So serious discussion Chris wants Hard Mode his player base want Casual mode

Yea, hard mode is Chris' SSF, it doesn't really do anything practical, won't help in test things, but it's going to be a vanity tag on leagues.

I doubt more than 5-10% of the community cares about hard mode. and a lot of those that try it won't stick with it. Sure they can add it, but it's not like Chris even plays the game much. He's mainly catering to the streamers and that's seemed to have worked for them so far.

For me, Last Epoch is the casual mode POE I've wanted. Yeah it has lots of room to improve but it's not the bloated mess POE has become. But I'd love a streamlined version of POE with more QoL features.

I think hard mode will be just a tool to finally be able to make 2 different balance approaches. If the game is too hard overall GGG can just nerf monsters in normal mode and the problem is solved.

Normal mode would be the "sane" way of playing HC without the extreme build restriction, for example.

Introducing a hard mode opens up new possibilities. At least that's what I got from it.

PS: I just hope they don't make 3000000 different difficulties like D3...
2 or 3 are enough. The rest is up to the player to adapt and learn to play :)

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Gordyne wrote:

I think hard mode will be just a tool to finally be able to make 2 different balance approaches. If the game is too hard overall GGG can just nerf monsters in normal mode and the problem is solved.

Normal mode would be the "sane" way of playing HC without the extreme build restriction, for example.

Introducing a hard mode opens up new possibilities. At least that's what I got from it.

PS: I just hope they don't make 3000000 different difficulties like D3...
2 or 3 are enough. The rest is up to the player to adapt and learn to play :)

More likely the less played mode will probably just get neglected because they have to focus on new content.

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shadopaw wrote:

Like really though.

i work 9 hours a day I spend an hour to 2 hours in traffic a day.

I dont want to play a game that feels like work.

Even just taking away the xp penalty and maybe making drop rates better.

Even better just Void the league so nothing comes into standard.

Bam done doesnt even need a balance pass man.

Just donate ~100-200$ and u get all expensive items from drop easily without problems, such as mageblod, HH, Div-cards and so on. Don't need to farm for hours, it's easy mode.

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Daniil8888 wrote:

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shadopaw wrote:

Like really though.

i work 9 hours a day I spend an hour to 2 hours in traffic a day.

I dont want to play a game that feels like work.

Even just taking away the xp penalty and maybe making drop rates better.

Even better just Void the league so nothing comes into standard.

Bam done doesnt even need a balance pass man.

Just donate ~100-200$ and u get all expensive items from drop easily without problems, such as mageblod, HH, Div-cards and so on. Don't need to farm for hours, it's easy mode.

with donate u mean rmt? :')

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satanttin wrote:

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Daniil8888 wrote:

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shadopaw wrote:

Like really though.

i work 9 hours a day I spend an hour to 2 hours in traffic a day.

I dont want to play a game that feels like work.

Even just taking away the xp penalty and maybe making drop rates better.

Even better just Void the league so nothing comes into standard.

Bam done doesnt even need a balance pass man.

Just donate ~100-200$ and u get all expensive items from drop easily without problems, such as mageblod, HH, Div-cards and so on. Don't need to farm for hours, it's easy mode.

with donate u mean rmt? :')

No. Everybody knows, if u donating - u get expensive loot from monsters, it's GGG's drop system. You can even try to donate 5$ and wonder how drop rate changing.

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Gordyne wrote:

I think hard mode will be just a tool to finally be able to make 2 different balance approaches. If the game is too hard overall GGG can just nerf monsters in normal mode and the problem is solved.

Normal mode would be the "sane" way of playing HC without the extreme build restriction, for example.

Introducing a hard mode opens up new possibilities. At least that's what I got from it.

PS: I just hope they don't make 3000000 different difficulties like D3...
2 or 3 are enough. The rest is up to the player to adapt and learn to play :)

They started out with 3, normal, cruel, and merciless. The player base was too small in any of those to make sense, so they scrapped it.

If they reintroduce new difficulty levels, no surprise, it will break up the player base once again and create more hassles for trade (if they are set on having Hard mode be trade league, which I think would ruin it and subvert the point of limiting loot).

To be perfectly clear, you can't afford to be two different games. Either go all-in on hardmode and have it replace the current system along with the trade and party hassles; or have it be entirely optional like a private league except free to try.

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Daniil8888 wrote:

Just donate ~100-200$ and u get all expensive items from drop easily without problems, such as mageblod, HH, Div-cards and so on. Don't need to farm for hours, it's easy mode.

This is bullshit.

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Daniil8888 wrote:

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shadopaw wrote:

Like really though.

i work 9 hours a day I spend an hour to 2 hours in traffic a day.

I dont want to play a game that feels like work.

Even just taking away the xp penalty and maybe making drop rates better.

Even better just Void the league so nothing comes into standard.

Bam done doesnt even need a balance pass man.

Just donate ~100-200$ and u get all expensive items from drop easily without problems, such as mageblod, HH, Div-cards and so on. Don't need to farm for hours, it's easy mode.

Oh jesus shut the hell up, this isn't even remotely true.