ITT: we throw shit at each other and the diablo babbys

ITT: we throw shit at each other and the diablo babbys.

Thats not even a fight, PoE is absolute rubbish now.

No one likes Sonic ARPGs.

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>sacred 2
No, no no no.
Sacred was best.

>HURR DURR NOTHIN BUT BV AND BF IS VIABLE DURRR

Sup Forums nowadays, fuck

Both of those games have the most boring ass skills I've ever had the misfortune of using. I really tried to like them too. Guess I'm stuck playing D2 and Sacred 2 and some other old ass garbage.

Why is there such animosity between arpg fans? Is it because we usually spend all our time mindlessly grinding in one game and we have to justify that it's the best one?

>dat feel when afraid to start playing PoE because I'm afraid I'll fuck up my character built

Also, I hate how it updates on Steam.

>sacred 2
>complaining about skills poe/gd skills
>sacred fucking 2
the fuck is wrong with you. if you'd have said sacred i'd agree but 2 was fucking dogshit compared to 1

I think Sacred 2's biggest asset is that it's an open world Diablo clone unlike pretty much every other game which adopted Diablo's act-based structure. First Sacred was infinitely better, though.

>horses

I'm not normally one to whine about power creep but PoE really needs to do something about it. Ascendancy was a mistake.

>All that korean trash
I'd sooner recommend a early access one like Wolcen, or Grim dawn back then, than any korean online fuckery. Including Lost Ark.

Oh look, this bait thread again.

PoE IS the best one, its not a debate

So what do you guys think of Inquisitor: Martyr?

Just play hardcore and then it doesn't matter if you fuck up your character because you can just die.

Dude just download the standalone installer, its way comfier anywasy. Also you could just follow a build guide and do all content while gradually learning the game.

Both of those games are solid, it's just fanboys being fanboys.

More like Patch of Exile. Nigger needs 5 minutes for a 18 MB updates for fuck's sake.

explain

>that feel when people actually play standard

It's because retarded way they did the game structure, smacking all into one giant file.
Hey, you want a 5mb patch? Let me just unpack this 10giga fucking file on your SSD, put the 5mb inside, then fucking repack it again!
Jezus my poor fucking SSD... Why couldnt they dont the patching same way they do on standalone client but inserting the shit inside without unpacking it first?

>mfw can facetank any Nemesis boss but Mogdrogen will fuck me up in 10 seconds.
LITERALLY impossible.

I actually thought something was wrong with my PC. So they really have a half-assed patching system or something? Bloody hell.

Basically Ascendacy added a some completely busted compared to what was there before specialisations without nerfing anything about your characters in return.

yeah but you have to run the gauntlet and risk your character, some of them traps will one shot you

Path of Exile and Torchlight 2. The only decent heirs of Diablo 2.
For people searching for good but old games like Diablo 1 or 2, try Nox on GOG.

Diablo 3 did nothing wrong.

Did nothing right either.

I imagine the way it works is that they have everything loaded up into a couple of big archive files. Every time they modify that fat file, everyone on the user end has to redownload the entire archive file.

Combat smoothness is the best in the genre though.

I like path of exile
fucking cant stand grim dawn, its so meh and nothing makes me want to play it again

As smooth as the ride on the sandman's choo choo to morning town.

playing 5 stone golems with inc aoe

space_jam.mp3 playing in the background

feelsgoodman

Nah, they don't do huge downloads or anything. They just slow your HDD to a crawl to apply even the smallest of patches.

It unpacks a 4.6 gig file every time you patch the game.

Pretty annoying but I cba to download the stand alone client.

Can you use the standard client after you've linked your account to steam? I have this vague memory that you couldn't.

Shit can get pretty flashy.

Yes you just login via email. If you created your poe account using steam login then you will need to contact support for them to add an email account.

>Sacred 2

FeelsKindaBad

>risk your character
>actually playing HC in Path of Oneshots

alright you autistic fags
it's time for memeing

Lost my lvl86 summoner to a fucking cold breach.
It spawned with a double immortal pack and a subsantial damage aura fagget.
My poor minions couldnt fight through them, got swarmed and ripped.

Welp, reroll time.

Dual-pistol explosion Mage reporting.

