resolve needs to go

It should be quite difficult to take zero resolve damage but achievable tbh but I think GGG stuck their foot in it a bit by choosing a league mechanic where you are intended to fail initially.

Generally speaking we should see our progress increase as we progress through the league and our average run should get longer and longer - this is a hard sell to PoE players though especially the league starters.

That's half because some players just play without any intent beyond holding click but its also because GGG have a tendency not to test their shit properly.

I'm not sure how bad it is yet the only thing i'm 100% on is monsters are overtuned for a raw league start, probably undertuned for twink gear.

edit: and the rewards are wrong for that level, at low levels you want rares and low tier mats, at high level you don't want either of those.

Id like to see the build of the guy who takes -50% resolve

honestly resolve is fine, all GGG needed to do is straight out say in launch video that this league mechanics is playable only with DOT, totems or traps and save everyone lots of time.

Dunno how it will be in maps, but so far most of the rooms are there just to screw with you. They offer no rewards and are just a time sink that's supposed to kill your resolve.

This seems pretty pointless to me.

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Taudlitz wrote:

honestly resolve is fine, all GGG needed to do is straight out say in launch video that this league mechanics is playable only with DOT, totems or traps and save everyone lots of time.

I'm playing ranged self-cast, and having absolutely no trouble. My first sanctum, where I didn't know what I was doing and had no relics I easily made it to the third floor and probably could have made it to the 4th if I hadn't picked up a negative 40% movement speed affliction. I literally went into the boss of the second floor at 99% resolve. So the mechanic isn't forcing you to play anything, any long-range attack or spell will do. You just can't play melee, which was clear right from the trailer.

I'm not defending the design, it's not a good thing when an entire archetype of build can't use the new league mechanic, but everyone should have known it was going to rain and brought an umbrella, if you catch my meaning. Those were some pretty obvious clouds on the horizon.

The game is actually feeling nice and gameplay feels smooth and good.... So I'm just going to skip this horse shit league mechanic this league, and enjoy the rest.

Resolve is somewhat "fine" but as usual GGG messed up with some of the room bosses. Most of the ones i faced so far are not a big deal but i also had a cleaver who dashed + cleave with like zero windup, almost impossible to dodge that. Then there is that mage with his clones at the edges of the room who starts to fill the entire screen with explosions once a few clones died. Even with movement skill it's impossible to get out of that. Maybe there is a trick to it that i haven't found yet but some cases feel completely absurd.

It's GGGs typical ">Uhhh we want to make a rougelike but if we give all the monsters long windups to make it fair players will actually get rewards out of our league mechanic and quit on day 3 because they got rewarded for their time. So lets justs remove the windups make it stupid and frustrate the players into staying."

Depending on the bosses you get it's actually ok sometimes, my longest run was 5 rooms so far using double strike in the beginning of act 2 but others just feel stupid and unfair.

there have been many things in this game i dislike. maven's memory bullshit. permadegens stacking up in uelder making it impossible if yer not a meta dps build, random one shots in place of challenge, mobs aggroing from four screens away when you tab out, gutting the value of ex, the complete non viability of true melee....

but this resolve is the first thing EVER i truly hate. i fucking hate it more than i can express. this is the most infuriating unfun tedious annoying unfair bullshit this game has ever had. and considering the long and storied history of the game that is actually impressive.

fuck resolve. with a cactus. that has aids.

please ggg, remove this shit. it RUINS this league.

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i like the league mechanic but the resolve is not fun. their is no way to get it to go back up and i dont make it far