PoE vs Diablo 2 aka Your opinion on PoE

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Tagek wrote:

RNG? Almost every single gem is obtainable through quests...
If you do some research there really is 0 RNG involved.

1) Almost doesn't count.

2) Support gems are as crucial to builds as the core gems, and you don't most of the support gems from quests.

It seems what you're mostly complaining about is the replayability factor. You want ALL the options on the table before you go to make a build. Doesn't work that way - you make a build with what you have. If you think up something along the way because of a skill you picked up or something you saw in the tree - well there you go another character.

Game plays differently with different builds - never the same twice. As I said in my other post also - more is coming. "Crafting" items to suit your build is also part of the process, and farming up stuff isn't hard at all when you have multiple characters going along.

One build, one run through is not what this game is about. Nor do we want it to be - that's boring.

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Akiviri wrote:

You want ALL the options on the table before you go to make a build. Doesn't work that way - you make a build with what you have.

Yeah, I kinda want to build my character the way I want, and not for the game to build my character for me in a random way.

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Akiviri wrote:

One build, one run through is not what this game is about. Nor do we want it to be - that's boring.

1) I think every person should decide for themselves how to play the game 1 time or multiple times.

2) The fact that I would have more characters doesn't change the fact that I want to build each one of those in a way that I personally like.

D2 >>>> PoE

The skills from PoE are lacking creativity (Double Strike / Dual Strike).
Dual Wield has no AoE-skill but Cleave and every skill >>> Cleave.
HP+Armor >> all, building on evasion with ranger or shadow as melee is suicide.
Range >> melee and so on.

Game shouldn't be in open beta, too many flawed things for the core mechanics they knew for over a year and didn't fixed yet.

I can't think of any respect in which this game is significantly worse than D2. Then again I think a lot of people have a distorted view of what D2 was like, and especially what it was like when it first came out. For instance, nearly all of the skills were hilariously underpowered once you left Normal difficulty, and there were various bugs that got retconned into 'features' even though they made no sense at all, like Concentration (a physical attack damage aura) giving a bonus to Blessed Hammer (a magic damage spell).

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CommodoX wrote:

D2 >>>> PoE

The skills from PoE are lacking creativity (Double Strike / Dual Strike).
Dual Wield has no AoE-skill but Cleave and every skill >>> Cleave.
HP+Armor >> all, building on evasion with ranger or shadow as melee is suicide.
Range >> melee and so on.

Game shouldn't be in open beta, too many flawed things for the core mechanics they knew for over a year and didn't fixed yet.

Go play diablo2 and stop trolling these forums then. If you like diablo2 so much and hate poe so much why are you even here?

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NagiSoi wrote:

If you like diablo2 so much and hate poe so much why are you even here?

Where did I say I "hate" PoE? Conscious liar, go an die.

What about having valid facts to correct my views with a reasonable argument? Oh sorry, all you can is posting shit.

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Kadajko wrote:

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Akiviri wrote:

You want ALL the options on the table before you go to make a build. Doesn't work that way - you make a build with what you have.

Yeah, I kinda want to build my character the way I want, and not for the game to build my character for me in a random way.

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Akiviri wrote:

One build, one run through is not what this game is about. Nor do we want it to be - that's boring.

1) I think every person should decide for themselves how to play the game 1 time or multiple times.

2) The fact that I would have more characters doesn't change the fact that I want to build each one of those in a way that I personally like.

You can build any way you please - after the very first one which is likely going to be crap anyway. Save the gems/items/orbs you get until you know what you're doing more. By the time you even have a build figured out - unless you're copying someone else's build - you'll have everything you need and then some. I don't see the problem here. Personally - I just think you're trolling, but meh.

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Akiviri wrote:

you'll have everything you need

Ummm NO? Not for skill/support gems.

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CommodoX wrote:

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Akiviri wrote:

you'll have everything you need

Ummm NO? Not for skill/support gems.

Ummm ... yes? I've done it. As have others. If you should happen to not pick up something ... we have a trade forum as well as a trade chat. Use the tools you are given.