What has happened to PoE? Am I playing a KR MMORPG?

I took a few leagues break. Came back to Exalted Orbs being replaced by Divines.

Realized there's no more Loot Goblins and that majority of the drops for currency have been slaughtered.

Started this league with a Phys Cyclone build and had a friend help me out with some gear. Realized how bad Cyclone Slayer is this league, sold it all and built me a Poison Seismic Trap Sab. It was going really well... I got lucky and got the Divine Drops off an Eater of Worlds Altar early on and made 6 divine. I then got 2 divines out of Blights with a friend.

Decided to make a Tornado Shot build to up the ante, thinking I could make it work with some divine given how I was able to make divines from crafting and the few that dropped. Build up from there.

Hit a wall. Realizing how much Divines are actually worth just trying to upgrade gear. Selling off my Incandescent orbs and Screaming Invitations. Just trying to make some chaos to trade for Divs to upgrade.

Took into farming for Apothecary cards (BIG MISTAKE) dumping everything I have into them. From Deleriums, Engineering orbs, Scarabs, etc... Making nothing back. I even run Exarch altars for chaos drops. Not a reputable return.

I remember back in the day, I used to actually have fun trading and farming. Now I'm selling every asset I have to be able to run the assets I'm now selling. Uber Elder, Exarch boss, Eater of worlds, none of which I can really run successfully because of the currency wall stopping my gear progression.

Now I have to go through this go broke to make a dime mentality and I feel like I'm playing a KR MMORPG. This isn't fun anymore. What happened to make this game so horrible for non-sweaty people?

Phys cyclone is awesome!

"was" :) Cyclone is still in my heart. Especially CoC. But it's just not that great compared to previous leagues.

I cant really relate tbh, i play ssf, am a pretty bad / lazy player, dont know how to craft properly, and getting to t16s and running them is so fast and easy on most league start builds that I just get bored and play something else before i even hit lvl 94.

doesnt it make sense that if you want to play an expensive build you are going to have to grind for currency?

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dookleeto wrote:

I cant really relate tbh, i play ssf, am a pretty bad / lazy player, dont know how to craft properly, and getting to t16s and running them is so fast and easy on most league start builds that I just get bored and play something else before i even hit lvl 94.

doesnt it make sense that if you want to play an expensive build you are going to have to grind for currency?

I'm fine for grinding for upgrades, I just feel like now I have to make it a career, rather than enjoy the game.

Before I could play out bosses, farm them for a bit, have some fun, switch gears build into something else and make a minimal build work. If I wanted to upgrade it, it would take a day or 2 to get a piece of gear to upgrade. I feel like now that time to upgrade has taken 3-5x the amount of time to make the currency to upgrade.

And to add to get the voidstones, you need to kill uber elder, which does take some finess in gameplay but gear plays a pretty large role in that also. As a casual player, it's not going to happen now. Where as in the past, it would.

I also want to point out, I didn't melt my seismic build, it's just going to take an arm and a leg to upgrade with little to no currency compared to how it was in previous leagues. So I switched my strategy to TS. And Revert back to OP to understand.

Additional Note for the Lolz...
I ran Incandescent Invitation with modifiers on it 6x straight, get the stupid shields or nothing. Friend, 1st time running it with the quest incandescent (the one with green text), no mods, drops a forbidden flame with additional curse makes 10div.

This game...

They removed altas notes for bosses (besides making them uber). This patch is ass for boss farming.

The community is just noticing what they demanded for came with repercussions.

Players rage when GGG tries to nerf movement speed and normalize combat better. Community freaks out so now it's all about monotonous map clear speed. Players want big screen wide clears so now it's all about spamming uninteresting bosses. Players don't want their DPS nerfed so now you have 70% less damage taken for no reason with huge neglect to formerly nerfed play styles.

Yea, it feels like an Eastern MMO. For some reason players wanted that.

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Xzorn wrote:

Yea, it feels like an Eastern MMO. For some reason players wanted that.

:( Will GGG revert back or fix? Maybe?

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MokeyII wrote:

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Xzorn wrote:

Yea, it feels like an Eastern MMO. For some reason players wanted that.

:( Will GGG revert back or fix? Maybe?

I feel/hope this is the entire purpose of PoE2.

GGG can make drastic changes to the game without backlash from the community under the guise of new systems. Fact is things that are healthy for the game, many players just won't like. Move speed needs to be more normalized and Enemy Density needs to go down a lot. These are two big ones that force players to engage enemies on a semi-individual basis.

One fundamental damage concept which was in the game is gone now. There are 3 in general. Chip Damage, Burst Damage and Telegraphed. Chip Damage is used to hinder healing and overwhelm players if they overextend. You can see all 3 in Sanctum.

Sadly even then you can watch as Chip Damage from Sanctum becomes pointless if you do enough damage. You end up with maybe 1 burst attempt before they die and bosses with telegraphed.