Path of Exile vs Diablo 3

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Tagek wrote:

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Rocksteady86 wrote:

Disney and Diablo had a baby and named it Diablo 3.


That is the best way i can explain it in 1 sentence.

Diablo 3 is WAY to -happy / fun- colorful

I believe this is for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_JSCfMJ1Jg

LOL i know!!! where do you think i got my conclusion from??!!

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AgentDave wrote:

Diablo boss fights, you have to do stuff.

PoE boss fights, you can stand toe to toe with the boss and slug it out. *maybe* you have to dodge something or back out for a sec to let your flasks tick.

POE has lots of other nice stuff, but the boss fights are just anti-climatic, to me at least.

I will say I am enjoying D3 more than expected. It is more difficult than expected. That being said I really don't like the boss fights much. It is just about learning the environment and dodging crap on the ground. I would rather fight a tough boss than an annoying environment.

And Vortex / Jailer / Arcane enchanted is broken... lol

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thepmrc wrote:

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AgentDave wrote:

Diablo boss fights, you have to do stuff.

PoE boss fights, you can stand toe to toe with the boss and slug it out. *maybe* you have to dodge something or back out for a sec to let your flasks tick.

POE has lots of other nice stuff, but the boss fights are just anti-climatic, to me at least.

I will say I am enjoying D3 more than expected. It is more difficult than expected. That being said I really don't like the boss fights much. It is just about learning the environment and dodging crap on the ground. I would rather fight a tough boss than an annoying environment.

And Vortex / Jailer / Arcane enchanted is broken... lol

Sure - a good boss design is nicer than arbitrary "Do this, because we say so" enviroment.

But I'd rather have "Do this because we say so" than ThwackThwackThwackThwackThwackThwackThwackThwackFlask
ThwackThwackThwackRunAndFlaskThwackThwackThwackThwack
ThwackFlaskThwackThwackFlaskThwackThwackThwackFlaskThwack
ThwackThwackThwack... Dead Boss.

And that pretty much describes the last 10 storyline bosses I've fought in PoE. Including ones people keep bitching about, like Chatters or Kuduku, and Act bosses like Brutus and Merviel - The only things I've died to are (IMO) poor design of the Fetid Pools necromancer (Hmm... I'm level 4 Ranger, so no pierce yet... He raises stuff faster than my attack speed, and I can't shoot between mobs to hit him first, and I can't kite because he just raises more mobs as I kite around.), and going AFK to pee without portaling first.

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thepmrc wrote:

I will say I am enjoying D3 more than expected. It is more difficult than expected. That being said I really don't like the boss fights much. It is just about learning the environment and dodging crap on the ground. I would rather fight a tough boss than an annoying environment.

And Vortex / Jailer / Arcane enchanted is broken... lol

I like the champions/rares more than the "bosses", some combinations are just crazy hard. It's so much fun!

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Sickness wrote:

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thepmrc wrote:

I will say I am enjoying D3 more than expected. It is more difficult than expected. That being said I really don't like the boss fights much. It is just about learning the environment and dodging crap on the ground. I would rather fight a tough boss than an annoying environment.

And Vortex / Jailer / Arcane enchanted is broken... lol

I like the champions/rares more than the "bosses", some combinations are just crazy hard. It's so much fun!

Yeah.

In a lot of ways it feels like if Dungeon Seige III was actually a decent game.

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and going AFK to pee without portaling first.

Dave I was laughing so hard, that exact thing I believe I have done a few times also, thanks for the laugh! :o)

I actually bought D3 even I didn't like too many things I read about it in the last years or the graphics.
Its sad cause I played the beta and didnt like it and upgraded my supporter pack for POE right after it.

Everyone so pumped about D3. Blizzard took my money cause of the hype lol.

I only played hardcore... but I felt like I was playing WoW (the looks & crafting).
Even if they add pvp & other stuff... I wont like it. It has no soul, no feeling. My time is too precious to waste it. Next time I will have to trust my guts more.

RIP Diablo.

I just uninstalled it. Gogo PoE OB!

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PoE? more often than not - I use one attack, things die in 1-2 hits. While playing a ranger is a little more fun - I find melee in PoE to be kind of bland. Things did spruce up a bit with the addition of Totems, and in harder situations I might use a totem, shield slam - but 90% of my tactic is just spamming ground-slam.

Exactly THIS. Fighting in D3 is waaaaaay more interesting than in PoE. And since the genre is called "Hack n Slay" and not "plan your skilltree" i think that D3 is the better game as it is now. PoE becomes dull and boring very fast, imho. The recent updates regarding mob variance are a step into the right direction, but i think there still is much to do.

And another important point: When i hit stuff in D3, i hit it with FORCE. I SLAY mobs in D3, not click them to death like in PoE. The feedback coming from the game regarding destruction/mayhem is far better in D3 than in PoE.

The last point D3 is way better in: Atmosphere. Ok, you might hate the graphical style, but if you give the artstyle a chance, it's simply awesome. So much detail to the world! The sounddesign rocks as well. The story is nothing too special but interesting enough.

I really like PoE. I think it is a complex successor of D2.
Sure the combat is more repetetiv and boring than D3 but it was like that in D2. I like to plan builds and have to do choices as I progress my character.

I am sure D3 is an amazing game (its Blizzard after all) but forced online play, Real money auction house and the cartoony look made me interessted in alternativs. I will buy D3 regardless since I want to know the story but I do not need it now.

I think what PoE does best is the dark look and the creepy enemies, I love the artstyle. Combat is solid D2 style but nothing new.