Thread 534059715

new poo2 update sliding out of jonathans ass august 27th

>>534059715 (OP)
DOG SHIT OF EXILE 2
NO CONTENT OF EXILE 2

>>534059715 (OP)
dropping a fresh path of exile update right now
patch notes say its extra stinky

I really wish they converted more MTX from POE1 to POE2 like they promised. Sucks I cant use my favorite skins despite that assurance

>>534060780
heh, six more years CHUD

>>534060780
thanks for the money goyim

>no swords or any shadow ascendancies in 0.3
so basically all the skills and weapons I actually wanted to try from the start won't be in the game until the end of EA, I find it rather disheartening

>>534061269
why would you want to use swords when you can shoot fireballs or laser beams???

>>534060780
>I really wish they converted more MTX from POE1 to POE2 like they promised.
Surprised reddit didn't create more of a stink about this

have there been many holidays in new zealand lately? why arent they making progress on the game...

Did GGG fix the atrocious 0.2.0 class and skill balance? I quit that "league" very early

>>534061720
retard

>>534061720
>zACKie
>(((((balance)))))

>>534062145
>>534062449
I'll take that as a no

>>534061269
Shadow and druid are coming in 0.3
Not sure about daggers but traps yes

cant wait to see how they managed to make poo2 even worse with 0.3

>>534063756
Keep seething lil gup
0.3 will be the biggest patch ever

Why yes, I do enjoy a sequel to a game I've never played because it was marketed to me hard enough. How could you tell?

HNGGGGHHHHHHAAHHHHHH
>*plop*
>*flush*
0.3 just dropped! login exile!

thats not wuthering waves dude, i dont know what shit gacha it is, but its not wuwa

ben aka ben_ aka darkee aka lightee aka "The Roach" got squashed

whenever I take a shit I feel like I'm a poe2 dev
no but for real though, is it a development problem or a qa problem or both?

>>534065101
its pajeetian devteam problem
and jonnyboy problem

>534060780
He paid for a shit product lmao

Alk just said the average PoE 1 player is too dumbed down from all the easy content where they will never enjoy an objectively superior game like PoE 2 because it asks them for more than one button builds

>>534063756
I find it hard to believe they're doing both that and new mechanics from the shorts I saw. Although everyone knew Druid was closest to Huntard in being mostly done

>4 months
>to port existing mechanic from poo1
Explain this

lily just said shes pregnant

>>534065101
i work at a large company with absolutely retarded management and it reminds me a lot of poe2. theres no clear idea of what we are actually making exactly, timelines that obviously will not be met, everyone doing his own thing, zero communication between teams. so probably bad management

no one cares about your wagecage anecdotes bro talk about poe

>0.3 is just new campaign maps and some dogshit ascendancy for monk
kek, 5 months for this btw

>>534066617
They had to doo doo out a poo1 league for the poo poo enjoyers. I hope you enjoyed memory strands, lil bro

>>534067069
game releases next month right

what if 0.3 is good

>>534066964
sorry

>>534067535
I'll play

>darthindustryplanttransaction interviews lead map designer
>he's a fag with a beanie
you really CANNOT make this shit up

No PoE2 news?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJLv6QvFPs

sirs its the gingers time again

>>534063756
Some fags here are in for a rough awakening when they reveal both classes and postpone them into the future with the very next sentence.

reminder that they only listen to what streamerniggers are saying and that you're basically a worthless piece of shit.
jonatroon didn't budge on the maps problem until mathil made a video and basically told jonatroon he's fucking retarded and should do something about the campaign maps and maps in general.
few days later this was addressed. poo2 shills itt will defend this and continue to feast from the tub.

maybe because no one is playing your dogshit game anymore faggot

>>534068894
Genuinly none of these talks have been interesting at all. If its not Jonathan or Mark im not interested because they are the decision makers not these plebs doing ground work

Apperantly these environmental artists "check with Jonathan" whether things look good

surely they could have gotten a better face of the game than fucking darthmicrotransaction

>>534070738
Honestly i find it interesting

>>534071319
They're literally glazing Jonathan. Apperantly he saved their work when they didnt know what to do and he just gave them a toggle-switch change and then it worked. Im not making this shit up, go to 9:00 from the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGJLv6QvFPs

>>534071207
every streamer shit on them for 0.2, there was genuinely no one left except maybe mathil but I don't think he's the kind of guy that goes and does interviews like that.

>>534071605
fascinating
i had this image in my head that ggg is basically just a bunch of retards that do what jonathan tells them to do and its actually true

>>534071605
behold...... the power of paki intern devs......

>>534066562
he's right (unironically)

>>534071605
this is such a bizarre story. you're seriously telling me none of these artists understood that the game was too dark? I refuse to believe they didn't know that when you turn the brightness up you can see things better.

>>534068379
Is he actually gay? Damn. So much for a based and redpilled dev team

>>534066562
is alkaizer aware that if you put stomping ground on rake you can clear the campaign with white items? if you play smith I think you can get to white reds without too much trouble.

>>534072770
Those are white people mehmet...

Reminder to anyone saying that 0.3 is gonna be HYUGE, and rock the arpg world - you are listening to a paid shill

There is no grand master stroke for 0.3. The update will be the same size as 0.2, if GGG had something up
their sleeves, they would have played it then. You'll get at most on reworked hackjob of a poe1 league
mechanic, a few new ascendancies, and a bunch of retarded conditional support gems no one wants to use.
ONE new skill will be the meta skill and it will be lightning or projectile based. They will push FOMO and MTX
for it and you will pay for it. The rest of the patch notes will be a bunch of nothingburger qol updates. Major
system reworks and community requests like in-game trade integration, hotswapping controller/kb, gem links
tied to the character and not the gem, etc will go unanswered and swept under the rug. There will be no grand
innovations and you will be strung along like this until 1.0. Enjoy paypigging during the preleague hype cycle
based on 10 second trailers and bullshots only to be abandoned 2 weeks in when the dev team shifts back to 1.

Welcome to PoE!

Why are the vibes so bad for this game? Did the recent Poe 1 league suck?

>>534074048
its literally one guy posting in this thread non stop he will reply to you next saying some bullshit

>>534073882
Stop yapping lil bro and start providing sources for literally anything you’re claiming
Nobody cares about your negativity, lil nancy bro

>>534074048
jonathan, the main poe2 dev, lied about how far along they were, lied about diverting resources, and left poe1 to rot for nearly a year. They claimed that poe2 would be developed fast and loose and contain a ton of new innovations the community was looking forward to. None of that happened.

This is off the back of a several year period of time where GGG were systematically nerfing the everloving shit out of poe1 in the name of the "4.0" release where they claimed poe1 would coexist in the same world as poe2 as a single game. None of that happened and we were left with both the fallout from them enshittening poe1, leaving it to collect dust, and then releasing a turd of an initial EA.

>>534071605
they literally have to suck off their wage lord, retard

>>534073882
retard

>>534073882
trvthnado

poch s3 will save us

>>534073882
it's the same song and dance since 3.15. at least poe 1 is playable. poo2 would be an embarrassment for any company except GGG, where it is merely par for the course

>>534074048
no the recent poe1 league was pretty good

>>534074048
because of lies, shitty development and bad management.
before the last big update to 0.2 they said they're going to do a balance patch where they just buff shitty skills to be more end game viable.
no such patch was released, they are hording the changes the game should get weekly or bi monthly to make 0.3 artificially big. this is exactly what blizzard does with their games.
it's time to understand that the le wholesome hecking indy gaming studio from kiwiland is no more. just like the blizzard that made all the good games is gone, so is the ggg that made poe a good game is now gone.

poo1 lost
sleepoch lost
d4 lost
poe2 won
tq2 won
grim dawn won

>>534073882
>if you're saying...you are listening to a paid shill
based ESL melty

>>534074545
man I kinda liked the last poch league for the most part but I got bored before killing abberath of whatever their final bosses is called. The game just doesn't have enough going on to make grinding your way up interesting

>>534074997
meaning they are getting their opinion from a paid shill. You seem to have a hard time with reading comprehension

>>534075851
retard

>>534075851
Well that makes sense. Sorry for calling you an ESL. Godspeed king.

now watch this nigger lose his shit and shill ggg and 0.3 to the moon.

>>534074987
name 5 people that say this

>>534074987
Based post

>>534075189
The issue is they buffed the fuck out of loot in the latest patch to the point theres literally no reason to play in a trade economy. SSF is just as strong as trade economy.
I also got bored a week in, while in 1.0 i played for a month. The gear progression is just way too fast

>>534074048
told you

>jonatroon accomplishes his magum opus of sending trade requests off in a bottle thrown to sea
>gear progress slow, you really work for that final regal orb and slam and pray for a 4th mod
>builds are multi-button, 4+ situational skills, all with niche support gems that give them weird functionality like spiraling projectiles, overlapping aoes, or funny interactions like exploding totems
>uniques have a purpose outside of selling them to a vendor
>you have to sell each different type of loot to a different vendor for a shard of a currency that can only be applied to a single slot: glove, boots, etc
>all currencies are duplicated and isolated to single item slots so you have to pay for 10 different currency stash tabs for crafting currencies
>it takes 100 maps to get enough fragments to roll an item one time

fin

What the fuck is Ben even saying half the time? He mumbles every sentence and speaks under his breath, not even making sense what incoherent noises come out.

