Solaris Touch is the most violently unfun thing I have ever experienced in POE (yes its a rant)

(the is real suggestions at the end if that's all you care about)
Now when you think "unfun" in poe.
What is it?
"oh I got one shot"
"oh I died to reflect"
"oh this mob takes to long to die"
All valid.
All being bitched about currently.
All of them I am willing to accept and engage with as part of the game.

Then I encountered my first golden fucking prick Solaris mob.

Now ok I heard this mob so let me go make sure its the right one.
vhpg tells me it the scarab one am I wrong? is the website wrong?
GGG did all this bullshit so we know what the mobs do. Apparently fucking NOT!
So now I am spending 10 mins searching reddit and youtube making sure its the right one.

So now I am sure its the right one just kill it?
No because then I lose all the loot and if your gonna average my 200 maps worth of loot in this one fucker and then I lose all the loot I am getting 0 loot total.

Ok so I got to download discord. Waste time on this app I had no interest or desire to use but getting my fucking arm twisted to use over this golden prick.
Then had to find this one discord server to try get a fucking culler.
wade through fucking THOUSANDS of pages of bullshit wasting over an hour so far.

I finally find the area I need and put a message saying I need a culler.
Wait over 30 mins. Now I am up to what? 90 Fucking minutes cause this one golden prick spawned? I finally had enough I just kill the fucker. 5 chaos.

Yipp Fucking ie.

And now after a lost of 90 mins with no reward I am at a cross roads. Knowingly waste time in the future to find some MF dude to come cull this fucker wasting my time, ruining the gameplay flow and just the general vibe I go for mapping on low level content for some RNG spawn bullshit. Ignore this golden prick and go unrewarded for my grind so I lose 200 or whatever fucking maps worth of loot in one. Or kill all build diversity and only play tornado shot MF from now. I am really loving these choices.

Frankly I do not care much for game balance. Make the rares have the same hp bar as all the phases of the maven combined. Make harvest cost a a million. Make drops a billion times rarer fine. But at the end of all this the reward I am meant to enjoy just sticks its finger up at me and tells me to get bent cause I Do not want to play a culler? Now that's insulting.

If a mechanic punishes you this much for not using discord servers and group play it should be reworked and changed until it isn't. If I was gonna rework this I would make the Solaris touched extremely common like one a map and scale their rewards to be slightly below with harbingers (I think harbingers need a 20% buff anyway). That way if people want to invest it for great rewards they can in a similar way to people can invest in harbinger on their atlas. It would be a similar outcome for different circumstance. Harbingers would be useful more as a one and done and Solaris could be more useful if you dipped into other mechanics which were magic find focus. Making two groups of end game farming, that at a higher baseline but doesn't scale with magic find and a part that has a lower baseline but scales with magic find to well above the other. That would allow build diversity through choice, allow people to engage with that side they prefer more, and also not extremely punish people extremely for not taking part in the other.

nice feedback but doesnt really matter.

They got their vision and so complains in any form are either getting deleted, ignored or you get bashed by ggg whiteknights with 1 supporterpack and a lvl 70 character on standart.

dont even bother, just let your wallet speak, or not speak in this case.

Haven't ran into one, making plenty of currency, literally giving it away.

ignore the fact that some people mechanically cant play without extracting the last remaining 0.000001% of blood from every rock they pick up and you'll enjoy this game so much more.

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SilentSymphony wrote:

ignore the fact that some people mechanically cant play without extracting the last remaining 0.000001% of blood from every rock they pick up and you'll enjoy this game so much more.

Ah yes, the difference of getting 1 or 10 divine orbs = "last remaining 0.000001% of blood". Of course.

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Frostride wrote:

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SilentSymphony wrote:

ignore the fact that some people mechanically cant play without extracting the last remaining 0.000001% of blood from every rock they pick up and you'll enjoy this game so much more.

Ah yes, the difference of getting 1 or 10 divine orbs = "last remaining 0.000001% of blood". Of course.

