its just me or this league is mid af?

I don’t know, honestly. I was so hyped for the new league, waited so long... but the new content just feels mid. I’ve loved this game for years, but right now I’m just not feeling it at all.

Not sure what’s wrong — maybe it’s just me — but I’m not having any fun with this league.

What’s weird is that the new cycle in Last Epoch has maybe 5% of PoE’s content, yet I had way more fun playing it.

Is anyone else feeling the same? Is the league actually underwhelming, or am I just burned out on PoE?

Leagues are mid for me since they added T17s and gutted boss rotation farming (guardian maps + maven invitation = fragments that were used for all kinds of uber bosses if specs on atlas)

T17s too random, not wanting to buy in bulk and farm those fragments.

So i started to enjoy sanctum last league, got destroyed this one. I play new maps a little bit but they're boring and don't know what else to do

tl;dr you're not alone

Why were you hyped? It's the same game with the same gigantic problems it had a year ago. The mercenaries are the equivalent of hired rogue exiles except they were given screenwide damage output against you (not the monsters) surpassing that of uber pinnacle bosses.

The atlas portion just funnels more stuff into T17 while everything below has been destroyed in consistent rewards since the necropolis 3.2.4 patch. Scarabs are the worst thing to happen for endgame reward loops for anyone who doesn't treat the game like a job. Every wearable item that drops is still useless beyond and extremely early endgame point. The game still performs horribly regardless of situation and there is zero visual clarity.

Stop deriving a positive viewpoint of this game by watching compilation videos from streamers with zero impulse control or introspective ability who wouldn't quit this game short of their computer detonating on them.

I would say this whole patch 3.26 is below average.

I came back due to the preview items Enmitys brace und the Runegraft of the Gauche tattoo. Those items looked like the chase things for this patch.

In the loading screen of the patch i learned Enmitys was nerfed into crap last minute. Later on i got the information that on Octavians (former streamer and now GGG employee) discord he told that "of the Gauche" was drop disabled.

What the hell is going on with this behaviour?

All the new gems are subpar nothing to look forward too. We still do not have a Spectral Shield Throw/Shield Crush that scales with Energy Shield from shield.


On top comes the drop nerfs where gold replaced a lot of divine drops. Now GGG moved their quant threshold to 6 player partys with 6 mercs for good drops.

At least i had only lag spikes for the first two days of the patch where i lost quite a few t17 with scrabas and i feel sorry for those wo still got them daily.

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mnieradko#6070 wrote:

Scarabs are the worst thing to happen for endgame reward loops for anyone who doesn't treat the game like a job.

???

You can buy 100 scarabs of each type using Faustus in 5 minutes. Then put 20 of each into map device and run 20 maps.

Old compasses or elder/shaper influence setup were way worse. Sextants were each 3 or 4 maps. They were way harder to buy.

Nah scarabs are a really sloppy way to let players customise what they are doing, it works but its 100% brute force.

Not that I have an alternative particularly but just pointing out that having 200 different fragments you can slot into your map device is just obtuse at some point and I can understand why many players take one look at it and think "nah"

Sextants were also bad but honestly I think sextants fell apart due to trade.

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Draegnarrr#2823 wrote:

Nah scarabs are a really sloppy way to let players customise what they are doing, it works but its 100% brute force.

Not that I have an alternative particularly but just pointing out that having 200 different fragments you can slot into your map device is just obtuse at some point and I can understand why many players take one look at it and think "nah"

Sextants were also bad but honestly I think sextants fell apart due to trade.

Sextans were scarabs but random and you have to reapply them each 3 or 4 maps.

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Hornsent#1110 wrote:

???

You can buy 100 scarabs of each type using Faustus in 5 minutes. Then put 20 of each into map device and run 20 maps.

Old compasses or elder/shaper influence setup were way worse. Sextants were each 3 or 4 maps. They were way harder to buy.

I can buy 100 scarabs of each type easily? With what currency? The one I pile up by treating this game like a job as intended? I can likely only "buy 100" of the league content scarabs that are a joke and largely ignored like "beyond".

My point was that non-scarab "alch and go" content was nuked in necropolis patch 3.2.4, when both scarabs and T17 were introduced.

Empyriangaming recently posted a "good or cringe" video for "alch and go". Did the irony dawn on him that his nolifing playstyle nuked baseline loot rewards for players who don't treat the game like a job? The ones who want to play "alch and go" instead of playing a secondary AND COSTLY scarab minigame for EVERY MAP? No probably not, he and other streamers feel no shame or don't even realize what they have done through their influence.

Devoting an atlas tree for a particular form of content is barely more rewarding than devoting zero points to it. This is why phrecia idols were so popular. Their raw power showed how much of a joke the reward/gain is in most atlas points devoted to a particular form of content, like harvest or whatever.

Every patch the carrot on a stick moves further away and yet the masses watch the same streamer compilation videos and think "EVERYTHING FINE BRO JUST BLAST GIT GUD".

I never use scarabs for anything and I can get currency no problem. Last league I farmed thousands without putting a single scarab into the device. I am doing the same right now and I am sitting at about 150 divines.

the petal powers are horrendous....just awful they need to change them asap because they are all boring and unrewarding and yes t17 maps still suck not fun