PoE Density is so good.

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Xyel wrote:

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innervation wrote:

The only thing patch notes and balance changes affect are the people chasing the absolute pinnacle of the meta every patch. The primary driver of new things if you log into the game after 2-4 leagues off is whatever leagues went core (or were rebalanced like Abyss/Breach this patch), new skill gems, and whatever big changes they made to the end game system.

That's not exactly true though - all my pre 3.15 characters are completely unplayable, because they don't have the mana to cast their skills, have no defenses as far as current PoE is concerned, and are unplayable without a complete re-gearing.

For post 3.15 characters, the scourge one mechanically functions but was unplayable in AN times becuase it simply wasn't prepared to deal with them, not sure how he fares against the recent stuff. The AN toon is fine, the Sentinel character is completely unplayable due to minion nerfs in Lake, and the Lake and Sanctum characters are fine.

By unplayable I mean 'can't alch'n'go red maps' while most of the characters had 36/40 in their respective leagues.

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innervation wrote:

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Xyel wrote:

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innervation wrote:

The only thing patch notes and balance changes affect are the people chasing the absolute pinnacle of the meta every patch. The primary driver of new things if you log into the game after 2-4 leagues off is whatever leagues went core (or were rebalanced like Abyss/Breach this patch), new skill gems, and whatever big changes they made to the end game system.

That's not exactly true though - all my pre 3.15 characters are completely unplayable, because they don't have the mana to cast their skills, have no defenses as far as current PoE is concerned, and are unplayable without a complete re-gearing.

For post 3.15 characters, the scourge one mechanically functions but was unplayable in AN times becuase it simply wasn't prepared to deal with them, not sure how he fares against the recent stuff. The AN toon is fine, the Sentinel character is completely unplayable due to minion nerfs in Lake, and the Lake and Sanctum characters are fine.

By unplayable I mean 'can't alch'n'go red maps' while most of the characters had 36/40 in their respective leagues.

This and the DS post are more great examples of how PoE is held to a standard other live service games aren't. I play League of Legends

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Yes, I hate myself, this isn't a therapy session though

and pretty frequently after a patch you will see someone play the random mode and pick a champ that has had a 'full scope update' and you know what they do when they see the abilities have been changed? They press <Enter> and say 'xD when did they change this champ?' or 'wtf rageblade is a mythic now??' and then go read the patch notes if they want more info.

No one considers this a huge issue with LoL. No one even considers it a small issue. Things change and if you don't keep up you're gonna have some learning to do. But in PoE its an unplayable catastrophe. Lets be honest here.

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roundishcap wrote:

Poe mob density would be ok of the servers could handle it. Juicing is lag city. Just look at mf party groups. Some had like 15 seconds of lag from incursion. In fact empyrean knew how bad the kalandra loot nerfs were because he wasn't lagging. Those nerfs still haven't been reverted btw, at least other games drop things for killing monsters. Poe is basically a trade graph simulator with no fun trade tools.

Poe in ssf is miles ahead of D4 as far as loot drops go. Its honestly not even close. Class based loot is garbage. Monster scaling is garbage. Poe is the king and poe2 is looking good af. If they update the endgame to match whats in the trailers its up for everyone.

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Xyel wrote:

LoL is a fundamentally different game, because the everything resets with every game. You don't spend a hundred hours farming up gear for your Vigo to take into the next game in standard mode. LoL has no standard