Why i'm already quitting the league

I feel you.

What makes me laugh is that "macros" are against the TOS yet bot flippers, bot traders and bot scammers make up about 50% of the trade system. See the same bots again and again flipping every popular item in game from league start to end. This league has been the worst since I started playing. Put something for sale for a few ex cheaper than the bot fix and....DING DING DING DING DING from so many people you drop to 5 fps.

Flasks are cancer in POE imo. I am currently trying to adapt a build to basically negate the need for flaskathons but it is VERY tough and requires very specific megalomanics which are rare as rocking horse shit if not too expensive.

Aura's are another bugbare for me. Why not limit the number of auras instead of nerfing all the passives to make them less and less useful for non-mirror build aura bots? GGG always seem to do things arse about face.

GGG always nerf the crap out of stuff because ONE particular build is super OP when exploited. Meanwhile the 40 other builds that use said mechanics go from fun and useable to wet fart useless. Every single time.

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stalkingjackal wrote:

Valid points, but all of them were true in the previous league as well?
Also burnout is pretty common if you have been playing several leagues consecutively, might be healthy to take a break.

Yeah they were, i mentioned that this was a problem for several leagues now ^^
Ritual League had the benefit of adding new endgame content and made playing it more exciting - But these problems bothered me back then nontheless.

Im not burned out from playing too much PoE, its literally the frustration from these issues that make me dread logging in the past few days.

Ill probably take a break until next league, im fine with that. Still hope those issues will get adressed at some point.

If this continues on in PoE2 theyll lose me as a supporter. (This is not a threat, just saying i will no longer play if this game doesnt improve on some big flaws IMO).

Stop trading eliminates 3/5 of your problems.

Drops matter when you can't buy w/e
Harvest matters when you can't let others join party in TFT
No need for an AH.

I played Trade until Abyss... made fortunes and build whatever I wanted every league. Still build whatever I want just no frustating.

I still get burned out though and skipping this one. All it is a yet another breach with a sassy tiralmaster. Thats good advice about taking a break to who said that.. Burnout is a real thing and makes you jaded.

Agree to all points.

I can imagine that a death log would be to much labor to be done and/or would use too much performance.
Because there can be so many hits every second - PoE is overloaded in many aspects.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Stop trading eliminates 3/5 of your problems.

Drops matter when you can't buy w/e
Harvest matters when you can't let others join party in TFT
No need for an AH.

I played Trade until Abyss... made fortunes and build whatever I wanted every league. Still build whatever I want just no frustating.

I still get burned out though and skipping this one. All it is a yet another breach with a sassy tiralmaster. Thats good advice about taking a break to who said that.. Burnout is a real thing and makes you jaded.

Was wondering when the first "Play SSF" sentiment would appear :P

No, 99% of drops are useless in SSF as well, since its just complete trash.
Even if you TP out of Maps 5 times with full inventory to sell stuff for currency, you maybe got 1-2% of whats actually dropped in the map. Its just too much.

Good Harvest Crafts are as rare or rarer than exalted orbs. Everything else is just glorified chaos orbs, essences and fossils being way more reliable. Thats why i say, scrap Harvest or make it account bound with better crafts.

I really hope next league will have more exciting content than ritual and ultimatum though.

Kind of want to quit PoE altogether too, but I still like it more or less. And there is still no worthy competitor. I am a slower player, mostly due to work and probably age now. I like to stick to one game for as long as I can. And I try to do so with PoE.

There are many things that many people keep asking for so long to add/change. I see some are getting implemented very very slowly. But it is probably because the community as a whole is getting more and more frustrated. Reminds me of the Warframe community a year + ago. Streamers started dropping it, unjustified bans, no endgame, raids got removed almost a decade ago, content delivered in updates do not match promises. The game became focused only on low-level grinds that are meaningless. This league feels similar. But oh well - PoE steam stats show good numbers so that is all that matters I guess.

Performance problems during each league's first 2 weeks are getting annoying.

The insane amount of clicking in the game is obnoxious. This is probably the most annoying part.

Most loot is just garbage loot that should not exist in that quantity and undeniably affects performance.

Replaying the same damn acts over and over again in every single league with every single character is absolute bullshit. Does anyone else watch Lord of the Rings trilogy in one go 25 times over a year or so? Cus that is the average amount you spend playing just acts over and over again.

All combat/action in the game is just a convoluted mass of breaking and blurring explosions. And yes, Sirus is still trash.

Skill balance is garbage - 80% of them are shit. Sooner or later you have to go to mainstream skills or you will lag behind. I am fine with that, but there is a limit. You can check % on poe.ninja. Build variety and freedom of choice from all that massive tree is just fluff.

I like to trade to some degree, I do not like to go to TFT for that. Other games have in-game trading in auction house forms for over 20 years. No excuse to pretend it is not possible and make excuses not to make it available in PoE. Someone at GGG just does not care and still holding in that "poe philosophy" that does not apply to modern poe.

So many sub-grinds in the game: atlas/delve/heist/syndicate. At least those are not mandatory and some can be done in combination with mapping.

I do not give a damn about SSF (just like most).

I do not give a damn about Standard (just like most).

Also - we know what China PoE has so - wtf? Bring some here as well.
This league was one step forward and 2 steps back. Many nerfs. Ritual 2. Changes to labs are nice, but those are cancerous and I hate them with passion. Harvest is garbage - over nerfed.

My rant is over. Decided to type cus I am ill today, can't force myself to go into the game, and no one gives a damn about my sh-posting anyway, so my disgrace of posting this will fade away by the next day.

Sorry for my poor English and happy grinding.

Nothing new, the game is old, and every game has a limited lifetime.
The only goal here is to get challenges, then quit asap. There's plenty of amazing games elswhere, or real life.
I don't understand people who play continuously 4 months. It's already crazy to spend so much time for few weeks.
This clickfest pushed me to only play necro. Identifying rare items was a thing early in the game history, today it's just SPAM.