⭐ Your Scourge Final Impressions? ⭐ ⋆Updated⋆

My take is that as a league mechanic it is fine... but it should never go to core. Way too intrusive. They really have to get back to letting us play the core game and having the league content be somewhat optional. The choice to balance drops around the league mechanic is utterly stupid. Utterly.

Scourge as a mechanic is crap and totaly useless, it must be removed instantly. It's not even a thing, dont know if people actualy use it outside of leveling zone.

English translation of 'kränkeln' (German)

kränkeln
[ˈkrɛŋkln]

intransitive verb

to be ailing, to be sickly, to be in bad or poor health
sie kränkeln leicht they’re often poorly (Brit) or sick

It's growing on me, a lot. I love the density in the nightmare, especially in delirious maps. Monster design is probably my second favorite after Synthesis. Killing shit tons of monsters with a fun skill or build is enough to satisfy me and I'm getting that in spades here. League is probably a 7/10 for me.

Krangled maps can be cool, krangled items are shit, we all know that.

GGG needs to learn about giving out mid-tier carrots to make us continually strive for the 0.00001% chance to hit a sick krangle. Unfortunately it's the same percentage to hit anything useful so I don't really bother with it.

Tl:dr

I gave the league a chance by taking my character to level 88. I then decided after playing a while longer that the 'league's content' wasn't designed with 'me' in mind, so I'm bowing out until the next league rolls around. I don't play 'juiced' content. I'll do a 4x chiseled rare map at the very most. The ways in which I generally make currency are 'inflated' this league, and none of my decent rare jewels with '% max life' are selling (just rotting in my stash tabs).

I uninstalled 'POE' for now to clear up 'SSD' space. I've got a few other games I'd like to spend my time playing in the mean time. I am clearly not the target audience for this league, and that's okay.

I very much appreciate everyone's contributions to this thread. I've read every 'grievance and/or praise' for the league posted within. It has been rather insightful to both myself, and others.

Peace!

This league is pure trash! No rewards,no currency, uninteresting mechanic,rng upon rng even when you try to scourge maps. Going back and forth gives me headaches. Chris should take one year vacation and let somebody else to design the rest leagues.

This league is a great instruction on living in poverty, scarcity and maybe shattered reality. Since scourge takes ~1/2 map time, production of normal items are greatly reduced and there prices are about 25% higher than the last league. So many people are running Rogue Harbor for essential chaos, while I dislike this content and resorted to trading things like Magna Eclipse for a little income. Scourged items are seldom useful, if so, seldom useful to the original user. It so deeply depends on trade, and even special ones has no selling(like gloves - faster casting + slower projectiles + added lightning damage). Half-damaged items(like + 160 dex requirement) also add another chaotic layer for character building which makes things more complicated and often of little rewarding. From the overall, if scourge did not exist and drop rate was returned to normal this league would be far more comfortable than the current one. Hope this is just a mechanics-introducing league and the following ones would not be as bleak as it.

I'm still liking the league mechanic, but I really dislike the blood crucible outcomes.

The krangled items are memes only and the maps might be really good in SC, but in HC I can run maybe 1 out of 10 and I'm not talking about 10x Scourged^^

Still playing and progressing good, so I'll keep at it and hope for a Patch to come... although with every passing day the hope fades more.

Crap like 20 life regen and - global defenses? What's not to like!

The entire scourging mechanic is pandering to rich players only. The " normal" player will get bad corruptions, rich flippers that have 10's of exalt to blow will eventually get something good.

Engaging! Not.

I like the mechanic. Its fun seeing the mobs get stronger and run at you in big packs.

I dislike having to complete a map twice (once normal and once in nightmare). Every map just feels so slow. Also the random buildings in front of tight doors are annoying.

It would be more fun if the nightmare would take you to another place. Where you can kill mobs all you want. And once you are out of nightmare get tped back to your normal map. Where the loot drops.


Overall i mostly just like the changes to Atlas and the Qol changes.


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Non league related. I wish they would make more gems viable. I feel like we're getting extremely forced to play a meta build. While back in the day you could even play a meme build like the old AFK builds.