POE 3.12 HEIST league is BAD

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Lord_Amandus wrote:
Cause they were random


No. Because they were poorly designed and din't fit PoE.
(Of all his missions there was a single one doable by any build).

Identically to some recent (and not so much) questionable design decisions plaguing PoE .
The desire to tHiNk dIfFeReNt just for the sake of it.
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I've tried a few builds this league so far. I was thinking totems would be good for heist mechanic because you could plant them around corners and they would shoot. Nope. They will not attack if YOU yourself do not have line of sight to the target. That's so bogus. At least minions will still attack things even if you do not have line of sight to the target. Maybe I'm wrong though and my totems are like the pugs of the dog world. Goofy lookin and act dumb and random.

Oh, and the league isn't as bad as some others have been. I actually don't mind the mechanic.
Last edited by Miketdobbs#2686 on Oct 16, 2020, 8:25:58 AM
The whole process of heisting is terribly inefficient. Unlike delving, you can’t simply jump in and start heisting. There’s too much setup and travel before you hit any action. Perhaps the only way to fix heist is to make it closer in mechanic to delve. A continuous string of heist rooms/areas connected together, like the mines. Jump in and start heisting. Reach the end goal room and done. Next room. No more back tracking, no clunky blueprint setup etc.
Well I'm a bit late, but I stumbled on this thread.

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Askelar wrote:

Oookay there wall of e-peen. This isnt a measuring contest - just because youve spent 36 of the first 48 hours grinding from level 1 to 99 with your ultra efficient hyper build that scales infinitely and can run ten maps in two minutes doesnt mean that other people can, or even want to. I have a 200K DPS gladiator as my heist character - and hes slow by most standards

GGG has two kinds of players: S P E E D M E T A B O I S and everyone else. Speed meta characters are like you - people who zoom as fast as possible through the content so you can get to some fantasized end game faster so you can get the next build sooner.
For YEARS GGG has struggled with finding a happy medium between "this is for zoomers" and "this is for everyone else" - theyve tried making seperate leagues but some people always hate it... Heist is a mix of both. Youre rewarded for both being slow AND being fast, and its a good thing.

Not to mention heist advances your game faster and in a much more fun way than regular maps do. Yes you have to wait a little, but this league ive gotten my first natural six link from a heist chest, ~80c from heists (not even grand heists), and im actually able to enjoy the league mechanic for once instead of chasing higher DPS so i can actually take down those hecking legion unique mobs and get the most out of breach/temples.

... I have to wonder, for people who malign heist, are they just hypocritical or yearn for the 'glory days' when the game was still run act 1-3 three times?

That's a quality post. I've a friend who zoomzooms so fast that he trashtalks the league because the doors don't open fast enough!!!! The problems of the rich. It's only about chaos/h, and sometimes the way he talks sounds like work to me. Seriously, put on some music and chill.

Putting efficiency above fun in a game just makes room to be unhappy and complain. People are obsessed with efficiency.

I'm enjoying heist very much, I like the characters, equipping them, crafting for them to get higher results, I like that it slows down a bit, or that I can engage in some planning like "can I open one more chest and rush to the heist goal, or will I be too late?".

I didn't encounter a bug yet either. But I only started playing more a week ago.

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:
Perhaps the only way to fix heist is to make it closer in mechanic to delve.

With fixing you mean making it closer to your liking. That's not fixing, don't twist your words around to make your opinion sound like fact. Everybody dislikes some aspects of the game at one point in time or another. That's not a reason to come rushing here to crap on GGG.

I like that heist is different from delve. I really enjoyed delve, but when I'm fed up of doing the same, I can go heisting. And that's when I'm glad heist isn't delve-2.
Last edited by _iLLuSia_#6673 on Oct 29, 2020, 8:34:17 AM

I saw many streamers started live other gaming... so fast they 'done' for Heist league.

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