>>534078820
speech impediment + sissy + fag lisp

im so glad im not a grim dawn enjoyer they have to wait 3 fucking years for 1 update the devs said they wont be surprised if it comes out spring 2026

no wonder its called grim

Has /poeg/ ever been this bad? We literally got a sequel to our beloved game less than a year ago and the gennie is deader than ever
Even the OP disgusts me

>>534073882
>>534074393
>>534074967

nobody here actually likes poo chuddie

>>534080263
It was worse before 3.26 came out

>>534080263
its because of that person the general is unusable it wouldnt surprise me everyone went to reddit, its the same throughout vg you get a couple schizo's spamming the same shit jannies do nothing and people leave

>>534080263
don't worry, it will get worse

>>534059715 (OP)
>awakened sextant
God i miss compass rolling. I miss the old scarabs. Fuck the game turned super mega gay after affliction

>>534078820
adderall makes your jaw clench

>>534080263
GGG fucked up and lied, lied, lied. At a certain point people are going to be upset. I have no idea why Jonathan insists on overpromising and underdelivering. At least PoE 1 came back.

>>534080890
>God i miss compass rolling
literally everyone was rejoicing in the streets when that shit was removed

>>534082931
Real ones knew what a disaster it was as soon as it was announced

>>534082625
PoE 1 is done and won't get new players. Jonathan was right to separate both games, as the first has the reputation of being too complicated, and it won't fly with people.

>>534082636
Regardless whether they lied and you being upset, its still the by far two best ARPGs on the market

>poe 1
>too complicated
>complicated
ayy lmao

>>534083272
I didnt even want them to get into it, I only wanted to play the first few hours together.

>>534082931
This, I don't miss that shit

>>534083368
PoE 2 is hardly that. All it has is superficial, the game plays like ass and needs a ton of work. Some of the systems will take years to get to a playable state.

>>534083272
So why are they immediately shitting up poe2 with all the mechanics poe1 naysayers said were obtuse?

>"the development of poe2 will not affect the development of poe1"
>poe1 league is delayed by almost a year
>"sorry i didnt realize that we would make no progress on poe1 if everyone is working on poe2 lol, we will try to do better though, btw we didnt even start production on the next league"
>3.26 is released 4.5 months after this announcement
>"dont worry guys everything is great now, we figured out how to work on both games at the same time, btw we are moving to a 4 month league cycle lol all good though"
>0.2 underdelivered, 3.26 underdelivered, 0.3 will most likely underdeliver based on the absolute void of information they have released
>behind the scenes videos showing that everyone is brutally underqualified, staff quitting in droves, unfilled job postings
not a rosy outlook

>>534084221
>>poe1 league is delayed by almost a year
>we literally had phrecia which was more impactful than any league they make
Stopped reading there you disinginuous prick

>>534071605
>that thing you like?
yeah, Jonathan did it
>lighting?
Jonathan invented it
the only question if this is pr team orders or they are actually afraid of lil'jonnhy

https://youtu.be/HN9QoRr0_ps

every build is just some bullshit now

OK third apothecary acquired let's see if poof it again

for me it's denipon's big fuckin tits

>>534082625
I'll be your friend, jaws-kun

>>534084371
Jonathan seems like an actual tyrant

>>534084310
i loved phrecia but it was something a bunch of people cobbled together in a few days, not a league with months of production behind it. i do wish that they would make more events like phrecia but at the same time the tank of random unused ideas is empty as you can see with the creatively bankrupt private leagues they did at the end of 3.25, if you even remember those.

>>534084772
Nah, I dont trust anybody from these threads to be sane.

>>534084613
>im going to base my entire build on the fact that this spell which should be ticking once per second is actually ticking roughly 7-8 times a second
yeah, totally a real build

ok poe1 new league when

>>534084626
well...?

>>534084613
that's a trash build and has been done dozens of times before but multiple times better. Shit tech

>>534085260
i gotta farm the yellow juice first

>>534084613
most of these crazy unintended interaction loop builds arent actually good because you can just build damage and use the skill yourself instead of devoting so many gear slots to the trigger setup. that t17 showcase at the end is laughably bad. its cool and weird but these builds are not very good in poe1 because all cast on x gems have a cooldown.

>if you don't use this on every tower you're basically a stupid fucking retarded nigger
nice.

>>534086323
yeah not going to play till they scrap that shit. doubling down on towers is so fucking dumb

>>534086323
>>534086442
>they were based enough to finally remove sextants from poe1
>they're doubling down on sextants-but-worse in poo2
1gods won

gauntlet doesnt even feel exciting to watch not because of ben winning everything but because 95% of the fight is just stat checking the boss so hard that you cant die unless you're retarded
the only thing a player would have to learn to do what ben does in the gear he has is timing immortal call/frost shield

>>534087463
watch him fight elder or exarch or sirus and tell me you would be able to kill those bosses with his character

>>534084613
Meme builds are peak PoE. Sounds like you just don't like the game.

>>534084126
Who ever starts now is going to learn those mechanics step by step instead of being blasted with a thousand different mechanics at the same time. It's daunting, I guess.

>>534084613
>build using 10+ unused uniques
>just some bullshit
maybe load up a new game bud you sound jaded as fuck from copy/pasting builds off of pooninja

>>534089117
the entire thing hinges on the fact that a special skill is for some reason proccing scold's bridle every 0.033s instead of every 1s

when the fuck will these fucking scumbags fix the fucking servers?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>534089117
The currency per hour faggotry has definitely gotten a lot worse since Poo2 came out.

>>534082625
are your friends playing poe2? use the 36/40 mtx to entice them, it works on poe2 as well

>>534090393
retard

>>534090393
you can't even do currency per hour in poo 2, it's strictly a poo 1 issue

>>534090769
retard

>>534090769
retard

>>534090531
They already wont play Poe, poe2 is out of the question unless I can somehow nab a free key from somewhere.

>>534091096
ah then you are fucked my friend

PoE2 = fun
PoE = not fun

If I ever made an OP like the one for this thread I would get banned within mintues, suss the jannys are allowing this to go on for so long.

>>534091297
trvthnvke

any GGG game = not fun
it's over

poe mobile won

>>534090769
truke

>>534091334
Yeah whats up with that?

>>534091823
Elon's DOGE plus the 4chan janny dox

just double checking, its the standard league tab labels that carry over into leagues in poe2 right? so these standard league tabs will copy into 0.3 instantly i wont need to redo it? i got told that in a thread a while back just finished labelling them in standard. done it in dawn of the hunt by accident the first time

>>534092484
Maybe

>>534092484
my tabs are raped every time i play a new league so dont do what i did

lil guppo thinks d4 didn't win by default this round

BIG SHIT 2
HUGE STINK

>>534093443
1*

remember that chris thought jonatroon was such a nigger he made another company and made a job listing specifically for poaching the shader guy holding poo2 up on stilts

>>534094284
that shader guy is a fuckin G
good looking too...cough cough
who said that

>>534087790
i love poe1 but this webm is the worst thing I've ever seen

>>534094490
The Bodyswap sound fx is so satisfying though

>>534092937
>>534093112
so....yes?

>>534059715 (OP)
Which build did you have the most fun with this league pooegg? For me it's Widowhail Spinehail arrowspam Tornado Shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXbMYVR4do0

>>534096978
incinerate pathfinder (Path of Exile 2)

>>534087723
He facetanked everything sirus did, and tried to do the same on exarch but failed. So?

>>534096978
Pretty cool. I went manastacker. Felt a bit forced to play something that melts t17s.

>>534089572
>proccing scolds bridle
This is a nonsensical statement. You take damage from scold's everytime you use a skill. It isn't "proccing" anything, there's no "cooldown". What's happening is that bladefall of trarthus has a constant cost of 5% mana per second. But poe isn't coded on a per second basis, things happen more or less in real time based on the server tick rate. So 5% per second is whatever that is divided by the server tick rate. Everyone who plays poe knows constant costs, DoTs, and triggers operate on the tick rate. That's why there's breakpoints for coc.

You're a dumbass.

>>534092484
It follows the parent league. So if you play ssf you have to set it to standard ssf, etc.

>finally bored
>crack open challenges to finish out my 38 and quit the league
>you only need 35 now
>tfw i'm already done
>4 more weeks til poo2
kek fucked myself over

>>534096978
Fireball. Because it doesn't look like this shit when I play it.

maffil kinda a lil cuckboi for only making one gauntlet char

no one cares about your mini event parasocial lil gup

>>534099724
Will be fun in 15 years

>>534099724
You will die before GD2 releases.

>>534099724
>>534099814
poo1 lost
sleepoch lost
d4 lost
poe2 won
tq2 won
grim dawn won

>>534099814
damn think ill be dead by then

d4 raped poop2

>>534100341
slormancer raped both

boremancer*

>>534100413
SLORMGAWDS... I KNEEL.............

>>534094284
That's some proper tranny grooming tactics.

im straight, but i would do a /poeg/ sissy

lily...

>>534102283
you gay lil gup

>>534102469
this is bi erasure
-Duelist

>>534098760
im confused im using a old character from a previous trade league to change my tabs in standard league because i was told the next league aka 0.3 will follow the new label tab names i have given them in standard?

