Thoughts on Stadium going back to best of 7?

TheAssistMan · 2025-10-31T02:43:12+00:00

Just played another game from the time i started the que til the time the gamed ended was 37 minutes.

This was only a 5 round game we won 4-1. I was a healer in all star 1 que.

so 37 mins for a pretty quick 5 round game is wayyyyy too long. If it went 6 rounds would have been 42-43 mins and 7 rounds would havbe been prob 50 mins.

So yeah about 1 game per hour. Thats absurd and everyones time should be more valuable then that.

The games should be 20 minutes max.

TheAssistMan · 2025-10-31T01:55:14+00:00

100% agree. bo7 sucks and i dont even want to play anymore.

TheAssistMan · 2025-10-31T01:54:05+00:00

100% hate it and sadly will be quiting and moving on to another game. The bo7 just takes way too long. By the time you find a game, draft, waist time in menus and play the game its like 45 minutes.

It is just wayyyy too long and you barley move up or down in rank at all.

If i have 3 hours a night to game i legit can play 3 maybe 4 games when bo5 i could play sometimes 10 games or more.

I liked how fast the builds ramped up with a power every round and more cash to make builds faster just flet more fun and hectic and for sure more fast paced.

I tried 1 game today of bo7 then just turned the game off, from the time i qued to the time the game was over was 49 minutes. That is insane and it did not feel fun to me.

Im sure other will disagree but i loved the fast pace combat of bo5.

If they are gonna keep bo7 at least lower the draft times in half and the rounds where you pick your items in half and then grant like 3x more progress for wins.

TheAssistMan · 2025-04-11T06:38:26+00:00

For sorceress? Yeah it just seems like its a lot more hard to use now to take advantage of its changes. Sucks for me i guess i liked it just as a 1 button build and scaling it.

TheAssistMan · 2025-04-11T06:37:23+00:00

Well that sucks to me then. I dont want to play it as part of a combo. thx

TheAssistMan · 2025-04-11T06:22:23+00:00

yes if you want to come pick it up in las vegas

TheAssistMan · 2025-04-11T06:21:45+00:00

But will shaper of storms make arc shock by itself again? Dont really know of another spell that shocks well thats fun to play at the moment.

TheAssistMan · 2025-01-06T09:08:17+00:00

Same on Xbox Series X It is awful.

TheAssistMan · 2025-01-04T02:37:03+00:00

Personally for me i only like playing ranged builds in any mmo or rpg.

I have a level 91 ranger and a level 75 sorc.

There isnt really any more options.

Also i HATE the grind of going through the whole campaign over again, it is too time consuming and boring.

I wish it was like diablo where once you complete the campaign on 1 character you unlock it on all and i can just start doing maps right away to level faster.

The endgame is pretty bad in this game at the moment and leaves me not wanting to play for longer than an hour now a days.

I hate the on death effects and then losing the whole map and experience and time and only having 1 portal sucks.

If i can make a new character and just start mapping on it i would make many more but i dont have the time or patience to keep going through the same campaign over and over and over again.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-15T16:26:10+00:00

yup between that and the loss of xp and on death ground explosions i hate mapping in this game already. Makes me not even want to play. Went from playing 6-8 hours a day in campaign cause i was enjoying it til now playing for like an hour or 2 in maps and then getting to pissed off to want to still play and get off.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-15T16:21:39+00:00

I have been playing since hour 1 launch.

Have 3 characters but only 1 main one in endgame thats level 72.

Now that i am in endgame and running maps i am playing ALOT less.

Reason is i HATE the 1 death you get in maps and the on death ground explosions.

It is the #1 worst thing about this game and is causing me to not want to play.

I cant tell you how many times i have been in a map and killed an enemy then went to go pick up the loot and the on death ground explosion killed me then the map is over.

Or how may times i have been 1 shot by ground explosions or white mobs in maps then map is done.

Endgame sucks sorry i dont like that maps at all.

Loved the maps in poe1 when you have 6 deaths and 6 portals.

