The Sanctum is actually not that bad

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y3lw0rC wrote:

It's sh*t, let's call things their names.

This is just stockholm syndrome, when you start thinking and forgiving bad things.

You believe they are not that bad because you are getting used to them, don't get used to crap. It will give GGG false impressions of their work.

This is literally the worst thing that had happened to PoE from the very beginning of PoE history.

finally someone being honest here. I skip most leagues not because they're bad, but because i don't want to play the game for some other reasons. But this league came out in a moment that i'm super excited to play but the league feels so bad that i'm skipping it unfortunately

but i agree with this being the worst experience i've had in PoE, and i play every now and then since the game came out

I've played with the league mechanic a fair bit. I made it work for me, i got some relics, i even did some challenge relic runs such as cannot have boons or cannot have inspiration / recover resolve. I didn't do a "no hit" run, haven't even dropped the item that's required for it. But I think that's beyond my autism levels anyway.


Main complaints:

-It's repetitive af. You have like 7 room types, 3 encounter types and 4 map tilesets. That's it.

-Reward pool is small. It's only basic currency. Chaos, divines, decks, sextants and bubblegum currency. Nothing else.

Run 10 sanctums (40 floors) and you basically saw everything, you just run it as a chore. There is not much to expect from it. Maybe a sanctified relic. It's very deterministic what you're getting - just raw currency 99% of the time. Sanctified relics are really rare and odds of getting something that fits your build are slim.

Tujen is more exciting than this. He doesn't sell just basic currency but also fragments, boss maps, 21/20 gems, exceptional gems, unique maps. And that's just 1 npc out of 4.

I played this league with several different builds, only 1 managed to clear 1 floor.
Never managed to complete a sanctum. Maybe i am too slow, or not the right builds. Don't like the whole mechanic of this league at all.
Only got 4 crap relics total.
Played this league in total for several hundred of hours, found only 20 or 30 chaos orbs and ZERO divine!
Maybe it is only me that does not get divines?
When they only drop in sanctum then i will probably never get one this league.

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hendrik16 wrote:

I played this league with several different builds, only 1 managed to clear 1 floor.
Never managed to complete a sanctum. Maybe i am too slow, or not the right builds. Don't like the whole mechanic of this league at all.
Only got 4 crap relics total.
Played this league in total for several hundred of hours, found only 20 or 30 chaos orbs and ZERO divine!
Maybe it is only me that does not get divines?
When they only drop in sanctum then i will probably never get one this league.

Yup, its only you

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Yup, its only you

Haha, thanks for the wake up call.
Just a bit frustrated, sorry... Found past leagues always some good currency, now a bit unlucky i think.
Next league maybe better luck.
Rng = rng...

for me it is a novel idea, but the current iteration feels like shovelware. Too many things scope in offscreen, the player gets too many afflictions and rarely if ever sees a boon. Sometimes the runs give out no boons.

In addition resolve hits are ludicrous. Some attacks can do 300+, sometimes. Sometimes they do 5. They claim being on top of enemies helps, but who really knows if that is true since like 5 support gems and modifiers didnt work at league start.

Rougelikes typically have a lot of room for mistakes. Binding of Isaac for example has up to 24 hits or 12 in lower difficulty with a lot more avenues for recovery.

Relics are just too rare. Gaurds should drop them. Often.