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The difficulty in OB will be harder than current CB for sure. Lots of new challenging monsters from act 3 be populating your maps and takin yo atch peez. Not to mention the alch & regal recipe nerfs will make gg endgame gear a LOT harder to achieve. IGN: Jerk, Princess http://orbswap.info - the easy way to trade currency	Posted by taekvideo#0697 on Jan 21, 2013, 12:53:27 AM Alpha Member Quote this Post
" knac84 wrote: Being casual and liking hard games is not incompatible. The problem I see with the distinction between casual/hardcore is that both words are usually used to reefer to different dimensions while being mixed up as antonyms. Casual player is someone who invest little (relatively to other players) time into games for whatever reason. As for hardcore games is usually understood games with steep learning curves and hard to beat, with some degree of difficulty and which usually take some time to learn the mechanics and progress in the game. Someone can be casual player and still play hardcore games, specially if these are games which are not designed around world persistence like MMO's and hence you can be 'left behind' (and even so, it's possible, if not people would never be able to get started in MMO's sometime after release). It just means it will take a little bit longer. 'Hardcore' is about mentality and challenge, while 'casual' is about time. Both are related, but not directly and are not incompatible. The way I see it :) My work may allow me plenty of free time, then suddenly nothing for a few days... and I'm not playing much or not at all during holidays... Yet I enjoy my games challenging, unforgiving and rewarding perseverance. The harder, the better. Take care out there.	Posted by Lagruell#1960 on Jan 21, 2013, 2:01:13 AM Quote this Post
I can only see this happening if the game becomes a huge financial failure and GGG has to get casual players into the boat so that PoE can survive. I think that scenario is fairly unlikely seeing they raised almost 2 million dollars during closed beta. GGG banning all political discussion shortly after getting acquired by China is a weird coincidence. Last edited by Xavderion#3432 on Jan 21, 2013, 2:26:25 AM	Posted by Xavderion#3432 on Jan 21, 2013, 2:25:51 AM Quote this Post
I myself is casual gamers.. i do find no AH / NPC to buy skill gem is a turn off for me..	Posted by khroness#7924 on Jan 21, 2013, 2:56:22 AM Quote this Post
Gems are rewards for completing tasks and they drop through out the game. Better ones drop at higher levels, but for a reason. AH is not needed.	Posted by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013, 3:00:40 AM
As said previously, I'm a mix between casual and hardcore. While I'm a hardcore gamer in general, I also have a fickle mindset where I jump between multiple games (minecraft, PoE, TF2, Skyrim, blah blah blah). What I like about PoE compared to other ARPGs is that you don't have to grind very much (find great gear? Screw that, gimme some orbs and I'll make it myself!), and it still maintains a certain aspect of difficulty (I'm not talking about how tough monsters are, I'm talking things like diminishing returns in leveling and whatnot) that makes me want to keep playing. PoE players: Our game has a wide diversity of builds. Also PoE players: The [league mechanic] doesn't need to be nerfed, you just need to play a [current meta] build! And the winds will cry / and many men will die / and all the waves will bow down / to the Loreley	Posted by Pizzarugi#6258 on Jan 21, 2013, 3:07:52 AM Quote this Post