3 Atlas Trees is great, but we need more deep into endgame

Wanted to make a post about my main gripe about poe 1 endgame. I've played hundreds of hours every league since crucible

Current 3 atlas loadout limit problems:

-respeccing an entire tree is slow and tedious and without making notes somewhere, you will forget the tree you are replacing.

-its impossible to have even a majority of league mechanics covered across the three trees (ie you might have no tree you can properly run harvest on)

-due to power of the increased scarab nodes, increased mod effect nodes etc feeling mandatory to every tree, really you can usually only fit one or two league mechanics pre tree (optimally), which is further limiting how many mechanics you can make feel rewarding to run (without respeccing)

-you need a tree with the most important nodes for a mechanic for it to make sense to use good scarabs for that mechanic, meaning if you don't have a tree for a mechanic you either need to make a tree which includes it or ignore it entirely

-often, at least for me, its easy to just keep running a strat even if its getting boring due to the friction of respeccing and the below point

-respeccing comes with further friction of choosing which of your 3 trees (which are likely already 3 strats you would like to be able to run) to replace

-all your characters share the same 3 trees, one of the great parts of poe is the specialisation of certain characters into certain mechanics, but a new character has to cannibalise your other characters tree setups

-in SSF all of this is 10 times worse but it is still a problem in trade

My suggested solutions:
Keep the current 3 trees that you unlock with atlas progression as they are, it works great for that progression stage. Add the option to buy another tree loadout with an appropriate currency. For example 300 unmakings for 1 additional tree loadout.

This allows with additional investment for the player to choose to try a new strat without sacrificing any of their existing ones.

I assume this would have to have some upper limit but even 10 trees would feel like infinity compared to 3. 10 trees would allow the player to cover a majority of league mechanics, if not a majority of specific strats.


Alternatively a smaller change: each character has 3 atlas loadouts specific to that character, such that each character can properly specialise into a few strats that suit their build. This would make rolling additional chars in endgame feel very rewarding, as you don't need to destroy your first characters atlas strategies to make way for a new set and across multiple characters you can cover a lot of different strats. This encourages a great aspect of poe 1: heavily specialised characters for certain endgame farming strats.

I feel like at minimum some QoL would be nice. Poe 2 style refund and reapplying passive points in one go, refund all, a system to save and import atlas trees so that you can easily get back to a strat you had run previously.

If anyone has any other neat ideas I'd be interested to read them in the comments, or maybe only I'm experiencing this problem.

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Galster#3736 wrote:

Add the option to buy another tree loadout with an appropriate currency. For example 300 unmakings for 1 additional tree loadout

+1
There was a topic with same ideas in last two months

if they are going to add it, it should be an RMT in the shop, not in-game currency. Same as stash tabs.

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Galster#3736 wrote:

Add the option to buy another tree loadout with an appropriate currency. For example 300 unmakings for 1 additional tree loadout

+1, all good points.

Or make additional trees beyond the 3 unlocked through additional map completions, e.g. +1 tree at 1,000 maps completed, 10,000 maps, 100,000 maps completed. Hard earned QoL, but maybe count across leagues if 100K completions become a thing, hehe.