Those challenges arent hard but just really frustrating

Why does for GGG "hard" means "frustrating and annoying af" those challenges arent hard but more like really frustrating and made extremely annoying

I imagine the uber bosses and juiced up invitations are going to be rather difficult to complete.

The 40/40 crowd sure has a challenge up ahead.

Pick one:

- Requires a good build with expensive gear.
- Requires good reflexes and skill with the game's controls.
- Requires lots of grinding.


All these mean "hard" to someone. Which one do you want it to be?

Facing the fact that you can probably do 30 still in decent speed and you can surely buy your way to the other 8 via TFT makes them just a bit more expensive than usual, but I think it was Harvest league that I last did the challenges myself. Since then I play the season like I enjoy it, then take a break of like 6 weeks and then I just use my leftover currency to buy carries for everything. In the rare instance I don´t have the currency leftover, I just sell my gear and got the money like that - as a league-only player I don´t need it in standard anyway so yeah, not really sure if those challenges make a big difference now, though they are arguably harder. The only people who will have a lot to cover are SSF-players. Then again, that is a self-chosen limitation.

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Gopstop22 wrote:

Why does for GGG "hard" means "frustrating and annoying af" those challenges arent hard but more like really frustrating and made extremely annoying

Because thats what hard in PoE means. There are builds out there that can cheese pretty much any content so only way to make challenges hard is to either make it grindy af or tied to rng.

You could play softcore with a glass cannon build that trivialises almost everything.

GGG are desperate to retain players as long as possible. They need money. It looks bad when people complete challenges too quickly lol. Those who get 40 challenges are possibly the biggest spenders and play the game the longest.

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AbilityPoints wrote:

GGG are desperate to retain players as long as possible. They need money. It looks bad when people complete challenges too quickly lol. Those who get 40 challenges are possibly the biggest spenders and play the game the longest.

If they were desperate, they would add "mandatory" daily quests + daily login rewards like pretty much every game out there.
Meanwhile PoE is the only game I know that started with daily quests and at some point removed them completly.

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kaijyuu2 wrote:

Pick one:

- Requires a good build with expensive gear.
- Requires good reflexes and skill with the game's controls.
- Requires lots of grinding.


All these mean "hard" to someone. Which one do you want it to be?

I get your point but the last one isn't hard for anyone, it might not be possible due to time constraints but grinding objectives are testing endurance so challenge really doesn't feature.

I personally have never liked these but i don't particularly mind if players with that endurance get challenges I cannot because they are willing to put in the time. However I would prefer zero challenges in the category "can you be bothered to do this"

The list looks pretty tough, my only takeaway is challenge sellers are going to make absolute bank this league.

Edit: Also the thought of doing these on HC is ><, most of the bottom half are "stick your head in a lions mouth" lmao

I would sympathise if ALL of the challenges were as difficult.