>game is designed around spreadsheets and guides>literally every player just copies someone else's build>devs admitted they do a poor job of explaining mechanics in-game, players need to check wikis >if you try to go in blind, people will call you dumb and link you to an hour long video of some guy teaching you how to playthis "game" sucks
>>737141504Go blind and have fun what timmy gonna do? Call the meta police?
>why cant i get as much loot and drops as someone who plays this for a jobStop comparing yourself to streamers bro, youll never make it. Just enjoy the mechanics of the game and play at your own pace.>if you try to go in blind, people will call you dumbsure buddy, these "people" i the room with us now?
>>737141504>>if you try to go in blind, people will call you dumb and link you to an hour long video of some guy teaching you how to playjust because the fanbase is autistic doesnt mean the game is bad. Heres a hot tip for you, caring about endgame efficiency is for Autistic people or people who are looking to make real money on the game by selling stuff using 3rd party sites. Theres nothing wrong with taking a little longer to kill things and beat the games main bosses then re-roll or play something else.
>>737141504I don't have this issue in PoE2, I can hit top 100 on the ladder using my own build and stuff.
There's no hope POE2 is gonna slow down and reduce spawns is there?
>>737141504Why should you care about any of this, exactly? You can play however you want, it's a single player game.
>>737141774I put an unhealthy amount of time into this game in a short time back in 2024 and sure winging it can suck but hell even following builds things can still snowball. You either like the experience enough to deal with it or bail for something easier to digest. I’m done with PoE and D4 but still waiting for Last Epoch to hit console as that’s supposedly a pretty good middle ground.
>>737141504fuck off we're fullthis game isn't for you anyway
>>737142757The reason most people follow the autists is precisely because they're not autistic themselves, dummyNobody wants to spend 500 hours struggling to accomplish with their shitty homemade build what an actual optimized build can accomplish in 50 hours
>>737141774>just wing it bre>stuck 30hrs in with only option being to just rerollwaow!! even if I was a neet like you I don't think I'd consider that a viable path (of exile)
>>737141504Filtered faggot stay out.
>>737141774>wing it>20 hours in>oops, your build sucks and everything one shots you! Better make a new character
>>737144917>>737144149Still acting like this game has some sort of IQ barrier?
>>737145320Good thing the game is about progressing your character so you can improve your defences!
>>737144149>this game isn't for you anywayso who's it for? gambling addicts? people who don't want to play actual games?
>>737144885>>737145320Doesn't happen anymore since the introduction of gold for respecs. That, and player powercreep.
>>737141504Fundamentally, it's just not a fun game. I've tried playing it like 4 times now throughout the years and i just can't fucking do it. It just isn't fun.
>>737145369you are not wanted>>737145443turbo autists
>literally 99% of games are basic as fuck>one game has a passable amount of complexity>for people who suck ass, this means all they can do is rely on guides to know how to press LMB>so they want the game destroyed and casualized>...so they can not play it anywayBro you have to... put a good piece of gear in your item slot... instead of using actual garbage items... and sometimes you have to move a few passive skill points around... its too complicated
>>737141504Where do the builds that people copy come from?
>>737141774That point was really retarded because the only way people know that he "went in blind" is if he can't figure things out and asks for help.Which makes linking him a video that explains what he's struggling with pretty reasonable.
>>737146201Nerds using calculators trying to optimize the game.
>>737144885>>737145320If you like the game you will enjoy the time spent, if you don't like the game a guide isn't going to change that. Why do you fags even play video games? Just stay on youtube and twitch.
>>737141504To be honest that’s one of the main things they’ve fixed in Poe 2. Mechanics are properly explained and you don’t need a PhD in understanding all the ridiculous interactions to put together a viable build.>>737146201Mostly ecelebs who do this for a living.
>>737145927the "complexity" doesn't translate to actual gameplay because shit build or not, you'll always be pressing LBM and the same skill button anyway. it's just a bunch of busywork to trick people into thinking the game is deep and hard
>>737146201most of them come from altering and experimenting with previous existing builds which themselves come from ancestor builds and so on and so on. The original first 'build' is just cookie clicker but with skeletons instead of cookies. At some point, players realized they can kill more than one mob at once and thus Ground Slam was invented.At some point, people accidentally realized they can just play with the walk button, and thus Righteous Fire was invented.Eventually, mankind no longer wanted to walk, and Flicker Strike was invented.Now, players just enter a map, hold one button down and read Dostoyevsky and Ulysses on the side, while the map completes itself. Fun fact: Despite the maximum level of 100 being very easily achievable, the highest DPS flicker build on PoE Ninja (2.5 BILLION DPS) isnt even level 100, because the player in that chair simply atrophied before being able to put a few more maps in the map device.