>>534102857
just do it on launch why are you autisming so hard

>>534103115
i dont want to thats the whole point im doing this

>>534103115
retard

>>534103328
its poo2 who gives a shit retard

>animefag is an autistic retard
surprise surprise

>>534103718
retard

you are brown

>autistic retard
a fine thing
>poo2 tubshitter
disgusting trash

>>534078820
He's a roach

>larping as white
brownoid retard

jonathan just announced that ggg is closing down in wake of the recent grim dawn 2 news

poo2 lost

When is the next league (poe1) starting?

the problem with poe2 is that it's a really bad game

>1 real nigger league every 4 months
>1 low effort but sovlful event 2 months into the league for the mazefreaks (me)
there, i saved poe1

>NO VISION
>NO PILLARS
>NO CONTENT
>NO CHRIS
poo 2 is fucking over

>>534106093
they said every 4 months but have already backtracked with poo2 being 5 months. so maybe we get a Christmas league

the problem with poe2 is its not out yet

>>534107316
Bruh, the early access launch is the official release of the game. They even stopped updating and balancing on whim that was initially planned due to being beta, but now they even go with their usual way and do leagues. It's over. What's here is what you get. They will ship 1.0 with half as much and cut content. Bet templar is going to get cut five minutes before the full release and postponed for another year after.

>>534107592
nah

>>534107592
Let

Them

Cook

>>534107592
>implying templar won't be the first class DLC

Am I supposed to have chaos res by the time I fight maligaro in A4 for gauntlet? I got nervous and logged cuz he was absolutely fucking my shit up. Haven't found any amethyst rings yet

>>534108398
That fight killed me. I think his last goons, one of them gets chaos damage in addition, but not much. This fight killed me. Just arrived at the act again with a new, stronger build.

welp, ripped to malachai, fuck this gay shit

>>534108398
i dont think so, amethyst rings have a drop level of 38 so you would have to farm the last few zones of act 4 for them
watch out though, neverplays does not show white amethyst rings at any point and you will absolutely need 2 of them for act 6. i would recommend adding an extra filter rule for them, just restrict the rule to arealevel < 45 or something so you can add it and forget about it

>>534107592
Yeah. PoE 2 feels like when blizzard released D3. Failure after failure. Broken Promises.

>>534109959
yeah i quit.

Im not bothering with that clusterfuck malachai fight. Ripped to a maven beam and stepped on a sigil while trying to get to one of his hearts. Not gonna bother trying to pixel perfect navigate some fucking bullshit minefield

>>534073882
Of course, it's been the same song and dance since about 2015 when I started playing.

>>534110445
L anon

>>534111254
whatever. I have a laggy connection and my mouse moves like shit. that is not an enjoyable fight

>>534111673
sexo

I'm really dying for an ARPG right now. In the past 2 months I've burned through poe 1, 2, diablo 2r, 3, 4, grim dawn, and last epoch. I wish there was something else good. I don't like torchlight and titan quest 2 was like 3 hours of content.

>>534111897
august 29th :)

>>534111961
ik but thats a whole month away. i want something to grind tonight.

>>534112101
Hades.

>>534111897
ENTER

>>534111897
>poo 2 incoming in 24 days

>>534111897
wuwa

wolcen won biggestliest

>>534112423
truke

>>534111897
It's time you got into monster hunter.
Not gonna say which one though hehe.

>>534076607
Bot69 is a lolcow now.

schizo freak status?

>>534113756
Still spamming the thread with posts containing "poo" or some variant.

>>534059715 (OP)
Based wungod OP.

Reminder that NOBODY clicks on links in OPs. I've put links with trackers in /pooegg/ OPs and they get between 0-3 clicks per thread even if you put "this is literally the coolest thing ever" before the link. They don't need to be there.

lycia pusy

>>534114347
You always make this claim but the old poe 1 linkdump had thousands of views and the tally was reset every league with a new paste.
Take your meds.

poopSHIT2 losted

>>534114025
>t. schizo freak

welcome aboard..... THE GOONSHIP

retard

how well did SHARTkaizer do this gauntlet

>>534114590
Only if it was a shared reddit link. No /poeg/ original link EVER has gotten thousands of views. My clips of Snoobae masturbating only got 5 views.

>>534114347
yeah the r*dd*t link niggger pissed off after the disaster that was 0.poo

>>534117784
>>534117918
You're trying too hard to fit in.

AI scrapers don't count as views newfaggot.

Whatever lies help you cope ya narcissistic troon, I provided proof of my claims, you've offered nothing, like always.
Now, go back to poo posting like a little cuck bot you are.

I'm breaking THROUGH BWOS

Almost as many players as poo 2 has. Neat.

>>534121065
LOL

>no post activity in over 20 minutes
Why did Zizaran league flop?

GG EZ

>>534123713
the poop2 flop killed all interest in PoE
it's over

>>534123713
everyone "died" if you know what i mean

>>534124184
>poe1 flops (again)
>poe1sissy blames poe2
interesting

im waiting for the darth microtransaction '2 gauntlet

>>534123713
I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to subject themselves to be content farmed by some faggot with a weird voice.

>why would streamers like this event that has cash prizes and gives them a bunch of viewership during a dead period?
Please, use your brain before posting.

>>534125165
Nobody gives a fuck about the streamers, man. That's their job. I'm talking about regular players. The prizes don't come close to what you'll make working even a minimum wage job for the duration.
Please, use your brain before posting. Nigger.

Imagine if instead a gay eceleb wankrace it was a Phrecia rerun without idol cringe and with some challenge rewards.

>>534125328
the regular players beat the campaign if they feel like it, the rest of the race is not for them. like any race

>>534125737
If regular players weren't supposed to play it, why are they shilling it so hard then? They could simply have put out a notice to the select few relevant streamers and then hand the prizes over to Ben_ and be done with it.

>>534125328
Retard, this event has always been about streamers. People play the Gauntlet because it's something different and it's fun to have a change of pace after blasting in SC trade. Why do you even care what another man does in his spare time?

>>534125976
It's called having an opinion. Just like you're doing right now. You mean to tell me that you have a monopoly on subjectivity?

>>534125696
Sounds pretty boring. I don't know why they don't have Phrecia ascendancies setup for private leagues though. Why did they give people that option and then take it away? What purpose does that serve?

>>534125913
the campaign is a fun time if you feel like playing a slow paced hc campaign run. why are you so upset about it?

>>534126353
See, that's what I don't understand. I have no problem with difficulty. Making bosses harder, more modifiers, reduced loot etc.. What I don't understand is the hardcore part of it. It does not respect the time spent learning the challenges and overcoming them.

I wasn't sure if I had a problem playing HC or not, so you know what I did? I did the HC achievement in PoE the last few days just to get a feel for it and see if it was more enjoyable. The result? It wasn't any more difficult. If anything it was less difficult because I was forced to play differently. Avoiding anything fun and making safe plays constantly. Oh, and I never used the logout thing that faggots do, because at that point you might as well just play SC.

If the Gauntlet was simply challenging SSF content, I think it would be much more approachable for people who aren't Ben_.

Again - I don't mind the difficulty, but I do mind wasting my time on something that is not fun.

how much does it cost ziz to host gauntlets?

>>534126741
what challenge could there possibly be in a softcore campaign? even if the bosses healed when you die, theres nothing stopping you from just going in over and over until you finally get a good attempt. it wouldnt take long either since you could just build full damage with no punishment

>>534127258
You do the exact same thing in hardcore, except that it takes more time if you mess up. A forced logout should result in immediate character death. Otherwise you're essentially just playing softcore with extra steps.

Oh, by the way - I take it you're familiar with souls-games? Dark Souls, Sekiro, Elden Ring etc? Those are softcore in the sense you described. The challenge comes from learning how to kill the bosses, regardless of difficulty. Maybe another design philosophy, but I see similarities.

I've noticed a big difference between Ben and other poe streamers during this gauntlet. Ben is always having fun, enjoying himself, rarely ever complaining about anything. You can tell he loves the game and the gauntlet. Then you switch to someone like imexile and all he does is whine and complain about everything, nothing positive to say, has said he doesn't even want to fight ubers etc. He is a prime example of someone complete and utterly mazed, playing because he thinks he has to, compared to someone like Ben who plays because he loves the game.

>>534127891
And to top it off, imexile just died in sirus and immediately says "now i can play a good game" and boots up WoW. Why did he even play the gauntlet if he disliked every second of it? The answer: mazed

>>534128249
>mazed
I'm ESL. What does this mean? Drugged?

I'm gonna play .3 but I'll doom

>>534127463
you sound like you played the gauntlet campaign, died in one of the later acts, gave up and convinced yourself that you totally could have beaten it if you just tried again
the point of hardcore is that you play in a way which minimizes your chance of death
its a combination of knowing how much damage you can take and playing fights out correctly with raw skill
if you dont like that its fine, most people dont. i enjoy the gauntlet campaign as a ~10 hour challenge run and while i dont enjoy hc past that, im not going to sit here and pretend that its the same as softcore because it just isnt, in softcore you can suck at bosses (campaign and maps) and beat with them with a 50% or even lower success chance just fine whereas in hc you need a <1% chance of dying to get anywhere

>>534128842
Why does me not liking it based on what I described take away from your enjoyment in any way?

>>534126741
How the hell do people play screen clear cookie clicker for 8000 hours

>>534129613
That's easy. Start playing in 2013 and then play a league every now and then.

>>534129702
I dunno that still feels like a lot.

