League and Challenge Feedback from a Sixteen time 40/40 No Lifer

Here in my hideout, just got this new totem here. But you know what I like more than humble brag items? Feedback.




I had fun this league, I just think PoE is neat, I want to give some constructive feedback.

The Lake

I think if you were to only run well made lakes, they are rewarding. What makes them feel unrewarding is the fact you spent so many maps building them up. 

Actually building the lakes inside maps is fun, except when you have to exit multiple times because some ground degen is killing you because it's on top of the mirrored tablet.

Currency and Divination chests feel great, Gems feel bad.

I hope Kalandra is elaborated on more soon, I like lore. You can piece together more than you think if you read between the lines, but I hope more comes soon.

QOL

Having the items be highlighted after a whisper is huge. Some people using a trade macro might think it's underwhelming, but there are certain countries that won't trigger the trade macros, highlighting does. This makes me want to trade more with people like this since I get to be lazy about it now. The only thing I would recommend is to have the line be a bit thicker, sometimes in quad tabs a 1x1 is still hard to locate.

Tracking on the map device is nice for the eldritch beings. 

Challenges

Honestly these were a pretty good set of challenges. Other than a few nit picks, I've not much to complain about.

The heist one should have had the contracts and open reward chests numbers flipped in my opinion. Too low on chest numbers, too high on contract numbers.

Modified Atlas Grind was too much. I think at max, 5,000 should have been its number.

The challenge rewards having tiers is a nice idea. I don't like the huge in your face versions of them, but the more subtle tier 1 versions all look really nice.

Maybe you could do a tier pet for the next league, I heard hideout pets are all the rage.



Atlas Memories

Very cool way of introducing extra lore into the game. I've completed All Ears and No Stone Unturned, so I love lore.

Maybe find a way to integrate doing them through the map device, having to go to that character then click the memory dialog, and then get the map ready is a bit tidus. Maybe it can add the option near their atlas mission button on the map device.

Expand on these please, I would like more lore and missions. They were fun

Communication 

I know it feels like a weird place right now, but I personally just want you to tell us if you are making such large changes. I was more upset by not being told some of these sweeping changes were made, than the fact they were made. I did appreciate the post Chris made explaining it all, I might not agree with it all, but it was nice to see it laid out for us all. I think that was a changing point for my mentality in this league. The post did not really fix the game, but having it explained to us all made me happier to have some communication and I just ended up having fun after that. 

Drops

I think I honestly felt the largest hit in trading. I'm a huge trader. I did nowhere near the amount of trades I normally do, and that's because of two things. People not playing and not having the funds.

This is going to be a bit contradictory, but I hate having a lottery ticket that can drop multiple divines and exalts, on the other hand, I like having monsters that drop multiple jewels and rings at once.

Ending TED Talk

Honestly, I had fun in this league. I think this was the worst full league I've played since starting in Essence league(dipped out early in Bestiary league), but I think that shows how robust the game actually is, if I can still have fun in what I feel was its lowest point. 

Good job, Exile :)

Gz :) I managed to reach 38 chalenges and here I stop.
Lake for me is good as well as a concerne reward, except gem/unique/delve/legion reward/chest. I like the idea that in expedition encounter some coins are guaranteed. For sure is boring building the mirrored tablet and many times is impossible to build it correctly. My suggestion would be to implement some mirrored unique tablet already fully builded (up to level 15 or more) that can drop in maps or in the lake.
Finally sentinel should return and maybe must be implemented in the lake as well. It is a really funny content to be deleted

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Actually building the lakes inside maps is fun, except when you have to exit multiple times because some ground degen is killing you because it's on top of the mirrored tablet.

Agree 100%. On day one, when I first used the tablet, I shouted at my monitor insulting the game designers for yet again not learning their lesson.
This kind of design is called a "modal window". They plague mechanics all over poe, and there is absolutely no reason to make such windows modal.
Once encountered, the v key (league mechanic key) should be able to bring up the league mechanic window (works for ritual for example) - but this is the important part - this window should not be centered on the screen, it should be in another area, and NON MODAL. Meaning you can continue to map while the window is open and you look at it and think about what you want to do with it, the same way your inventory is non modal.
They could even make inventory and this other window share modality, so if you open inventory, it closes that window.

The only answer as to why it's not designed this way is that the developers don't spend as many hours playing the game as the players.

Honestly, until you get that 17th time I can't give your opinions any credit. You are basically a noob still until lucky #17

8-P

Bravo for challenges.
I have a question about your lvl 1 characters, don't you use them as trading bots?

I still haven't seen a single Divine drop... I HATE this new league. Is this the "Chris vision"? If so, I quit. I don't care about the other changes but loot made it unplayable to me. No currency to upgrade gear for a casual player. Is this the 1% nerf? Am I in the 1% of casual players that got nerfed? Even the builds feel weird, 5 meta builds and that's it. No currency even to try different build or off-meta. I HATE party loot bonus, for a solo player it feels like an UNFAIR advantage over me. Loot goblins just broke the game. Changing gear to MF just for killing "touched" monsters feels like cheating. This is what I hate. I don't see any communication about the vision. Next league is the last chance and I feel I am not alone. I feel like GGG doesn't care about PoE players and I can't see anything to prove me wrong.

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mentos1308 wrote:

Bravo for challenges.
I have a question about your lvl 1 characters, don't you use them as trading bots?

No, I think it's pretty obvious I'm a name hoarder when you look at them.

That's a very sensible conclusion in my opinion and I agree, the league is really bad but most of the core gameplay is still so solid that its still overall a fun game.

Got 20+ totems like this. Problem is now i'm level 100 and it's alot boring to do maps.