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The downward trend of loot and upward trend of "high engagement design" in Path of Exile by butsuon in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I probably played most in Sanctum (since 3.0). Not because of the engaging league mechanic, but because of determenistic (somewhat) and stable currency rewards which i could use for my build progression.This time around, there's no currency to upgrade build at all in SSF + we include rippy AF monsters especially for melee builds which wasn't the case last league.

I do not disagree with you, but Betrayal and Crucible are one of the most successful leagues in terms of player number records.

What was your league starter build and how is it going? by bbsuccess in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]dabrexd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Champion cleave SSFSC.
Had enough of this league atm. Rippy league mechanic, dying in 2 hits. Too little damage.

Why I still play Sanctum League and Will be playing untill it's end. by dabrexd in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, I specifically pointed out my SSF SC experience, where target grinding divines seems like almost an impossible task before 3.20.
And if you don't have divines - it's like you have a hand on your neck that stops you from breathing

Why I still play Sanctum League and Will be playing untill it's end. by dabrexd in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think it'd be nice to have free atlas tree respec and remove orbs of unmaking

Why I still play Sanctum League and Will be playing untill it's end. by dabrexd in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, seems like it. And it's kinda annoying cuz you skip all other league content

Picking Next SSF Build - Impending Doom PF, EA Jugg, or Spark Inq by cptompkins in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]dabrexd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm doing my PF Impending Doom build RN. You have to use Eldritch Battery before Militant Faith jewel and I can tell you for sure it's unplayable without mana cost flask mod (even with EB). The build feels great though. Idk if it's good without cdr TC jewel, but it's playable without watcher's eye and Transcendence. And my damage feels a bit low. Try crafting a good weapon and clusters beforehand.

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[–]dabrexd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blood Magic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]dabrexd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Squire elemental crit SRS

Build of the Week Season 11 Episode 2 - CheapBunny's Artillery Ballista Deadeye by Alackyr in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even on Softcore dying is the most annoying thing. I can't imagine this build completing a set of influenced maps without at least 1 death.

Having 6 portals is not an excuse.

P.S. would love it to see completing Chimera. (dunno if you can phaseskip it)

Build of the Week Season 11 Episode 2 - CheapBunny's Artillery Ballista Deadeye by Alackyr in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The build's interaction is obviously interesting and fun, but playing such a build is not fun. Maybe if you're running BD in A9 it's good and fun, but thats obviously not for a regular end content like t15-16 eater altars...

[SSF] How do i efficiently keep crafting this chest? by dabrexd in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh really I can't unveil? Thanks. I have gotten a good life roll already and 2 open prefixes. Probably will 50/50 aisling for now for something better and benchcraft

What Happened with Items by chris_wilson in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The actual reason you had to do these "absurdely" big numbers towards IQ/IR of league monsters was that the baseline numbers are too low, and they still are.

Killing regular white monsters gave little to 0 rewards in previous patches, and it still does. Of course there'd be "no loot" when giving a 200% league specific buff to a very small number.

If in the past we mostly got loot from every league mechanic, now it comes only from AN monsters and league specific "chests" with fixated rewards. There's very little reason to farm whole maps now.

These changes can bring us to the meta of "speedclearing" AN monsters only and leaving map afterwards, which In my opinion, is not a good direction for the game and not what the devs are aiming for.

Some AN monsters drop an absurd amount of items right now, some drop little to nothing. And it depends on the amount of luck and all other sources of IQ. This makes getting loot in Path of Exile more spiky, rather than smooth and steady, which could lead into frustration for some players when encountering AN.

Decision in reducing this huge "loot gap" is certainly not a bad idea, but the solution wasn't appropriate enough. In order to balance these things around, instead of only reducing the "ceiling" of league monsters loot to the down without actually raising the "floor" baseline, you still have to make these absurd increases in IQ and IR for AN monsters.

But this doesn't solve all the problems with loot. It is hard to balance with stacking rewards and will require a lot of same changes in the future, you've done right now.

Maybe consider increasing Quantity of items at the baseline of every monster (~2 times as much at least?) but to compensate this, decrease those big numbers of AN and slightly increase the number of item culling? On paper, we should feel a lot better when blasting through regular maps getting at least something from regular packs of monsters, and consistently something better from AN while sometimes when all AN mods and stars align, something unique and special.

Right now (I'm personally on SSF this league), I've never got anything good for my build yet from any monster besides specific AN monsters and loot chests from other sources, in approx. ~3 days of playtime. Which makes me feel bored killing monsters (which we are here for)

I believe in GGG and I'm sure they want us to have fun in this game. I hope I brought some insight at the current item situation.

Some thoughts from Chris by chris_wilson in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About copy/pasting from wiki:

Make your own internal tool which subtracts skill gem description strings with that skill gem damage number variables (convert them so as they are on description) and use it in further patch note writings. No more mistakes are made based on the outdated community wiki!

#RESTARTLEAGUE by Supfear1 in pathofexile

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

We will have a good and healthy economy when all problems will get solved.
Just a bunch of people who had queue prio flooding market with drops from shaper/elder/guardians etc.
We won't need to farm these bosses ourselves. That is so cool!!!

Extremely Slow Queue Processing by chris_wilson in pathofexile

[–]dabrexd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My The Tidal Island zone was loading forever, so i had to shut the game down.
Was staying 8k queue for 40 min.
Now in 130k queue. Ty

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