>>534129832
Yeah, it's a lot. I don't really have any other hobbies aside from gaming. I don't drink, smoke, play golf or collect stuff. I just play games. When I find something I like I have no problem sinking hundreds of hours into it, sometimes thousands. Off the top of my head I think WoW, ARK: Survival Evolved, Path of Exile, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, GTA V, Baldur's Gate 3 etc.. I just like playing games. Not sure what to tell you.

armpit league when

>>534123713
The game is completely solved, there are no challenges left. It's not about who is the best player, skill and knowledge wise, but who can endure the brutal Beijing grind the most. Not to say it wouldn't be Ben, as per usual, but just look at this shit show on display. Everybody is playing the same crap, following the same strategies. Fuck, some of them won't even bother trying because the calculator said they would fail, it's just out of question.

>>534127891
>I've noticed a big difference between Ben and other poe streamers during this gauntlet. Ben is always having fun, enjoying himself, rarely ever complaining about anything. You can tell he loves the game and the gauntlet. Then you switch to someone like imexile and all he does is whine and complain about everything, nothing positive to say, has said he doesn't even want to fight ubers etc. He is a prime example of someone complete and utterly mazed, playing because he thinks he has to, compared to someone like Ben who plays because he loves the game.

>>534130249
Jung is playing a Merc build and Carn is going to try his own tech, too. The Phrecia Ascendancies have zero balance and were cooked up in a few days. Maybe you just don't like the game, anon.

god I can't wait to see if we can hit 80% playrate for whatever is op in .3...at this rate it's probably lightning spear

>>534131209
oh shit the replyschizo is back. hey man, big fan of your work

>>534130063
but what about contributing to society and giving your money to women???

>>534132487
I did that up until 2016 when I got sick. Since then I've been on disability and don't really do much aside from raise my kid and try to be an OK father and husband.

>>534132487
gay

>>534132610
that's the best we can do anon

>>534128332
Not a real word but follows conventions of other state words. Say a rope has a lot of fraying. The rope then would be in the state of being frayed. A lot of such words use the past tense form.
Then for the word in question. One might say a player who doesn't like PoE yet continues to play is stuck in a maze where they just keep going and can't leave. The key word here would be "maze" and tying it together with the established reasoning would produce "mazed." Thus meaning a mazed person is one stuck doing something they don't like as they feel trapped into doing the activity.

nice game dotards

>>534133640
What am I looking at

>>534133590
Thank you. I appreciate the in depth explanation.

>>534133798
Schizo thinking that HC players playing the tankiest ascendancy in Gauntlet is some gotcha.

>>534131497
>zero balance
I fucking WISH. I still remember how they gutted Herald right before Phrecia launch by dumpstering damnation.

Anyone did heavy strike of thrathus? Which ascendency? I’m thinking full int stacking with shaper mod on weapon on an occultist with profane bloom for clear and ci with vile bastion since you can get high spell block with staffs

>>534133798
COMANDA

>>534133640
poe should have a rubick character

>>534134192
Jugg or Inquisitor is the "meta" ascendancy for Heavy Strike

>>534133798
An ascendancy made by an intern using outdated game info.

>>534134557
Inquisitor sounds good to me too but why jugg? Stack str and int with iron will?

>>534134192
sounds good to me but i don't play unthematic builds (witch melee)

>>534134032
people copy good builds.

There's no factual difference between playing meta builds and having your bull fuck your wife on the daily. None

>So I can make any class into any build without restrictions? Thats cool, that means I dont have to overthink my first character and I can just pick who looks cool!
>Wait, what are these Ascension things?
>Oh...nevermind.

keep your cuckold fantasies to yourself

>>534136231
the gauntlet finally makes sense.

>>534134032
>>534133640
Wait, isnt that the Juggernaut ascension image? I thought Armor was garbage?

>>534136690
It is, but they are not going for armor

Unironically, I hope PoE 2 will flop hard and consume so much resources that they have to add waifu pet to recoup the loss. CN has new waifu pets every league and all we have are some deformed animals or insects. The loli ghost is a good first step but nowhere near enough

>>534137105
genshin collab will save poe

>>534136921
they aren't 'going for armor' they all just happen to have a lot of it because all their gear is armor based and they have a bunch of armor passives on the tree.

>>534136338
>what do you mean not every support gem works on every ability
christ bro aren't you supposed to be playing fortnite right now?

>>534136690
huh? armour is fine in poe1

>>534139479
>>534136921
The duality of man.

>>534137105
after playing phrecia and seeing what poe 4.0 would have been i'm glad they made poe 2 a new game.

>>534137105
>how to spot asian diaspora in the west

>>534142142
Nothing wrong with wanting good cosmetics.

>>534143007
>good cosmetics is tranime inspired shit in a grimdark ARPG

anyone try the new endurance charge looper yet

more like endurance charge pooper lmaooo

>>534143207
>a trillions variations of cats
>singing goblins
>a fucking kiwi
so grim, so dark

>>534144476
retard

>>534144476
>lets add more retarded cosmetics because we already have retarded cosmetics

>>534144832
Дa

>>534144832
we already have similar coombait characters like Zana and Alva. Adding more similar looking characters is far better than random animals

>>534144553
he's not wrong, they slowly moved away from grimdark cosmetics and then quickly embraced completely random shit, once they moved into the chink market it was basically anything goes.
like why the fuck are there so many wings?

>>534071605
Is Jonathan a dictator or why the fuck would they tell this story?

>>534145943
>actually jonatroon is not an incompetent hack that's going to mismanage this company into bankruptcy
>he is very wise and knowledgeable
>please continue buying our goypacks saars!

>>534146443
>the guy who made the engine and designed half of the systems in poe 1 and has worked on the game everyday for almost 2 decades actually know what he is doing.
it does sound pretty far-fetched.

>>534144476
>xir thinks having kiwis is a problem in a game made in new zealand and heavily borrowing from a local racial demographics themes

>>534145312
just jack off, pervert

>>534146935
i'm jerking as we speak

>>534145312
>regular, conventionally attractive women are coombait
your brain is rotten

>>534146807
half their population is women, better put some in as cosmetics.

>>534113474
lol there are more people active in his hate subreddit than his own.
lmao

>>534146732
>>the guy who made the engine and designed half of the systems in poe 1 and has worked on the game everyday for almost 2 decades actually know what he is doing.
good morning saar! please consult the graph >>534121065

>>534147309
it's hard to take you seriously when you didn't know who the guy was until a few months ago.

>>534084837
>>534145943
Johnathan is sitting on his vision for 9 months despite losing 95% of the playerbase and billion threads and YouTube vids calling this vision out.
Of course he is the dictator.
He is little fat kiwi dictator feeling comfortable in his little poop ecosystem.

>>534146732
Jonathan has been working on PoE 2 for the last six years. He hasn't even played the game since Blight League. What are you talking about?

>>534147729
you don't need to take me seriously saar! you only need to consult the graph. thank you saar!

>>534148080
>uhhh acksually he designed both games.
yup.

>>534148120
sorry i am only redeem poewun chart it did be go from 178k to 13k on this most new exile season.
very bad saar!
needing back chris bloody bicth wilson back in office!

>The general is so dead that it's just schizo seething to himself about the backlash caused by PoE 2 and Jonathan
Just let it die, guys.

>>534145943
>or why the fuck would they tell this story
Game industry is known to have blacklist for snitches that spill the beans
Unless you are indie, this is the reason why all shit that happens in studios is not getting leaked unless someone meltdowns first(and gets blacklisted for this lmao)
We had poodev anon posting here though. He is probably fired by now.

>>534149006
to be fair watching schizo and 17 saar it up has been more fun than 3.26.

>>534149073
He claimed he wasnt jeet tho, he was probably malaysian or something like this

>>534149179
thats a low bar

>>534149258
there was only one leaker and it wasn't the doomer larp that said indians are based and redpilled and all the whyte peepo at ggg turned into trannies.
years ago there was a guy who would post a very vague breakdown of the next league mechanic around a month before launch.
chris complained about it during a livestream q&a or a podcast and the leaks stopped.

How far did you freaks get in the gauntlet? What's your level and build that hit a wall?

>>534150108
Damn i wasnt posting in the gen back then, do you have a vid or clip where Chris mentioned it, or do I have to look it up myself?

Whenever I check this general after a couple of weeks I realize it's just full of unironic repulsive schizophrenic psychopaths.
Easily the worst general on this board.

>>534150612
iirc it was more of a passing comment, not something he was really focused on. it was probably during the expedition copecasts because he was fed up at that point.

>>534149179
kys

Harvest Manifesto was the greatest era of PoE

>>534151367
>full of unironic repulsive schizophrenic psychopaths
you aren't wrong but it's still weirdly one of the more comfy generals

>>534151715
Well the schizos seem to be more lighthearted, i assume you are 17. Good morning Saar.

>>534151367
>tone policing on 4chan
retarded nigger

>>534151998
meds wait nvm just kys

>>534151998
>lighthearted
Yes, the losers who sit in a discord and try to get any info on anons so they can stalk every one of their online accounts are very light-hearted, retard

>>534152112
>>534152347
TUBBED

>>534152562
I came up with saying tubbed btw. Thanks for parroting my memes.

>>534152682
is there anything you can't do jrv? aside from getting more than 17 challenges.

>>534152836
The banter is so boring and stale. Get new material, you hack.

jrv won

Stop pretendng to be me

>>534152836
he can't stop buying support packs

>>534152942
>you have disposable income to spend on something you enjoy
Whoa, buddy! These are some heavy-hitting kneeslappers. We're going to bully JRV off the general with this epic banter!

