PoE Vs Diablo 3 new expansion

You would never see the amount of people trying to help out on the D3 forums on a similar thread. Community and game play is what makes a good game. Maybe one day Blizzard's current team will realize that, like the old team did. When/if they do, I might consider giving them my business again. Till then, they won't be getting a penny from me any time soon.

In all honesty, I think the OP's just bored and "trolling" the threads. If not then it seems he's just horribly bad at playing games if he doesn't get the difference between D3 and POE; not to mention how to build a viable end game hp/armor melee build in POE. Seeing as how there are quite a few people that have managed to do that; the same ones that are trying to help him figure what went wrong with his build, here in this very thread.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

Yet people talk about melee like Iron Reflex/Unwavering Stance/Res Tech Ground Slammers and Cleavers are all melee has to offer. I think theres a lot more diversity in this game than most people are aware of, including me. PoE has grown a huge amount while D3 has sat stagnant taking notes on how to make a game.

problem with these "melee sucks" players are that they completely lack fantasy and competence to figure out their own functioning build. they just listen to the "this is the only thing that works" crowd. and if they try to make their own custom melee build they dont realize that every fresh build is gonna fail a few times before it becomes viable. these people dont wanna do that, they just want to no brain a build and faceroll

hence they play d3

This looks to me like posts on facebook that little girls make to fish for attention.

Make life/armor base mele build that will be viable. Do you even know what is the problem with mele chars? You can have 5k hp and 10k+ armor and get destroyed in 2-3 hits. So the "mele problem" isnt in the build, its in game mechanics.

I hope you are satisfied with the attention you got, so you can now have a good night sleep.



@ OP : D3 thought us 1 good thing, and that is not to buy the hyped up game as soon as it gets released. Wait a bit, check feedback on expansion and then decide if you want to buy the game or not.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Best of luck. For fun, I fired it up last night. Played for about 10 min. Boring as hell. Lack of character development isnt being patched. Your character is the exact same as everyones

Enjoy.

yeah, there are several classes, but it is nice to see several classes that are all different...you know, not all sporkers.

honestly just came back to D3 and I'm kinda liking it now that I have less than 0 expectation for it, I played it through once, quit and started playing PoE soon after. now going back to D3 I like somethings a lot more having dealt with PoE's shit for a while.

there are pro's and there are con's to each game, but honestly I think D3 will hold my attention with the new expansion over this...not to mention I know people that own D3, not a single one that plays PoE.

Not sure I quite understand. You don't have to play a sporker. I sure as hell dont.

But you *cant* play a spell casting barbarian, or a melee sorcerer in d3. Which is what I was getting at. The game is completely devoid of choice.

If you enjoy it, may the AH gods be forever in your favor.

Well the simple problem is that melee allows far less mistakes then ranged does. Which funny enough is the same in most games. If you are melee you are often forced to divide larger groups of enemies, which slows down your pacing.

I can't see how a Melee-Char isn't viable, he might not be as fast as a ranged char, but this does not make Melee not viable. And Build-Diversity... yeah it Melee-Marauders/Templers/Duellists often lack. They take all the life-nodes simply because they are the best choice. Even without taking a lot of damage-nodes (you normally have some added damage nodes, but not many). Adding the basic survivability and lowering the basic damage could solve this, but I dont really feel that it is as big a problem as it was before melee was a bit rebalanced. Melee is in a way better spot now, and very much playable alone, there is a large difference between unplayability and being just worse than something else.

And I dont really see a lot of enemies that destroy a char with 10k HP and 5k Armor in 2 hits. Brutus might do this, but he is meant to do it, the oversoul surely does it. But for both there are ways to work around it. Endurance-Charges are a primary thing for armor/hp tanks and funny enough a decoy totem is too (it is sometimes very funny... since it works on the merciless oversoul and forces it to senseless smash on the ground). So Melee has to solve some problems that ranged does not have to solve... but well thats normal for melee. Maybe Melee is lacking some of the tools it might need for this, but then again Melee-Tools were already greatly increased and we might see more in the future.




Seeing the D3-Development and the PoE-Development I don't really feal that you can compare them. Both are indeed Action-RPGs, but while D3 is an ACTION-rpg, PoE is an action-RPG, the RPG-Aspect in D3 is dropped in favor of more dynamic gameplay, which suits some players, but not necessarily all. If you would mix PoE and D3 together you would basically end up with D2 gameplay, since both games took D2 as a core and developed in totally different directions.

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Ranjin33 wrote:

Make life/armor base mele build that will be viable. Do you even know what is the problem with mele chars? You can have 5k hp and 10k+ armor and get destroyed in 2-3 hits. So the "mele problem" isnt in the build, its in game mechanics.

so get 24k armour + endurance charges or get 5k armour and 8k ev so you only get hit 1 in 3 times. I can facetank Kole in merciless and maps with a 3k life melee character, why cant you? Because you sounds like you are playing an inferior build to me.

D3 = Piece of crap uber fail and embarrassment to the Diablo series

Everyone who made decisions regarding gameplay the AH and anything in general about that P2W junk should be fired immediately

seriously if your not under 9 y/o you should not want to play it

I could go on and on with why I was pretty ticked off at how Diablo 3 turned out. But what it really comes down to is one little point....

Diablo 3 was in development for a long time with a very large and eager fan base. The developers had the great game design theory of only releasing the game "When its ready". I trusted them at their word that the game would be finished when released (Not perfect, but finished). Diablo 3 did not feel finished at all. It felt exactly like playing a beta. It either should have been in beta for a lot longer, or it should have been a free to play game like Path of Exile with the understaning that the game was still being developed.

Oh, ok. Nice having you aboard on this game. Make sure the POE door doesn't whack you on your way out. Thanks for considering this game as something too try and have fun on. Have a good day, and a better tommorow.

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Ranjin33 wrote:

This looks to me like posts on facebook that little girls make to fish for attention.

Make life/armor base mele build that will be viable. Do you even know what is the problem with mele chars? You can have 5k hp and 10k+ armor and get destroyed in 2-3 hits. So the "mele problem" isnt in the build, its in game mechanics.

these mechanics you refer to as "problems" are one of the reasons i actually play the game. knowing that theres always something out there that can instagib me good makes it all more interesting, especially in hc.

and most of these situations were you actually get 1, 2 or 3 hit, you could have avoided if you just had your granite and endurance charges up, if shit was blinded, or if you had your AA running. you cant just stack life and armor and go faceroll, get over it.

and yes i play melee among other characters in onslaught, and yes i play life based melee


and 10k armor? that is like CI armor, get more.