Last best league in your opinion?

S - Sentinel, Sanctum, Archnemesis, Ultimatum, Heist, Gauntlets, Endless Delve
A - Affliction, Ancestor, Ritual, Delirium, Endless Heist, Mayhem
B - Crucible, Scourge, Expedition, Harvest, Metamorph, Blight, Legion
C - Kalandra
F - Necropolis

Started around legion so don't know about older ones.

I think all things considered archnemesis and sentinel are my favorite leagues.

From a thematic standpoint scourge gets a special mention, though the krangler was terrible and limited it. The scourge transition and maps were really cool.

I played earlier leagues, but I will rate leagues starting with Ruthless mode only and as a melee player in Ruthless mode:

S: Ancestor, Affliction
A: Crucible
B: -
C: -
D: -
F: Necropolis, Sanctum

Delve, such a great endgame addition. Love the endless dungeon theme.
And then Heist. Building and leveling up your crew. For SSF there is always something good to loot.
It’s also hard to deny the huge effort that went into this two endgame additions.
In every league I have to grind this two. 😇

All leagues have pros and cons. Some example from leagues I played.

TIER S

Delve. objectively added a new soft cap endgame aproach. I havent discovered all the secrets there yet, and it could have even more. There is room for improvement but was a great league. I end up dieing in delve many leagues XD

Beyond. I have had so much fun when leagues where simple and SEPARATE CONTENT between HC and STD -now dont remember if beyond was a HC or SC-, just an easy and sauvage concept. Just pop the bubbles and spawn bloddy soaked guys everywhere and run away if flameblasts start to spawn.

I miss so much HC specific leagues.

TIER A

Prophecy. I liked so much the "go and upgrade the stuff you found".

Sentinel. A controllable aproach on increased difficulty. I like to control what was boosted and what not. Also a very simple and easy to understand mechanic.

Crucible. A reason to pick and investigate white items. This league put white items on the table. Sadly you cannot dig crucible mods on armors and leggies is too rng and a great chance to brick items.

Trial of Ancestors Suprisingly fun side mechanic, relaxing and sweet. Tatoos were a nice concept.

TIER B

Heist The idea is good, but the mechanic has room for improvement (make it more challenging on start phase 1 - having to sneak etc-, and less overwhelming on exit phase 2... endless spawn with no exp neither loot is a pain and when you prefer to RUN and skip the fight is a design flaw)

TIER C

Kalandra. It works like delve. I like the progressive aproach on difficulty, that allows me to manage risks. League specific rewards were shit, and I end up runing delves.

Affliction. Alternate ascendancies were an interesing aproach, but I dont like cluster traps (zones where you can enter but must meet a conditional check to exit), repetitive and a complete lore mess that makes no sense in the wraeclast universe. Morrigan is celtic stuff, it looks like a league lorebook created by chatGPT mixing up everything. After a whole league, I havent found the king of the mists tu fullfill the ascendancie (ruthless), but found the agony spectre more than 10 times. Placing a monster that can deterministically kill you in a RNG clusterfuck unless a very specific build, is a VERY BAD design idea.

Sanctum. Unplayable with the builds I like to play (mainly armor+regen based). Not engaged with the mechanic at all, its a cherry for ranged blasters.


Last league, undefined.

Necropolis I hate forceful league mechanics in whole zones that were difficult for my character. I had to work this league and dropped on start, I have had no time to investigate how this graveyard thing works.

I think none league designed by GGG deserves lower rating. Class D, E is for D4bad and any related woke designs. (good teats devils only) XD

to me its either sanctum or affliction.

sanctum because of the league content

affliction's league content sucked ass but the new ascendancy and TWTT gave this 10 year old game a new life.

The last best league for me was affliction. Had 5 mirrors naturally drop and 10,000s of divines from raw drops and sales of locks, etc.

Previous to that it was Sentinel.

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hmcg020 wrote:

The last best league for me was affliction. Had 5 mirrors naturally drop and 10,000s of divines from raw drops and sales of locks, etc.

Previous to that it was Sentinel.

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Oh I agree. I got my first mirror in Affliction. Then I got 5 more and like the poster probably 10,000+ divines (and that was stopping all trading except real big ticket items). I played the entire league because it was so great and being a long-time player I correctly figured that this opportunity will not come around often (if ever again).

1 - Legacy !
2 - Prophecy !
3 - Ancestor !
4 - Scourge !
5 - Harbinger !
6 - Essences !
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37 - Necropolis !

Affliction best ever and last.

Delve
Abyss
Ritual
Heist

Personal most favorite leagues
The only league i missed was Scourge, because of depression of the divorce i was facing