Let's be real here, are you enjoying the league with your build?

I feel like playing anything that is non meta will just completly wreck me this league, i started as lightning strike which i find terrible designwise, but reading all kinds of guides and after watching some videos that skill seemed to be the early mapping skill to go for raider (hexblade bs excluded), i wanted to swap to elemental hit but after playing trough the campaign im not sure if i even want to keep playing or if i should just quit the league.

I mean i play a very solid and viable starter right now and im getting absolutley smacked by some rares, i delete map bosses in under a second and yet some rare mobs survive for nearly 30 seconds if i survive that long.

I feel super stressed about picking stuff up, because if i stop moving im basicly dead 100%.

For me and judging by my friends, friendlist, guild, reddit, poeninja community and some other forums and stuff, the only viable builds are seismic trap and detonate dead, i mean thats kinda sad dont you think, out of a billion skills 2 are truly okay with the current content.

Of course, there are builds and players who handle all this new mess with ease, with other builds, but it's just so sad to feel and see and read that there is no point in playing like 90% of the aviable spells since they are literally useless.


What was once a meme, that diablo3 has more build diversity is becoming more and more reality, if you don't layer 135 types of defences you are dead, if you play selfcast you are dead, in fact if you play nearly anything else than cheese or proxy builds like totems, mines, traps, balistas you are freaking dead, is it really to much to ask if some of us want to RELAX and just hold rightlcick and kill the mobs by myself? Yes, in the current meta i mostly need to connect my prefered skill to a damn totem or a trap for it to be useful, yikes.

Pls remember, there are always expections, there will always be people who play arc selfcast very succesful, but im talking about casual gaming here, there is no way in this world that someone without massive game mechanic knowledge will have a succesfull and good league with a selfcast spell this league.


I could bet you, if you ask the playerbase via strawpoll, half of the people is not even enjoying what they play but they need to because the game forces them to play absolute meta builds and everything non meta will get destroyed by the content.

i'm lvl 70 and playing RF and so far only had 2 deaths long ago before i switched to RF....i feel quite tanky so far

no i quit playing after getting to yellow maps. the tankiness of mobs makes progression very slow, and playing any kinda of attack build feels impossible. been playing poe for around 6 years, with over 8k hours of gameplay, but more and more ggg seems to deem even me too casual to play this game.

i sincerely hope they fix the game because even playing in standard with legacy gear feels terrible. im hoping they fix it because i was really stoked to play this league but as it stands now ive got 0 interest in spending more time in game. it's boring, slow, extremely unrewarding, and ultra frustrating. it feels like im being punished for wanting to play something that isnt autocast from range.

Too soon to tell for me, because I'm just level 65, just finished acts and plan to stick to infinite Heist strategy for some time for some early currency. But so far my experience has been pretty good compared to what I've read on Reddit. Acts went smooth, I can run 67 lvl Heists and low tier maps without any problems, and I haven't even bought any starting gear yet and playing with 4-links.

I'm playing Arc Elementalist which was pretty good last League. I wanted to play it last League, but was not sure how good it will be because it was out of meta for a few leagues.

P.S. But yeah I agree that these are another terrible changes that will hurt build diversity which mind me to say still hasn't fully recovered after the Expedition nerfs.

Day 1 was a shit show, but now with triple whammy of nerfs it's not so bad. Maybe in maps it gets hard/annoying again :D but I'm not there yet. Atm it's back to facerolling stuff in campaign for now, 1 arch mod per rare is ezmode, and using power core on 2 rare stalker sentinels is making mobs actually drop some phat lootz now :3 slam F2, run ur ass through the level, then go back and kill everything = profitz (if only league mechanic was that fun from the start! 0 mod / unmodifiable sentinels are 100% garbage).

Actually starting to have fun playing around with the league mechanic, which is a good sign. Just kinda sux that launch was so rough, and lots of ppl quitting over it. Hope they give it another chance at some point but it's super compeititve market atm, there's a sht tonne of good games out, so you absolutely cannot afford to drop the ball like this on a big launch :3

I dont care either way about the difficulty (only in yellow maps though), but the league mechanic is SOOO bad.

You click a button, things take a lot longer to kill, you get a trash rare or a chromatic orb.

In a game with so much potential and 3 months to implement something new... Sentinel is really it?

Playing Bane (which isnt meta last time I checked), starting red maps and Im having lots of fun. Rares were fine after first nerf, after 2nd nerf I dont even notice them anymore (except mana siphoner, I always notice that one).

im kinda gonna echo trixxar.

if it werent from the day 1 nonsense (everything has haste + frostweaver, get perma froze) (also everything has infi hp, gl with those red beasts)

there would have been a ton of complaints about how DULL the league mechanic is. even getting 50 empowered enemies from a red sentinel, im lucky to walk away with 1c and some minor currency. at least last league we were all spoiled with tabulas....

Nope. Can't get into it. More about me than the game though.

It's boring. Not really anything new about it. I'm disappointed that there werent any new skills to try out.