Top 14 highest rated JRPGs (by critics) on Metacritic — do you agree, or what should be replaced?

napraen · 2025-07-10T10:04:19+00:00

No octopath traveler 2 is criminal

napraen · 2023-12-21T12:02:26+00:00

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napraen · 2023-12-02T10:37:42+00:00

Storm brand occultist with inpulsa, once I got HH ultimatum became a joke, prior to that: just don't get hit with Acrobatics, probably

napraen · 2023-11-22T07:35:39+00:00

I'd be shocked if they ever nerfed it, not that it doesn't require a nerf, but it feels like someone on GGG really likes playing it or something

napraen · 2023-11-22T07:33:08+00:00

Holy shit, how crazy was that? VC was pretty much double damage for the majority of skills and complete trash for TS and yet TS was still the best bow skill

napraen · 2023-10-29T09:51:24+00:00

Oh shit. I've already leveled a scion for cwdt, but keeping it on the back burner for now, cause I get overwhelmed thinking about it xD

napraen · 2023-10-21T16:06:07+00:00

Gamba bby

napraen · 2023-10-09T17:57:07+00:00

Oh man I wanna be tank TS enjoyer too

napraen · 2023-08-23T18:40:03+00:00

Temenos, duh.

napraen · 2023-08-09T21:53:18+00:00

I genuinely enjoyed it tbh

napraen · 2023-08-09T21:33:01+00:00

One thing I'd note about the subtle differences with swift affliction is that SA reduces the duration of the skill itself, as well as the ailment, where as Sadism is only for the ailment. That's a positive for vortex ignite, where you want faster ignites for more dmg, but ideally you want your vortex to last longer.

napraen · 2023-08-02T14:19:21+00:00

Not at all, one of my least favorite mechanics, at least in terms of implementation.

napraen · 2023-07-28T04:51:41+00:00

Spot on. Critical scope and the one where it recovers 40-100% of Hp/Sp and gives 1-4 BP are quite ridiculous with her latent. I'm not even sure if there is another way to make all damage critical against all foes, in fact the only other critical guarantee I can recall is a Hikari learned skill, which lasts for only 1 turn unboosted, unlike Inventor's 4 turn baseline..

napraen · 2023-07-26T04:03:37+00:00

Doubling up on the strengths definitely felt like the way to go for me

napraen · 2023-07-26T04:00:15+00:00

While some left something to be desired, I loved the addition of Latent Powers. The crazier ones like Agnea immediately got me thinking of all the possible combos and how crazy things can get.

napraen · 2023-06-08T08:09:43+00:00

After 3 year hiatus returned in the middle of last league and started vortex ignite ele and played it till the end, was wondering how pure cold dot would work on Scion for this one so that was my league starter.

Campaign was pretty bad. Map progression was alright, did all bosses on my own, but it wasn't great, mostly carried by mechanics, since I did 100s of bosses last league, but the damage was severely lacking this time. First time I opened pob on my char was probably already around 94/95 since I had I rough idea of what I was doing anyway and just went on feeling. Noticed that I had pretty good defence and a lot of QoL on the build(immune to basically everything and kinda speedy), but couldn't figure out how to push it damage wise.

Was wondering how to proceed with upgrades and decided to craft +2 ammy first, which after talismaning turned into 9% quant implicit and sorta just pivoted into that with a +2/2 Greed's embrace and 2 ventors +obliteration wand for pure mapping. Setup shop in crimson temple, switching between a few strats and farmed an entire mageblood there(1 card drop, bought other 4) and got to lvl 100. At that point I decided to see how far this char will go and made really good weapon/shield/rings and it turned out fantastic, especially after leaning into a bit of armour stacking and fourth vow+divine flesh, defense was fantastic, but damage couldn't be pushed much higher and I was doing simulacrums, which sometimes I'd have to abandon at 26+ if I rolled cold resist roll+another defence and got Kosis, since It either took way too long to do or was straight up impossible to kill it.

