Objectively the worst league?

Its not the league. Its the game as a whole.

for me, best league, played 137 hours and earned 130+ divine.
Sanctum for me, don't like it, everything else is great.
And I've been here since closed beta

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TheAshmaker wrote:

Its not the league. Its the game as a whole.

yes it is.

However it is interesting. AN was consistently regarded as bad.

However i've notice that it seems like equal amounts of people like Sanctum as hate it.

I _think_ the reason is that if you have a build that is compatible with Sanctum then you can get decent rewards out of it.

however if you don't you can barely complete the 1st floor.

Sanctum was OBJECTIVELY awful for melee builds. does this mean melee builds can't do it ? no. but it's much harder with a melee build.

overall i found the mechanic annoying and irritating.

waiting for next league.

also the distinction between builds that work, and builds that don't, has become much more abrupt.

Sanctum could probably be fun with 3-4 rooms per map. Currently 1 room per map is the worst. For people who cannot consistently go to floor 3-4..

Right now, to lose 15-16 maps because the game decided to force you in a room that will likely make you fail the sanctum is stupid.

It's not the worst, league mechanic but definitely not a good one for every type of player.

I actually like were this is going...Fail after Fail will end GGG streak of failures when d4 launches so :))

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

i dont like how i had to make a second build to complete the league mechanic.

I don't either, that's why I made it another early exit from the league. I picked a terrible league to feel like playing a slam skill.

Not the worst ,but close.

4/10 for the league.

Most melee builds are basically useless for sanctum.

Thanks GGG.

What...not one single Bestiary apologist?

I win.

Objectively the worst league mechanic? Absolutely.

Objectively the worst league? Throw out the junk league mechanic (I skip it now after trying like heck to learn to enjoy it) and the base game is really good. The loot is back, the new Atlas passives are terrific.

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Vendetta wrote:

Sanctum could probably be fun with 3-4 rooms per map. Currently 1 room per map is the worst. For people who cannot consistently go to floor 3-4..

Right now, to lose 15-16 maps because the game decided to force you in a room that will likely make you fail the sanctum is stupid.

It's not the worst, league mechanic but definitely not a good one for every type of player.

I actually like were this is going...Fail after Fail will end GGG streak of failures when d4 launches so :))

If this isn't the worst, what is?

Forgetting all about the actual gameplay mechanics, the simple overhead required to prepare to run the stupid room takes way too long proportional to running the actual content. (Oh, kinda like juiced mapping. But I digress.) This was a horrid design decision.

But invoking D4 vs. PoE... now that's fail. It seems to be popular right now but they're two completely different games. PoE took the crown of the genre known as ARPG and will not give it back. So blizz created a new genre you might as well just call diablo-themed. In one word: it looks slow. (Open world. So ... lots of time riding the horse. RDR wants its mechanic back.) In two words: slow and uninspired. No way D4 will ever come close to the depth and the labour-of-love feel of PoE. Regardless that they do make plenty of mistakes and consistently alienate huge groups of the playerbase, GGG does work harder on this than blizzard ever will. They alienate the playerbase just by being blizz. Changes will be slow to none, and updates (which of course you will pay for any good ones) will be infrequent. More to say on this (and i'll feel like repeating it) but what's the point? I'm going to try and restrain myself.

Bottom line, it will take impossible effort and a miracle for D4 to really affect PoE's playerbase, other than of course the initial launch peak. Heck, I was "so into" D2R I bought a mule copy. Didn't even make it to nightmare in 1st actual season, cuz it's boring and mechanically outdated af. Yet, here I am back at PoE. So go ahead, make another diablo game, if y'all want.

for me yes its the worst league mechanic ever. i even made a second character (totems) JUST for sanctum but i still dont enjoy it

32 maps is too much grind for a full run. i dont run 32 a day so i cant even do one sanctum per day

starting over from the beginning feels really bad. i run out of resolve on floor 3 and 4 many times. would be nice if we could continue from there

even with totems i keep losing resolve. not sure if the mechanic is even working properly. i throw my totems down and run away but i still get hit. yeah ok