⭐ Your Scourge Final Impressions? ⭐ ⋆Updated⋆

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Zottelfisch wrote:

My final impression:

I am done already. My motivation with the league is gone, probably with the game, we'll see. It feels too much of work and the league mechanic is really bad, which is also not helpful.

There are already too many mechanics in the game to pimp up maps so that in non-pimped maps and during campaign only sh*t drops. Scourge is just another layer of RNG. Beause everything is balanced around maximum juiced maps and GGG wants perfect items to exist only in theory and not in praxis. The whole fun is in the endgame when your character is already very strong. But getting there has become significantly harder. That would not be so dramatic if loot on white and yellow maps wasn't exponentially worse than on red maps. GGG's concept in making the endgame less accessible, doesn't work for me, it demotivates me.

Leveling a character through he campaign should be VERY rewarding, not a necessary evil as it is now for (guessed) 99% of all players.

I also don't like these timers. Mr. Wilson said that they intentionally put Scourge on a timer because they want to force players to a certain playstyle he thinks the game should be played. Also I heard that he said, that they want to slow the game down. To me that is a contradiction.

I for myself want to have a relaxed time when playing a game. POE as it is now just gives me the constant feeling that I suck. Maybe I am getting too old for this game.

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trixxar wrote:

Making crafting less accessible, and making the game harder (by nerfing supports, or influenced mods) had the predictable impact of making only a few builds feel viable, unless you just vastly outgear the content, or you like playing your hipster build stuck in low yellow maps.

This is the worst state of the game Ive seen since 3.0, with the high point reached in Ritual for builds being viable/possible.