Community Livestream with Chris Wilson, Zizaran and Mathil This Week

My thoughts:

1. Instead of harvest nerf they should have introduced a new tier of rares that could roll even more powerful mods but weren't harvest craftable. That's how you deal with harvest without the kind of backlash they got, I think.


2. Instead of nerfing player damage they should have buffed monster HP. There is a psychological reason behind the

power creep -> stat squish -> power creep cycle

it simply feels better. You can call psychology childish if you want, but in the end not being psychologically smart usually is just low EQ. Someone told me a shark can't survive if it stops moving forward. I think that can be applied to many things in our current day and age. But noone said a shark can't move in a cycle.


3. The inventory is just a part of the UI. Meaning is not derived from picking things up. Meaning is derived from goals, dreams, accomplishments and progress. If PoE is designed to be very grindy and played forever, you cannot expect the milionth splinter a player picks up to matter. At all. Which is why it's just a tedious click.


4. Don't let D2 be a burden on PoE.


5. General "don't do this" wall of text coming up:

Don't try to force players to enjoy past things that they already got their fill of by nerfing and taking away the new stuff.
- Make new things. Or make the old stuff new (by buffing, remaking, remastering or spicing it up, etc).

Don't try to force players to complete goals that they already achieved by nerfing away their accomplishments.
- Make new goals. Or make the old goals relevant again because the old goals now got harder versions, not because the players were turned into cripples who now struggle to open doors.

Don't try to force players to play through content that they already finished by making the player so weak or other options so bad that they literally have to give up on all the alternatives they used to prefer.

Don't take away new things based on nostalgia.


I'm not gonna complain that everything is favouring RNG. If you want to methodically earn your way and get what you worked for, you need to overpay for fusing etc. You can't feel good about steady progress without letting someone else take the risk of using the "currency" (lottery tickets). I get that that's just the way it is in this game. This seems to be a design decision I will just have to endure for as long as I play this game and despite this side of it, I've played this game a lot.

The other things are stuff I think that GGG have simply done in not the best way lately though.

Stop putting the garage back into the game just because you miss it.


Nitpicking: I feel like the the expedition immunities seems like an experiment with the past. Kind of makes you feel like GGG decided that they were done being grown-up designers somehow and just wanted to do bad design again. Stuff like gradual things, challenges you can overcome, outplay, not randomly gating stuff behind "you should have been a completely different build"... out with that. In with immunities.