is GGG limiting build diversity with monster buffs?

I find it funny when people defend saying that they like the game being hard LOL. Seriously just play with ur eyes shut or blindfold cause is the same thing. The only dificulty rn is to be able to SEE what's going on. There is so many particles and effects on screen that u literally cannot see what monsters are doing and ofcorse the game start to lag so bad that u will die to these clusterfuck. Try to play in a party and do blight maps I bet that u will crash or the whole instance will.

To balance content to make it hard the first thing they need to do is lowering the diference between builds and specially between max out builds and budget ones. After that an overhaul on game graphics and effects to clean the screen so players will be able to see and respond to threats (and even enjoy cause some animations are very well done when u can actually see them).

And last. Difficulty is not 10m hp and 1 shots... this is just lazy attempt to create an ilusion to make it seem hard and delay the progress cause they are unable to create a proper challange and engaging end game.

Infact I think they even gave up on endgame cause the so hyped "poe2" is ALL about the early game/alternative lvling campaign...

No, we dont like the game being hard. We are so far away from it being HARD its just silly. Actually the game for the past 2-3 years was so god damn easy to the point you could watch TV while clearing maps with one hand.

Pretty sure most people did exactly that considering the best farming spots were white tier maps or crap like the quarry, lmao

Increasing the hp and defense of boss was just plain lazy and has put a huge stress in the community, it increased the gap btw the low ends of builds/player vs the high ends builds/players.


I'm trying a bow build right now and the investment might be too much for a casual like me lmao (Ironically I find it easier to get millions dps on a melee with like 1/3 of the investment than what I need on a bow build lmao)

Metamorph fight are epics but when I see my friend summoner afk them I'm like WTF.

Thinking positively that kind of difficulty change will force GGG to balance things out a bit more cause this is enforcing META build even more lol.

The gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" is huge in this game. Live with it.

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Xystre wrote:

basically what the "biggest" brains here and reddit asked for more difficulty.

dev's accepted this and gave them and they buffed stats on monsters and bosses.

by doing this not only limited builds but since people know that they will get 1 shot anyway people keep investing further into damage regardless.. since there's cases where even the most balanced and tank build can still get 1 shot regardless.

the morale of the story is: biggest brain doesnt actually mean smart or smarter than anyone

You can't use something done badly as a reason that something doesn't work, If i go try to make a chair and its a hideous monstrosity nobody can sit on that doesn't mean carpentry is garbage it means i'm garbage at carpentry.

Also the people who find the content the easiest are the ones that want additional difficulty, brains have nothing to do with it stop projecting. The biggest brains will be the ones with the least time to play lol

Edit: to actually tackle the original question yes they did limit diversity because they did arbitrary health buffs with nothing attached to them, that just makes X% of builds no longer viable as nothing else has changed aside from dps requirements in terms of validity.

The new contents fun though and is probably as balanced as new content usually is, i'd rather fight any of the new bosses than modded malachai still lmao

All this is to me, is preparing the ground for more powercreep.


They did it the other way around in 2.0 - giving us the power of ascendancy classes with no content to throw this power against.
Shaper & Co were introduced later.

Over time they introduced more and more powercreep to the point where the game became a snooze fest. Any build could do anything without breaking a sweat and thats not good in many aspects.


Their business model relies on introducing new stuff every 3 month.
To make this new stuff interesting, it needs to be more powerful than other options, else players are going for the other options.

Basically they couldnt justify introducing more powercreep when there is no reason to have this power in the first place.
Now there is plenty room for improvement for many build archetypes, so they can create new toys - read: more powercreep.


And thats all there is to it imho

I believe that most skills, and builds will work. Problem is that EVERYONE seems to want to play super OP builds like all the popular streamers. And when they see they have a hard time doing it, they start pointing fingers.

About the necro: it's funny to me, as a long time necro player, too see people jump all over the necro now while they avoided it completely in the past. Necro was always an easy, and safe build to play; ALWAYS. Sadly GGG had the great idea to make it OP, and now everyone flocks to it like flies.
It may have escaped the guillotine after last patch, but man do I fear a complete murder of it in the past. Necro was OK, they should have left it there, but here we are instead.

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lupasvasile wrote:

I believe that most skills, and builds will work. Problem is that EVERYONE seems to want to play super OP builds like all the popular streamers. And when they see they have a hard time doing it, they start pointing fingers.

About the necro: it's funny to me, as a long time necro player, too see people jump all over the necro now while they avoided it completely in the past. Necro was always an easy, and safe build to play; ALWAYS. Sadly GGG had the great idea to make it OP, and now everyone flocks to it like flies.
It may have escaped the guillotine after last patch, but man do I fear a complete murder of it in the past. Necro was OK, they should have left it there, but here we are instead.

you have right about people want copy streamer , but often when you want make own build is faile cause this build are limited on damage or survive and the most hard moment is when you invest a build with so many cheap currency and you cant beeat all boss or die on some trash its crazy sad feeling :(