Powercreep and Poe II

Guys i'm loving the game, this was probably the league i liked the most. But the powercreep is just turning me off the game to the point i'm eager for D4 (i completely ignored D3 but still have a d2 copy from the launch). It was fine until t14 i must say, but after that, erf. I guess i should go back to HC and reroll every 2days, but i just don't have the time physically for that...

Especially after playing this league power creep, and poe2 was not announced as a hard reset (not sure how much PR is in this) but rather as just an other story line with the same end game.

The power creep is so bad that even you don't ever show the real face of the end game (looney tunes gameplay) in your PR. If you can't handle it i just hope this kind of post will be a good wake up call. The end game aka Looney tunes, toons on coke teleporting everywhere with an hysterical laugh is just making me hate the game and stop playing, it's really bad, and to be honest i'm not sure who and why you could even like that. And yes i definitely was there during the entire progression of POE and it somewhat make logical sense, but ye at the end of the road, it just plain bad. You can claim it's what player want, i'll say it straight up, i sure don't want that at all personally, once more this is just turning me off the game.

You absolutely need an end game hard reset with POE II, it needs it's own end game. And making it go a completely different direction as the actualy poe powercreep would be a good thing in my opinion. The end game should be like what you show in your PR, some rpg where a character need to use caution to explore a dangerous world. Not a Droopy character zapping into content that only have one shot left for the sake of being an "Hard Core game". Giving both options can only make the game better. Maybe just make it an endless story (continuing every few leagues) that end up to the old days when Vaal was the last boss, i don't know, really anything other than the power creeping at this point.

Alright!

you legit haven't done anything dude lol

"it was fine until T14"... I guess someone got rekt by T15-T16 and decided that instead of facing the shame, spewing out something about "power creep", on the forum would make it seem less obvious.

If anything the power creep was somewhat reversed for T15-T16. Way fewer builds than before can hop around like you tell the tale about. In blight just about any build could plow down those tiers blindfolded. Unless you completely mix up the term power creep that is. Buffing monsters is not power creep.

The meta (early game) builds at the start of this league were summoners and miners. How is that a speed clear/hop around meta? None of those builds are speed clearers of the old kind. If anything the game has been majorly slowed down now with all the conquerors/elder guardians/shaper guardians mixed into your normal map clear. Running strats doing same map over and over has been made way harder so that also slows down the speed considerably.

If you want to do all content now (without dying more than 5 times a day) you will have to add in extra layers of defenses where before all you needed was damage, speed and laugh your way to victory. Power Creep Where? If anything the game is heading in the right direction now instead of the previous power creep. What is needed now is more challenge from start-T14. How can you even say "it was fine until T14". Makes no sense.

game is quite easy on T10's if you skip (old) league mechanics too :P

All my toons are on coke.

It's really hard to tell if you're referring to players power creep, or the game getting harder this release.

This league has reversed a lot of the power creep from the previous leagues. They nerfed a lot of things that made it where previously you could farm t16's on a MF character with 3.5k life. Try that now and you will be dying a lot.

So, not sure what OP is talking about.

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Never_Lucky_ wrote:

This league has reversed a lot of the power creep from the previous leagues. They nerfed a lot of things that made it where previously you could farm t16's on a MF character with 3.5k life. Try that now and you will be dying a lot.

So, not sure what OP is talking about.

I think nobody get what op is saying...

Problem that I agreed 100% is the game become too fast and arcade at endgame. No rpg elements, no exploration, hell u dont even have time to read mob mods (if u stop u die, no time to read anything).

Funny thing devs already said they know the problem but dont know how to solve it without pissing off a lot of people (they dont seem to care about pissing people over holydays or with bugged realease though...)

Even playing in parties with friends is a joke in endgame. THe engine cant even handle and sometimes the whole instance crash. About dificulty cause of our speed and recovery the game resumes in 1 shots or 0,00001 sec bursts cause this is the ONLY way to kill players. Everything die in less than a sec so monsters need to be able to kill u guess what, in less than a sec.

But yeah, I gave up. I dont think they even can fix the game. The damage is already done.

I don't consider PoE a game. It has nothing to offer as a game. It is a slot machine for gamblers.