Reminder that the savior of ARPGs is releasing a new league in under 48 hours

reminder that the savior of ARPGs is releasing a new league in under 48 hours

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What's good about this new league?
are they fixing trading?

No skill rebalance makes the game boring as fuck. These cunts don't even want to tweak the number on shitty skills by a bit so we're stuck using the same ones every league.

>are they fixing trading?
what did he mean by this?

Diablo clones are not video games in the same way Visual Novels are not video games.

>wait for patch notes to make your leaguestarters
*inhales*

is SSF worth it?

Grim Dawn doesn't have leagues.

I keep trying to get into this but I lose interest before even clearing whatever the story is. All of the builds I end up doing OK with are boring as fuck to play.

SSF is self-imposed exile. The game is balanced around trading with other players for gear due to the huge amount of useless drops.

Only play SSF if you want to extend your play time and if your build doesn't require any specific uniques.

whats new in this leauge
any new skills
my last league starter was cylcone, any recommendations

SSFHC is the only way to play. any other avenue is playing the game objectively wrong.

Man I wish I could enjoy this game. I've tried on 5 separate occasions over the years to get into it because I've always been in love with ARPGs, and the general consensus seems to be that PoE is the best. And all 5 times I've gotten bored before reaching the endgame. It just feels so dull.

>SSFHC btw
kys

>feel like trying Path of Exile again
>forgot why I stopped in the first place
>remember RNG slot links
And dropped.

>he didn't farm Oni-Goroshi

Pretty much this. You end up using the same gear for ages because it takes so fucking long to get the next tier with the correct colors/links. The fact that you need an external filter to hide all the absolute garbage drops is pretty bad.

why can't anyone say what's good about the new league?

so it's not good then? all I've heard is skeletons are op now if you play necro

TECTONIC
SLAM
J
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The story is shit. You really just gotta power through that garbage to get to mapping where the game actually becomes fun and builds start fleshing out

I know for most people one of the best aspects of ARPGs is the 'slot machine style gambling' with includes sometimes farming for the same item but with just the right numbers and combinations of various things aspects. But in a game where your attacks and abilities are tied entirely to your gear instead of your character and a really good drop can be render useless because it doesn't have the right slot colors or the slots aren't linked enough is just way too much.

You guys realize there are items in game to change links/colors right?

There's even workbenches for 100% guarentee crafting.

But nothing changes in maps. You just spam the same shit and numbers keep going up. Atleast before the maps you feel like you have a clear goal and can route your run.

reminder to go fuck yourself, chris.

What did this Chris do? I don't know the devs or background drama.

Except for... you know... the entire end game atlas progression, new unique monsters & bosses, new uniques and item bases, labs, t16 bosses, shaper, elder bosses, uber bosses...

95% of the content of the game exists in maps. The story is just to baby people into the game and learn mechanics.

>release mtx for a skill
>one month later ruin the skill with nerfs
>repeat

>collectathon oriented crafting sounds tedious as fuck and probably irrelevant on lower levels
>New story boss is massive meta cancer
>New atlas boss is something 99% of the userbase won't ever beat anyways

pass

Anyone actually spending money on MTX deserves to be duped. Biggest scam in the game.

Head dev of game.
Most recently he was being an apologist for having an RMTer own part of his company. (Real money trading)

that was debunked, retard

lets face it they sell items themselves. how else can they keep a staff of so many ppl.

This isnt the vg thread we reply with the post numbers her

>RMT
Be honest with me, is this how all the top players get ahead in all of these games? Working for all the perfect rare items legitly just seems insane even if you love the game more than anything.

I played at endgame too, but honestly I just felt like I was grinding gold to buy items for my build rather than actually getting the items for my build myself and I hated it, it's a small difference but it really sapped the enjoyment I was having.

The top players are the ones getting the items first and selling them. They don't need to buy anything.

Most of the streamers actually get free handouts from their hundreds/thousands of viewers

A few streamers have been caught RMTing before, though

>>RMT
>Be honest with me, is this how all the top players get ahead in all of these games? Working for all the perfect rare items legitly just seems insane even if you love the game more than anything.

I bet its more like the nolifers sell for real money ggg knows about it and allows them to do it because their streams promote the game.

Not everyone is the same. Just because most people like a certain something that doesn't make it objectively the best at what it does. From what I notice people who don't like POE really enjoy Grim Dawn and Torchlight 2. Those games even support modding and private servers if you like those sort of things. Titan Quest is also a neat ARPG too that just got revived with its first new expansion in over 10 years recently.

Who cares about leagues other than turboautists?

Majority of the players are turboautists so..

>Titan Quest is also a neat ARPG too that just got revived with its first new expansion in over 10 years recently.
Made by some literal whos, probably. Titan Quest devs are busy with Grim Dawn

>Tectonic Slam, Doryani's Fist, Dancing Duo Champion with zombies and skellymages
I'm pumped

>Working for all the perfect rare items legitly just seems insane
Example? What are the drop rates for perfect rare, what's the difference between perfect and imperfect, and what would the perfect one enable you to overcome that the imperfect wouldn't?
I'm not very familiar with this game, just curious how Skinner-Box-RNG dependent it is.

How could you not like them?
>Exclusive content
>get to try the balance changes and the new permanent content first
>fresh start with a brand new economy
>When the league is over you get transferred to the standard league with the first ones with the supply of all the new rare item sets.
What's not to love?

>What's not to love?
Grinding the same shit over and over

you basically have to be one to enjoy the game

More like 99.9% of the game's content is in the story and the maps just re-hash it, and scale up some of the numbers.

That's how these games always are.

