Just my piece of mind about Metamorph

Hello, I'm a casual player and already played when abyss league (3.0),

About a few days ago, I stumbled upon a video in youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRMykKoRxw

This is also what i feel about current metamorph at 3.17, aside from the black glob visual that really hard to see, and even every mob is very dangerous, especially those that shotgun you with a ton of projectile,
Currently at 3.17, Metamorph is currently unfun and unworthy, and even can break your map when the ROGUE metamorph comes one shot you everytime you back,

My initial thought would be "just removed it and change it to scourge or ultimatum", We'll already see many league get removed and such this is not a suprised for me,
But If GGG want to make metamorph stay, here's my suggestion.
Basically make it like supporting other league mechanics, With current atlas tree and people can choose what to farm for, metamorph unique currency itself is really unworthy, some catalyst is not even get used, only 3 or even 4 that get used.

1. Remove Every sample/organ mod that says "RARE WEAPON" "RARE ARMOUR" "RARE Jewelry", That alone will help tremendously, I would suggest to put other league mechanics in it, but I'll leave GGG to decide on that.
2. IF we're putting points in Replicated Results, PLEASE MAKE IT SO we can make twice assemble, and not only 1 HEART/EYE/LUNG in those map. That's stupid in a lot of ways.
3. Completely remove Rogue metamorph node. OR if GGG want to keep it, make it FROZEN LIKE ESSENCES, and PLEASE SHOW US what rogue metamorph content is, when these guys frozen, Don't make us waste 5 portals to kill it with only 1 chaos reward. that really kill the fun
4. Boost Fine specimens to always get double rewards, 150% of life is insane, when building the organ you can even go to 700% of life, this make the encounter really hard and so long,
5. rework the catalyst system, Except prismatic, unstable and fertile, all other catalyst is worthless, my suggestion is to make it like harvest targeted craft, either make it to reroll the item and force a mod on it (caster/phys/etc).
of course that will also come with downside as well, such as the roll you can roll max is t3, or the roll will remove a suffix/prefix. I'll let GGG decide on that.

That's my piece of mind. I hope that metamorph will get what's it's best.
Thank you

my main issue with metamorph is visibility and readability. readability meaning knowing what the monster actually does.

while leveling i used to always choose easy mods with only 1-2 rewards.

now i totally skip metamorph.

why? the mods dont normally kill me, what kills me is the abilities the metamorph gains. some of them have very high shot gun potential. i really dont have time to memorize what each and every monster skill name does.

besides those 2 issues, the rewards is a very minor issue imho.

the concept of metamorph league is one that i really love. its one of the best league mechanics in the game except for the issues i've mentioned.

if you like metamorph and juice it up with the atlas passives it can get really lucrative.

that said, i will still be avoiding the content due to it being one of the risky league mechanics that can cause death.

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exsea wrote:

my main issue with metamorph is visibility and readability. readability meaning knowing what the monster actually does.

now i totally skip metamorph.

why? the mods dont normally kill me, what kills me is the abilities the metamorph gains. some of them have very high shot gun potential. i really dont have time to memorize what each and every monster skill name does.

besides those 2 issues, the rewards is a very minor issue imho.

the concept of metamorph league is one that i really love. its one of the best league mechanics in the game except for the issues i've mentioned.

if you like metamorph and juice it up with the atlas passives it can get really lucrative.

that said, i will still be avoiding the content due to it being one of the risky league mechanics that can cause death.

Yeah, this is what concerned me the most, Especially the mob can summon minions when the hp is lowered, this makes everything looks clusterf*ck in my opinion,

PoE from the core is how we're going to do content as efficiently as possible, and when we need to read and memorize which ability is killzone, that is seriously not fun,
I'll get it when it's metamorph league, but as core, I find this is really out of their place,

The concept itself really fancy me, it's absolutely great, but for me the risk and reward is really not worth doing, my take is, please bring archnemesis to core and take metamorph out,

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ruleshellz wrote:

we need to read and memorize which ability is killzone, that is seriously not fun

one thing i always sing praises to Last Epoch is how danger zones are clearly marked. sure it may be immersion breaking but at the very least i can go in LE blind with the confidence that if i die, i have no one else to blame but myself.

i m playing a strike skill so i need to tackle bosses head on. being shotgunned with no clear telegraph is no fun. if at least i knew what was coming i could pop molten shell before the shotgun.