>>737141504game does suck.i was following some frost witch build and i was asking a bunch of dumb questions in chat about whether this gear or that gear is better, and some guy asked what build i was playing and it was the same as him. he said he was done for the season and gave me all his gear and left. it was like, three pieces away from BIS. i just stomped through maps for a week and then put the game down, satisfied that i'd seen the peak.
>>737146412This is the part where I tell you youre wrong, because people in Hardcore SSF SUPER DANTE MUST DIE MODE can beat all the hardest content in the game in like 4 days.https://www.twitch.tv/zizaran/clip/FilthySweetRadishAllenHuhu-C_cd3BxlBdEsGplHAnd in trade league, hitting lvl100 and farming Magebloods is possible within 2 dayshere is a build from day 3 in the leaguehttps://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/Brainwar-1546/Brain%E3%86%8D?timemachine=day-3&i=2&search=timemachine%3Dday-3%26min-level%3D82So no, PoE is not about the grind, its about knowledge and skill, and the more you have, the less time it takes to progress your character and get upgrades.(You) are simply bad
>>737146743But the process itself is mindless grind. What you’re talking about is people picking the most poorly balanced builds that don’t rely so heavily on gear. To call that "knowledge and skill" is a joke.
>>737144885Next time you'll make it 35h in
>>737144885If you had fun for 30 hours, you can now look up a build to do endgame or stop playing with the main story now finished. Sounds fine to me.
>>737147226>If you had fun for 30 hours>fun>poe campaign
>>737147215>>737147226there will be no next time. the experience was a miserable slog and I wasn't even close to finishing the campaign>inb4 it gets better 65hrs inlol
>>737141504The fun I had in this game was from trying to finish the acts in HC with Righteous Fire from 16, did a necromancer to start every league to farm alts for dousing pots and then rammed my head against the RF leveling wall until I was out of the dousing pots. have like a 1000 hours in it, never did meta builds and never succeeded either and it was still fun.
>>737146743Based. The casuals hate to hear it, but it's true. I don't blame them. It's one of the few copes they have about how they're not actually bad gamers.
Not even death can save you from autism
>>737142495Technically speaking, it's almost guaranteed that streamers have altered drop rates just to keep them hooked, online casinos do that, it's not out of the question games do that too
>>737141504Ultimately PoE is a sandbox game and it's up to you to determine how the game is meant to be played.
>>737147797"streamer's luck" is basically a running joke at this point. definitely real
>>737141504>designs bosses around alt-f4ing
>>737148485It's not, people are just like 5-10x faster than you and they see 5-10x more chances as a result so they get better stuff much faster.
>>737141504My biggest gripe with this game is it has lost all class identity in pursuit of power gaming. It's cool that you can have so much freedom in your build to the point you can min max and do a bullion damage and get a Mageblood in a day but what even is your character at that point? What's the difference between a Templar or a Assassin if they're all just abusing power charge mechanics.in their builds?Part of the enjoyment in an RPG for me is (role)playing out the fantasy of a Druid character or a Berzerker or whatever, without that element your character just might as well me a white canvas blob. Is that then even an RPG anymore?
>>737141504I enjoyed PoE 1 for a while but its just really dated at this point. PoE 2 is OK but it has a lot of issues. >clunky slow combat>melee is STILL complete garbage>missing half the classes>missing 75% of the weapons>endgame still mediocreI mean is the game even going to be complete by 2030 at this point? They're a year and a half since pre-access and they've barely added anything. Diablo 4 is the best ARPG at the moment, Last Epoch is quite good too. Grim Dawn is always fun for a replaythough every one and a while.
>>737151751>Diablo 4 is the best ARPGYou better be a bot you retarded faggot
>>737148548hardcore LARPers are pathetic. closing the game/logging out should kill them
>>737152227why do you eat up bait so easily you troglodyte
>>737141774Go ahead and go in blind, its ok, you just won't be able to finish the game, let alone beat pinnacle bosses(these are NOT the final bosses of the game despite the designation).
I don't have a problem with the build complexity, I have a problem with the fact that every build is a rolling magma build for the first 3 acts and it's not fun
>>737152227>>737152479Can you explain why D4 is worse besides>"ITS TOO CASUAL"meanwhile 99.99% of PoE players just go with whatever the current meta build is without any thought or consideration. Again, if you want to play a melee build, you have basically TWO options in PoE 2 right now (and they're both shit).
