The challenges this league was waaaay too hard.

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I used to be a "challenger enjoyer", in past leagues my goal always was to finish challenges and eventually push a 100.

This league however, yes I did a level 100 in SHC but holy moly, all I got was 6 challenges.

My first and last attempt of doing challenges was essences. Full essences nodes, non-stop mapping, pushing level 100, still didnt got it. Never found a 8 monster essence.

And, even after level 100, I was with my 6 challenges done. Then I realized how ridiculous was challenges this league. No chance.

Someone even made a meme in reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/vafai4/patch_319_challenge_system_preview_this_is/

The armour set is cool but if you think its too much, then just reduce the rewards but make challenges that we can actually do.

I believe the last league challenges was well balanced and fun to do. 3.18 however its nearly impossible stuff unless you play 24/h day non-stop and still a lot of RNG around.

Just my feedback around this. I would like to see challenges coming back to normal state in forward leagues. This league, the grind was beyond insane.

Sentinel league was pretty cool, after all. I had a good time on it.

3.19 waiting room.

Cheers!

I didn't think I would get to 9.
I have always been 12-24 in leagues, even 27 once I think.
These are serious grinds.

cant be bothered with challenges this league. will try to get 2 more for the boots mtx then i'm done.

i hope they go back to the previous challenge system next league

I am at 6 lol... Already quit. Challenges were the only thing that motivated me to play this game.

If you're playing trade league the challenges are quite easy, you can buy carries from players for in game currency if you find them too difficult. I think I got 38 after 2 weeks of the league launching. The challenges can be targeted very easily with the new atlas passives, I'm sure GGG designed the challenges around the newly updated tree. The armor set is also very nice and high quality, I'd love to see more of this in the future.

Never really cared about my challenges. But it is strange to see that low number beside my name here on the forums. That number is usually 20-30 by now.

They are indeed harder but I don't mind the challenge.

What I don't like is RNG ones. I am yet to get 8 essence mob, Xesh tula smth, sacrficie card.. these are just dumb unnecessary ones.

Condition boss challenges are good ones. Grindy ones are good ones. Even ones that you need to set up smth with mininum rng involved is also good.


Just an example of domination challemges good vs bad:
Good: kill metamorph/guardian with shrine (you get shrine in few maps and then do the kill)
Bad: kill breach boss with shrine (this one took me 60+ maps to complete, each having gilded breach and domination craft). You either get boss or shrine, but to line them up in a single map was just unecessary rng layer..

But on the other hand, we have so many that can simply be carried/bought (all the uber boss kills and all boss conditions), it diminishes the achivement. I will go for 24 this league. I have 11 now I think, but I still have a lot of easy ones that just needs simply to complete them

Well challenges are revolving in terms of difficulty-level around SC Trade, as well as the rest of the game as this is where the balancing happens. The fact that you play Hardcore itself makes a ton of those challenges way more complicated to finish. But thats not a general problem, thats a you-problem as you´ve chosen that mod willingly so you kinda have to deal with the consequences. Mad respect for level 100 though first of all.

Secondly, The season runs for 4 weeks and since we get 2 armour sets those are supposed to be the hardest challenges ever. Why don´t u just keep going? I firmly believe that reaching 24 is pretty doable, even in HC if you set up your atlas correctly and take your time. You still have 2/3 of the time of the season left, so use it...

"lol you are too bad", "game is easy as fuck", "go playing hello kitty"... f*** that! I usually get 24 challenges every league in about 1-2 months depending on the time I have to play. I like to play my way and enjoy the playtime and i don't want to go in a hurry everytime, have about 6k hours played so im not a cassual gamer but the grind you need to complete 24 challenges this league are absurd, no worth the efford and time you need to invest so im done this league with 5 in about a month and level 90 char. Just hope this does not become the usual because otherwise i will have to think about looking for another game to spend my free time

Some of them are hard. Most of them are just super RNG or super grindy.