Gear is TOO important

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Oinkaments#6390 wrote:

Gear should be the most important aspect of the game.

Let me remind you that the company name is:
"Grinding Gear Games" and not "Grinding Tears Games"

Yeah but it has two meanings. The second one may be that GGG makes "Games that Grind our Gears" and I think it applies to many players rn.

gear should be the most important, otherwise why grind?
not everyone wants to push 99 - which is what you're arguing for if you want the passive tree to matter more


hell no from me :D

The problem isn't that gear is too important at all. The problem is that it is impossible to get incremental upgrades. There is too much RNG and too little control. After act 3 you're lucky if you get 2-3 new weapons before tier 6 maps, even more so if you are a spellcaster.

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Dxt44#4050 wrote:

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SilverWF#6383 wrote:

Well, it was like that since poe1 - most builds were just impossible without some specific uniques or gear stat weight

That's not his point.
In PoE1 you can level gems and passive tree gives a lot more power. You can do content and get stronger just by playing.

This. Poe2 andies will never understand how poe1, most of your power is from tree and ascended choice. gear is a nice chunk, but tree matters alot more.

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Pepega Aim7389#8174 wrote:

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Dxt44#4050 wrote:

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SilverWF#6383 wrote:

Well, it was like that since poe1 - most builds were just impossible without some specific uniques or gear stat weight

That's not his point.
In PoE1 you can level gems and passive tree gives a lot more power. You can do content and get stronger just by playing.

This. Poe2 andies will never understand how poe1, most of your power is from tree and ascended choice. gear is a nice chunk, but tree matters alot more.

mate, I have 1k hours in POE1
tell me please how you kill ubers in trash gear, just with tree, lol

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SilverWF#6383 wrote:

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Dxt44#4050 wrote:

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SilverWF#6383 wrote:

Well, it was like that since poe1 - most builds were just impossible without some specific uniques or gear stat weight

That's not his point.
In PoE1 you can level gems and passive tree gives a lot more power. You can do content and get stronger just by playing.

In poe1 it was even worse, because you were rely on number of slots and links, that were on gear

if you dont have a 5 to 6 link in poe 1 by day 1 or 2, you have a massive skill issue. hell, getting into maps and gamba with Faustus gives easy 5L. then you just buy a corrupted 6l or 2d for black Morrigan beast, or just drop one yourself.

Reading comprehension failure and a straw-man with a gaslighting argument.

No.

Its simply the passive tree does nothing for player strength without the gear. PoE1 you get a lot of power from the passive tree and gem levels.

Those levers for player power are all wrapped into gear instead of being more evenly distributed between passives/ascendancies and gear.

you play a bosser build like pbrand of diss.

you literally can kill ubers with mediocre rune daggers, impulsas broken heart, shock spread gloves that are 1c and a 6L+ helmet. i do it every league start to bossrush and sell early uber uniques