Druid is fun. Ruthless is not.

Ruthless is mode for real connoisseurs that want to enjoy the game as it is, instead of rushing to the endgame brainlessly - it's way more immersive. Endgame is just an illusion, you don't need to be at endgame to have fun.

But speaking of poe2, it's way too easy right now to call it ruthless.

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Niszczyciel#1619 wrote:

Ruthless is mode for real connoisseurs that want to enjoy the game as it is, instead of rushing to the endgame brainlessly - it's way more immersive. Endgame is just an illusion, you don't need to be at endgame to have fun.

But speaking of poe2, it's way too easy right now to call it ruthless.

Do you like shaving your nutsack with a cheese grater?

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

Or remove PoE 1 and give us updated vision in PoE 2 lol.

look at retention rate of 0.4 where league mechanic give 0 loot and where GGG deleted abyss for solo players while party of 6 get x2 price of juice per map because of 600% more currency party bonus

poe1 is ARPG king, poe2's vision is crazy cringe, 0.1 was full of loot and cool builds like flurry and temporalis, now we have useless unplayable druid (poo2 fanboys are still "hyped for the druid thanks GGG!!!!!"), the only good druid's skill is entangle (Blood mage btw, not even druid) with lifestack and druid summoner with spectres, as they have enough damage, clear capabilities and ehp to do juiced content like abyss.

poe1 has great build diversity, lots of unique endgame activities for both zoom zoom enjoyers and for people who love more dedicated combat (valdo maps), poo2 has alch and go after 7 years of development and 1 year of so-called "beta test"

poo2 will never become good game while jonathan is in charge with his vision

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Niszczyciel#1619 wrote:

Ruthless is mode for real connoisseurs that want to enjoy the game as it is, instead of rushing to the endgame brainlessly - it's way more immersive. Endgame is just an illusion, you don't need to be at endgame to have fun.

But speaking of poe2, it's way too easy right now to call it ruthless.

Yeab Ruthless turned out pretty well and is super hardcore. That's why 5 gems are viable and everyone running around with the same build because it basically functions without support gems.
Great concept for an ARPG, that's why they maintained to keep 20 active players since it's introduction

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Linkefer#6630 wrote:

One of the best Druid classes.+ ruthless mode.

It couldn't be worse, wake up. He has the worst skill function and interaction introduced by now. I can take any of his skills and say why it will be a torture to use. While at first place people are supposed to enjoy the game destroying the monster packs. And it's not going to be fun with Druid. He is not even finished, ffs. There is a few gem level tiers with just 2 skills and both being useless.

The existing ones are very, like really very questionable design choises. Do they really expect it might be enjoyable to play it somehow. The other weird decision is how they limited most runes to 1, like wtf? Doing this they reduced possblie not linear choises for some builds, especially warrior with 0.4 passive tree changes.

Changing stuff with every patch, all they do they reduce replayability with the same classes, limiting gameplay experience to linear and generic. I would call it incompetence.

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Linkefer#6630 wrote:

+ ruthless mode.

Poe2 is far from being ruthless, you didn't play ruthless in poe1 don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't compare.

It's been like this since PoE1 beta day1, Chris had the same mentality/phylosophy so basically they make games for themselves and not for you and that's exactly how games should be made, too many of you acts like back seat game designers that can't accept others work and must interverne in their work...why? because you paid money to them, now you think you're entilted to all this...you are not. If you don't like a product, you leave even if you paid.

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Warrax#2850 wrote:

It's been like this since PoE1 beta day1, Chris had the same mentality/phylosophy so basically they make games for themselves and not for you and that's exactly how games should be made, too many of you acts like back seat game designers that can't accept others work and must interverne in their work...why? because you paid money to them, now you think you're entilted to all this...you are not. If you don't like a product, you leave even if you paid.

Tbf Chris eventually had to pull it back when numbers were dropping exponentially and money was going down.Jonathan by contrast is being funded by an actual big company which means they'll stay in this lane until said company goes "y'all ain't making money,leave".

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SoColdO_O#1989 wrote:

i just want them to show us how many people ever played ruthless both during its release (it was sanctum league as i remember) and in following leagues.

i bet it has like 10 active players throughout the league. and they still decided to make poo2 a separate ruthless game.
not to mention that all the aspects of vision have failed. 0.4 without tower system is x100000 times better than it was with towers, now its possible to play for a long time without constant vomitting bc you need to run alch and go maps to setup 2-3 towers -> farm 6-8 maps in towers area - repeat.

remove the vision, give us updated poe1 version in poe2 and everything gonna be nice

It's clear you've never played ruthless, because if you had you'd know that POE2 isn't even remotely close to what POE1 ruthless is.

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Valsacar#0268 wrote:

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SoColdO_O#1989 wrote:

i just want them to show us how many people ever played ruthless both during its release (it was sanctum league as i remember) and in following leagues.

i bet it has like 10 active players throughout the league. and they still decided to make poo2 a separate ruthless game.
not to mention that all the aspects of vision have failed. 0.4 without tower system is x100000 times better than it was with towers, now its possible to play for a long time without constant vomitting bc you need to run alch and go maps to setup 2-3 towers -> farm 6-8 maps in towers area - repeat.

remove the vision, give us updated poe1 version in poe2 and everything gonna be nice

It's clear you've never played ruthless, because if you had you'd know that POE2 isn't even remotely close to what POE1 ruthless is.

I'm def not one of the 30 people who play ruthless, BUT i do watch a lot of content creators and Kripparrian has been sounding that alarm for a while now...and he indeed does play ruthless. i'm also not comparing it 1=1. i called it ruthless lite for a reason. They Upped the friction but i think PoE1 firgured how to manage that a while ago, not sure why PoE2 isn't just coping it's own homework there. it's like they're taking algebra 2 and forgot algebra 1. They're both still arpgs so the formula should still be the same but they're adding extra bs to it for...reasons i guess.

also, to whoever said "play poe1" i obviously do, and did right after my salty post and it was great and thats what makes PoE2 so disappointing, is how great PoE1 is. can't really fund PoE1 without 2 leeching from it now can i? and thats the thought thats been annoying me for a while now. I do personally like to "vote" with my wallet but its kinda rigged right now.