>>737152552Saboteur Rolling Magma was a fun build for me because it required IRL physical endurance to play it for long periods of time.
I don't understand games like diablo and path of exileit's just farm so I can farm better gear, so I can farm better so I...at least in a mmo you can have funny aventure in a big open world, pvp battle and all of the social stuff
>>737141504this is what happens when power creep goes unchecked for over 2 decades
>>737152747They're for people who like MMO mechanics but don't like socializing.
>>737152747The thing about PoE is that you can only farm for so long before you realize that statistically you will never get the best gear so you MUST trade with some chink botter, which devalues your efforts
>>737152747The only MMO worth a shit anymore is OSRS. WoW is OK but its insanely poopsock and overly complicated to appeal to the esports crowd. ARGPs are fun because its a mostly solo grind adventure, until you unlock all the seasonal rewards. Then you just try out different shit or try to push the hardest content with your build. In D4 for example pushing Pit level is a big thing.
>>737152747>at least in a mmo you can have funny aventure in a big open worldI actually enjoy PoE's story and lore.
>>737153002I think this is why SSF is fairly popular for more veteran players
Tencent shill thread
>>737146201Bad players tend to go on youtube or maxroll and get baited by glass cannon buildsDecent players tend to look at Poe ninja and filter for reasonable items, or copy hcssf-approved buildsGood players rmt or know what's broken and the best way to farm for it
>>737144078I haven't played Path of Exile but as someone who liked Grim Dawn and Diablo 2 Resurrected, Last Epoch is pretty fun
>>737152747>I don't understand games like diablo and path of exile>it's just farm so I can farm better gear, so I can farm better so I...Just be grateful that you aren't on the skinnerbox treadmill.>at least in a mmo Nevermind.
>>737141504I like PoE i have several thousand hours but its pretty bullshit. There was a point where you could hit certain benchmarks and be fine. Now i'll play a strong build and still get my shit checked in T16's and it gets harder than that. There's so many dimensions to a character its hard to parse why your character is good / bad / failing. Crazy game really. It's probably better than the alternative which is D3 / D4 which is super streamlined so you can't fail
>>737141504filtered
>>737145927>12 billion damage>1k phys max hit>uncapped fire resistance
>>737157285Have people just not touched diablo 4 since launch? Release d4 was total complete dogshit but its pretty good now. You can push difficulty basically infinitely in the Pit. Are there people that still think poe 2 is in a better spot than d4 right now?
>>737148568yes it's totally real that a diablo 4 streamer suddenly gets 2 magebloods while a GGG employee is watching his stream shut the fuck up retard
My friend went into PoE blind this league and made it to T6 maps where he gave up
>>737158040sounds like a huge shitter
What's the best single player ARPG out there if I like PoE? I don't want to deal with SSF
RELEASE THE FUCKING 0.5 ANNOUNCEMENT GGG GODDAMMIT
Looks like the Grim Dawn autists who constantly telling everyone how much superior GD is to everything else is not here yet
>>737144703>it will take me 500 more hours if i dont follow a guidethis is a severe lack of IQ. please post a warning label that you are below 86 IQ when you post with people on 4chan, its only fair the community gets a heads up
>>737158327Last EpochOr Grim Dawn
>>737145320Literally how D2 used to workFucking casual
>>737158398I posted here >>737157056I mentioned D2R but it's way below Grim Dawn
>>737141504>Interacting with a game's "community"
>>737141774>reddit and china start to play PoE>ok we need a console release for more cash, you guys like our game dont you?>ok we need a china client with pay2win and paypig options, we need the cash to fix the problems and listen to you guys>ok, we sold out and fucked our angel investors for tencent cash>look at what we did with our investor money, now we got 300mil+ imagine what we can do now>nothing changes>new 'content'>just rehashed crapdont imagine
>>737142495Streamers are not good at video games,
>>737158327D4
>>737158489You are not special just because you refuse to take the path of least resistance like everyone else, faggot
>>737141504They need a game mode without level cap so I can fill up that skill tree.
>>737141504Is Warrior still complete and utter dogshit in PoE 2? I remember you were basically forced into this gimmick build where you like 'soften them up' or something, then you slam a big pack. It felt terrible to play.
>>737142824nah bro, the zoom shitters won. just hope that bald nigger wilson makes another game that learned something
>>737161328not really, but it s still boring as fuck, hopefully we get swords because mace either stampede, wall or sunder is boring as fuck