>>534152836
Holy impotent rage.

uh oh melty

Nigga who the fuck is JRV
I hate when generals turn into this

>>534134192
the skill heavily railroads you into stacking strength
it only scales with int to 500 which you actually reach without a single +x int mod. if you stack strength, you will get that much from just +x to all attributes and %increased attributes on gear and tree. you also cant use energy blade since it requires a staff so stacking int becomes even worse. you just build it like a traditional strength stacker as the autists have minmaxxed for msoz.
the only real difference is that you dont need crown of eyes and you dont use return proj or reduced proj speed, so your gear looks a bit different. but looking at how absolutely nobody is playing it i assume its just worse numerically than msoz and theres basically no reason to use it

fun league, shame only the worst parts (memory threads/items and the three giant cock bosses) are going core

>>534153265
Why should mercenaries go core?

>>534153265
>are going core
are already core*

>>534153414
retard

HUGE update, we got em lads.

>>534153603
alkLFG

>>534153126
he is the guy who spams jonatroon, jroonathan, poo, tub, etc on cooldown.
months ago he was crossposting his jonathan 'woodful' rogers spergouts from the forum to the general, an anon found his account and made fun of him for only have 17/40 in settlers.

0.3 around the corner

lets LOFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbNofiwbcd8

>>534154075
I dont hate this.

>>534154256
kamil even commented the vid

>>534154023
Brvtal

>>534153603
whose that there was a guy in my global with a name like that always spamming big gambas

>>534154075
>poe2 literally copy/pastes what d4 was doing months ago
kek I mean it makes sense, poe2 is going down d4's path might as well check all the boxes.

abe aka celi status?

>>534155442
It's fan made tho, they're just highlighting it, Blizzard had to make their own because they have no fans.

>"fan made"
With fan payment

After watching tax playing GD an urge to reinstall and play it myself Intensifies.
Are there any must have mods or clean game is good to go?

>>534155592
Just accept your preconceptions were wrong you narcissist.

>>534154023
reminder, this guy got raped so hard by me that he had to make up all of this to cope. He's so broken that he thinks everyone is me and it's hilarious.

>>534155879
>he thinks everyone is me
and who are you?

>>534156168
the man who raped your mind

>>534155879
So you are JRV? I saved one or two of those collages someone made ages ago, shit was pretty funny my guy.
Wild that you are still seething over this nonsense thoughbeit.

>>534156297
>gets mindraped so hard that he makes up an unoriginal meme that's pure projection
Peak grim.

SAAAR I DO THE RAPING ON YOU, NOT YOU ONE ME!! EVEN THO YOU FORCED ME TO COMPLETELY KEK OUT AND COMPROMISE ON MY PRINCIPALS AND DO LEAGUE CHALLENGES IN MY PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO SEEK VALIDATION FROM CHAD POEG USERS SAAAAAR!!!

>>534156431
same material for six months now. Absolutely mindbroken and tubbed.

I just dropped a huge Path of Exile in the toilet
Its my biggest creation

>>534156395
didn't you get bullied by /pooegg/ into doing challenges this league?

>>534156496
>t. coping narcissist who can't admit when he's wrong about everything

>>534156569
i'll take that as a yes.

the worst part is jrv doesn't even post here anymore

If I just repeat their insults back at them, surely this will convince others I'm not a MEGAPUSSY

>>534156606
>you can't do challenges, you're too bad at the game
>does challenges
>Uh, actually, we bullied you into doing them
Narcissistic, wrong-about-everything cope.

After multiple leagues bombing hard, some fangirls really got mind broken because of that onslaught of doom posts.

>>534156732
>I just don't read the challenges because I'm not poor enough to need free MTX
oof

>>534156914
I'm not. Proving retards wrong(like always) is much more satisfying than some MTX. Why do you think I'm here, retard?

>we're going to make you a lolcow
>gets bodied repeatedly and schizos out about me to random anons laughing at PoE 2 almost daily
Is that what winning looks like?

>>534156656
This is hard cope, the dudes entire existence and personality revolves around being a chronically online "4chan poster".
From his vocabulary to character name choices, it's all a desperate attempt for validation and being apart of the in group.

The dude is such a smolbrained ape that I can easily manipulate, he can't even come up with his own retorts or insults, its just "no you" ad nauseam.
As experiments, I throw of random phrases like "lil gup" "schizo" etc and he immediately adopts it as his own. Today I started calling him a narcissist, and he's already adopted that into this vocab. >>534156732
He's a human who acts like a spambot, it's so funny to prod this spastic.

>>534157208
>Narcissist retard gets called out and has to write some cope post
BTW only a narcissist actually thinks that word has any power which is why I chose to mock you with it. Keep up.

>>534157208
i called him a lolcow once and then he called anyone making fun of him 'lolcow' for 3-4 threads in a row, so your assessment is spot on.

____________17_____________

So when's the next Titan Quest 2 update

>>534157378
>two retards sitting in a discord posting to one another
One of you retards literally told me six months ago that you were going to make me a lolcow like Ashur. Instead you ended up being labeled as stalker schizo and bootlicker tranny by the whole general. Genius tactic. I would rather be known as some number you made up to cope about PoE 2's failure than that. That must hurt.

>>534157474
3-4 months, they smartly scheduled between the PoE 1 and 2 update slumps.

>>534157541
I guess that's smart but woof 3 months for another act is rough. Guess that's the nature of the beast.

>>534157489
>some number you made up
you mean 17? that isn't made up, it's a reference the the 17 challenges you were able to complete in the settlers of kalguur league.

Is this "whole general" in the thread with us right now?
Or is it just a euphemism for your PC + your phone?

>>534157656
and? It was never funny or had any power. You guys had to force something so stupid and inane for six months because you got shit on over PoE 2 and couldn't hang. You disappeared after 0.2 was shit out and then come back like nothing happened. That's some meek, beta behavior.

poop2 lost btw

i don't know what to believe anymore
this could very well just be a bunch of discord trannies roleplaying

>"I don't post here anymore"
1min later
>Ok you caught me, It's me, I do post here

Wrapped right around my finger little gup succ, sad you think you still have free will.

>>534157806
Ah, 17!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saar, you are the raped!!!!!
>>534157834
it always was that. that's what makes it so pathetic and mentally ill. I enjoy egging them on because they thought they owned this general when they ar

>>534157803
>It was never funny or had any power.
and yet here you are, 5 months later having another meltdown over it.

>>534157834
That's a safe assumption whenever this quasi namefag behaviour is around, even if there's no basis in reality

>>534157834
I roleplay as both sides sometimes
not affiliated with any of these fags though

>>534157879
when they are fags who nobody likes. whoops autopost was on.
>>534157882
You have meltdowns about me almost daily when I'm not even in the general.

>>534157803
>it was never funny

>y-you have no power over me!!!!!!
Explain why for the first time ever, you went out of your way to do 36/40.

>>534156431
Seventeenth time*

>>534158014
Cope. You lost.

Are there any good poeg memes? I don't think so.

Looks to me like the whole general is turning on JRV... this can't be happening, he's in charge here!

>>534158141
17, get it? HAHAHA, look I samefagged with a laughing .gif despite seething about you every day

>>534158152
That's what you've basically said with your seething posts about how I've created every meme about PoE 2, but wait, I'm also a spambot who can only repeat things. Nice double think, retard. I'm not a beta male like yourself who sits in a discord and needs headpats from e-celebs that I view as superior to myself. What a grim state of being.

>>534157962
anon is right, 'no u!' thats the only trick in your bag lmao

>>534158423
I don't speak to brownoids who can't capitalize or punctuate and write "lmao" to their own shitty posts.

>>534158481
no, you are the brownoid!
now what?

>>534158141
FREE?! guy is my favourite
my second favourite is seventeen

>>534158136
I MOGGED you tho

>40/40 challenges
>not a single mirror tier gear in any of his characters
What is this type of shitter called

>>534158672
Nobody cares.

if you only do 36/40, you didn't beat the league nor the game. you're just as bad as the average redditor

>>534158758
>not a single mirror tier gear in any of his characters

>>534158758
I think it's called you having to make up new cope after being proved wrong repeatedly.

>>534158481
only extreme autists or ESLs that are overcompensating care about proper punctuation in their worthless anonymous internet posts

>>534158645
I was thinking on it and the only meme i like is people pretending their game is broken when they hit that treasure trove mod or whatever its called where all the items are the same

Nice game pooshits

Nice game poopturds

poo2 0.3 is gonna flop like 0.2 did and ill love shitting on its gay little fans here again

>>534158887
that's a good one, I'd say it counts.
I really like the Deus Ex/Chris post on the Why contain it scene. That's a classic.
Also this one, the POEG map is great, and the essence, the Dune/"I said I wouldn't nerf it and I won't, but the bloat takes the weak" one.
There's a couple more like that

>>534159164
see now that's a good meme, someone should make a fresh one for POE2 with unID'd flails and Jonatroon's shit as the extra item

>>534159189
y-you love shitting on gay men?

