Probably quitting the league early - Story getting harder each league is NOT fun

Hello,

I am currently not having fun.
Loving the game for over 10 years. But at the moment it is impossible for me to play. I am not a standard meta-slave that just plays what a few big streamers play. So please spare me the "play X what everyone plays". I don't want to.

Normally you could very easily level with poisonous concoction. Did quite good damage, even if you had nothing found on your first char in the story and then switch to some mining fun.

But now? E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G stuns, staggers, chills hard.
Almost 50% of the area monsters are in every 2nd to 3rd area blue. While it is nice for EXP it is bad for survival.
Also I have had Soul Eater with very defensive mods on like 6? areas back to back. Unkillable and of course following to be faster and faster so I have to reset the area in hope not to have one.

I have no idea if it was the skills you have changed, or if you buffed the mobs. But everyone I talk with has similar experiences. It's currently not fun to play, but just a pain.

I don't mind challenges but your fetish to make the story harder and harder for absolutely no reason, except the racers, is beyond me.

Will probably still retry some progress tomorrow but I currently have really zero fun. I really want to have fun, I really want to enjoy the league mechanic as it looks fun.

But this god damn "Let's make the story harder each league har har so funny lol" is just putting me off more and more.

Please STOP THIS, not everyone has a fetish for being killed by the smallest of enemies over and over in this game. I played through the story a few hundred times. I know it inside out...

(And just inbefore: I am not asking for "supa ez mode" or any crap, I just ask for a normal story experience that doesn't require me to overlevel 10-20 level and hope for some bigshot items just to do the damn story.)

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

Hello,

I know it inside out...

If you're having trouble with the campaign, then this is factually untrue.

Cool post though!

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AkumaNoTsubasa wrote:

Hello,

I am currently not having fun.
Loving the game for over 10 years. But at the moment it is impossible for me to play. I am not a standard meta-slave that just plays what a few big streamers play. So please spare me the "play X what everyone plays". I don't want to.

There are plenty of non-meta builds and skills that work but you need to know how to build them, which means going back to when those build concepts were popular and learning, or learning how yourself. Either you can be contrarian and successful or you can fail in the meta and complain. if you're going to be a contrarian and complain, you're not going to get sympathy. Not that you'd get any if you suck at the meta too.

Play how you want, but figure out how to succeed and stop whining about difficulty. Especially not this league. there are literally over 100 new gems to explore.

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Sukhoi_01 wrote:

Especially not this league. there are literally over 100 new gems to explore.

Why are Forumanswers nowadays always either arrogant, agressive or offensive in their nature?

You just said like 5 times "haha skill issue bro" in multiple sentences. This doesn't help me or anyone else. If you check the forums or reddit you can easily see that this is not "my skill issue" but a change that GGG did.

Instead of being aggressive, why not trying to be helpful?
Also, my only goal with the story is "Getting through". I don't want to "explore" a gazillion gems I do not care about.
I want to finish the story to get to the part of the game I like: Maps, Blight, Delirium.

I am not even talking about the league mechanic at all as this is totally broken atm which doesn't need any further addition.

10 years of playing Path of Exile does not say much about how good you actually are at PoE.

If you are doing the league mechanic on a scuffed setup like your MinenFürDenFrieden character then of course you will struggle. You are level 53 and you have 39/45/12 elemental resistances (and no, he doesn't have Warden +50% resistance, I checked), your only reservation is Skitterbots (could be running Purity of Elements or Grace) and you wear a blue and a white item.

It's not arrogant to point out that the fault lies with how you build your character and not with the game. If you find yourself dying constantly, maybe take that as a sign that maybe you could improve your character instead of ranting? Literally not the game's fault

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ArtCrusade wrote:

10 years of playing Path of Exile does not say much about how good you actually are at PoE.

If you are doing the league mechanic on a scuffed setup like your MinenFürDenFrieden character then of course you will struggle. You are level 53 and you have 39/45/12 elemental resistances (and no, he doesn't have Warden +50% resistance, I checked), your only reservation is Skitterbots (could be running Purity of Elements or Grace) and you wear a blue and a white item.

It's not arrogant to point out that the fault lies with how you build your character and not with the game. If you find yourself dying constantly, maybe take that as a sign that maybe you could improve your character instead of ranting? Literally not the game's fault

I did not lie at any point of this post.
My gear is the "best" (Hard to call it that) I could get.
The game was not any kind of generous yet. Loot was abysmal until now, which is also why I switched from spell to poisonous concoction as it never needed any gear.
Thanks tho for the pointer at the purity, did swap one item before logging off, prolly accidently put it in stash.

Dont tell me you tried everything when you literally wear a white helmet that you could throw a transmute on and craft a resistance as a suffix

Or the fact that you could be running Purity of Elements with your 65% unreserved mana

This is crazy talk

Inside out? Yet dying in Story? How much of a lie can you do eh?

Too many.

I dont understand why they made the campaign longer! Bigger maps, more dead ends and tougher mobs. All for some stupid race for Exile-con? Also noticed Bleed make an early appearance.

You have +life on 4 pieces, shit helmet and shit armour too..
With lvl 53 every vendor offer better gear.

Am imo 40+ in hc ssf ruthless and my gear is far better than urs..

Its not bad luck, its bad choice what to keep, instead rush like silly
to the maps and die over and over again, take like 2min to gear up each 5-10
lvls, simply pick yellow in the area you `ve cleared and make the best out of it.

Story is same like always, you can basicly rush to a5, pray to rngjesus not to
become 1shot by avarius, rush to maps.

Your fail is choice of gear, missing knowledge what to choose, not taking
your time to at least optimise your gear to fully yellow, too early ignoring
game mechanics (once your build is ready you can ignor them usually, but not in
lvl 1-70)

There are many players rushing to maps in few hours, but those players
know what they do, you obviously not if you blame the game..

Weird habbit..