POE - How much more complicated can you get?

3.15 patch notes;

Please have doctorate degree in calculus and linear algebra so you can understand the patch notes.

If your IQ is lower than 160, find an simpler games like diablo 3 or candy crush.


The accelerating amount of complexity is ridiculous.

Bex the goddess herself has stated that patch notes and editorial stuffs have been growing longer and more complex steadily since bestiary.

I understand there is a need for power creep to keep the game alive, but this game is becoming way too

I might be in the minority here, but I kinda miss simpler leagues like delve, legion, delirium, or even blight, when we didnt have to learn hundreds of new stuff every 3 months.

Last league's gardenscaping still left a bitter aftertaste (the harvest crafting was awesome though!), And now this 900 alt quals and 100 new base types and 200 new alternate unique will definitely slam my stupid brain again.

If a game which is fun, becoming more complicated - that's good
There's enough brainless games out there, and i'm glad Path of Exile is not in that state

...You're not wrong, but they're also not wrong to keep doing it. You provide the product your consumers want, whether they know it or not. Whether they say so or not. Sometimes this works against PoE given ANY sort of streamlining or clarification is perceived by the armchair rocket scientists as DUMBING IT DOWN, but for the most part, it's kept PoE on its own level. I mean, who doesn't love a game that makes you feel smart and special and superior just for getting past the first handful of hours?

...And yes, of course it's pandering. But all forms of entertainment do, one way or another.

Do you really believe heist will be complicated?
There are 9 abilities in total (i think they said 9).
Each npc has 1 main and few? other abilities (few = at least 2?)

For regular heist you can pick one or three members (can't remember but it doesnt matter).
For big heist you can take 3 teams (so thats 3 or 9 members in total but once again it doesnt matter).



This is what you do:
1) Create 3 teams, each covering all 9 abilities
2) Your first team is your main team, equip them in best eq
3) During regular heist pick team one (if all 3 can go) or member that let you pick most interesting rewards (wasting time on min maxing here would be stupid)
4) For Big heist do same thing as above

Done

Let's not pretend league will be complicated.

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karoollll2534 wrote:

Do you really believe heist will be complicated?
There are 9 abilities in total (i think they said 9).
Each npc has 1 main and few? other abilities (few = at least 2?)

For regular heist you can pick one or three members (can't remember but it doesnt matter).
For big heist you can take 3 teams (so thats 3 or 9 members in total but once again it doesnt matter).



This is what you do:
1) Create 3 teams, each covering all 9 abilities
2) Your first team is your main team, equip them in best eq
3) During regular heist pick team one (if all 3 can go) or member that let you pick most interesting rewards (wasting time on min maxing here would be stupid)
4) For Big heist do same thing as above

Done

Let's not pretend league will be complicated.

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i agree with u that i prefer leagues like deli, legion and meta but i dont think harvest or heist are complicated tho

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Rekt_that wrote:

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I might be in the minority here, but I kinda miss simpler leagues like delve, legion, delirium, or even blight, when we didnt have to learn hundreds of new stuff every 3 months.

If he miss simpler league then... I don't know, i asumme opposite of "simple" is "complicated". And heist will not be complicated. It's like delve but instead of having to think about which node you want to get you have to decide how you want to get your reward.

Were the last 5 leagues except harvest complicated? I think op might be overreacting, I mean yes I fucking disliked harvests factorio garden but one week in the league there were 3-4 templates for every kind of player, just needed to copy paste the layout.

That being said, it's lucky that there's a dedicated community for the game, any mechanic is broken down/ explained/ helped by third party apps in a couple of days since release. Heist looks like maybe betrayal level complexity so we good. Crafting leagues were always more wacky and disliked by the majority.

I like to play poe and come here to read how complicated everything is. Makes me feel like a Genious for playing a monotonous game where the main antagonist became the antagonist by playing a monotonous game too much

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Rekt_that wrote:

Read more than just the title

? His response is right whether you respond to just the title or the OP they are just about the same.

the most complicated league GGG have done is synthesis, everything else is extremely simple pretending not to be (even synthesis was pretty simple it was just hard to min/max given the piece shapes being fixed)

Making a decent build is a far steeper intelligence requirement than any league mechanics we deal with lol