Nice Balance

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Nyraeus wrote:

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Prizy wrote:

A good start would be to get your flasks lined up for mageblood correctly. :) Swap the position of your armor flask and the bottled faith.

I thought Mageblood says "leftmost 4 magic utility flasks." It shouldn't matter where they are if they are the only 4 magic utility flasks on my belt, right? What am I not understanding about Mageblood?

Yeah you're probably right. The wording is so weird with GGG. I'm too paranoid I would put in left 4 only because ggg is dumb when it comes to things like that.

Either way, I totally understand your points in your OP. This game is a lot less fun imo with the addition of the new archnem mods and how ridiculous some rares can get.

Discovering new builds seems like a chore now rather than something I want to actively go and do.

i think a lot of people miss the point.....with what he has...he would quite literally be invincible for MANY MANY leagues....and almost invincible last league

but this league just shreds him for no apparent reason.....super duper min maxing in order to enjoy a game is a very very weak argument to pick apart his build

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Prizy wrote:

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Nyraeus wrote:

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Prizy wrote:

A good start would be to get your flasks lined up for mageblood correctly. :) Swap the position of your armor flask and the bottled faith.

I thought Mageblood says "leftmost 4 magic utility flasks." It shouldn't matter where they are if they are the only 4 magic utility flasks on my belt, right? What am I not understanding about Mageblood?

Yeah you're probably right. The wording is so weird with GGG. I'm too paranoid I would put in left 4 only because ggg is dumb when it comes to things like that.

Either way, I totally understand your points in your OP. This game is a lot less fun imo with the addition of the new archnem mods and how ridiculous some rares can get.

Discovering new builds seems like a chore now rather than something I want to actively go and do.

100% i didnt feel like playing meta this league and i thought id try some stuff found my self runing from build to build because none ever had enough defense despite investing mostly into defense ..

problem is with the new AN modes i feel like everything is crucial phasing/shock immune/stun immune/90% resist/spell surpression/high armor/max block with recover on block/aegist .. max chaos resist or ci.. ignite immune/bleed/poison/ then probably want other ailments the alternative ones.. its just too much work you kinda need mirrors to make offmeta work i lost motivation for the game it doesnt feel fun anymore

Player count continues to drop. I keep an eye on it throughout the day, and were sitting at about 26k active players, that number has dropped day over day since AN launched.

At AN launch we had roughly 100k players, were now at 26k so they have alienated, lost or forced to quit approx 75% of their players. That is just unreal.

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iceband12085 wrote:

Player count continues to drop. I keep an eye on it throughout the day, and were sitting at about 26k active players, that number has dropped day over day since AN launched.

At AN launch we had roughly 100k players, were now at 26k so they have alienated, lost or forced to quit approx 75% of their players. That is just unreal.

Is it really? This sunday had a 55k player peak three weeks in, that's pretty good. Last league, (which is currently celebrated as best thing since sliced bread) had 49k and it started with 25k players more. The last one had more games to contend with but this is a summer league and those tend to have crap numbers because people go outside more.

All in all, surprisingly decent stats, considering the public opinion.

I think retention is pretty solid for those of us that toughed it out, AN isn't too bad now, sentinel is pretty fun and the atlas freedom is even better than last league.

Could be better and I think if they dodge significant balance changes next league burnout is going to really claim alot of players but I could be projecting there as its kinda how I feel.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

I think retention is pretty solid for those of us that toughed it out, AN isn't too bad now, sentinel is pretty fun and the atlas freedom is even better than last league.

Could be better and I think if they dodge significant balance changes next league burnout is going to really claim alot of players but I could be projecting there as its kinda how I feel.

i think the issue with AN is that there are still few mods that shouldnt be in the game .. . like.. its different for content to be hard than being annoying.. i personally dont think AN are too hard but i do think many of the mods are too annoying.. and i dont understand why GGG wants to intentionally make the game less fun more annoying and frustrating .. im ok with harder tho.. if they want to fight powercreep they should probably nerf super complicated crafting that result in broken items.. they should nerf party play that result in rain of currency .. as for the AN modes.. it just add to the already annoying systems in PoE.. like i cant think of any person who would say he love how stun works in PoE its literally there to annoy us kill builds and force players to build toward stun immune, untill recently you could be fine with just immune to shock through flask but now ignite can kill RF . burning grounds can kill RF . .so you need immune to that too.. and you need immune to bleed but thats not enough becuase now corrupted blood is different .. and poison will kill you.. and chaos resist used to be bonus now its a most for even mapping.. now sap/scorch and other alternative ailments becomes more common you need to take care of that too and crit.. and ofc you need your usual defenses and honestly its just building up mroe and more stuff to worry about in PoE its not making it harder its just making it frustrating and stressful... because lets be real... the powercreep top players will have all problems solved through unrealistic mirror items.. like mageblood + free everything on items like illusive and taiwind and easy chaos resist and 2k dps bow with 5 additional arrows to offscreen everything.. but its the normal player who just get stressed with how to get immunities .. how i see it AN just like stun are there only to make the game more annoying..