Will Sentinel Become a Core Path of Exile Mechanic?

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MandrulDuce wrote:

The league mechanic could have not gone core the way it is now.
It's fine for a league but having to manage 2x2 items and have a separate little skill tree for them (on top of the passive tree and the atlas passive tree) for a mechanic that is another one of many is just not feasable. I am glad you are taking your time to rethink it through. Designing a league to be just that (a league) is one thing.. having it blend into the core game with no issue is a whole different issue.

As for recombinators, I wish I could give some suggestions on how to balance them but I don't usually like expception-based systems (this currency works this way.. but not with fractured items in conjunction with other fractured items, etc...). That is how you end up with spaghetti code and confusion.

I had a lot of fun and took full advantage of the recombination system, but without a clear sugestion on how to balance them, I am more at peace with them being removed than If they were to become hard capped or realistically accessible to 1% of the playerbase.

Also, for everyone here complaining that this feels like "borrowed power"... look at it from a different perspective. We get to play these temporary leagues, have OP shit that we interact with for 3 months, make some items that will never be obtainable again and next league start over with some other OP mechanic.
Isolated OP mechanics are fun and don't do any harm to the game. Making every one of them go core and having to deal with and balance around the compounded effect of all of them being present at once is what limits design to such an extent that we get leagues like archnemesis.

So.. personally I am looking forward to 3.19.