Labyrinth is still not fun. It's horrible content

I know that GGG has said that they will provide an alternative method to get ascendancy points. I just have to let GGG know that getting this done sooner rather than later would be good.

My wife hates lab as well. So it is my job to ascend her characters. I ascended my character earlier in the day for four ascendancy points. I was just running her character through the lab. Almost there to get six ascendancy points for her character on this day. That's 5 runs through the disgusting lab in one sad day. Now admittedly this was not 5 runs (now to be six!) through the eternal lab but still not fun bad drudgery. I was almost to the third Izaro in the run and the client just dies! A slight character pause of no response, my panic rises and then bamm! gone!

GRRRRR! [expletive deleted]

So is it not fun or not horrible content?

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the normal labs are fine but i hate uber lab. its too long with too many traps. even the 6 map trials are so long and tedious. izaro is easy though,i dont think i ever died to him only to the traps because i try to rush through them since i find them so annoying

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Turtledove wrote:

comma added :-)

You need a semi-colon or a full stop. The comma still leaves both 'fun' and 'horrible' as descriptors of the content that it's not. :P

Also, don't expect the alt route to Ascendancy before the new campaign i.e. Path of Exile '2'. It's tied up with that. And, last I heard, they'll be new Ascendancies anyway. Unless there are explicit plans to otherwise detach the existing Ascendancies from the Labyrinth (unlikely, given TencentGGG's almost inexplicable attachment to their own inconsistent lore), which I've not heard but admittedly I don't exactly have my ear to the Wraeclast ground these days.

Did I ever tell you how much I loved testing the labyrinth, back when it was actually a labyrinth? I know, I'm awful. Sorry.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

comma added :-)

You need a semi-colon or a full stop. The comma still leaves both 'fun' and 'horrible' as descriptors of the content that it's not. :P

Also, don't expect the alt route to Ascendancy before the new campaign i.e. Path of Exile '2'. It's tied up with that. And, last I heard, they'll be new Ascendancies anyway. Unless there are explicit plans to otherwise detach the existing Ascendancies from the Labyrinth (unlikely, given TencentGGG's almost inexplicable attachment to their own inconsistent lore), which I've not heard but admittedly I don't exactly have my ear to the Wraeclast ground these days.

Did I ever tell you how much I loved testing the labyrinth, back when it was actually a labyrinth? I know, I'm awful. Sorry.

I wish I could just give you permission to edit my posts. Then I'd have someone else to blame for my incompetence!

I am happy for people that like the labyrinth content. They are very fortunate IMHO.

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Turtledove wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

comma added :-)

You need a semi-colon or a full stop. The comma still leaves both 'fun' and 'horrible' as descriptors of the content that it's not. :P

Also, don't expect the alt route to Ascendancy before the new campaign i.e. Path of Exile '2'. It's tied up with that. And, last I heard, they'll be new Ascendancies anyway. Unless there are explicit plans to otherwise detach the existing Ascendancies from the Labyrinth (unlikely, given TencentGGG's almost inexplicable attachment to their own inconsistent lore), which I've not heard but admittedly I don't exactly have my ear to the Wraeclast ground these days.

Did I ever tell you how much I loved testing the labyrinth, back when it was actually a labyrinth? I know, I'm awful. Sorry.

I wish I could just give you permission to edit my posts. Then I'd have someone else to blame for my incompetence!

I am happy for people that like the labyrinth content. They are very fortunate IMHO.

Well, I was playing it for a reason other than chasing the soon-to-be essential Ascendancy. I was playing it for its own sake, and in that regard, it was a huge step away from the incredibly well-worn, frankly boring Act progression (4 acts, 3 difficulties then). I would gladly play a version of PoE that was *nothing* but a more fleshed-out version of the Labyrinth. Don't you think it'd be...quite like Diablo 1?

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

I would gladly play a version of PoE that was *nothing* but a more fleshed-out version of the Labyrinth. Don't you think it'd be...quite like Diablo 1?

I thought Diablo 1 was great fun. I played that from when it first came out to the release of Diablo 2. So no I don't think a fleshed-out Labyrinth style game would be like Diablo 1.

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Turtledove wrote:

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You should understand that the biggest ascendancy nodes are much more stronger than common passive skill nodes and you should deserve them

Do you want to significantly boost your build doing maps of insignificant difficulty?????????

Significant build-boost then significant difficulty

Labyrinth is not a common map, Labyrinth is a revolutional event in your game life

you should deserve ascendancy points

Ascendany points are not a garbage

PS
Of course there are some mistakes in the Labyrinth but for the most part Labyrinth is brilliant!

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

Well, I was playing it for a reason other than chasing the soon-to-be essential Ascendancy. I was playing it for its own sake, and in that regard, it was a huge step away from the incredibly well-worn, frankly boring Act progression (4 acts, 3 difficulties then). I would gladly play a version of PoE that was *nothing* but a more fleshed-out version of the Labyrinth. Don't you think it'd be...quite like Diablo 1?

I would too, to be honest. I used to primarily farm uberlabs for endgame; it wasn't until Delve that I found something else to scratch that "exploring, looting, and looking for hidden rewards" itch that got me into dungeon crawlers in the first place. I probably still would farm a lot of labs, if GGG would put league content in it.

Seriously, has there ever been an official explanation as to WHY the lab never contains content from the current league, or any leagues made since Essence? Because that decision always seemed arbitrary and frustrating to me.

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re editing posts: amusing that at one point I could have, but never would have. ;)

I don't think GGG could afford to pay anyone enough to compensate them for the job of "official forum post spelling/syntax corrector." That really does sound like a nightmare.