Content Update 3.14.0 -- Path of Exile: Ultimatum

To me... until Harvest came out, crafting in this game seemed like a big, stupid waste of time. Like yes, I know it can create the best items in the game and yes, I know it is meant to be a money sink. But it just... It just felt dumb. You threw currency out the window in the hopes that you'd get that OOOOOONE cool modifier to go. You never felt like you had any control unless you had MASSIVE amounts of currency to control the process with (which at that point, why does it matter? I mean if you have like hundreds or thousands of exalts, you're just crafting for the hell of it at that point lol).

Harvest made it feel like crafting was more of a "Okay, as long as i know what i'm doing, there's a good chance i'll get rewarded for it". And these patch notes and your constant harping on harvest just proves to me that you don't want crafting to be a viable option. You want crafting to suck. I know some will disagree with me, but I do believe that crafting is inherently only for the rich in this game, the people with massive amounts of time and currency to waste.

And even then, those people don't all enjoy the absolute rng-blasted crafting system you have in place either. I mean who actually DOES enjoy crafting with "Oh, let me slam. Oh, it's a bad mod. Better craft prefix/suffix doesn't change (For exalts, of course) to make sure that i have a slightly higher chance of no failure. Oh, it failed. Scrap all the prefixes, go again." And that's if you even got to the point where your suffixes or prefixes are worth a damn.

That being said, It's not fair for me to say all that because we are talking about mirror tier crafting, but even at the base level of crafting I don't feel good spending exalted orbs or chaos orbs or alterations on the crafting system. Often times I just end up with weak results, and as you continue to remove cool mods and replace them with worse versions (Like the explodey chests), I see that all you really care about is slowing people down. But why?

I still buy the supporter packs. I still buy new tabs as you release them. Are your profits tanking? Do you think newer players will enjoy a game that's slowed down? I mean I know that if i came in as a new player and I was hearing that the cool stuff in this game was being removed and replaced with total rng, I wouldn't be as excited to play. I know that I like having defined ways to get rewards and clear goals to work towards.

This rant was really long, and I know i'll still play the game because i DO LOVE Path of Exile. But I don't love what you do to the game. I don't think you're thinking of the player bases' enjoyment of the game. And if this is for profits? I just don't see it working.

I sincerely hope that i'm wrong and that the game feels rewarding to play. Only time will tell, but the changes don't feel very on point.

finally moving in the right direction for once. might give this league a try

All this teeth gnashing and drama.
Personally (playing since closed beta, never skipped a league, playing on PS4 nowadays on a different account), I'm fine with most stuff in the patch notes. They ripped off some festering band-aids that they knew would cause unhappiness for the players used to the convenience and opness but I'm glad they did it eventually so we can see what the actual problems are. This is a bit of a reset and maybe the polish pass we always claimed we wanted but now of course, GGG gets flak for doing a "placeholder" league with "only nerfs".

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This is actually the first league in a while where I'm looking forward to buying a supporter pack as soon as I earn money again in the summer.

Instead of nerfing gameplay why not just make 2 leagues:

1) One that is fast move speed, OP DPS, with lots of monsters (the current state of the game)

2) And another that has a max DPS cap (5mill), max move speed cap (50%), and fewer more strategic monsters? (bump the item rarity here to make it "feel" as rewarding)

I get it GGG, you want bosses/mobs to actually be interacted with...

The only way this happens is with slower characters and lower DPS. So just hard cap those things and stop all this nonsense with incremental nerfs.

Frankly I would love to play version 2.

Also for the love a god if you are nerfing stuff add QoL upgrades.

I would play a league just for a flask rework so my hands stop hurting.

More nerfs, nice.

hypeee

Keep up the good work GGG!!!
Every change you have made this patch is amazing and NEEDED to be done.

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JCOH35 wrote:

TLDR:

Lowered everything by approx. 20%, please buy more supporter packs.

This.........

Played the last leagues extremely extensively !!!

Will skip this one all together.

Did the "Major New Content and Features" is available on standard league or only in the ultimatum league?