group play vs solo play rewards have gotten out of hand

a little history of myself, been playing for many years, recently skipped the last 2 leagues to avoid burnout syndrome, i am back for this league, and i am glad to be back.

i am someone that plays the game solo 95% of the time. idk how to say this without sounding like i am against group play, i am not. what i am against is the ratio of effort/vs reward compared to solo vs group.

like at what point is the reward for group okay? 50% more effcient with the quantity stacking? 100% better than solo? 150%? no. thats not apparently how it is, the reward for group vs solo the group play is like 20,000% more efficient. people are farming 10 mirrors in week 1 in a group and sht.

this i have a problem with, idk if its been brought up before, maybe no one cares, but apparently i care

i am curious on what other players think about this. opinions are welcome. unless your comment is "bra 10 mirror in week 1 playing in a group is completely balanced, if you don't like it get gud and go play solo self find"

+1
party bonus rly insane

GGG never really cared with it, and the gap is bigger and bigger each league.
Party / share / rota / etc are trivializing everything in the game.
Problem is, everything is based on these nowadays.

Funny how they are more than willig to nerf League mechanic and all sorts of currency drop rates within such leagues, and how those stacked Bonuses in party play tended to ignore those nerfs with such an extreme amount of Quantity stacking Bonus as well as Bonuses from MFers on top within those 6-player parties.

I really don't know if GGG would be willing to nerf such things now at this stage since they are willingly relectant to address these disparities, but one can hope by the time PoE2 rolls out that they adjust these innate party Quantity of Items Drop stacking bonuses to make them rewarding still but not completely insane ye?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDq8TPd7jYs


Har har har

In a league where the majority of players seem to have currency drop issues.

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kaepae wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDq8TPd7jYs


Har har har

In a league where the majority of players seem to have currency drop issues.

ive gotten my first exalt at lv 89 in hiest, never even had a exalt drop in maps yet.

meanwhile, all the mediocre drops are starting to get cheaper and cheaper while the big items are getting more and more expensive compared to previous leagues, and the good item prices are only getting higher and higher because the game has multiple parties that play like this.

it's honestly annoying hopping on Empyrean's stream, and seeing his guild stash contain 3 mirrors just days into the league. Meanwhile I have yet to see my first exalt drop even though I took work off at LS to grind.

Empyrean stream never disapoints showing the ugly side of PoE.
Imagine if you let every player in PoE see what is going on there, how many would out right quit the game?

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Izkandir wrote:

Empyrean stream never disapoints showing the ugly side of PoE.
Imagine if you let every player in PoE see what is going on there, how many would out right quit the game?

like there is seriously something wrong with it, and its almost like they know they are straight up busting the game, and its fun to break it like that. but, if i rant too hard, its like myself being jealous of the things other players have i don't have, thats not the case.

i just want the balancing to be brought back in line, like i said at the start, group play with people supporting and enchancing teamates should be rewarding, and they even added those new link skills this league. but rewarding = 50% more efficient, 100% more efficient. not 200,000% more efficient

I just wish ggg understand that is impossible for a solo player to keep up with teams that have traders because we dont have an ingame market. They make INSANE amounts of money fliping/selling bases early in the league. Things that a solo player basically cant do.