Change my mind: Sentinel is just torment league updated.

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Aynix wrote:

Its torment league, but you have button to summon ghost instead it spawning randomly. This is a buff.

this is actually probably a buff to be fair. Ghosts tend to not listen to you when you tell them to zig, they zag, often into a corner where they flake out before haunting anything.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but the numbers...

I don't want to have this discussion again. I don't care about numbers. Not when it comes to games, films, music or whatever. I can list a lot of artists I view as better than Eminem, even though he's the most grossing artist of the 00's. I can list a hundred movies I consider better than every single Marvel movie, even though they break records.

To use numbers to validate or refute a subjective view is always dumb.

In my mind, the current endgame makes the game LESS bloated, because you control how bloated your experience will be. Hell, it even looks like you can spec out of ALL mechanics you want - how is that bloat? I've ALWAYS advocated for more player agency, and this league gives you more player agency than ever. Is the game fantastic? No, far from: The acts are old, outdated and quite frankly pretty boring. The balance? Don't get me started. The whole trading situation? Blah! But the endgame, isolated, as a system/mechanic? Fantastic.

Am I surprised they are - and will be - focusing on the endgame? Absolutely not, as the endgame will remain in PoE 2, the acts will not. Why polish something you know will be dead in a year or two?

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DiabloImmoral wrote:

The mechanic itself seems super duper bad, but you never know until you try it. It could be so rewarding with a single sentinel that you won't have to juggle 3 sentinels unless you're running super juiced maps. You just throw all the garbage sentinels into the synthesizer without looking at the mods and hope for something good.

The main hook of the league for me is the Recombinators. If the Recombinators can realistically make amazing items for yourself the league is a win. If the odds are Scourge-level bad it's probably gonna be a skip.

I would be *extremely* surprised if the chance recomboobulators turned out good items is anywhere other then 'super duper nuper low'. My gut is telling me it'l be on synthesis levels of rng for good mods.

bUT WHo KnOWs