The XP Penalty is the worst thing in Path of Exile, remove it !!!

I beg !! I beg !!! take the XP penalty out of the game this is boring quitting irritating i'm about to give up on this game because of this!!!

Out of nowhere the RNG makes me take damage from any monster and I die in an extremely silly way and on the ps4 (where I play) it's even hard to understand what killed me !!! where did this damage come from what was this damage FINALLY I just DIE and see my XP bar always zeroing

for those who are veterans it may seem silly but I've been playing this for a few years and it still irritates me and gives me up to create any build and etc !!! I'm AFRAID to play the game because I feel like at any moment all my effort is going to be in vain!!!

I've already lost count of how many Insta kills I've taken and I don't even understand what I hear!!

So again I beg you to REMOVE the XP penalty!! this is a PVE game should be fun not scrutinizing

Make your characters tab public and I swear I or someone else will find that you character is squishy. Why you blame game but not your build? Xp penalty is here to punish you for lack of defences and to make you upgrade this If you want to lvl up

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NasusPodInta wrote:

Make your characters tab public and I swear I or someone else will find that you character is squishy. Why you blame game but not your build? Xp penalty is here to punish you for lack of defences and to make you upgrade this If you want to lvl up

Meanwhile in 5-way, players AFK with Empower and Enlighten gems fully equipped and no defence, but effortlessly cruising to level 100.

Also: meanwhile in Hardcore, people regularly get to endgame.

Let's try shorter version of rant this time:

exp penalty is crap because endgame combat is resolved faster than you can blink. So you are either invulnerable, or already dead, you just don't know it yet. Which works wonders for character variety.

...hmm, yeah, this rant looks better :)

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hsuchijp wrote:

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NasusPodInta wrote:

Make your characters tab public and I swear I or someone else will find that you character is squishy. Why you blame game but not your build? Xp penalty is here to punish you for lack of defences and to make you upgrade this If you want to lvl up

Meanwhile in 5-way, players AFK with Empower and Enlighten gems fully equipped and no defence, but effortlessly cruising to level 100.

Which itself is terrible design, just because people abuse 5ways doesn't mean it's now time to remove death penalty which perfectly fine does what it's intended to do for most players.

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DÉSPAIR wrote:

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hsuchijp wrote:

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NasusPodInta wrote:

Make your characters tab public and I swear I or someone else will find that you character is squishy. Why you blame game but not your build? Xp penalty is here to punish you for lack of defences and to make you upgrade this If you want to lvl up

Meanwhile in 5-way, players AFK with Empower and Enlighten gems fully equipped and no defence, but effortlessly cruising to level 100.

Which itself is terrible design, just because people abuse 5ways doesn't mean it's now time to remove death penalty which perfectly fine does what it's intended to do for most players.

I do not object having penalty to deter reckless and body-throw playstyle. Either the 10% xp penalty be reviewed or 5-way need to be drastically nerfed.

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hsuchijp wrote:

I do not object having penalty to deter reckless and body-throw playstyle. Either the 10% xp penalty be reviewed or 5-way need to be drastically nerfed.

It was like that 10 years ago. By now, this penalty deters All playstyles short of totally invulnerable, not just "reckless". You need eHP, and 10 forms of mitigation, and collection of all status immunities, and actually fit some dps between all that. And then you should still run like a headless chicken, never stopping in place for more than a second.

It is simple: penalty size was designed for one game, now we play very different game.

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im ok with people having alternate routes to avoid exp loss, but not removing it like so many mechanics in the game it won't be a good change in the end without applying a cost to it.

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Echothesis wrote:

It was like that 10 years ago. By now, this penalty deters All playstyles short of totally invulnerable, not just "reckless". You need eHP, and 10 forms of mitigation, and collection of all status immunities, and actually fit some dps between all that. And then you should still run like a headless chicken, never stopping in place for more than a second.

It is simple: penalty size was designed for one game, now we play very different game.

That's a good thing, if EXP penalty didn't affect any builds besides glass cannons that would mean you can't die in this game as long as you ticked a few basic checkboxes. That would be bad for several reasons and the worst is that it makes character building too simple, which affects itemization and market, maybe it's just me but I like seeing good defensive items being worth something.
Also, if the game is way too boring you might fall asleep, roll out of the chair hit your head on the edge of a pringles box and die. See? Exp penalty saves lives.

Of course, I'm not saying it should be like gauntlet where your head starts pulsing after several hours of total concentration either, there should be a nice middle ground.