2 out--until December is clear indication of what I think/feel about this league and its content. I even played Synthesis for a lot more and that was a broken league with issues that were not addressed for a very long time.

My biggest issue with Blight is how visually messy whole Blight mechanics are. Game UI is not equipped to deal with so many UI elements on screen, with additional visual effects of Blight and large number of monsters spawning. Monsters spawning in large numbers in a confined spaces of blight lanes looks weird, it seems monsters overlap on a map and they move in weirdly synchronized way at times.

League also did not feel immediately engaging and rewarding compared to Legion. This might be a problem of how good was previous league and Blight suffers from being compared to Legion but ultimately Blight does not feel it is seamlessly fitting the game as Legion did.

Blight mechanics has a lot of downtime at the start and at the end, which disrupts flow of the game. There is also issue with its rewards delivery that forces you to run around map opening chests. This should have been designed differently--spawn chest at the pump where random loot drops rather than have players chase the rewards around the map.

Due to my limited play time I did not experience any serious technical issues myself so I do not take those issues into consideration when assessing Blight challenge league.

Blight is the best League for me, only playing since incursion, but it beats delve league because delve itself is better.

Masters are great, the game has options for every archetype you want to play, bow melee summon poison bleed spell mines trap proc autobomber herald, just choose and play.

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Baron01 wrote:

League also did not feel immediately engaging and rewarding compared to Legion. This might be a problem of how good was previous league and Blight suffers from being compared to Legion but ultimately Blight does not feel it is seamlessly fitting the game as Legion did.

rewards start to become good at red maps, you have to play something a little bit more challenging to get rewarded now, Blight is not wrong, legion was.

Legion was one type of rewarding league because it was showering you with valuable loot from the start. However, showering your with loot is not the only way to reward players. Legion also had solid progression system where you were collecting splinters to access those domains where you could fight more Legion for some sweet loot.

Blight has no meta game, no progression. Oils are very shallow mechanic with very little engagements--sure it provides more power to players but it does not really provide anything other than additional power creep.

This lack of progression means there is little incentive to engage with challenge league mechanic early or constantly. Blighted maps are pinnacle of this league but lots of feedback suggests they are too rare to be a core focus of the league. Blight maps are also problematic in my eyes because they are binary, you get a drop or you dont, and there is no slow but steady progression toward the end-game. Legion splinters gave player a sense of progression when they pick few splinters every encounter. You could see how many you had and easly knew how many you still needed. Blight is different because you can run 10s or 100s of maps with Blight encounters without getting a blighted map. This takes away players agency and in my view lowers player engagement. Another reason I was not captured by the league and I'm playing different games.

Blight League is nothing against Legion League.

The rewards from TD are feeling so bad in contrast to Legion.

Also farming with Quantity Gear feels very bad.


PLEASE GGG, enable drops from Monsters coming through the Tower Defense Portals!

Legion was really bad, still a miracle to me, how anyone could have liked that mess.

It was a one build owns them all league, where you had to sit out, if you didn´t play that particular AOE meta. Rewards were poor too, I get a lot more out of Blight, than of Legion.

Just the bad performance is an issue, GGG has to act quickly there, else not many players will remain for the next league.

My ranking is still,

legacy,
Betrayel,
Blight,
Delve,
Beastiary

....


rest.

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Ygidua wrote:

Legion was really bad, still a miracle to me, how anyone could have liked that mess.

It was a one build owns them all league, where you had to sit out, if you didn´t play that particular AOE meta. Rewards were poor too, I get a lot more out of Blight, than of Legion.

Just the bad performance is an issue, GGG has to act quickly there, else not many players will remain for the next league.

My ranking is still,

legacy,
Betrayel,
Blight,
Delve,
Beastiary

....


rest.

No breach? Looks like we'll never be friends LOL

I didn't like Legion, mostly because of the ED + Contagion abuse that was clear since the first screens and trailers got released.

Blight in comparison, is equally bad. It suffers the Harbinger slowness. It is supposed to "change the pace" of the game so it won't be just another zoom zoom league, but it fails due to amount of bugs and lack of endgame blight maps (i guess, i never got anything higher than T9 while doing every event in T16s.

I enjoy the masters rework, able to do what I want when I want. That's a big thumbs up.

But i tested some of the new skills, went back gold standard - bow Ele hit, had more fun. So I am done as there is no endgame boss to get to in Blight league.
24 done, I am done.

PS: i don't see any build I would find fun to try. I am not tempted to play summoner or miner, so this league brought nothing but Plague Bearer which was fun. But it still lacks behind any bow build.

I'm loving blight. Only big thing I would like to see right now is higher drop rate of blighted maps. But I'm guessing that won't happen. Based on the server side issues Chris admitted to, can you imagine if there were a lot of blighted maps being run all the time? So I strongly suspect the reason the drop rates are so low is to keep the server load from getting worse.

That is also why I'm pretty sure Blight never makes it to core. Which will be a bummer but I don't think anything can be done. Anything they could do to fix the server issues would likely kill the funnest parts of playing blighted maps, namely all the action.

I've been lucky and only had a few technical issues and crashes, and a few lost maps. No more so than past leagues though. So for me, this has been a very fun league and I'll probably play it all the way up until the end.