I suppose i meant that some groups of people are trying that hard to break the game and get rich, We don't have to play like they are to enjoy the game.

If yall are having such a hard time hit me up sometime i only have one character this league and a public profile im not hard to locate, i probably would not say no to a few maps.

It's not ok.

Just playing the game normally comes at massive opportunity cost. Like OP said. If you encounter a monster with a desireable mod killing it yourself will be worth a lot less than going to tft and hiring a culler.

You are literally throwing away multiple divines by just playing the game and again players that use third party discord servers are steps ahead of those that play normally.

It is just terrible design.

I'm trying to build my own culler after killed some (suspicious) -touched monster in an abyss. Some cheap parts may include -

helm - any magic find helm(enchanted with Janus's)
hand - any magic find gloves(or Aurseize)
ring - any magic find (mirrored) ring(or Andvarius x2)
boots - Goldwyrm
amulet - any magic find (mirrored) amulet
belt - Perandus Blazon
gem - Item Rarity

This set will have ~350% rarity and ~28% quantity, and is relatively cheap. When I find my next -touched monster I'll hit it to 10%, portal and switch to this gear(The only problem is my attack has strong poison so it is hard to keep the culling line).

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Heartsease wrote:

I'm trying to build my own culler after killed some (suspicious) -touched monster in an abyss. Some cheap parts may include -

helm - any magic find helm(enchanted with Janus's)
hand - any magic find gloves(or Aurseize)
ring - any magic find (mirrored) ring(or Andvarius x2)
boots - Goldwyrm
amulet - any magic find (mirrored) amulet
belt - Perandus Blazon
gem - Item Rarity

This set will have ~350% rarity and ~28% quantity, and is relatively cheap. When I find my next -touched monster I'll hit it to 10%, portal and switch to this gear(The only problem is my attack has strong poison so it is hard to keep the culling line).

Yeah good that you are looking to optimize the systems in play but I do not think that leaving your map to switch to an entirely new set of gear as a way to get the most of how drops work now is a healthy way for a game to be built.

It just means that your drops are too centered around a handful of rare modifiers. It needs fixing.

Yah. I feel you man. I refuse to partake in the MF Party Cull/TFT BS for this. I just simply refuse.

So, now I FeelsBadMan when ever i run into one of these juicy c***s, kill it, and take home my stack of whetsones.

There is no easy way to put this: GGG has dropped the ball so damn hard with every freaking aspect of 3.19.

There was so much change, and NONE of it done well.

3.13 and 3.17 were straight 10/10 fun. I guess I am somewhere around a 7 right now? I am still having some. Still playing.

But with every iteration of this game launched, my enjoyment decreases.

But, more-so, the way this patch was done/handled, my faith and trust in GGG is absolutely shook to the core.

I dont think I will ever be able to be hyped again, and frankly not only that, but when they say something, I will be reading between the lines to determine what it Actually means.

REVAMPED BEYOND! DURRRRR

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Impiousbe wrote:

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Heartsease wrote:

I'm trying to build my own culler after killed some (suspicious) -touched monster in an abyss. Some cheap parts may include -

helm - any magic find helm(enchanted with Janus's)
hand - any magic find gloves(or Aurseize)
ring - any magic find (mirrored) ring(or Andvarius x2)
boots - Goldwyrm
amulet - any magic find (mirrored) amulet
belt - Perandus Blazon
gem - Item Rarity

This set will have ~350% rarity and ~28% quantity, and is relatively cheap. When I find my next -touched monster I'll hit it to 10%, portal and switch to this gear(The only problem is my attack has strong poison so it is hard to keep the culling line).

Yeah good that you are looking to optimize the systems in play but I do not think that leaving your map to switch to an entirely new set of gear as a way to get the most of how drops work now is a healthy way for a game to be built.

It just means that your drops are too centered around a handful of rare modifiers. It needs fixing.

Very unhealthy, but it may keep me playing for some extra weeks till another favorite game of mine come out...