This end game grind is excruciating and I don't like it.

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Orbaal wrote:

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Bosscannon wrote:

Show me a Dreadbeak endgame build

https://pastebin.com/rSVR6D8h

lvl 96 Champion
1.2 mill Sirus dps
7.5k life
80k eff max hit taken

no lab enchants
no clusters
no influence gear - not even eldritch mods

Fairly simplistic gear, nothing fancy. Essence/Fossil crafting will do.
This will clear everything but it wont be pretty.

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jewdas12 wrote:

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Orbaal wrote:

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Bosscannon wrote:

Show me a Dreadbeak endgame build

https://pastebin.com/rSVR6D8h

lvl 96 Champion
1.2 mill Sirus dps
7.5k life
80k eff max hit taken

no lab enchants
no clusters
no influence gear - not even eldritch mods

Fairly simplistic gear, nothing fancy. Essence/Fossil crafting will do.
This will clear everything but it wont be pretty.

i actually made a dreadbeak sst self chill poison build last league and it did about 2 million dps with mostly rags

thats a neat build tho and looks definitely capable of tackling all content

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Orbaal wrote:

Thx :)

Was thinking about adding Crown of Thorns to get pain attunement for another 300k dps and I guess with clusters plus eldritch mods it should end up dealing some 2 mill dps. Give or take.

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Bosscannon wrote:

This will clear everything but it wont be pretty.

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Bosscannon wrote:

Rant time.

Lets start with GGG style "balancing". Basically it follows a scenario: something is good, people are using it and feel good, but someone somewhere find an interaction with other thing or just pushes this one thing to extreme. Of course he shits on the game and makes it look toddler level easy. That thing becomes showcased everywhere. GGG catches on. GGG tunes the thing way down or tunes all the things involved way down. Now the guy who abused the thing or mix of things is back to being challenged. The rest who were using but not abusing are left with something unusable. Every build I see on youtubz or poe.ninja are those invest heavily into one thing kind of builds. All of them were also much stronger before. Almost no one is playing anything like simple a spark with just rare gear cause it just doesnt scale. There is some scion with 550k dps out there. Rest playing chaos or cold spark and rocking millions of dps...

Side note about uniques: everyone is using and competing for the same shit from a handful that still work, the remaining hundreds are vendor trash because same balancing shtick happened to them at some point or they have been utterly powercrept out of relevance - numbers on these items to be more precise. The ones still in demand are just the ones that offer some irreplaceable mechanic.

To find something simple that works without shenanigans you have to sift through 90% of this games options that are essentially noobtraps. POE being a game of many many possibilites etc. drivel is a big fat lie. Every build that goes somewhere basically follows the same patterns to I point I find everything fucking boring. Show me a Dreadbeak endgame build or explain to me the reason for its existence...

So the dynamic can be summarized as this:
To just succeed you must abuse.
This implies you must also be good enough to identify what can still be abused at all. Again - there is not going to be many things.
No abuse - you lose.

Would be much better game if you could still succeed without abuse. If the flipside is that abusers are allowed to trivialize the game - let them.

I had more fun when POE was my beer+podcast in the background game when more things worked. I simply refuse to do the same shit that everyone else does, its boring and you have to compete for the same items. 90% of game being a noobtrap is dragging this game down big fucking time.

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Orbaal wrote:

So?
That wasnt a qualifier before, why is it now?

Besides, if you had to buy a white 6l and Dreadbeak we are talking about 50c investment at most week1 of a league, about 10c if you started this build today.
The rest of the gear can easily be farmed/crafted.

What do you expect to get for this investment?