⭐ Your Scourge Final Impressions? ⭐ ⋆Updated⋆

[-] Scourge invasions are dog. period. Can't wait for more new monsters that insta kill you with nearly no reward. This is fun game play.

[-] Scourging items is a massive RNG fest
Put in a good item, gets -1000000 spell damage or cant do phys damage. OK
Put in mediocre item, gets +20 light res, still shit item.

[-] Game crashes every 20 minutes

[+] Currency stacking, YES!


Scourge league: 2/10

I find myself not doing the scourge add on stuff much. I did for a little bit then realized it’s a huge random RNG thing and the game has enough of that already.

Im playing since delve league and played almost in every league because i love this game. But this and the last league for me personaly felt more like a chore when i started maping. Actually i had more fun while leveling then maping.
I used to love maping because before there were a lot of fun builds to play, but now if you dont play the meta (toxic rain makes me vomit, and not a fun of traps either etc...) you basicaly will SUFFER in maps if you dont get lucky drops (exalted etc).

Before 3.15 i always stopped playing after nearly clearing the atlas and killing the bosses like sirus a8, uber elder, etc then maybe trying out some fun builds and thats it.

But now after 3 days i felt burnt out. The game for me simply in its current state it just not fun. So i just stopped playing and waiting for the next league hopefully with better changes. Dont get me wrong i dont say the game should be "easy mode" raining exalts, omfg builds that kills everything. But something better then the current game because it really just feels awful and not fun.

Sorry for bad english not my native.

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Nyro_The_MadMan wrote:

I find myself not doing the scourge add on stuff much. I did for a little bit then realized it’s a huge random RNG thing and the game has enough of that already.

yeah and it is a very high chance of bricking items.

I have bricked a few items now and they become worthless since no one will even buy them.

There is a very big problem with the economy when players have to play that few meta builds to survive and thus there is very big demand for that same few items.

Unless someone happens to be playing a build that almost no one is playing but is also able to handle end game content else the potential lost from bricking needed items and no able to replace them easily is just too great.

We can see this from all the random drops from mobs, a big fat zero scourge item I have picked up is actually useful

I quit the league three days in. GGG is pushing to move (even more) power to items rather than gems or passives, and I'm not interested in spending that much time on the game.

It doesn't help that scourge areas are deadly, low-reward, low-density, and visually cluttered. Or the bugs on the skills that I chose to use. Or that monster damage and hardcore leagues (where I play) still don't mix.

So yeah. GGG, this league is a failure in my eyes.

I missed the intro to the league due to a lag spike (the scene where you find the main NPC on the beach), so I was off to a great start. Flasks still feel AWFUL during leveling.

Scourge also felt awful, but I'm not playing meta so I guess that's on me. Krangling for levelling was borderline useless - all I used V for was to get some more precious flask charges for my 2 quicksilver that kept running out.

After the campaign was done, I found that maps lag like hell with the conquerors and scourge trying to cram a billion mobs in, Delve is unplayable due to flicker strike spiders, and Heist is painful because I can't sustain flask charges without like 5-10 points of passive investment that I don't have to give, so I've quit because I'm just not having fun at this point. I'm still hopeful about the next patch, though.

I'm level 84 now and still havent encountered a lab trial in maps, usually by this time i've completed all 6 trials solo.

Did they move them to red tier maps or something?

this league mechanic is absolutely terrible. Doing the mechanic = frame drops to zero and probably die and for what? to get a bad item that I will just vendor? I haven't gotten one benefit from this mechanic, although I'm only day 3 on console but still. Not even a level up item or anything.

I don't really see any good reason to do the mechanic at all. Maybe for cooking maps??? The 6 link thing doesn't seem to work for me, I had several 4 link + 2 link things that were missing one link from the 6 link and it just made them 5 links, I thought it was just supposed to fill the missing link with a 15% chance or something?

Easily the worst league mechanic in a long time. I do like how things are stacking now and why wasn't the expedition mechanic like this during the league?

best patch in a LONG time, worst league in a while too, has ggg lost the juice to get both right?

After fixing my performance issues it’s mostly fine; but some of the mobs still seem kind of overturned. I was playing an Uber tanky Trapper max res, +10 Chaos, 3.8k life, wind dancer, close to 8k evasion. Just popped into scourge and got deleted at 50 stacks. That’s only 25% more damage; that’s not even Gauntlet levels.

For clarity this was in act 10, not maps.