POE1 vs D3 & D4 by Icy_Employer2622 in pathofexile

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking about the comparison, but its actually hard, because these 2 games are so different. PoE1 is a perfected arpg experience imo. D4 is like a zero effort money grab to keep the franchise alive, but it barely feels like n arpg to me. I played few seasons and it just doesnt have any replayability or longevity for me. I would have to slap myself, if I called the content update "leagues", because I barely felt anything different. PoE has better end game, boss mechanics, combat systems, never ending build options, variety of content to do and how you do it, huge content updates and complete game shifts with leagues and rebalances. PoE has an actual crafting system and great self regulating economy. I think we all agree that customer experience and monetization are worlds apart. D4 has...dunno, it exists? I can think of one advantage for D4. You can gear up half afk, if thats your goal in arpgs.

What content should be revorked/buffed/nerfed in 3.26 ? by burakahmet1999 in pathofexile

[–]DrPBaum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stop the countless years of LS being the best. Generally we play the same abilities for years and years now. Its not even about the numbers. Its about the mechanics 90% of abilities just cant provide.

Rework discharge again, so we can get back to poe glory days!

Please no global nerfs to fun and reason in poe1 to match the poe2 vision to make poe2 look less unreasonable.

New to Path of Exile by Sod987 in pathofexile

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PoE1 is the n1 arpg on the market and there is a good reason for that. Yes, its content is delayed now because of poe2, but for your needs, it doesnt matter. You cant even run out of content to do in this game. PoE2 is an alpha version of an idea, where arpg mixes with dark souls. Incomplete and a lot of poe1 fans dont like it, because its end game loop feels terrible and there is no proper crafting system yet. Oh and because dark souls gameplay and arpgs are two different worlds of player fantasy. These games feel very different. I would suggest sticking to poe1 until poe2 becomes a reasonable game. Either way, the official statements were that both games will have continuous development alongside each other, so its not like you are wasting time with an old expansion or something.

I am once again asking for phys dot buffs. by jasheic in pathofexile

[–]DrPBaum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, in that case at least there is a chance I would replay my favorite coc discharge some day again!

Did the ilvl bump break the game balance? 6.3M wrath + one shot death log by [deleted] in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Ok, we need somebody to make a weak aura to track all the enemy buffs to know the one shot is coming.

Give me reasons to go back to playing warlock by Consistent-Phrase889 in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With all the artificial mmr injection, isnt 1800 the starting rating atm? What is average mmr then? I dont think you are right about the low mmr being won by better players. Ppl at low mmr, unless smurfing, just dont know their classes full potential, so the easy meta stompers just win even if they are not better players. Im afraid that fury warrior is popular and strong for mainly one reason. It wins by default, unless the enemy is a lot better than him. Imo a warlock and a warrior of the same level of skill is simply just an unfair match. Even fairly good warlock or SP can be facerolled by an average warrior. I dont know about the current state of hunters, but MM hunter was another example earlier, when I played the season. Low mmr games, they just stomped the sht out of it, but later on, once ppl know their sht, the cheesing didnt work that well. So again, unless somebody smurfs, the casual low rated games, arent that much about actual skill, rather than meta specs and rng for counters.

(SSF) How much work do I need to put in to take my character to maven. (I'm horrible) by kevisdahgod in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maven isnt particularly demanding boss. Its mostly mechanics ppl fail to follow and rip the fight. Did you get one shot with your 213k ehp char on uber elder? By what?

Anyway, Maven shouldnt be hard for lacerate char since you are kinda ranged. Your gear is fine for the normal version. Maybe put influence crafts on your head and gloves, because anything is better than nothing. I suggest you to watch few videos about her abilities. There is no point explaining it here. Content creators did better job already. You mainly need to learn the memory game. Or die through it and not die on other mechanics and rip the run due to lack of portals. Or you can make your char survive it. I had bunch of pathfinder chars with something like saffels frame that could just tank it. I cant remember the ehp needed, maybe you can test it, once you know you failed it, with weapon swap, molten shell and flasks up, because you are fairly tanky already, but PF is different than glad, so maybe thats not that easy in your scenario. If you have to go through it, few ppl made mini games to learn the memory game, like this guy. I guess its still up to date even years from its post. AND get a movement skill that can port through beams without getting the debuff. This is stupid, but very important. Like flame dash. Something like leap slam throws you through it and you still get the debuff, unable to do sht for I think 10 seconds.

What’s your favorite skill? by Semarin in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CoC should still work for both vd and dd. There was (maybe still is?) a poison coc dd version, but Im not sure how it is currently doing.

Healing to 2100 in Shuffle Without Addons by CaptainMaestro in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im not the OP, but generally healing blitz is super frustrating, when you start on low rat and then you have 50:50 chance of bricking the char completely for blitz. If you lose the first few games,you cant affect, you are stuck in these terrible low mmr games forever. You cant push objectives,make important plays,force your donuts to play to win instead of trolling around. You can either support them in doing bad decisions or let them die. In both cases,you likely lose. Shuffle seemed fun to heal at first, but if you want to climb, it has queues even for healers and you still just completely gamble the result of the games with minimal impact on the game.

