GGG, have you given up on methodical combat? People deserve to know.

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

given up? as soon as i saw breach, deli and ritual I knew it was never on the table

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

given up? as soon as i saw breach, deli and ritual I knew it was never on the table

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IonSugeRau1#1069 wrote:

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AintCare#6513 wrote:

given up? as soon as i saw breach, deli and ritual I knew it was never on the table

While you are right about breach, deli and ritual being against that whole philosophy, these were all mechanics brought at the last moment in the last 3 months before EA launch as they mentioned themselves. Mechanics ported almost entirely from PoE1 with minimal differences.

Imo this was done in some sort of act of desperation because they were afraid of being criticized in the same way other ARPGs were for lack of endgame activities.

But to say that it was never on the table is clearly not true. You need not look further at mace gameplay and you will see how different it is from everything else.

Nobody would implement a skill with a timing window for best results if they did not intend at some point to have meaningful combat.

The question to GGG still stands and we all deserve to know what their intent is for the future of the game regardless of what our stance is towards it.

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IonSugeRau1#1069 wrote:

Initially we were lead to believe that PoE2 will offer a more methodical combat approach... but after this interview I am lead to believe that is no longer your intention.

Were mace skills and warrior just a product of a vision from the past that you have completely given up on in favor of screen clearing and "zooming"? As Darth Microtransactions more or less pointed out indirectly in the interview.

You have mentioned in the interview that you want to make the transition between campaign and endgame smoother but that was not the question that was asked.

What people wanted to know precisely was if your intent for PoE2's endgame is for it to be the same type of low-input combat like PoE1's where you clear screens of meaningless mobs with one button or less, which is obviously very far from a methodical approach to combat.

Let me be extra clear with this... clearing screens of enemies with 1 button is in antithesis with methodical combat.

We need to hear a firm stance on where you want this game to be. There is no middle ground here.

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

"You have to eventually get to that op point" was the answer to that question on the talk show yesterday. So true methodical combat will go out the window once you're sufficiently geared.

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IonSugeRau1#1069 wrote:

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

"You have to eventually get to that op point" was the answer to that question on the talk show yesterday. So true methodical combat will go out the window once you're sufficiently geared.

That's still not really answering the question. I, for one, would be alright with that level of power if only the top 1% could reach it after 2 and a half months into the league grinding like crazy. But this is not what is happening neither now in PoE2 or ever in PoE1.

Screen clearing and one-shotting everything is the norm for most when they should be extremely rare outliers.

In short, that sentence doesn't properly answer the question. It's still extremely vague.

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IonSugeRau1#1069 wrote:

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

"You have to eventually get to that op point" was the answer to that question on the talk show yesterday. So true methodical combat will go out the window once you're sufficiently geared.

That's still not really answering the question. I, for one, would be alright with that level of power if only the top 1% could reach it after 2 and a half months into the league grinding like crazy. But this is not what is happening neither now in PoE2 or ever in PoE1.

Screen clearing and one-shotting everything is the norm for most when they should be extremely rare outliers.

In short, that sentence doesn't properly answer the question. It's still extremely vague.