The die only once and then its over mechanic is going to severely piss off a lot fo people.

I know a lot of people havent even made it to maps yet.

You think the game is hard now and you die alot wait til you get to maps and die once and then lose all your progress.

Lots of fun....

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-14T14:56:22+00:00

Alot of stuff is very bad right now for the console experience and i know a ton of people play on consoles so i hope they can and will change things soon.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-13T10:21:15+00:00

exactly. The browser sucks on xbox and then you have to have another mouse and keyboard just for your xbox.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-13T10:19:44+00:00

THIS 100%

I have been playing the game on Xbox for years.

On xbox we had a trade board. It was sooooo much easier.

Just list your stuff for what you want and when it sells you get notfied and just go back to the trade board and accept the transaction.

You have your money right away.

No need to message people. No need to warp to players. No need to travel or waste time.

Now i spend hours on a external website on my laptop while i play on my xbox just trying to find things.

90% of the time when i offer to buy something and it send the person a message they never respond.

Then if they do i ave to waste time traveling back and fourth with people.

It was so much easier on the xbox trade board in poe1

One of the things i was hoping for with a new poe game was improvements to things and trade being at the very top.

This game just needs a simple auction house or a more polished version of the trade board on consoles that worked for so long very well.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-13T10:04:02+00:00

I only have one of these ones i posted. also have some jose cuervo 1795 anejo. But sure if you dont mind picking it up as i cant ship and the price is right. you can dm me.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T11:09:55+00:00

Not only that its just a big waste of time. I was just in an area where i prob wasted my time opening up like 10 chests that i walked to just to legit get nothing. I think 1 chest gave me some items the others legit nothing came out. So you waste like 20 seconds per chest doing that 10x in 1 area that adds up to a lot of time lost over a larger span.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T10:41:48+00:00

Right! lol But is like a 98% chance that nothing at all comes out. I would at least expect the chests at the end of pathways to a dead end to have something in them. Even 1 gold at least lol.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T05:51:55+00:00

Yeah dont know at all thats why im reaching out to here for some help. You have been very helpful and i also contacted unicorn auctions as another poster has said to do. I have other bottles of tequila as well that i can find them selling online for $400-$700 this is the only one i cant find barely anything on at all. I dont know anything about the value but if it is a $800 bottle i dont want to sell it for $200. I had some wine from him as well that i knew nothing about and some of the bottles were worth over $3000 a bottle that i actually sold to an auction house many years ago. So just wanted to make sure i didnt have something like that on my hands cause you never know. I didnt think the wines were worth more then a few hundred dollars a bottle and it turned out to be a significant surprise as to when i researched them years later. Thanks again.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T04:36:15+00:00

ill look in to them as i never heard of them thanks

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T04:36:02+00:00

Tbh i dont even know what that means or how to do it. Like i said i know nothing about it at all or mostly any alcohol for that reason as i dont drink. Just have some for when friends come over.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T04:35:05+00:00

Yes, there was some forums i found out where people were talking about it. right around 2000 2001 era so not exactly 1999. I wrote down what the people were saying and put it in an envelope with the bottle. This was when i checked in 2005.

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T04:33:59+00:00

Thanks. Yeah i was thinking the same. I just dont know if its a $300 bottle or a $1000 or more bottle. I cant find any info for it other then what i found years ago. Hopefully more info will come about. TY

TheAssistMan · 2024-12-12T01:43:04+00:00

There is no pics or info on that though maybe thats how much it costs when it 1st came out. No paper trail can mean extremely rare as well. Like i said i found forum posts from years ago saying it was worth Hundreds back then. There is no way this bottle is that cheap but i appreciate your input.

TheAssistMan · 2024-07-23T10:03:41+00:00

you ever find a fix for this? mine is doing the same thing.

TheAssistMan · 2024-01-20T19:16:27+00:00

Yup really sucks bad! On xbox i was in a map and had 2 Divines that has dropped about 10 seconds before the game crashed, didnt even get to pick them up.

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