Play the 5-6 Meta Skills, Or Die in Maps

The game used to be awesome, where you could personally actually engage with the mechanics without cheating/copy pasting someone with 15000 hours played guide. You could experiment with odd skill combo's and generally reach end-game content.

Now the game has become 5-6 skills (iM dA BeSt!) every league, else grind until your bored of the game in lower content or die in maps. A game with so much potential depth and room for experimentation and fun, but nope, your locked into pretty much the same 5-20 copy pasted skills and mechanics every-time or you won't reach end-game content.


Available skills should be randomized each league.
Disable the top 10-15% of over-powered active skills from POE Ninja each league.
Gate certain skills behind drops.
/problem solved you can thank me later

Ofc then no one will be able to complete your end-game.

Is firestorm meta?

Yes?

pob?

65% of players using only 6 skills in the game
47% of players using but 3 ascendancies

:D Path of I just copy paste someone elses build instead of playing the game.

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AmpegV4 wrote:

Now the game has become 5-6 skills

Can you please list these skills, so I can make a character to prove you wrong?

This league would of course turn out idiotically bad for diversity, as there is a bug making a certain skill/build stupidly good. The fact that GGG refused to fix this bug is unprofessional at best. Anyhow, streamers and racers will of course be sheep and rush to this skill - why wouldn't they, in a game where the goal is to be as powerful as possible?

Please don't get me wrong here, I absolutely think that there is a lot of work to be done to improve build diversity/viability. But to straight out lie (and/or hyperbole) to make a point, is even worse.

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Phrazz wrote:

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AmpegV4 wrote:

Now the game has become 5-6 skills

Can you please list these skills, so I can make a character to prove you wrong?

Hi,

Any suggestions on how to improve my firestorm build?

https://pastebin.com/7UiRYhgZ

What is it with people, and other people's choices...

Who cares if they copy paste a build ? Why do you care ?

In any damn game there are people that want to have fun and experiment things and people who want to be super efficient and win the game in every aspect of it.

If this 5-6 skills are the way to be efficient cuz the game developers cannot balance their game , what's with people raging ?

Sure Detonate Dead, Righteous Fire, Fire Trap, Seismic Trap, Exsanguinate, Skele's, Explosive Arrow, Lightning Strike, Toxic Rain.

Post me your L100 HC build using any active skill on POE.Ninja under 0.6% used, so that's about 150 or more active skills to choose from (should be real easy with all those options!)

I wont criticize supports, as the top 5 are mandatory in every build and still won't save you. The Vision balance has forced all players into this meta bullshit to succeed.


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Who cares blah blah: Because this Meta gameplay is 100% necessary to play end-game content. Please try the above yourself and report back your success story ^

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Phrazz wrote:

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AmpegV4 wrote:

Now the game has become 5-6 skills

Can you please list these skills, so I can make a character to prove you wrong?

This league would of course turn out idiotically bad for diversity, as there is a bug making a certain skill/build stupidly good. The fact that GGG refused to fix this bug is unprofessional at best. Anyhow, streamers and racers will of course be sheep and rush to this skill - why wouldn't they, in a game where the goal is to be as powerful as possible?

Please don't get me wrong here, I absolutely think that there is a lot of work to be done to improve build diversity/viability. But to straight out lie (and/or hyperbole) to make a point, is even worse.

Are you sure you want to play something after the top 6 meta skills? The number one meta skill that you are playing, righteous fire, at 14% is played 4.6x more than the #7 skill, corrupting fever, at 3%. Could be rough.