The Raped [Maven Invitation] - Kraut, Ashur, Conner Converse, Seventeenth (It That Finances)

>>534159348
>cue samefag laughing .gifs

>>534159348
>PoM

>>534159386
>It That Finances

why does she samefag

>>534158141
I liked the pepe with the windripper and qotf cycling away from the hardcuck that we used to use as an OP

>>534159164
Why would they add this?

i like seeing ocs I made a decade ago being posted

2020 was the future when i made this oh god

I don't get the way you guys think. I want CURRENCY. 30 div/hr right out of red maps. 10 div/hr red maps. I'm in this for CURRENCY. I don't care about whether I'm "fulfilled" I want CURRENCY. Whatever gets me the most CURRENCY. What do I need on my atlas to get the most CURRENCY. What build gets me PAID THE BEST. All I care about in this game is CURRENCY. That's why I'm playing, I don't wanna laugh and play with y'all. I don't wanna be buddy buddy with y'all. I'm here for CURRENCY.

Chris and the gang signing my cringe compilation and our artfag's boss drawing is probably my favourite meme, very wholesome big chungus

>>534160270
Geg

>>534160270
>signed memes
jonathan would never or wood he?

I just run out of gears I can sell and I'm not even done with my build

>troonime
>ESL
pottery

when are we getting a new event that's not g*untlet

Have they still not revealed anything for 0.3?

>>534162602
Beacuse its in 3 weeks
They're gonna start dropping teasers this weekend

>>534150187
Killed Hillock. Got the glove MTX. Logged off.

>>534150187
Died to merveil once. Then died to malachai. Just now doing a third run and going ballistas so I can pass the gay beam shit. Econc is a meme for the sweats

>>534166198
Sir, your Decoy Totem?

>>534072880
The internet is fake and gay. Didn't you know?

>>534166278
It's not malachai that killed me. There's extra proj so the screen gets massively cluttered with those red blood orbs , sigil and you have to navigate maven beams while walking around the arena. I'm not that autistic with mousing so I stepped on some shit and hit a beam and couldn't pot.

Next time, I shan't be moving out of my square

the soul left with chris
it’s over

>>534158014
The schizo got blasted hard by literally every named poster he tried to bully out of here. Bet if he didn't play the game it would again be the same outcome with that schizo. It's peak impotent baby rage.

>>534162314
Play HSR

I like how I can doompost here and some guy thinks I'm some other guy and starts schizoing out at me but in the mean time the other guy comes in the thread and see the schizo posting and starts replying to him and then they go back and forth and some other anons join in the shitposting and when things start to simmer down I post again and start shit all over.
hilarious.

He's literally me

>>534168212
11/40 in affliction btw

You know what's weird about the hcssf gauntlet? I actually prefer the feeling of tension it gives. I'm actually enjoying going through acts a little bit slower and trying to grind out better gear and capping res early by gambling etc. Except GGG would never balance the game like this. The HCSSF gauntlet plays a lot like D2 in that you are checking vendors more often, worrying about capping res, and worrying about the mobs that are off screen. Not even Poe2 has this. Not even poe2 has a reason to repeat old zones. Gaining exp and getting better gear are almost impossible without progressing in the story. You can't get higher gem levels, and you get no gold for gambling

GGG don't know what they're doing if ziz can make a better "poe2" experience in poe1 than they can

>>534168426
This has been going on for five years now. He got completely mind broken by doom posters.

>>534168284
>gachaslop

>>534168426
same
I've caused a couple thread long spergouts in the past few weeks with just a little doompost here and there

>>534168284
>mihomoslop

What's the threshold between criticizing the game and doomposting?

>>534168863
Yeah I usually larp as JRV just for the lulz, its an easy (you) farm.

>>534168426
It's honestly great. It further feeds into his psychosis where he thinks everyone is me and then I just respond like it was me the whole time to really kick things off.

>>534168792
The gauntlet is extra retarded. The lack in speed is only with builds that are not strong. I have the comparison of one build being completely ass and slow as hell, versus my new build blitzing through the campaign with little that stops me. The one thing that is stopping me is gearing up here and there.
In total, the gauntlet or hardcore in general favours people playing builds that are safe, and let little room for experiments, if you want to get far.
They need to get the tension through different means.

>>534169273
maybe it;s just psychological then because I am unfamiliar with hardcore and can't really gauge what might kill me so I'm taking extra time with everything. I mean I'm probably hilariously overgeared, merveil went down in a matter of a few seconds this time

>>534143725
No.
It's a funny gimmick character that punches way below investment.

>>534169049
There is none apparently. Effort-posting with legitimate criticism enrages hopesissies just as much if not even more than just outright doomposting and ragebaiting.

>>534143725
If you want a good cwdt-type build just do a cws chieftain

>>534169223
I just wish retards like you would stop pretending to be me.

I am every poster in this thread though

>>534168792
I literally couldnt give less of 2 fucks about "the" fucking gauntlet stop bringing up streamer slop in here

>>534170232
I didn't ask what your opinion was you silly bitch. Kindly go back to the poop2 general

>>534170705
You keep stinking up the thread with that shit as if anyone cares bro, let it go. I dont care what zizaran is up to, i dont wanna see his name in here

>>534170912
I dont want to see YOU here

>>534168426
poor schizo is just fueling his own misery

>>534168792
I agree, the main unfun thing about the POE1 campaign isn't the length or the quality of encounters, it's the fact that it's too easy so you barely engage with the game's systems, and your engagement is usually limited only to the most boring, tedious part (sockets and coloring and pretty much nothing else).
That said I don't think they struck a good balance in the gauntlet. 99% of the campaign is still brainlessly easy, and the remaining 1 percent is a mix of somewhat difficult boss encounters that buildcheck and skillcheck you, and shit that isn't really difficult but can just surprise you (le anchor lolololol). It ends up being more engaging than a normal campaign run but only just, and only for like 1 playthrough.
I'm a little mad at myself that I bullied myself into bothering with finishing it, I really don't like Phrecia ascendancies, and I don't like overfarming being the most obvious solution to 90% of encounters.
I hope they do a gauntlet where mobs don't respawn. That would be a challenge.

poop
of
excrement

poo1 lost
sleepoch lost
d4 lost
poe2 won
tq2 won
grim dawn won

>>534174865
If my character dies, I'll drop out. Act 4 malachai and his goons are uber retarded. I share your sentiments about the gauntlet and should have stopped earlier.

>>534174865
So much of the complaints about game speed hinge on the fact that low skill players try to imitate the gameplay of speed runners, instead of taking their time. Playing campaign with just frostblink and quicksilver feels infinitely better and more enjoyable than ramming shield charge when you have low attack speed and your connection is shit. I think people have just gaslit themselves into playing in the most enjoyable ways based off of twitch watching, and can't get it out of their heads that they have to look like them.

I also think game speed and play is infinitely more fun if you just had quicksilver up 100% of the time they just removed the flask. Poe1 has a lot of incredible gameplay moments that poe2 just didn't capture. The audio score is top notch when there's actually a sense of danger that most people completely ignore now because they faceroll everything with netdecking. I'd say maybe they'll capture this feel someday in poe2 but i won't hold my breath. Game is too slow, and they are still weighed down by this obsession with never giving the player good drops.

>>534175289
Trvthnado

>>534175819
>they are still weighed down by this obsession with never giving the player good drops
retard

>>534175819
>they are still weighed down by this obsession with never giving the player good drops.
Look at Last Epoch for what happens when a game showers you with personalized good drops. You reach basically 99% gear cap within a week and the economy is dead stale except a few giga rare items, so everyoen goes playing SSF
Like it or hate it, a large part of the reason PoE is so successful is the exciting trade economy. SSF players are extremly, EXTREMLY, loud mouthed, but they are a minority of ARPG players. Catering to them is a death knell as sleepoch will soon find out

>>534175819
>ramming shield charge when you have low attack speed
i think even new players know you can link momentum and faster attacks to shield charge and blast through the campaign without issue.

poop2's campaign is dogshit with so much time wasting and back tracking all designed to artificially inflate playtime to make retention look better on a graph for tencent

>>534175819
>instead of taking their time
You say this, but a lot of people just won't get anything out of taking their time with the campaign. You have to be a specific type of person to be able to extract fun out of the POE1 campaign past your first playthrough.
Having to play transitory skills is just boring to a lot of people, and like I said, the campaign is too easy to require you to interact with POE's many systems too much, you just slap on some obvious choices for offense and defense and trivialize most of it with no brainwork.
Item acquisition feels like ass because the difference in getting a god tier weapon and scraping by with vendor-recipe axe is difficult to notice.

>>534168426
based

Post (You)r character in league to prove you're not just a tourist shitting up this general.

>>534178923
stfu nigger

>>534175985
Its objectively true. My first gauntlet run was kinda shit but the I amassed a few k gold to gamble and it's been more enjoyable

>>534176338
That's not the problem with retention for LE and you know it.

It also wasn't the problem in d2. You face rolled everything on a blizz sorc day 1 and mfed your brains out looking for the top1% items. People will minmax for that last 1% even if it's meaningless so long as it's fun.

>>534180205
>That's not the problem with retention for LE and you know it.
It absolutely is. The progression is pitiful.
I've not played D2 so i wouldnt know, but im pretty sure runewords take a long time to grind for

>>534179065
any tips to getting to 90 in hc? it's really slow doing white maps at 80+

>>534180417
Sanctum is amazing leveling if your build can handle it and do it reasonably fast. Used to get lvl 100 week 1 every league start with hexblast mines occultist in sanctum

>>534180417
It's boring and slow. You basically can't have fun in the game mode. What I did was try to remind myself to take my time and to only kill 1-2 packs at once. Also I would leave maps that had weird packs of mobs, like those Bassilisk assholes with multi proj and haste. Aside from that it just takes time.

