The league mechanic is still terrible

This is the most confusing league ive played in both poe2 poe1 combined.

1. Its not clear which room adds connections and which doesnt.

2. Its not clear what room will upgrade to what room until you actually place a room (in which case you realize you messed up but can't take back that move). Terrible design.

3. Unintuitive bullshits like the architect room connecting to any other room but Atziri room only connecting to actual paths.

4. Room medallions only say the room name without telling us what they actually rewards. Why not add a description of what it does just like the regular card room? Example : what is a fucking flesh surgeon room? Can you tell us in game please? Why do we need to fucking google everything with stupid AI spreading misinformation because it can't know which info correspond to which patch version.

5. Trying to follow some guide i found from a youtuber but my temple is so messed up and theres no way to reset it!!!!!!! God damn this is so frustrating!

6. Generator rooms : Do they only upgrade adjacent rooms which ARE CONNECTED TO IT or all adjacent rooms? What is actually an adjacent room? Only left rights up down or do DIAGONAL rooms count? Can it be more confusing please? Can't you use some visual indicator to what room it actually upgrades (and will upgrade if not yet placed)?

7. Thinking any room would conect to atziri, im stuck with a room that cannot connect to her and THAT FUCKING ROOM WONT DESTABILIZE. WHAT THE FUCK GGG?

This is an action RPG not a fucking board game. When will GGG realize we want to kill monsters, not fucking solve cold fusion.

Overall a huge mess slowly turning me away from the league. I sure as hell hope it doesnt go core or that they improve the clarity and reduces complexity SIGNIGICANTLY.

I just grab the free chest, I don't go in anymore , been fooled twice by so called upgrades/improvements.

No, it's awesome. It's like Dracula's castle, always shifting and changing, and I'm the one molding it.

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Krayken#1299 wrote:

This is the most confusing league ive played in both poe2 poe1 combined.

Yeah you are right. The word you are looking for is bloated.

Bloat & gatekeeping
- You cannot get in and out of the temple on your leisure. You need exactly 6 maps to power it. No, you cannot save more if you have not fight the Architect. Unnecessary one-way tunnel, strange interaction. Simply not fun.
- I love the design of the temple, the art but you have no agency about your rooms you will receive.
- The more you want control, the more you want to limit your lost time invest (idling, redundant unnecessary temple setups)

For endless grinder they don't care. For streamers, they don't care.
For planners, for progression lovers, this is a hard pass. The less you play or want to interact, the more severe this issue becomes.

It's a pity that it has a lot of potential and due to lack of content it will get core. However, it distracts from endgame, from exploring, from controlled setups.

I see the potential and art work love inside, but no pragmatic approach there. Pramatic interaction for the player. Pragmatic means: Juicing one tower/sector to have 10 maps with ritual and running ritual on entire evening. And Abyss tablets here in 0.4.

the mechanic is only to watch rue too crash out playing it and have good fun while doing it.

CATW

worst league since poe1 beastiery

I think the word to describe it is careless. Apart from it being unintuitive and barely explained, being unable to undo mistakes is not fun. I'm also locked out with a room that doesn't connect. It's pretty easy to do, I don't know how they didn't foresee this happening.
I like the idea but yet again there's that frustration element that doesn't need to be there. Are we unable to undo mistakes because it would be too easy to reach the boss? Isn't that the point of going in? The XP is pretty great tho.

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MRX2K23#6101 wrote:

I just grab the free chest, I don't go in anymore , been fooled twice by so called upgrades/improvements.

same. just grab the free chest or kill the boss that spawns sometimes. i actually got a unique body armor from him once that i sold for 15 div, so you can make profit without going in

On top of that, the loot drops are still garbage. The mechanic isn't worth doing regularly unless the loot consistently drops to make it worth your while. I'm sick of this RNG BS.