The Goodbye Thread

Skipped the past 3 leagues and came back to this!!

Why should I play the same game i have played 10 times, just with a slower pace?? Tell me

I don't play POE because i want a challenge like Dark Souls. I play it because of the speed and loot.

I'm leaving because the game feels bad. 2200 hours in Path of Exile. 2-3 characters per league and usually play over two months of each league. All of the nerfs, warding changes, and the fact that they clearly nerfed currency drops just makes this league horrifically boring to play. I play the game to have fun, drop loot, and make characters that get progressively stronger so I can murder endgame bosses. I can't really do any of that when I played 95 hours on a character and barely drop chaos and haven't seen a single divine, annul, exalt . I think I've seen like 6 blessed orbs. Nice! Goodbye.

Haven't left yet, but haven't logged into the game for a few days now and not sure if I will which is a big shame because the League looks amazing, but otherwise game just doesn't feel good and fun to play like it was before.

No new builds appearing on PoE builds for a week or even longer so literally almost nothing to play except 3-4 'degenerate' meta builds which is not what I would ever expect from a game with so many skills gems, classes, accendancies and the massive skill tree.

Started in legion and put thousands of hours into this game and since blight i leveled each league a character to 100. In expedition i didnt make it past 90. It feels like they put some artificial wall into the game and now for the first time in all my playtime the game feels like a waste of time. I am not having fun anymore and quit like 5 days ago. I am actually really sad about that and i hope they fix this huge mess.

This game is utterly ridiculous. I can't make it through a t12 map with a 30+ ex invested cyclone slayer without some RIPpy mechanic just deleting me in a 4 mod'ed soft rare map. How is this at all healthy, and how can this possibly feel for someone new to the game?! Rez capped, 3k+ armor, molten shell CWDT'd, defensive auras, 4k+ ehp, but nope! You're still not tanky enough to handle that white mob over there in the corner who will sneeze in your general direction and destroy you.

Absolutely atrocious game design decisions by GGG and their development staff. You make a game, and then during the course of its development make it so "fast paced" that you HAVE to overload on damage (as a player) in order to 1-shot things before the noise from the obscene amount of mobs, casts, attacks, and eventual ridiculous FPS and latency drops kill you... and then you nerf that player speed and damage into the ground.

Oh, but lets not rebalance the monster damage to account for our blatant clubbing of the baby seal that is the player base... in fact, here, lets make the monsters hurt more and forget that the sprites carry over that damage increase into HIGH TIER MAPS. I love jumping into a pack of Goatmen only to get one shot by their Molten Shells, or spin into a pack of Sea Witches just to be 1 shot because one of them connected with a lucky attack which then froze me for less than half a second... oh and by the way, you can't see them cast anything because eh, your screen's just a 240p mess because our servers can't keep up with the amount of junk on the ground, mobs in the instance, or some other bloated league mechanic which causes massive issues.

And great job creating more build diversity GGG, literally 3 ascendancies comprise nearly 50% of the player base this season... at least the last few seasons you could pick from 5 or 6 different play styles.

But I digress. I've put in some decent play time after only having started playing in Harvest, and I have loved every league since as a new player... until now. GGG you've gone ahead and pulled a Ronnie Kray. Took a sure bet and absolutely imploded it without any thought as to the future. Your player retention has been the worst in years (according to the numbers), yet you still soldier on down this path of "we're gonna make the game play slower and more in-line with PoE2" design mantra.

As of now, I'm calling it quits. Maybe if they revert some of these ridiculous changes I'll think about playing again this league, but it looks like League of Legends will be occupying me whilst I read the forums hoping that there will be some sort of righting of the ship.

Sounds like you've neglected chaos resistance. It used to be ok to run with even -60%. Now, you need about +30% to be safe from chaos damage. Poison is really amped this league. It will mess you up.

That is one of the things I really do welcome, the fact that chaos resistence finally does something outside of dead zombies being more dangerous than alive.

So why do people play POE?

1) to get a challenge

2) to get good clearspeed, powerfull builds, interesting items


GGG's answer is probably the first one!

Lolololol they also nerfed currency drop rates. Pathetic creatures.

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AT2105 wrote:

So why do people play POE?

1) to get a challenge

2) to get good clearspeed, powerfull builds, interesting items


GGG's answer is probably the first one!

No. GGG think all gamer are grinder