I did my run on a Chieftain to cap resistances easier. Crafted my rings on Amethyst base and got chaos res capped at level 55 or so. Hold off on killing Kitava until you can safely take the -30/-60% res hit.

>>534180376
>let me, a complete fucking retard whose never played d2 share my opinion
They do not. You don't know what you are talking about

>>534180376
>I've not played D2 so i wouldnt know
Diablo II Remastered is available. Give it a try. It's still a great game and frankly you're missing out if you haven't tested it.

>>534180417
Spam Jun more (if you can handle all Betrayal encounters), safehouse double XP really helps if you can run only dogshit low level content.
Also play a build that doesn't have to run white maps and can juice. Level 90 doesn't take long if you just progress through map tiers naturally.

>>534181630
This is true. I would have played a more DPS oriented build if I wasn't going for the achievements, but since that was on the line I just wanted to complete them and be done with it. There is no way I'm playing HC again, though.

>>534181202
Im not saying D2 definitely has good progression, that was just my impression and I shared it because you randomly decided to bring the game up instead of talking about sleepoch, which I know for a fact has shit progression
>>534181321
Might try it one day. I play PoE for the endgame so Ive been put off D2 since basically all youtube content about the game seems to be about leveling which im not that interested in

>>534181875
Saying last epoch has bad progression so any novel solutions to the current status quo would necessarily lead to a "le situation" is a logical fallacy. It's a false dichotomy. Drop rates, item hunt, progression etc don't exist on the basis of exactly two systems, one being poe, and the other LE. There are an infinite variety of ways to structure the balance of a game. Anytime anyone brings up modified your autistic little cuckcage you retards always bring up irrelevant shit like LE or D3 auction house.

But reality tells differently. There's an entire world of games that exist outside of the grind of poe, tons of them far more popular. So making this claim that you alone in your favela crunching pork rinds and shitting in a bucket know what makes a good rpg is a little fucking ridiculous. You wanna wageslave a computer game be my guest. But don't roll your retard opinion out like it isn't the refuge of some rmt faggot wanting to waste his life away on a screen

>>534182981
Keep crying shitter that getting good loot is too freaking hard and that they should bring back harvest item editor

>>534181875
What other game can you play as a literal nigger? Oh, wait.. All of the modern ones.

'poch sisters, why did china dump us even after our mega hype game-changing content patch?

>>534184014
jonatroon convinced them 'poch was stealing player count from poo2

>>534182981
>tons of them far more popular
such as?

>>534184342
Jonathan is about to betray the trade manifesto and implement some retarded trading system that emulates sleepoch and it will make the game utterly soulless, just like sleepoch

>>534184805
don't worry, poo2 was never going to make it beyond being fotm trash

>>534184805
I'd already be happy if we had player buy out vendors doing the trade for us while we are online or something. Even if it was only ten active trades, it would be better than the fucking hassle we have now.

>>534185084
retard

>>534184716
Which of these games is an autistic loot grind with layers upon layers of rng? How about WoW? Could it be that your specific genre of autistic grinding just isn't all that relevant to the gaming world? Should we really be taking advice from the lowest common denominator of basement dwelling neets?

>>534186946
>Which of these games is an autistic loot grind with layers upon layers of rng?
Lost Ark is, which is the only ARPG on that list. People aren't going to decide to play a moba or a battle royale when they want to play an ARPG

>>534185084
Brudda, mandem gonna put it in PoE 1 aswell, just like every retarded """"QoL"""" they've added to PoE 2

>>534186946
fortnite literally mogs every game on that list combined.

>>534186946
Imagine coming to a PoE general and trashtalking the games fundamental systems and asking us to copy WoW more
Get a life lil bro

>>534187749
they got nothing left, all other arpgs flopped.

>>534187308
People don't want to play arpgs because they fucking suck as a whole because the people that play them can't evolve. Look at how many new people played DOS2 with just some modernization to the combat. Thr faggotry notwithstanding, that game repopularized the genre. The shitty grind of arpgs holds it back from more popularity. That and the old fashioned style closed off zones.

>>534188096
>all arpgs flopped
Brother, stop coping

>>534074048
the ones who care are busy playing
there are only malding jeets and other shills ITT

>>534188303
i'm sorry what arpg are we trying to shill today sis?
tq2 couldn't make it past the weekend so thats out. grim dawn?

i hope we get some new hideouts in poe2, the current ones i dont like that much especially since i dont have my turtle hideout from poe1

>>534188510
None. I literally just said they all flopped. Are you retarded or something? I'll repeat. They ALL flopped. You get mugged by fucking mobas, fps, arena shooters, wrpgs, sandbox fucking survival crafting trash, and pokemon.

Do you think the genre is in a good spot or no? Are you just gonna deflect and talk about last epoop again?

I genuinly thought the "there is no last epoch general so they come here" thing was a meme but it ended up totally true lmfao
Imagine being this guy

>>534188832
the poe 2 early access has the 17th highest all-time peak on steam. poe 1 is the 33rd.
so there is clearly a market for the games. why aren't you playing fortnite, minecraft or roblox?

>jaded faggots can't enjoy anything anymore, neither poe nor other arpgs
Guess it's over for you.

what is happening on ruetoos stream?

>>534189781
it says there's nothing happening

>>534189140
I have this theory that it's impossible to be even 0.01% interested in Last Epoch unless you have spent money on it.
So far it seems to be accurate 100%. No one who pirated it ever played it again.

not true, i enjoy shitposting in /poog/

>>534190082
this but /zzzg/

>>534189781
why is this so common in the poe community

>>534189781
>he doubted the poochud into hrt pipeline

>>534189781
he's going down the onlyafro path. a grim fate to be sure

>>534189210
Shilled like D4. No one cares now and each patch has half the players and abysmal retention.

i played poe2 until 5am last night....i was having fun to the point i lost track of time, didnt expect that, cant wait for 0.3 to make the game even better

>>534191043
>i played poe2
>i was having fun
haha yeah alright whatever you say jonathan *wink*

>>534189781
Post a screenshot. I have no idea what you are talking about.

>>534191043
these are getting pathetic. use an AI if you insist on shilling

>>>>>1043

made me lul irl

>>534191026
people haven't shilled d4 in ages tho? more fair to compare the shilling to last epoch, ehg and ziz spent a lot of money buying hype for that slop.

Y'all remember when Jonathan said the flask refilling well was just an alpha thing and it was gonna be removed for the early access launch?
Y'all remember the gaslighting in THIS very general whenever the flask refilling was brought up?

>>534191043
POOOOOOOOOOG

the true test of a game is how many players are left after all the streamerniggers that have been paid to stream it have stopped streaming it, all their goypackers stopped playing it because mr streamer did, all the fomo niggers stopped, all the jewtube ecelebs stopped shitting out useless "builds" videos and the only thing that's left is the game itself.
if a game is good it's going to have a good amount of players still playing even 2 months later after league launch. the reason for this is because the game can only improve during the league with many patches fixing bugs, buffing non meta skills etc. and let's not forget about server stability, less laggy etc.
now, let's see poe2's numbers.

>>534191784
>compromise on something very important (not being able to roll through monsters)
>won't compromise on something completely irrelevant and pointless (well)
GGG blows my mind sometimes.

>>534189210
Because I want to play a good arpg and all modern games have turned to slop. Chink run poe included

>>534191962
>if a game is good it's going to have a good amount of players still playing even 2 months later after league launch.
that doesn't exist in the arpg genre, it didn't exist with d2 ladders, then ggg perfected it during the first few years of poe 1. you play for 2-4 weeks and then fuck off.

>>534191962
Their biggest mistake was to not buff skills on a regular basis. Meta shakeups could be done with big updates like their pseudo leagues, but it's retarded how they neglected the game.

>>534192624
zoomer cope.

>>534191962
Stupid niGGGers have no idea how to balance. I wish we had the equivalent of IceFrog in arpgs.

>>534192624
Yes it did. Pvp kept the game alive
The problem with modern arpg players is they have no balls. They don't play hc, and they don't want pvp . Something like a medium core arpg with loot loss on death would blow their minds. But that's exactly how you give an arpg longevity. All red maps should be valdo void maps

You know what's the best about the Gauntlet?
The fact that you'll be able to blow up any argument on /poeg/ with a simple "show gauntlet level".

https://youtu.be/jVRADmjzsss?si=30RvW4wjYORHqwOu
>no parry niggery
>character moves fast
>silver flask
>chris wolcen narrating
literally what the fuck happened holy fuck just give me this game.

>>534193431
>They don't play hc, and they don't want pvp . Something like a medium core arpg with loot loss on death would blow their minds.
so nothing like diablo 2 then?

>>534193952
>literally what the fuck happened

>>534193952
The game looks literally just as good then as it does now, what the fuck did they spend 3 years doing???

>>534193952
this looks floaty as shit especially the combat the only thing i want is a sprint function

>>534195242
implementing WASD run and gun movement to the character and thus had to redesign monsters to deal with it that took them a extra year at least and that probably bottlenecked production

>>534194008
Diablo 2 you even needed to pick up your corpse in softcore, and the entire game revolved around making pvp twinks etc. If you didn't play hc d2 you're nothing

>>534195750
Rather floaty (crisp movement) than dogshit being weighed down by 2 tons of bricks walking throuh sand

>>534195906
its poe1 with sprinting animations its honestly not a sequel the game deserves, the animations now are honestly god tier, no arpg even competes to it now, they all feel like a lower tier because they dont move whilst using skills, dont get me wrong i like old arpgs but when you compare the two its clear as day, poe2 is in a fucked places due to other issues but the run and gun WASD animations is not one of them is 100% not one of them.

