Why POE1 is still the best ARPG, Better than LE, POE2, and Diablo 4
" Cows weren't an "endgame", they were a secret level that was never supposed to be for leveling (hence it was supposed to be done once per character) They just messed up XP with LoD. Not sure if cows were good in .08 aswell but people didn't figure it out or it just happened in patch 1.09 when Bloody runs got nerfed, but it wasn't intended that way I'm pretty sure. Also Cows weren't made harder, they changed how party XP works in 1.10 and also capped the XP u could get in cows pretty hard. It just was way more efficient to do Baal runs since. |
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They definitely made them harder. my barb couldn't do anything to the cows when 1.10 launched. That could have been due to nobody running them but noobs though.
They just weren't fun anymore for sure. Whether or not they mathematically changed them it is a fact they were a lot harder to farm in 1.10. Sticking people back into campaign zones for some reason. It always made me feel like they buffed hell monsters to compensate for all of the runewords they added. |
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lightining spear isnt the only OP build right now. Kind of invalidates a lot of your opinions when right out of the gate your examples are factually incorrect. Either that or youre being disingenuous because your expectation to play poe 1 doesnt immediately translate to poe 2. They are different games set in the same universe.
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" Clearly you dont know the rhetorical devices at use here. Shame. |
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" They gave all monsters in Hell 50% physical damage reduction with 1.10 on top of cutting leech in half I believe. So u'd only leech 25% of what u did before. 1.10 was the death of physical characters in D2 sadly. They still work, but are way weaker than casters. Also the biggest change with XP was, that XP in party now had a limited range. So u basically had to run within I think 1-2 screens of each other to get XP. That's one reason cows weren't profitable anymore, because ppl couldn't start different sides and meet in the middle at the end. Also it made xp leeching impossible :D |
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Last epoch puts you in end-game in around 2 hours during campain in act v and allow you to skip rest of the campain with dungeons - but you can be able in 2 hours to do end-game maps
It's reversed to poe 2 where early is hard and end-game is trivalized. in le end-game is hard and early is easy. https://youtu.be/KgJQ0OiS2pA?si=n5mvlJAxtW6pKbH5 - like that... intense - more engaging than poe 2 fights. On max lvl 100 boss. With not even max difficulty. So in poe 2 you spent 20 hours in hard campain then goin to 100-300 hours of one-button brain washing gameplay like in poe 1. Last edited by saashaa#5518 on Apr 18, 2025, 6:16:07 PM
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Whys my guy always gotta walk around doing the splits in POE1 ? It looks weird as fuck
And ya im sure lots of people who just got into Last Epoch yesterday are realizing that its basically a cheap POE1 knockoff. Doubt they retain many players in the long term |
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" LE is a joke. I don't even understand if ppl are serious when comparing it to POE2. Its playerbase is 4000 people (steam charts off-hype number, and it has no standalone client or console versions). |
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" Well its better than your game you published. But it isnt a POE. |
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I made a post on reddit that basically lands around your sentiments. The overall idea being that they prefer thematic content even if it becomes tedious. Wisdom scrolls when the hooded man exists as an example.
Here's my post if you're interested. I go into mapping in particular https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1k2czn0/poe2_is_in_need_of_inspiration/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button |
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