3.9 has ruined path of exile for me personally

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Oblitus wrote:

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lalalazila wrote:

the spike in the tankiness of stuff jumps so hard I think it proves that ggg did not test the changes at all or at least not in high red maps

They balance the game around mirror-tier gear and super optimized builds. And they always did that.

What? When?
Mirror tier gear completely shits on all mechanics and content (maybe except deep delving since that is rather specific type of builds to be used)

I bet they playtest content with shitty chars to "test what the game does" rather than go with 6xT1 fully optimized gear with all the power creep shit.
I would bet that the Alpha realm guys do not catch more than 20% of the silly interaction between stuff they add every 3 months what will be found out on SC and exploited to the fullest by the community.

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Marxone wrote:

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Oblitus wrote:

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lalalazila wrote:

the spike in the tankiness of stuff jumps so hard I think it proves that ggg did not test the changes at all or at least not in high red maps

They balance the game around mirror-tier gear and super optimized builds. And they always did that.

What? When?
Mirror tier gear completely shits on all mechanics and content (maybe except deep delving since that is rather specific type of builds to be used)

I bet they playtest content with shitty chars to "test what the game does" rather than go with 6xT1 fully optimized gear with all the power creep shit.
I would bet that the Alpha realm guys do not catch more than 20% of the silly interaction between stuff they add every 3 months what will be found out on SC and exploited to the fullest by the community.

I never said they do a good job. More like "take some meta build from ninja, slap on most expensive stuff and see how it works."

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Antigegner wrote:

I can't say it has been ruined (still best ARPG ever) but I'm definitely having much less fun. Actually the least fun I ever had playing PoE.

You should expand your knowledge of ARPGs. Wolcen and Last Epoch are holding my attention 1000x better right now than POE. They're smooth, lag-free, well animated, and at least LE has pretty fun repeatable end-game (I haven't gotten to end game in Wolcen yet).

I should also point out that an early access game and a game that just full-released YESTERDAY are more polished than a 7 year old game.

Yes, we'd expect them to look prettier. But they're MORE POLISHED.

I wish I had a way to print out and staple this to the entire GGG team's forehead.. The game has sucked ever since Betrayal. Dogpiling garbage on top of garbage on top of garbage every 3 months is already showing signs of alienating the playerbase, how long before they lose it entirely?

People keep bringing up "POE2" like its going to do anything, it is merely a 4.0 patch on top of all this garbage and its still a year away.

I just hit the proverbial brick wall in T16 tower. Running a Duelist Champion.
I even respec-ed and grabbed

Soul of Steel (5% reduction)
Bloodletting (5% reduced damage bleeding enemy)
Crystal skin (5% reduced elemental)
Annointed Silent Steps (5% reduced damage from blinded enemies)
Conqueror Ascendancy (6% reduced damage)
Ran Flesh and Stone for the blind (50% eveasion)
3 Endurance charges
Good amount of armour
Decent amount of evasion
FORTIFY
Capped 76% resists
Over 5500 life.
Pretty standard right?

Walked right up to Brutus and BAM one shot!
Time for a break

This followed an Awakener 7 SIRUS raping where upon entering arena each time A triple beam of 25% Fire(Ignited),25% lightning(Shocked),25% Chaos, 25% physical with high chance of corrupting blood just ONE PUNCH MANs your char.