Sanctum Review Poll

Said it before, will say it 100 more times: 38 challenges just for the sake of it, guess where I called it without going 40/40... Sanctum. I can't stand it, and while I technically liked the predictable movement patterns of those enemies and I would like to see more fight-patterns that you can learn (PoE misses minibosses, aside from campaign everything is eigher Map boss or pinnacle boss) I completely hated sanctum in itself.

- traps (wow, what a novelty)
- 32 rooms for one full run. While worth currency wise, timewise a heavy ordeal
- design of the rooms lacked creativity
- Lore behind it was nonexistant
- account bound items? Big yikes, hatr everything about it
- boss fight lycia 2: interesting in its first iteration, nerfed to oblivion, boring af now

Best thing about the league might be the introduction of original sin, though im not sure if this item pushes character balance too far out of proportion. Stat stackers are the strongest builds, but also among the more expensive ones - fine. But do we really need an item that lets us triple dip to reach 1billion dmg while there still are setups that scrape to get 15mio?

Aside from that, PoE seems to be in a decent state. Reintroduce height of hubris and guardians aid to buff bossing a bit, increase the chance for forbidden jewels and we're golden. I have my starters for 3.21 ready already, lets see if the game keeps improving or the next harvest debacle is upon us 😂

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Nubatron wrote:

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xjjanie wrote:

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Nubatron wrote:

Hah. You got me curious and I had to look it up. They are still probated! That's been forever. Now I'm curious about Boem.

Boem is likewise still on Probation. :(

That stinks.

Peace,
Boem

Yeah those CoC updates a couple years back was the death knell for him. Hell I barely made it myself.

It was insane, like a one day flip from this ok, to this is not ok. I mean threads in fucking Off-Topic were being locked for being unrelated to Path of Exile. Like no shit, it's literally called "Off-Topic"

It's better now, to a degree, but wow it was dicey for a bit. Everything was inflammatory, unrelated, or my favorite "needlessly negative" as if there is a threshold for when negativity is "needed" or who even makes that call.

Anyways, again, much better now with somewhat less stringent application, but quite a few didnt survive the CoC culling.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Yeah those CoC updates a couple years back was the death knell for him. Hell I barely made it myself.

It was insane, like a one day flip from this ok, to this is not ok. I mean threads in fucking Off-Topic were being locked for being unrelated to Path of Exile. Like no shit, it's literally called "Off-Topic"

It's better now, to a degree, but wow it was dicey for a bit. Everything was inflammatory, unrelated, or my favorite "needlessly negative" as if there is a threshold for when negativity is "needed" or who even makes that call.

Anyways, again, much better now with somewhat less stringent application, but quite a few didnt survive the CoC culling.

That was a tough time and the pendulum swung too far, but it was probably a necessary evil. This place was really getting bad. Every topic was infested with a few spreading endless negativity in the least constructive ways possible.

In a forum that has no way to upvote/downvote or manage a few screaming loudly, something needed to be done for sure. My personal aggravation at the time was spamming threads that were the same to try to gain attention to a gripe.

Anyway, the pendulum has swung back some and the tone of the forum is significantly improved. That should not be read as overwhelming positive, which it's not and shouldn't be, but the temperature is more mature -- relatively speaking of course.

I do think they should consider a blanket amnesty for bans/probations from that period with the exception of the most extreme cases.

EDIT: I earned my one and only probation during that period too for a comment that was pretty innocent in the context but the mods decided to ignore the context and came with the probate hammer. It was a rough time for sure.

Meh league...Not bad not good more over the bad side...You need a specific builds to clear the sanctum, the rewards sometimes are really meh, 32 maps for one full sanctum is too much, it get's very boring really fast because the rooms are the same, the only thing that changes are the detriments/rewards, not being able to trade relics makes them completely useless 90% of the time, 5 for one relic recipe , really, not 3 , 5....

So yea, unless you are a sadomasochistic to run maps over and over and over just for sanctums and have a build capable of doing them, the league mechanic is bad.

Really tired of all this empty boxes wrapped in new leagues from GGG...Hope D4 will end this streak of miss-designs.

I enjoyed it tremendously, #3 favourite of the 10 leagues I've played.

I enjoyed it when I played poison SRS. The league was good enough to bring my ass out of standard.

Its the worst league mechanic Ive seen.

You cant get interesting rewards, only currency. Which means unless you are trade its near worthless.

It insanely favor ranged builds, and is trash for melee.

It is minimal to no experience (find exit).

Everything about it is antithetical to PoE (defenses matter zero, its begging you to go glass cannon ranged).


Its the worst league mechanic ever.

i kinda enjoyed it, then after first clear it and some build progression it became super easy and got bored. Tried killing Lycia twice (second phase), died both times, not sure by what i was killed thou, second death was somewhere 10 mins ago and i can clearly remember that i died to smth invisible/not_rendered (several hits), mad now.

I guess im fine with this league staying, wouldnt be mad if it would be removed either. I just think this game is unbalanced af, the only thing that matters is selecting overperforming build and grinding asap and for what?

I don't like it one bit. This is the first league since I started playing where I quit in less than one month.

One of the worst league mechanics i've seen.