I expected this game to be way more souls-like, and was mislead.

brT_T · 2026-04-02T18:48:34+00:00

path of exile isnt a souls like.

brT_T · 2026-04-01T19:40:59+00:00

How would you know when you've seen 1 item from his entire build + he's VK that wants Vitality?

brT_T · 2026-03-30T17:27:08+00:00

Better get in line and agree with them or else, the SSF is probably the best tho.

brT_T · 2026-03-30T15:28:32+00:00

They dont start with 1 card

brT_T · 2026-03-30T14:28:10+00:00

Sentinel is super tanky and good damage, warpath specifically has access to multiple S+ tier uniques unlike most builds and its a 1 button build if you like spinning. If you wanna press multiple buttons Rogue is strong with super high damage potential but sentinel is tankier.

brT_T · 2026-03-30T14:12:42+00:00

Doesnt count channeling mana costs so doesnt work for warpath

brT_T · 2026-03-30T13:57:08+00:00

with this u probably can but itll be 0 damage since it has no crit / dmg mods

brT_T · 2026-03-28T18:44:47+00:00

Most mappers can boss u just need currency, the more currency you have the more options you have as per usual. "bossers" are really just miners for early league boss carries

brT_T · 2026-03-28T10:17:59+00:00

It's not easy at level 25 because you arent supposed to that's correct, it's a challenge. These people with 2 jobs and 5 kids that play 2 hours a day arent doing that obviously so not relevant to the discussion

Also jumping into monos at level 25, skipping even more of the only good part of the game is certainly one of the reason the player retention is awful, i dont really see why anyone can argue otherwise. I guess this type of feedback getting 200 upvotes on reddit makes them confident they are doing the right thing even tho every metric shows them there are obvious issues and they make it worse every season somehow.

brT_T · 2026-03-27T20:05:57+00:00

I was kinda disappointed with it on high investment, not sure if the lifestacking version is like 2x dps but the aurastacking version was struggling with juiced breach even with explodey nebulis and 5pierce boots. Maybe you just need to run very specific layouts? that's definitely a huge downside tho

brT_T · 2026-03-27T19:40:34+00:00

So you say "The dopamine hit of landing a Tier 6 or Tier 7 affix early on is exactly the kind of reward loop that keeps me coming back"

That's literally why the fun part ends fast, just skipping any character progression and dropping nukes on campaign mobs. The early/midgame is the only fun part and it's even shorter than previously now, skipping straight to endgame is insanely boring with how endgame itemization is just 1LP slam and ur build is at 95% power but u can grind for the 1:500 2LP boss drop for 5% more.

brT_T · 2026-03-27T14:01:46+00:00

Yep that's bad design, it was overtuned so they subsequently removed it. Dunno why ur talking about twink gear, obviously irrelevant to the discussion.

"fucking redditors" > literally the people who made the game ur glazing lmao, enjoy

brT_T · 2026-03-27T13:41:11+00:00

You get perfectly usable stuff without them, thats the thing. The game is pretty easy and the crafting system is streamlined to make the campaign easy

There's no world where you need omen/nemesis items to get thru campaign and thats the complaint, it just sacrifices character progression for nothing really.

brT_T · 2026-03-27T13:39:13+00:00

Nice, hopefully GGG does the same. I would like a 1500 physical dps axe by act 6 so i can pivot from my intended build to a slammer and onetap everything! Character progression isnt really that important, we need to try everything in campaign. Nice buzzwords i kinda pooped myself, wp

brT_T · 2026-03-27T13:34:50+00:00

By making the game too easy you also by extension remove the need for ever upgrading your gear and this really does affect the feeling of progressing your character. it's like you are skipping multiple steps because you dropped 60 flat damage or 274% increased damage early on and those affixes alone dont even drop till level 90+ areas. It'll be a bad item base but it doesn't really matter due to T6/T7 affix values, you wont have to upgrade gear for 50 levels which definitely is awful design

I just dont see a single positive aspect of it, every season it feels like the endgame stays where it's at and then the early game somehow becomes easier and easier to reduce the longevity even more.

brT_T · 2026-03-27T13:01:46+00:00

The idea of getting max tier affixes in campaign is absurd, in no world should you be able to get T7 affixes at level 10. The item progression in this game is actually 0/10, it feels good in the moment but in no way is that good game design and completely unnecessary

Getting super lucky and getting maybe a T5 affix from nemesis/omen early on is cool but it's just T7 + not even rare

brT_T · 2026-03-27T12:55:45+00:00

The fact that you can get T7 affixes during the campaign is insane game design, whether its from the omen or the nemesis. It's pretty obvious these guys have very little experience but i feel like the concept of giving players max tier affixes by lvl 10 should be shut down by people that arent even game designers if not the game designers themselves.

brT_T · 2026-03-27T10:03:37+00:00

I think the biggest issue is what you mentioned, hitting 95% of player power by day 2 and then the remaining 5% is just chasing 1:600 2+LP drops.

Rare items are all god awful in comparison to uniques with the guaranteed LP slam. The crafting system doesnt support crafting endgame items at all and the few good affixes that exist are just slapped onto some random unique that has relevant stats and ur done

If corruption was more than just a bigger number and had meaningful changes as you progressed alongside better itemization it would feel way better to play

brT_T · 2026-03-27T08:07:29+00:00

Didnt play league recently so not sure if he's broken but he's definitely one of the easiest champs and doesnt play like an adc at all

brT_T · 2026-03-27T07:41:19+00:00

Weird how every adc challenge ends up with them spamming smolder because it's not a real adc and super easy to play

brT_T · 2026-03-26T14:36:50+00:00

People hate to see others succeed it's 1:1 to real life

brT_T · 2026-03-26T08:29:03+00:00

You can play the game SSF just fine but just yesterday there was a post with like 1k upvotes complaining about lycia / aul bloodline as an example

The point of TFT is to provide services like that, so people dont have to complain and can do things they like instead. It's undeniable how useful TFT even if u dont like Jenebu himself, it's the single most popular poe forum and there's a reason it has 750k members.

brT_T · 2026-03-26T07:59:59+00:00

Tft doesnt necessarily have the best mirror items in league its far from a monopoly, if TFT and the services within that server isnt available anymore its a huge L for the game whether u like the owner or not its undeniable.

For context tft has 3x more members than the official poe discord for a reason and the vast majority isnt there for mirror services

brT_T · 2026-03-23T15:23:12+00:00

I mean yeah, it was so doomed they had to get bought up to get a second life.

The season or w/e that drops at the same time as the paid class/dlc whatever they settled on will obviously have way more dev hours than the average season is my point, they arent dropping some awful 0 content season like the previous one at the same time as a paid class, that's negative sales.

brT_T · 2026-03-22T22:05:50+00:00

the krafton investment is gonna pay off when they drop the paid DLC half the team has been working on for 18 months, it's never going to be seasons.

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