Why all the real pros have left for Lost Ark (ex-pros writeup)

A lot of people have asked me recently where most of the pros have gone from PoE. Turns out the giant skill web DOES get tedious, and with tediousness comes a lack of caring. All the builds are burnt out. No, pros like myself aren't coming back just because of a new map or a new cartographer's chisel augment. We aren't coming back just because there's a new corrupted mod system. We aren't coming back just because there's a unique hideout setup. Even altering the frequency of mirror drops won't change these facts.

It's already painstakingly easy for even a casual to grind up cards and actually attempt to compete with gamers like myself during races. And that's just not how a game should EVER be. A casual should be able to have fun, and do pretty well, but there should be some type of wall preventing a casual from reaching the same level as a high-apm pro like myself. And no, I'm just saying I have high apm. I've been a grandmaster at Starcraft, and I'm also a current guild leader in WoW and even a sub for one of the top PvP clans (I only sub when I have time since I also have a job). I'm not going to waste more of my time speaking about my credentials, my statements are far more important to even other pros. And my statement is that most pros like myself are gone. And likely never playing again, unless there's some goofy race setup we feel like arranging on discord. Drops rates in PoE are so skewed that that Solo Self Found leagues are more like 'lucky drop' leagues. You either get the lucky drop and skyrocket, or you don't. Doesn't matter if you are a lower apm casual who can't read their name off the back of their hand, or the complete opposite, a rehearsed elite.

Now for the why. Why is Lost Ark taking over completely and nobody is batting an eye:

Customization! You can beat a guardian raid rift and then do an emote with an electric guitar and mount away on a giant beetle. In Poe... you can sit in a dusty act 2 town and hope that one of the NPC's has a 6 link or 6 socket item. Exciting, eh? Oh, I forgot how exciting it is to face bosses that can kill you off screen and tiny windows that briefly show you are missing all your resists. Brilliant, Potter. 50 Points to GripeandBore.

Combat! Need I say more. As a Wow Pro, combat is important to me. Moreso than other pros, even. This game has it all and then some. Dashing into a giant mob and pressing your ulti ability actually feels powerful in this game. And you don't have to 6 link it with faster projectiles and increased duration and a bunch of BS to actually have it be fun. Enough said here.

I could list all the other things that are 'luring' pros like myself to the Lost Ark community, but it would honestly take all day. I'm only making this post to allow people to know where pros like myself have gone, and why we won't be seen coming back anytime soon.

You'll be missed. No really.

My warning from 5 yeqrs ago is not changed.
The ideology of "nerf the players and let them rebuild" will lead to the ultimate doom of this game.
No sane person will stay and watch his toon gutted every few monts.
Not much time left unil zero population occure, just one another AAA class label with stabily and this game is done, and I am not sating this to hurt someone feelings, but to give a chance this insanity to be stoped until its not too late.

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SadDropUser wrote:

A lot of people have asked me recently where most of the pros have gone.

I have my doubts as to how many people directly asked you this versus how many people you engaged in discussion about it on your own.

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SadDropUser wrote:

It's already painstakingly easy for even a casual to grind up cards and actually attempt to compete with gamers like myself during races.

Why do you care how casuals are doing compared to you, are you saying that a casual can that easily compete with you?

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SadDropUser wrote:

A casual should be able to have fun, and do pretty well, but there should be some type of wall preventing a casual from reaching the same level as a high-apm pro like myself.

There's already plenty of walls for casuals and GGG added more this league.

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SadDropUser wrote:

Doesn't matter if you are a lower apm casual who can't read their name off the back of their hand, or the complete opposite, a rehearsed elite.

Just wow, Such respect for your fellow players.
Very Professional.


lost ark is shallow, the whole game is microengineered to waste your time even the map is designed to mislead you purposfully, almost all of the content in lost ark is trivialized by rapid ilevel increases. Most of the content worth running is time gated to once a day even once a week and forces you to make more characters if you want to continue playing.

Enjoy.

I think Kopogero and this SadDropUser is same guy owning two accounts and I think all his postings are just satire.

it reads like satire if you think the combat in LA is its strongest point

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Bosscannon wrote:

I think Kopogero and this SadDropUser is same guy owning two accounts and I think all his postings are just satire.

This makes no sense. You have a literal high level player telling you something they know from the grapevine of pros, and instead of learning or at least discussing it rationally, you... relate me (white btw) to some guy with a name that is probably related to some type of anime. I don't watch animes and kid cartoons, and when I get on games like this, I grind harder than anyone I've ever seen.

Like apm is not a thing either in this game nor in Lost Ark...

Good troll though...i laughed

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SadDropUser wrote:

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Bosscannon wrote:

I think Kopogero and this SadDropUser is same guy owning two accounts and I think all his postings are just satire.

This makes no sense. You have a literal high level player telling you something they know from the grapevine of pros, and instead of learning or at least discussing it rationally, you... relate me (white btw) to some guy with a name that is probably related to some type of anime. I don't watch animes and kid cartoons, and when I get on games like this, I grind harder than anyone I've ever seen.

Yeah but have you beaten Act 10 as a Marauder yet?

This thread is why real people in the real world don't care about "pro gamers".

Also, only an incel uses the term "casual" in such a derogatory fashion lol.