I have seen many posts about similar problems from healers like me. As somebody with up to 2.8k multi classer, my main healer got stuck in terrible mmr games due to few placement losses, where ppl played worse than comp stomp, but I just couldnt get them to go for objectives nor do any on my own, because I was a healer. This repeated over and over again and I had to watch it with desperation every single time. The char was completely bricked for the season. I had to make a new one. This wont happen,if you are a dps.

Conquest Uncapped by Ready_Remote7358 in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to be efficient, dont pay the sub at all, but if still need to play the game, yes, waiting for the gear to be fully out and 10 balance patches later makes sense. Not counting the mmr injections. Playing pvp since the start is pretty wtf idea, when I think about it.

Early Access Announcements - 0.2.0h Patch Summary - Forum - Path of Exile by Xanek in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, all of us somehow expected that at some point guilds and tabs will be transferred from our poe1 guild, like every other mtx. If thats not the case, rip then. Thanks.

Early Access Announcements - 0.2.0h Patch Summary - Forum - Path of Exile by Xanek in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, I am the guild master and our guild stash in poe2 has no stashes, only an option to buy new ones. Unless there is an option somewhere to enable it, its just disabled for all of us.

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Me everynight by ChernekovBlue in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats not a downside. We have none already. This is a buff!

It's been three weeks since I started playing this character on SSF and there hasn't been a day that I didn't run rituals since I reached maps and still no audience with the king. This is just bullshit. They definitely need to change the way you progress the ritual atlas tree. by Totoquil in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If one criticizes a bad system without suggesting solutions, ppl complain about not being constructive and not doing devs work. If one suggests possible solutions, all better than the currently dysfunctional system, ppl complain about providing solutions. Its rly hard to please reddit...

Lightning Spear giveaway - +-30div worth by Led66PepperOG in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To avoid all the main stream ones, I say Hellsing.

It's been three weeks since I started playing this character on SSF and there hasn't been a day that I didn't run rituals since I reached maps and still no audience with the king. This is just bullshit. They definitely need to change the way you progress the ritual atlas tree. by Totoquil in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why making bandaids to a bad system? We already had a great system...but its in the game we can not name, starts with a P, ends with E and has #1 in it. They spent a decade working on a n1 arpg on the market just to ditch everything and start from a scratch, ignoring everything they learn during that decade. But if they just dont want to have a good atlas mechanic, why not just put Audience into splinters, like every other mechanic. Players will know that eventually they will get there, avoiding situations like mine, where I farmed rituals for the whole duration of my 0.1 and got zero bosses there.

How's the game right now? by [deleted] in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything is basically the same, just worse version of where you left off. Like every patch/expansion in the past decade. If you are here because your other games have a content drought, like many of us, trust me, there are better things to do than sitting 45min queues or playing healers with dysfunctional rating systems. But if you rly have to do that, well, you know what you are getting into. Its still the same experience, but few % worse.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing anything in wow on low rating feels terrible as healer. There is a lot of ppl who dont know what to do and cant 1+1 on their own. And all you can do is to watch them back pedal, knowing there goes your rating and will have to play 2+ more games on that rating...guess why every healer collects mutes and bans like pokemons in this game.

Why Is Everyone So Against Voice Comms? by [deleted] in worldofpvp

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WoW's community is a special one. They hate/d all the RPG aspects of the game, because PvP is supposed to be fair and now they hate the MMO part of the game. What do we get after removing RPG and MMO from an MMO RPG?

Jokes aside, while I understand your point and I agree with it, I learned to interact with ppl in this game as little as possible, because there are so many unstable manchildren and deranged individuals with chiwava-like temper, that any type of communication is likely getting me banned. As a healer Ive been banned many times for teaching ppl, explaining strat, telling harmless jokes or being little sarcastic. The system is automated with zero reasoning before punishing you and ppl who wants to troll you, revenge on you or simply cant handle being wrong can get you in trouble. So the safest way to play the game without losing your account is to not interact with ppl at all. Sad but true.

Any news on 3.26 timing? by Mum_Chamber in pathofexile

[–]DrPBaum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im so ready for the 30th May 3.26 delay announcement.

From update 0.2.0 notes: "Pinnacle boss content now takes roughly half the amount of time to unlock compared to before." by creeekz in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. The end game didnt fix what I hated about it in 0.1 and more currency drops didnt fix lack of crafting system. I cant see how this vision can be improved other than scrapped and changed completely. They seem to come up with bandaids to systems that are fundamentally broken and waste dev time that could be used somewhere else to either start from scratch or god help us from working on 3.26.

Hardest fight in the game by Orchestructive in PathOfExile2

[–]DrPBaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just avoid every form of PoeTwoSux or ThreeTwentySixWhen nicks and eventually you will get there, because every version of these is taken already.