She is near, and eager to witness your struggle

cant w8

patch looks pog xqcl

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Hardsun wrote:

Another con i personally see - its game became too much about speed, both mapping and clearing itc - loosing the feel of combat in same time. I would prefer tactics to be more of the thing and speed being less, slower pace overall (dont think speed can be negated completely in such game). No idea what to do about that, just sharing my impressions.

Cmon guys, when i see yet-another-pro-streamer zoom-zooming around maps its like epilepsy paradaise. And "combat" is almost nonexistant as process when u either oneshot everything or being one-shotted.
Im here from beta, but im a casual player and just my 5 cents.

Pretty much nailed it with that first sentence. I'd say the blame for the focus on speed lies in large part with GGG making their leagues a short-attention-span-favoring three months, instead of longer. Time pressure increases the incentive to get things done as quickly as possible, if not creating the incentive outright.

Of course, by making the leagues shorter, that also increases player engagement by not giving them as much time to get bored. Hence, more money. Hence, GGG has little to no incentive to make leagues longer, as much as some players might like that.

Is "she" the Goddess of Justice?

So, usually the supporter packs tie in with the league announcement around this time.

And the packs are:

Delve
Breach
Abyss
Harvest
Atlas

My guess is endgame is being reworked and you can choose to pursue which ones you want.

And that atlas reveals the big bad behind everything, much like the orion pack last year pointed to the Sirus boss.

Add onto that, whomever "she" is, I bet the design is like the multi-armed shiva style beings that open the portal for you.

And this will be the start of the finale going into POE 2.

@hardsun: I agree that speed and fullscreen clears has become the norm for determining if a build is viable. This was also the case way back in the beta though and has always been the core feature of PoE (throwback to oldskool CoC and Cast on {blank} effects with zero cooldowns). I don't remember PoE ever really catering to "combat" except maybe a specific boss but that also still exists today with Sirus, Shaper, UElder, etc.

OMG ! Can't wait to NOT PLAY again this delusion with fake builds game.

Wish to go back in time of poe 1.x up to 2.4 where everything were practically as should be.

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jsuslak313 wrote:

@hardsun: I agree that speed and fullscreen clears has become the norm for determining if a build is viable.

Might be so, still i got feeling it became more of a problem over the time. May be because we had less tools to pick meta that easy in that time. And i still dont think its good thing combat being "not felt". Not like i got ready-to-use recipes or fix, just highlighting possible problem as i see that. Would be nice to get more involved in game instead of watchingtv-somethingelse-whilerunningmaps and not only when loot filter yells "exalt drop detected".

But dont get me wrong - i think PoE is the king of genre, at least at the moment and in quasy-mmo style. And Grim Dawn probably being second one as better single player experience with story, secrets and atmosphere itc... things being good for immersion. So i want to see PoE to be as good as possible and trive for long years and just sharing my opinions(even if those being about flaws of the game) hoping some of that will make any good use for GGG.

After new league release: "Ok, NOW we can craft eveything"
New league release: "Oh... so now we can craft skill-trees?"

So this time... you can craft your own Map Device. Because why not?

No mention of a new challenge league with 3.13... we've all assumed there will be. But there's no mention of one at all. Just "join the action". What if they've given up on the league model?