Can confirm.

>meme builds

You can only play proc-things shaman so much before you need to branch out.

I was running that back before Act 3 was even a thing. I just like dual-wielding pistols. Explosions just happened to be one of the classes I picked before I even knew all the possible builds.

I'm sorry for having fun.

>Power creep so bad in POE that the game has devolved into kill everything before it has a chance to do anything

And it heralded itself as a "Hardcore ARPG" It's casual as fuck now

>Wolcen
i tried its pre build

it has a long way to go and itll probably end up half assed and take 20 years to release

I just finished grim dawn on hardcore, first time beating the game. Had a witchblade but I basically ended up being a soldier who has blood of dreeg. I looked up the last boss after beating it and keked when I saw the threads complaining about it when I was looking it up because I thought it was too easy.

Now that I've beat the game, what's there to do? Is there any post-game? I still have to raise faction reputation but asides from that not much else I can think of.

Well Grim dawn took them six years, which is more than Star citizen has been in development, and turned out pretty fucking well.

Nothing besides going straight into elite. The update with a new endgame dungeon should be out any moment now. If you already did runs of steps of torment and bastion of chaos, you either wait for the new dungeon, jump into elite or buy the crucible. it's pretty weak on endgame content.

Also
>mfw 1500 HP/sec regen
I feel you, but holy shit is it slow at killing stuff, let alone the nemeses.

>Has extreme powercreep.
>Is designed for you to alt+f4 when shit hits the brick.
>Only a few viable builds/spells to use if you want to have efficiency in your grind.
>Most boring and weightless combat of all ARPG's.
Why would anyone play PoE?

The last boss was complete bullshit before they fixed it. There were builds whose only tactic against it was literally run in, get one hit in, die, come back, repeat.

The fucker would not stop spawning shit long enough for you to get hits in. Actually he just wouldn't stop spawning shit period.

Post-game for the moment is the two dungeons you need one of those keys for. Only the chaos one is really worth it though.

We have some DLC coming soon apparently.

Oh shit I remember that. Doing it with a summoner was LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE because the pets would get swarmed by tanky mobs. Now it' way too easy though. And a shit boss fight all around

Because it's fun

And it's got by far the best itemisation of any arpg on the market.

Shame D2 is absolute dog shit now.

>Good itemization
>Your character is based and literally dependent on that the gear that drops has the right amount of sockets/link/colors.
I've never had a worse leveling experience than in PoE, even if you find a really good item it doesn't matter because of that god awful socket/link system.

Your whole character and build should not be based on your gear. Your gear should make you stronger, not make up your whole character.

I think Sup Forums is too casual for PoE

i wonder how many poeple here can kill Shaper

Any idiot with damage and vaal pact can kill Shaper.

whoa m8 thats a big b8

are you trying to chach a whale or something?

The annoying thing about D3 was the marketing flooding "memes" everywhere...

The annoying thing about D3 was D3 itself after it came out.

ok buddy

I haven't tried him again since the patch. But from what I heard they did swing the pendulum too far. It was a lackluster boss compared to some of the others.

My only complaint with GD though is the lack of a hireling.

Well that and no proper random instance dungeons. I liked that in Torchlight 2, and to a lesser degree D3. If I could just hop into a portal and go kill shit in a random plain or something it would be better.

You can level anything with just a three link until you find a four link that's the base stats you need to roll the colours you want. You definitely don't need good gear in all your slots.

you must be a dumb nigger or something

did you look up a guide and it told you to get a 6 link?

6L is endgame and you can get 4link any colors you want, damn your fucking retarded
you are a literal Global 1 shitter

Wasn't Titan Quest called the unofficial Diablo3 though?

And here's a perfect example of the general PoE player.

How are those maps going exiles?

Im stuck at T14 waiting for my 6L and still gotta do fucking uber lab.

>the genre is all about end game
>uh uh you don't need end game gears unless you're doing end game

fucking retarded.

So you want the best endgame gear while your still leveling?
Are you just pretending to be retarded or what? I really cant tell anymore.

Sometimes is hard to se what the fuck is going on.

