How about Easy Mode instead of Hard Mode?

Completely agree that an easy mode needs to be created.

It's incredibly discouraging that I had to put down my new character and go back to the character I made in Ritual because I just don't have the damage to even kill a rare mob before it despawns in a Legion encounter.

A true soulbound SSF mode where you can find actual good items in high quantities with access to systems that aren't balanced around a terrible trade system.

Balancing the game for soulbound SSF can be done by simply copying the functionality of trade. Turn in your items into a salvager that converts everything into chaos. Then use that chaos to buy items from an NPC vendor to simulate trade. This takes care of the major problem of finding niche items that you can't find in SSF without actually rebalancing the whole game for trade. What's the difference between buying a 1c unique from a player vs an NPC? Hell half those 1c uniques are sold by bots anyway.

As for soulbound SSF crafting, just allow for deterministic crafting like Harvest. The only reason it was gutted was because it was possible to trade services.

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Networm13 wrote:

As the title suggested.

The current state of the game is intolerable for people can't invest the time and effort for the grind.

After making hard more for the sweaty tryhards, how about making an "easy" mode that is basically 3.13 with harvest and stuff. With actual good drops and drop rate balanced around ssf. To play this mode you will have to pay premium fee, which is quite simple since most people in this group are probably older with extra cash (but lacking time).

So what do you guys think about this idea? How will it ruin the greatness of PoE? Would it be too hard to implement? And would casual people get bored because "game too easy" and come over to the hard mode vision of GGG?

Absolutely. Im now a dad and cant play as much as I would like to. Please give us parents or otherwise hard working pleps the easy mode we deserve and that would make us happy.

How about no? I play this game to be challenged. If I wanted to play something casual where I could feel godlike and delete everything in a 1 mile radius with the push of a button, I'd play Warframe.


*EDIT* actually...you know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe there should be an easymode where people can feel godlike and play a version of POE where everything falls over if you look in it's general direction and the enemies hit like wet noodles. Then the players who want unmitigated powercreep can play easymode, and people who want an actual combat game can play something with a little more meat and potatoes in it.

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Boozbaz wrote:

How about no? I play this game to be challenged. If I wanted to play something casual where I could feel godlike and delete everything in a 1 mile radius with the push of a button, I'd play Warframe.

Dont need to play Warframe for that. Just get HH, modify your build a little to fit HH playsyle and its pretty much what you described.

It shouldn't be a paid mode. But it should not provide challenge points and should be a void league. That's a mode that would be in much higher demand than hard mode.

Right now I find other ARPGs more rewarding and worth my time.

PS: They also need to let you level alts outside of the story. Get with the times chris. There's nothing you can do to make leveling through the story fun after the first few times, even POE2's story will get boring too.

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Boozbaz wrote:

*EDIT* actually...you know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe there should be an easymode where people can feel godlike and play a version of POE where everything falls over if you look in it's general direction and the enemies hit like wet noodles. Then the players who want unmitigated powercreep can play easymode, and people who want an actual combat game can play something with a little more meat and potatoes in it.

it already exists, its called standard league.

Since you ask for a , easy mode league , with payment , you basically ask for a private league with buff mods instead of the usual nerfs , that the current private leagues has .

i would like an easymmode and would probably even pay for it.
more high end currency drops including exalts
end game bosses have less life/damage

etc

if someone who barely spent money on this game would be willing to pay for this then i know more ppl would too. this would be a no brainer money maker for GGG but they will probably go ahead with hardmode just to please the streamers

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superbomb1967 wrote:

Sounds fun. I support this topic.

I'd love to drop something I can actually use. What a novel concept.

+1

Even if elder dropped a watchers eye every time you farmed him, it's doubtful you'd get correct one you need. There is just too many permutations. A lot of things are like this, just an insane number of variables to make your build strong - like Helm enchantments. like 1200 and 3 to pick from is not much help. What they need to do is make mode without so much RNG. Like you pick from 1200 first time. Game is easy the right gear getting there is nearly impossible though SSF. I'd like a system with more cards so every unique is farmable. Then on high variance stuff like watchers you select which auras you're after.