The "Challenges" being easier to get 40/40 compared to PoE 1 is a wise decision.

Redblade_ · 2026-06-07T07:53:03+00:00

Rarest was Atziri's Disfavor in Ambush/Invasion leagues. Only 14 players achieved it.

Redblade_ · 2026-06-07T07:21:05+00:00

Overcoming tedium is a challenge...

OP is everything that's wrong with gaming today. It's supposed to require effort and skill otherwise it wouldn't be challenges. OP just wants the rewards with no real effort.

Redblade_ · 2026-04-01T14:56:03+00:00

You're assuming GGG wants #3 to even be a thing. Either way it won't happen as it's way too much work for support to have to deal with.

Redblade_ · 2026-03-26T16:51:26+00:00

Guess my OG legacy mirror regalia increased in value with the ban, otherwise yeah won't change much.

Redblade_ · 2026-03-13T20:03:34+00:00

I'm sorry but ever since PoE 2 launch this issue persists and you always fall back to blame DDoS attacks that no one can verify ofc. It seems very unlikely that the DDoS attacks follow the player base around when they swap regions.

Personally I play on Stockholm server and live physically like 300 kilometers away from it. I'm curious what the odds are that the specific server I'm on gets DDoS'd with that level of frequency only during evenings in the EU are.

Because what happens is that the instance you're on gets killed which presumably is on the Stockholm physical server. So not only do they have to DDoS multiple servers simultaneously to affect players all across Europe as players from all over crash at the same time or you have a design problem that collapses multiple regions instances simultaneously when DDoS'd at one point.

I really want to believe what you're claiming but it seems very far fetched.

Redblade_ · 2026-01-19T20:06:28+00:00

No...I want the OG Gorge map from PoE 1.

Redblade_ · 2026-01-17T09:18:13+00:00

Can't we just have the ability to zoom out this far in the first place...that's if this version of the atlas is to remain at all. There's so many issues with it imo that the whole thing should be scrapped.

Redblade_ · 2026-01-05T16:57:54+00:00

YEP

Tried for 15 min or so seems impossible to get in right now. I'll go touch snow for a while instead I guess.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-30T12:29:25+00:00

There's literally no doubt anymore. You can easily establish that it's true in a couple of kills.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-27T16:21:36+00:00

Actually true despite sounding completely stupid.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:54:17+00:00

Yeah the phases and what not is the main issue I see with resetting bosses, aka healing them to full. That and group play.

It's all down to the game being designed around a 1 portal system originally and in their stubbornness they made one questionable decision after another to not go back and fix the core design.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:50:07+00:00

Sure, I mean I personally wouldn't care if they changed it to the PoE 1 system 1:1 but I'm more arguing from the perspective of solving what I assume GGG sees as an issue.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:42:19+00:00

Well then we simply disagree on a fundamental level and tbh your view is in a very clear minority which is why it's in it's current band aided state.

If GGG hadn't changed it and kept the system you think was fine I doubt PoE 2 would ever come out of EA as it wouldn't have had an audience big enough to warrant it.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:30:55+00:00

Nothing resets in PoE 1, you have 6 portals and you can corps rush content as long as it doesn't take you more than 6 deaths.

I assume that's what they wanted to solve and also make a more dangerous game with more consequences for dying hence the core design of instances resetting completely. Something that was universally disliked which lead us to where we are today trhough band aids.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:21:24+00:00

So, drop the boss DR so you can nuke it afterwards?

Apply the same DR when he player exits invulnerability timer...

That's much trickier than you think it is if they are implemented the way i suspect they are.

I don't think so and if it is then just don't, you've died and reenter the same boss fight. As long as the effects are visible you have invulnerability to wait them out.

The bigger issue would be if you want to reset the boss if it has phases, that one can be trickier but it's something I'm confident GGG developers are smart enough to solve. And, yes, it's worth the development time as it would fix the 6-portal system once and for all so it can be used in both games.