>tfw want to like ARPGs since I love theorycrafting and minmaxing but none of them have active enough combat to keep me interested and they all require way too much time investment to max out characters

I just want one where you have a shitload of skills to use, enemies have interesting patterns, and I can respec my character entirely to try new shit out when I grind for loot that doesn't fit my class.

Just play Diablo 3 then.

This. They have extremely interesting potential builds that never leave the paper because of such shit drops.
Yea, I get the game is trying to make people trade between themselves but that's even worse because farming 604529 chaos orbs to trade for that one legendary item you need sure is fun.

>i want to be hardcore but my mom wont let me.avi

just stick to D3 kiddo

>Sacred was best
Objectively correct opinion.

I prefer my image

Like this?

>tfw Cadence buff
Playing a rifle sniper build is fun now.

>MFW Devouring Swarm, Wendigo Totem, Corrupted Storm Totem and Sigil of Corruption vitality absorption build

Best thing about it is that you can drop Wendigo Totem for fully synergie'd Grasping Vines (Bleed + Vitality damage) for a bleeding + vitality damage build. And Grasping Vines stack with Curse of Frailty.

>just spent like a month on Grim Dawn alone
>maxed out and geared two characters
>try play different builds
>no interest in any other the other play styles
Fire builds suck ass unless Saboteur.
Lightning is only really good as 2h Hammer instead of storm calling Shaman.
Ended up only playing Saboteur Auto Attack Fire Proc build. And Poison spammy bullshit.

They were alright, but honestly, the build variety in Grim Dawn is a bit of a let down. And the DLC honestly was a bore. The arena makes it easy as fuck to get gear since 150 on ultimate is easy as fuck, but there isjust no variety.

Anyone got any other recommendations?

Diablo 3 is fucking awful. Already played the shit out of Diablo 2 and Titan Quest

Or I have a job and a life and don't want to grind for three straight days.

then fuck off normie

Having Path of Exile drawbacks at work so playing this. Too bad there are no online NDS emulators so that I could play superior Soma Bringer but Shining Soul 2 is still great.

Go back to your mom's basement.

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>98% block rate, internal trauma + retaliation soldier build.
So much hammers flying around that it's making a hammerdin blush.

do you think thats a good insult here on Sup Forums?

>Decent ring
>2ex

What the fuck

Does D3 actually fit those criteria? Everything I've heard about it involved it being awful.

I love PoE skill tree desu.

D3 is a shit casual shitfest where you can respect to any build you want but there are only 2 build per class, os it doesnt really matter anyway.

>I-I have a j-job at McDonalds!!!
Why are you wasting your "precious" time shitposting on a zimbabwean basket weaving website then?

How much time you have is irrelvant anyways. Have you ever thought that you are in no rush to finish playing a game? Doesn't matter if the grind takes you 2 weeks or 2 years as long as you enjoy it.

And if you don't enjoy it then why the fuck are you playing in the first place?

Just leave it at that mate, obviously the majority of Sup Forums is too much of a casualbabby to play PoE.

I really hate Path of Exile nowadays but I love it too much to stop playing.

It's especially infuriating when dev interviews come out and you see piss wilson talking about how Path is supposed to be a game than you can play while watching TV, but they want it to be hardcore at the same time, and the game being boring is okay so that they can have """interesting""" things happen to wake you up from your stupor.

1-shot mechanics are apparently also fair because people can just log out to avoid dying otherwise.

And then there's the plethora of old shit that has never been rebalanced to work with the game's power creep, so only a handful of skills (the newest ones) are viable at any one time. If you mention Glacial Hammer, Heavy Strike, Burning Arrow, Cold Snap, Dominating Blow, and plenty of other skills, you'll get laughed at.

PoE started out so good and with such potential.

It IS awful. But it's just what you listed in the greentext besides:
- Grinding for loot that doesn't fit you character isn't possible, it will drop stuff for the class you're playing
- It isn't too heavy on minmaxing although there's a lot of rerolling involved to get up the GR100+
- max 6 active skills, everything else is pretty much made up of procs

Ye, they did take FFX's general idea and made it right. In FFX all that grid was basically straight roads of cluster after cluster of whereas PoE's grid has roads deviating into clusters of specific things.

>I love this watered down Sphere Grid ripoff