Rares can roll various prefixes and suffixes
These can roll in different tiers of intervals, for example T4 = [10-15] T6 = [20-25]
And of course, they can roll a number between these intervals.
A perfect rare would be 6 good prefixes/suffixes for your build, with the highest intervals possible and the highest value possible in each of them.
You can see that the chances of this are stupidly low and the only ones that are really perfect are sold for cash or sold for mirror services AKA cloning them with an incredibly expensive and rare currency .

Gonna try out SSF for this league, what build should I play?
Something that doesn’t require too much rng on uniques and clears reasonably fast would be neat, played SRS witch and Molten Strike Inquisitor last season non-SSF

Have a chicken pic as early thanks

So what build is everyone going?
Probably another windripper pahtfinder to farm, then probably chieftan ngamahu for bosses.

I'm not that experience with ARPGs myself so I don't know if there are easy why to fix these things. The most common issue is that not even all drops of even the same exact item are equal. Go on the wiki and you see things like "damage 55-75' this not WoW where the weapon does between 55-75 per swing, it means the item can have the attack damage anywhere from as low as 55 or the highest at 75. This applies for the items other bonuses too such as how much + life it gives you and everything. The 'perfect version' of the item is when you get an item with the very highest of all attributes on that item. And even if the different doesn't matter (then why have these differences at all) it just feels shitty when you finally got that rare item you want and it has the lower amount of its full potential. And this applies to every item on every item slot.

It's worth it if you want to be able to post "SSF btw" with all your dumb questions you post on the forum/global

Tell me where to find this build updated for the new expansion and I'll play it.

its the only one I liked

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Reminder Breach was the best league

liches have cooler animations

>Working for all the perfect rare items legitly
Never necessary unless you're making a retarded memebuild with 90% unique items
You're stepping too far into the autismo's domain if that's your goal. Legit perfectly rolled items with all 6 desirable mods never actually appear anyway, I bet there's only a few in the game and they're all in dumpster leagues

Skelemancer

Is that ssf viable without punishing yourself?

Got a link to a build perhaps

No, but I imagine having some zombies along with Skeleton spam is gonna meet minimum SSF requirements by the sheer power of the Necromancer's Aura node.
Also your dps doesn't depend on having a weapon at all. I imagine 4 link+ minion gem level helm is gonna carry you through lower maps no sweat

Sweet. Always wanted to try skeletons out. Thanks senpai.

Kind of a late response, but I know about the items. I just never play far enough to get enough of them to realistically use them on the regular. I've never even seen a workbench. Don't you have to meet those NPCs enough times in the field to level them up to a specific point or something? I feel like I never saw one enough to get past level 3.

Yes, I realize in the grand scheme of things that I've basically never gotten to anywhere worthwhile in this game. But the progression just feels terribly slow when you aren't rushing through it, and rushing through it only works so well when you don't know the game inside and out. I think the farthest I have gotten is to some Colosseum on a lighting build where the boss just fucked me right up. It was a decently fun run but like I said, upgrades were just so few and far between that I lost interest spamming the same two moves.

They also buffed Necromancer to include a skeleton node choice.

Who here T E C T O N I C J U G G

im going jugg either tectonic, EQ or molten strike.

Yooo, that looks amazing. Can’t miss and sime juicy multipliers, definitely rolling one then.
What skills should I be running, you reckon?

explain why
me like jugg

Couple of auras (excluding clarity for the extra buffs alone), an offering and a curse of choice, skeletons, zombies and I think it's still too hard to pass up on spectres. Throw in a movement skill depending on what weapon type you end up using. Might be rough to fit them all but who knows. Haven't thought it much further.
Gear can be quite literally whatever as long as it has the sockets I reckon.

That's why it's suggested that you follow a guide for your first character because there's other shit to learn. Spells are easier to begin with because they don't rely on the weapon you're using as much compared to Attack based skills.

When you're leveling, all you want to look for on gear is life and resists. If you find a white 4-link then you could throw a couple alterations on it to see if you get lucky, otherwise just leave it and continue on. Noobs get trapped into using all their currency on leveling gear when it isn't worth it.

You also want to prioritize life on the tree if you don't know what you're doing.

I want to disagree with you
but I can't

I’ll figure something out. Good luck on your league runs bud, hope rng works out for ya!

My mobo gave up a short while ago, might be a while before I get back in game again

Ah shit man. Keep your chin up.

>no skill rebalancing
>leaving vanguards untouched and to a lesser extent solar guards
>uneven revamping of ascendancies (elementalist is still dogshit and stuff like occultist and juggernaut are insane now)
losing faith in ggg
i'll still play it anyway but my points are still valid

patchnotes are already out.

Shield throw
A new fire ground slam you can use unarmed
A minion support gem that summons phantasims when you kill shit

as someone new to PoE, why are totems and summons in 90% of builds?

People still fear reflected damage and also people are lazy and don't like builds that require uniques

some give extra damage and a bit of side damage for like one slot

Game is multiplayer online, so latency is a factor. If you don't live near a server, you're in for a bad time if your build doesn't rely on a server side minion with zero latency to do damage for you.

price fixers.
afkers.
relisting.
retards under valuing an item and then raising the price when two people show interest in said item.

but then again you probably benefit from one of these factors so you must think its a good thing

supporting by either doing damage, buffing or debuffing, so your character can do more damage.
autists who hate fun will play entirely with totems or summons though to a point where they barely interact with enemies.

because ancestral warchief is literally free damage even if it's not your main skill

ha hahah *breathes in* hahahaha

yeah, they're going to totally get on RMT and botting this time ;)