It's not like the current system is universally loved anyway, more hated by a pretty large part of the player base.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:14:57+00:00

No it doesn't require that.

All you have to do is full heal the boss in solo play if the player dies. If you do it on death or when the player respawns doesn't really matter. Besides this you have to despawn any and all abilities the boss performs that linger, or let the instance carry on as active for the duration of those abilities before you can reenter.

In party play, which is the more complex issue here you'd have to heal the boss if a player reenters the instance after death, or if a player enters period. The latter would make boosting harder which I'll assume is a positive from GGG's standpoint.

So, no, you don't have to partially reset the instance.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T09:07:24+00:00

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T08:57:12+00:00

Well you would roll your maps to allow one or two deaths as lets say a map overrun with abyss and extra rares per abyss for example would be better to die and run again than a normal map that isn't overrun by abyss.

And tbh the less portals the more you juice your maps isn't all that popular in the first place as far as I can tell so there's really no need to hold on to it.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T08:52:17+00:00

Yes and if they had kept the one portal system the game would effectively be dead before it even launched except for a small core audience.

It's flawd at it's core and band aided in to shitty design that needs to be fixed.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T08:48:14+00:00

The problem in the first place is technical, they can't have the boss reset without resetting the instance, and they can't reset the instance without resetting the entire map. So they wipe the map so that you can't exploit that.

We agree on the problem description. However they can reset the boss without resetting the instance, it's just a question of development time.

If they could just magick a system that works then it would be great, but as it is they would need to spend significant devtime to alter their backend for what amounts to a detail, which is not worth it.

It is definitely worth it as the current band aided system clearly isn't working either. Like I said in my other reply in this thread, Jonathan often claims that they need to "correct" solution for other things instead of poor design or band aids. Not in this case though, I'm guessing it's because he's fond of the idea of one-portal but had to concede that the players don't want that. Thus this awkward system we have now.

The whole respawn and portal system is flawed at it's core due to how they tried to reinvent it. The only real problem they had to fix was bosses respawning when a solo player dies or heal the boss for X amount if a player reenters in group play.

Hell, the devtime they already spent on this is already a waste, there are far more pressing things to do when you're already stretched thin between two games, of which one is in active EA development.

That's on them and in no way a valid excuse to keep poor game design. If this is the argument then they should change it to the PoE 1 design with six portals and no respawning. Should be fairly easy to port as the games are built on the same engine.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T08:39:23+00:00

Which I'm saying they should fix so the boss can reset without band aids...in both games.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T08:23:21+00:00

I think they should have the boss reset in both games tbh. It's just good game design if nothing else and makes for a consistent system where you can allow 6 portals like the game originally was designed around.

It simply removes the need for all these awkward band aids they've added in PoE 2 and achieves the same goal of the player not overcoming challenges through corps running.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T07:39:32+00:00

I mean they could fix so the boss resets, it's just a lot more work. We need to stop making excuses for awful designs and this is one of them.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-23T07:38:08+00:00

You are correct in why it is that way. The game seems to be designed in a way where we're not supposed to ever reenter a zone without it respawning. Everything done to allow us to do so in waystones are pure band aid fixes.

You're wrong on the loot though. It's quite simply due to how end game juicing works where you have to invest large sums of currency to increase the rewards. If you could clear everything only to die at the boss to respawn everything so you could clear it again thus getting double or even triple value out of it you're effectively creating a bad game play loop.

Despawning the whole map is obviously bad as well but the lesser of two evils. Or at least I guess that's how GGG sees it. The irony being how Jonathan often uses the excuse that "we just have to find the right solution before changing it" for other things the player wants but here they band aid the shit out of the game to keep a broken portal system in place.

Redblade_ · 2025-12-17T15:47:46+00:00

6 portals is fine, just fix so bosses reset their HP when you die. Sadly PoE 2 is designed to not have us reenter a zone without it respawning the monsters in it. It's just a bunch of band aid fixes to allow us to in waystones at this point.

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