>>534195242
>what did they spend 3 yrs doing
Adding a well, way points, nerfing mobility, nerfing flasks, nerfing action speed and slowing animations. Oh, removing a bunch of currency items.

Yes, that's literally it. It took them 3 yrs to regress the game instead of adding anything, anything at all. 3 years to delete some files and click a number down in animation settings. Zaccie did this

>>534195878
retard

Why did Zizaran league flop?

>>534195878
>Diablo 2 you even needed to pick up your corpse in softcore
the fact that you have to run back to your corpse to pick up your stuff is the most annoying shit i have seen in any arpg i just stopped playing the other day because i couldnt be bothered collecting my shit in D2

>>534196592
because i didnt play it

blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>534196531
>get proven wrong
>can't rebut so just retardpost
Once again, triggered the retardposter. I've hit my mark for the day

>>534196361
retard

Next patch CI will also reduce your global ES by 60%
zaccie himself told me

>>534196592
the novelty started to wear off a few gauntlets ago, it's a massive time commitment, it's not very fun, most of the people who play the game as a job basically have to put in a 200 hour work week to win a 30 dollar mtx.
>>534197175
you don't have to pick up your corpse in diablo 2 retard, you can just make a new game and your corpse is at your feet. if for some reason you NEED to run back to your corpse, diablo 2s power is mostly in the character so getting back to your corpse isn't that big of a deal aside from having cucked fcr.

>>534197265
>nerfing blue life
>under jonathans lead
does he know?

>play antiquarian memebuild
>do 2 labs
>a third lab would literally be all downsides (other than taking only small passives but cmon)
I'd love to talk to the guy who designed this ascendancy, it's so fucking bizarre.

>>534196361
Genius

https://webcdn.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3687939/page/1

The trvthiest nvkenado. Will ggg deliver on these issues?

>>534197767
I aint clickin that shit nigga

>>534197427
i'm talkin bout poop wun

pheces of excrement is truly a terrible game now that baldman is gone
I still need to alch and go maps for 5000 more quality complete 36/40

>>534197427
Jonathan is a bowcuck

>>534197998
since talisman league? agreed

>>534197421
>>534196592
Last gauntlet was by far the most fun one ever to play through the campaign of as a casual. Don't watch any streamers so don't care about that. The campaign in this one kind of sucks because adding the extra world bosses doesn't really make the act bosses harder, just more tedious. And then mapping on Phrecia ascendancies in gauntlet just feels like you're playing regular SSF. Next league they should add more interesting mechanics to maps, maybe have world bosses spawn in those or something.

>>534198214
trvthlord

>>534198258
What's your name for the random retard with the axe in a9 that you sometimes run into if you fuck up the layout?

>>534198168
nex gauntlet they should actually make changes to the campaign as a whole instead of frontloading it in act 1 and then occasionally giving a boss some extra adds later on
also they should buff poisonous concoction

>>534198214
Imho the atlas is fine with some reworks, they dont need to go back to the old map system
Its actually pretty comfy

>>534198385
That takes programmer time and they make no money from gauntlet so I get why they don't. Easy shit like Oak being omni is funny once but would get old fast if they repeated it.

what if the secret to making a good arpg is not having hair?

>>534198832
>Easy shit like Oak being omni is funny once but would get old fast if they repeated it.
you mean like they did this time?

>>534198412
the problem is people trying to minmax juicing in the ea, if you just alch and go it's fine. the juice really isn't worth the squeeze until they add more mechanics.

the way ggg handles this early access reminds me of crypto pump and dumps.
they release a big patch for everyone to buy packs and boxes and whatever else they have for sale and then go quiet for half a year then come back with another big patch this time the game is fixed for sure guys please buy packs and boxes and the cycle begins anew.
why are they still considered a good dev studio?

>>534199236
retard

>>534199163
No I mean if they did that multiple times throughout the campaign

>>534199236
Yea i can see people getting FOMO from the tower overlap bullshit. I personally just alch and go

EHG or GGG gonna release some fucking teasers or what, like 2 weeks out

>>534199372
You will be broke as fuck doing that, literally nothing drops if you don't invest something. Maybe one div an hour raw and another div in sellable stuff. Alch and go is pathetic in 2.

>>534199372 >>
>>534086323

>>534199552
>>534199587
Who cares?

>>534166479
just portal out bro

>>534199552
you make more rushing citadels than fucking around like a retard for hours trying to set up 3 maps with perfectly overlapped towers and praying one of them procs a bunch of breaches.

>>534200170
>breaches
>not wispmaxxing

>>534200039
Couldn't hit the button in time

>>534200334
What is bluds IIQ

>>534200334
yeah actually wisps are pretty decent. i hope they refine the mechanic in the future, their pathing can be pretty fucking annoying.

>>534200530
>>534200689
i was wispjockeying 15 wisps per map

>>534197421
>you don't have to pick up your corpse you just have to make a new game then pick up your corpse
Lmao retard. What you meant was corpse run, but it's a long held d2 standard that corpse logging is for faggots. Thanks for outting yourself

>>534200334
god poop2 looks like hot garbage

>>534197421
>make a new game for corpse
never getting back in the lobby if you do that, and it's incredibly bm to pk nude because shitcrows didn't wanna hurt feefees. you didnt play.

>>534200334
>immediately ruin the visual fidelity of your game but implementing the two most clusterfuck mechanics to the game, one with foggy grey shit visuals
Why did they do it? What happened to starting off with a clean slate?

>>534200796
>>534201135
literally no one gives a fuck about level 9 twink pvp in a 25 year old game.

>>534191043
nobody says or thinks this

>>534201394
I've always hated delirium for this, I've even considered installing poesmoother but I don't want to risk losing all my good goy outfits. PoE has so many nice looking tilesets, but you're forced to run deli on several strats and it's just grey grey and more grey

>>534201805
retard

>>534199247
crypto pump and dump is a crime with no victims, people who get into it and lose all their savings do so knowingly it's a scam and thinking they can get their money out before the other "suckers"
the exact same thing is people who pay to beta test a videogame and then complain it's unfinished

>>534198214
when you actually get a tower with 3 tablets and you put all 3 of the same league mechanic every map is juiced the fuck out because of it with that league mechanic, the annoying part s getting to it

>>534201619
>doubles down on knowing nothing
I accept your concession retardo

Why I stopped playing this game? Oh boy, where do I even begin:

Zero endgame content – unless your idea of fun is getting absolutely nothing for your effort.

Jonathan’s visionary approach™: Instead of buffing weak builds, they just nerf everything into oblivion. Even the weak stuff. Bold strategy.

It’s a one-weapon meta now. Everything else? Gutted, murdered, left in a ditch.

Magic Drop – completely disconnected from actual difficulty. Just stack it on gear and pray to RNGesus. Valuable loot is so rare it makes unicorns look overpopulated.

“Difficulty” now means mobs have a million HP and your damage feels like a wet noodle. Truly thrilling combat.

An endless parade of useless uniques and loot so broken it's practically a parody.

Trade system. No auction house, because apparently that would be “too abusable.” Instead, you spam whispers on a clunky website and hope someone, somewhere, answers. Feels modern and convenient – in a 2004 kind of way.

Crafting? Nah. We’ve got slot machines now. Burn currency, pull the lever, get trash. Repeat until mental collapse.

Mechanics ripped straight from POE1 – just without the systems that made them work. It’s like copying someone’s homework, but erasing all the correct answers first.

Disconnects, ping spikes, random crashes – the technical cherry on this flaming sundae.

And let’s be honest: the game is so raw, if it were a chicken, it’d still be clucking. Inside another chicken.

I’m honestly happy the player count is in the gutter now.
Funny how long it took people to finally drop this “masterpiece.”

Im planning to wait about 3 years to touch this game again. Enough time for GGG to make 0.5 patch.

>>534206557
retard

When will poe2 exit alpha stage?

>>534206376
Why the fuck are they like this? I genuinly dont understand why other ARPG players think this is their home general or something. Fuck off

>>534206797
I understand why /poeg/ becomes /arpgg/, and I don't mind that, but the attentionwhoring "I'M A L33T GAMER WHO IS WAY MORE HARDCORE THAN YOU" shit is annoying

>>534206557
>the game is so raw, if it were a chicken, it’d still be clucking. Inside another chicken.

didnt know gordon ramsey frequented poo egg

>>534206557
I thought you were talking about poe1 at first.

dont think im gonna make it to lvl 95 at this rate im too slow and retarded

>>534209025
genius

>>534206557
TRVTH TSVNAMI

>loses the argument so he starts talking to himself
Schizo bros..... our meds?

>>534206557
1k hours here

Skill cost imbalance
Skill imbalance in general
Lack of build diversity
Only three hard but fair fun bosses (Zarokh, Count and arbiter)
Time to access ( i wanna farm arbiter for a weekend and not have to grind for 400 hours to do so)
Tedium
Lack of content
Lack of Skill support
Time to fun ratio
Too much gamble
Too much randomization
Bad boss mechanics design (nothing interactive just spam the screen full of garbage)
Bad enemy design (run at you but have a different skin)
Bad item design - why so many negative effects
Bad power scaling
No auction house or offline selling.
Better games to play.

And the biggest one - all my friends quit.