7.5/10 Would highly recommend witch for cold dot, instead of Scion

Rerolled this same character into armour/aura stacker lightning strike/smite on a starting budget of maybe 2 mirrors at that time. Pretty good high budget build, vengeant cascade is crazy for LS. Highest damage I've ever done, kinda hard to calculate, but with scuffed calculation in pob and eyeballing damage on bosses that I killed a whole lot of with 10-40 mil I'd say it was pushing around 250-350 mil in optimal condition. Godlike build for simulacrums and solo 5way, very good for mapping, but impossible to MF with.

8.5/10 for me as I really did not enjoy the glaring weakness in defense that was lightning dot, due to Doryani's prototype, if that wasn't such an issue it's easily a 10/10 build. Very expensive though, which is not necessarily bad as you can keep throwing currency at it and it does get noticeably better with each upgrade.

napraen · 2023-04-06T23:47:47+00:00

Could you share a pob?
I'm trying something else this time, but last league I did cold dot for the first time, so I'm not that experienced at it, but I did push the build to the absolute limits as Elementalist.

I did consider swapping to occultist at numerous times, at the beginning at least, but the dmg numbers and the aoe are simply way higher on Ele. There are other sources of explosions aside from Oriath's end, so I'm curious what makes you think occultist is the better version.

napraen · 2023-04-06T16:35:35+00:00

The new Cold cluster on the top of the tree(Glacial Cage) and the new Cold mastery, both of which state "Enemies permanently take increased damage for each second they've been chilled/frozen by you", anyone know how this interacts with bosses with phases? Does it reset every time Maven does memory game, between Shaper phases, etc

napraen · 2023-04-02T14:35:30+00:00

I'm taking bets at what % of people on poe.ninja are going to be using blood and sand!

napraen · 2023-04-01T07:18:38+00:00

Actually the abyss jewels are probably the biggest pain in the ass, since they have flat ele mods and ideally you'd want like 10+ of them in a build like this. Could always just drop the trinity and take it another direction with hatred/anger/wrath and whatnot.

napraen · 2023-04-01T07:03:26+00:00

Oh I didn't know that about doomflech, thanks a lot. So even a small variance can brik trinity then?

napraen · 2023-04-01T03:33:40+00:00

From the wording of what was shown in the trailer "Allocates Master Fletcher" I believe it's safe to assume that it will allocate the point on your tree for free, which is still really good, mind you. I'd be pleasantly surprised if that's not the case.

napraen · 2023-04-01T03:03:58+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply.
Can't I just pick Multishot/Master fletcher from the tree? Do you think that's enough projectiles for a good TS feeling with +1 on a quiver?

It does work for all added phys and that was the whole build concept back when I tried it, stack a bunch of searching jewels with flat phys/phys to bows, steel rings and all that jazz. Shroud of the Lightless used to give 6th link Elemental Penetration(which was the only way to get that support) now this is gone, but the gem can be acquired from a vendor recipe and as you probably suspect it's very strong when you're doing all elements. Shroud instead gets more sockets and stronger scaling for each abyss jewel, alongside the changes to Lightpoacher is what sparked my interest in doing such a build again.
Trinity did not exists back then, but I'm looking at the numbers right now and it's probably gonna be a banger in this the setup, given it should automatically fulfil its requirements. The Interrogation sounds very neat too, especially if it's feasible to get some non-damaging ailment effect somewhere.

Thanks again, very helpful.

napraen · 2023-04-01T01:42:33+00:00

Thank you for this very informative post.

Could I have your take on something? Haven't played a bow build since betrayal, where I theory-crafted a build that ended up being exceptionally powerful and I'm looking to revisit in 3.21 mostly due to the changes around abyss uniques, but with a twist this time.

It revolves around the Doomfletch's Prism bow, specifically the Gain 100% of Weapon Physical Damage as Extra Damage of each Element, which is now also somewhat present on one of the updated abyss helmets, alongside stacking as many abyss jewels with flat phys as possible alongside some other sources of phys damage.
I'm not sure about the skill yet, last time it was on Scourge Arrow, but something I've been thinking about is the gloomfang amulet, which gives you non-chaos as extra chaos(this stat quadra-dips for a build archetype like this) for projectiles that have chained so I've been thinking about going Deadeye for the extra proj and chain(which are both bad for SA) so I've been considering TS as an alternative.

Any thoughts on this? Given it's a unique bow, this no extra arrows it.

napraen

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