Scourge sucks

After a week in the Scourge league, I'm having trouble finding the motivation to keep playing. This league sucks. The mechanic is not interesting, the rewards are non-existent.

Mechanically, it's Delirium 2.0. With all the flaws of Delirium 1.0. Poorly tuned hordes of trash that want to explode in your face without proper visual signaling. I suspect some of it is not avoidable at all. Hard to tell in a game that does not have a death log. WTF just killed you - you'll never know.

But at least Delirium was rewarding. In Scourge, after seeing hundreds of scourged items and killing a dozen of bosses that drop multiples of them, I've yet to see a single item worth selling, let alone using myself for mapping.

The upsides are either too generic and weak, or don't match the item. And in a rare case where the upside is OK, and it's on a non-junk base, the downside renders it not worth keeping.

I'm going to try playing this league as 'Standard with some new uber content' and stop wasting time on the useless mechanic. But I can tell you already - do not add Scourge to the core game. It's garbage.

Yup, same feeling. Been playing whole weekend. No real drops. Just getting these small 5 c from trading with other players. At least in expedition I made so much currency like never did before. Way over 50 ex total if not close to 70 considering I spend on stupid bow 30 ex alone lol.

This league, both me and my friend playing from start and hardly any luck. 1 raw ex drop for me and 1 ex waiting in Tujen which Im unable to buy.

Also feels like we are not progressing our characters. Never before I had so much defences and still getting obliterated by eg. Silos boss with 0 dps mods.
Pretty much any "new" boss like Forking River, Stagnation, Forbidden Woods are complete bonkers. Eh frustrating.

I feel the same. I built my item filter to only show scourged items that have at least 3 useful explicit mods (since you can't craft on them) as a bare minimum to be shown. I've found 0 in the past 3 days. 0 items from the league mechanic that are bare minimum to be useful on a league starter. Not even a good build.

I really don't understand the complaint about not being rewarding, having tons of free iiq/iir every map is reward enough in itself imo. Plus you can scourge maps for free to get something like this - which is worth multiple exalts even if you just sell it on trade.

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stalkingjackal wrote:

I really don't understand the complaint about not being rewarding, having tons of free iiq/iir every map is reward enough in itself imo. Plus you can scourge maps for free to get something like this - which is worth multiple exalts even if you just sell it on trade.

Spoiler

Some people want to see decent drops more than .01% of the time and want to use the league mechanic for more than just maps. Does that help?

3.16 ... to put it simply its 0 out of 10

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Rippster wrote:

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stalkingjackal wrote:

I really don't understand the complaint about not being rewarding, having tons of free iiq/iir every map is reward enough in itself imo. Plus you can scourge maps for free to get something like this - which is worth multiple exalts even if you just sell it on trade.

Spoiler

Some people want to see decent drops more than .01% of the time and want to use the league mechanic for more than just maps. Does that help?

Idk, depends on your expectations I guess. I do agree that the way they presented the league was very focused on scourged items and implicits, and those definitely suck at the moment.

However, if you gloss over that then the rest of the league is fantastic especially the stacking iiq/iir. When it stacks up, stuff like currency/div cards/maps etc drop like crazy with barely any need to juice the map. Given that item quantity gear on standard league costs hundreds of exalts, I can't see this as anything less than the most rewarding league mechanic ever with 0 to no investment.

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stalkingjackal wrote:

However, if you gloss over that then the rest of the league is fantastic especially the stacking iiq/iir. When it stacks up, stuff like currency/div cards/maps etc drop like crazy with barely any need to juice the map. Given that item quantity gear on standard league costs hundreds of exalts, I can't see this as anything less than the most rewarding league mechanic ever with 0 to no investment.

But it's not.

I, personally, missed the point then 2 mil DPS and 20+ exalts became MINIMUM and BUDGET to go for. Because if you have not 'decent' build - this does not work at all. For many reasons. Timer, too much monsters with stackable damage ontop of map mods and more.

And output is awfull. Yes, you can get map with good mods that generate currency, scarrabs and other. But get to tier10 scorging is too long and modifications always random. Game just suck your time for nothing too frequently.

About scourget items I even don't want to talk. This entire mechanic is late game addon for someone who already have nearly perfect item and want to gamble for something more... and loose with 99.9% probability. But last 0.1% is... you know, all this twitch reactions about POG ITEMS. So stupid. More stupidly that this presented to us as normal league.

I have to agree.

agree with OP