Everything is fine

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

There is no point.

Yay, you are back. Have you figured out the difference between a T1 and T16 monster? I told you I am too stupid to answer it myself, so I await your answer.

Personal investigation goes a long way. Im not here to carry you sadly.


Though, thats unrelated to this thread.

It's not unrelated :3

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

Yay, you are back. Have you figured out the difference between a T1 and T16 monster? I told you I am too stupid to answer it myself, so I await your answer.

Still unrelated to the thread you made here, that has no point.



Load up a t1 and a t16, find a similar mob and stand there.

See for yourself why I said what I said.

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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Kraivan#1745 wrote:

Your point?

Ofc everyone is playing the new class and ascensions.

Some filthy casuals are still playing campaigns... (cries in the casual corner)
But I play thorn warbringer... I want to make those new thorn gems work. (already reported a few issues, hope they read it and consider it, since I always try to give suggestions too)

Sure, it's more likely for ppl to try something new, but "new class" is meaningless.
The "new class" is just the starting location on the tree shared with "Ranger", so nothing new there and "Spears/Bucklers/Skills" everyone else could use too.

The actual "new thing" is ascendancies, but "Lich" and "Smith of Kitava" are new too, like everything was new in 0.1.0., but here we see a huge... no, gigantic imbalance.
While GGG wants more build diversity and less "one-button full-screen clear".

What my point is? Who knows.

I think your reasoning here is just incredibly flawed.

The update was called Dawn of the Hunt, they released a pre release trailer that almost exclusively focused on the huntress and coordinated it with videos from ZiggyD showing of all the skills from the class. The new mechanic "Azmeri wisps" is also directly tied to the background of the huntress and most of the content creators were making huntress content due to the hype around the class.

There's no surprises around this class being the most played and the same thing will happen to other classes released in future patches.

Just relax a bit.

Wouldn't it make more sense to keep Spark and herald chaining if they are going to have lightning spear doing the exact same thing now ?

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

Wouldn't it make more sense to keep Spark and herald chaining if they are going to have lightning spear doing the exact same thing now ?

Big reason for my uninstall. Gut multiple builds and replace it with a single build that has even less build variety. Brain rot decision.

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Mashgesture#2912 wrote:

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

Yay, you are back. Have you figured out the difference between a T1 and T16 monster? I told you I am too stupid to answer it myself, so I await your answer.

Still unrelated to the thread you made here, that has no point.



Load up a t1 and a t16, find a similar mob and stand there.

See for yourself why I said what I said.

Answer the question and stop telling other people what to do, welcher

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

Wouldn't it make more sense to keep Spark and herald chaining if they are going to have lightning spear doing the exact same thing now ?

Thats OPs point: They nerfed screen clear builds to the ground and killed any movement speed/teleport items (QotF, Temporalis) to force us to play other builds and crawl like snails only to then go on and release a class that can screen clear and has ascendancy nodes that give movement speed (In for the kill) or specifically synergizes with QotF (Stalking Panther) to make a build that can do exactly what all other builds were robbed of. So, miraculously and completely unforeseeingly, everyone plays that build now because there is 0 alternatives...

Majority of player base will always pivot towards the most powerful stuff, thats normal. What isnt normal though is to not only nerf but outright kill other builds with various changes to passive tree, items, skills and damage and then enable one single build to do just what all the other builds were doing before...

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MeanBob_Games#6853 wrote:

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Glowie_Zigger#5018 wrote:

Wouldn't it make more sense to keep Spark and herald chaining if they are going to have lightning spear doing the exact same thing now ?

Big reason for my uninstall. Gut multiple builds and replace it with a single build that has even less build variety. Brain rot decision.

This is just plainly untrue.

50% of stormweavers at 80+ in Dawn of the Hunt league are still playing spark: https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn?class=Stormweaver

The fact that most people are playing huntress is almost entirely due to the marketing of the league:

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The update was called Dawn of the Hunt, they released a pre release trailer that almost exclusively focused on the huntress and coordinated it with videos from ZiggyD showing of all the skills from the class. The new mechanic "Azmeri wisps" is also directly tied to the background of the huntress and most of the content creators were making huntress content due to the hype around the class.

There's no surprises around this class being the most played and the same thing will happen to other classes released in future patches.

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Big reason for my uninstall.

I'd love if you removed the forums from your bookmarks as the next step!

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RusinaRange#6285 wrote:

I think your reasoning here is just incredibly flawed.

The update was called Dawn of the Hunt, they released a pre release trailer that almost exclusively focused on the huntress and coordinated it with videos from ZiggyD showing of all the skills from the class. The new mechanic "Azmeri wisps" is also directly tied to the background of the huntress and most of the content creators were making huntress content due to the hype around the class.

There's no surprises around this class being the most played and the same thing will happen to other classes released in future patches.

Just relax a bit.

And your reasoning isn't flawed?

A huge part of the player base waited for "Spectres" a long time, on top, the "Lich" was marketed as the new shit for "Minions" (an extremely popular archetype). There was hype, too.
The "Huntress" hype was so much bigger than it caused a 32% difference? Mkay.

And please, ppl choosing "Huntress" because her lore is related to wisps?
Common.

This point is, it's not just a "most played". There is always one who is the "most played".
But "Amazon" has a "200% more most played" on it.

Yea I wasn't disagreeing with OP

It's pretty disheartening to see. I also don't enjoy endgame as much now. The wisps are adding difficulty to monsters without reward, I can barely keep a Breach open even with decent clear speed (there's no monster density), the cool new strongboxes drop Corrupted items that are useless, the towers are way less effective for item quantity, the waystones have a bunch of shit modifiers added and no good ones added.. I could go on. I don't understand why they have gone out of their way to break everything people were enjoying in this game. I'm still playing cause I don't enjoy Last Epoch and don't really know what else to get into.

Actually I will go on.. There is basically zero aspirational content. The difficult content is either obnoxiously RNG-based and unrewarding or just ramped up versions of bosses you could kill pretty easily (Xesht, Arbiter, etc). There is basically no point in doing the latter, because the entry fee is worth as much as the average drop and if you don't get an average drop then you actually lose money doing it. So now you just scour the map for citadels and sell the fragments instead of using them which feels like a job not a game. The Nexus-based atlas progression, while more immersive and interesting, takes longer to complete than 0.1.0 progression did and it feels like there is no point doing your mapping until its done. There's basically 0 reason to choose any of the new nodes that are added because Rogue Exiles, Strongboxes, Wisps, Essence all suck. I would actually select a node that made it so that I don't get shrines and wisps as they are more annoying than they are useful

I am so exhausted from finally completing 15 Nexuses (Nexi?) that I have basically 0 enthusiasm for lining up towers. Even after all that I only have like 5 precursor tablets that are worth using and once that area is done I will have none that give item quantity, which like i said before is 5% instead of 20%! What a massive change! Surprised I don't hear more talk about this