Soft reset of top tier items: PoE is losing one of its key unique features!

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JakeAlmighty написал:

He's not wrong in saying that mirror gloves are far better than Acuity for non-crit builds. (obv Acuity doesn't do much for non-crit)


The trick was that if you had currency, the reasons not to play a crit based build were nil. And thus, did the Acuity reign supreme.

One of the only items I didn't sell off yet. Pretty much everything went over the last 3 months to be held as currency. Originals of mirror rings I'd been buying, Foe Bite, mirrored gear, etc, everything.

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Faendris написал:

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Miská написал:

Yes ofcourse, I wouldn't feel the decay in item value of item I currently own. Since there is no league going. That is obvious.

However that bring us back to the point i made originally. There will be little sympathy for the rich. Wich is a good thing imo.

The change still affects me in a way that I can find better items. You wouldn't understand this if you don't play leagues I'm afraid.

Can we agree on the following statement: "If the new affixes lead to you doing double dps and at the same time the life of the mobs is doubled, then you gained nothing?"

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FadeXF написал:

There's several underlining issues with telling people 1 thing then going and doing the exact opposite to what you originally said. It mostly becomes a trust issue now and who knows what other things GGG promised one day, then about faces the next?

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Faendris написал:

To me PoE was always unique in that all the effort and time that I invested in the game was preserved. Instead of (soft) item/level resets as in all other games GGG provided ways of lateral character development. I do believe that this is great game desing. Everything I did, every item I found and every time I crafted something felt meaningful, since I knew it was an improvement that was here to stay. I did not mind grinding the hell out of the game because I knew, in the end, it would increase my overall "wealth" in the game.

With the announcement of new tier-1 affixes this has changed dramatically. Like in WoW, Diablo III and other games items - or rather their relative value - have now become ephemeral. It is no longer worth it to strive for perfection. After all, the next soft reset may be right around the corner.

Some might argue, that the old top-tier Items are still good. That is true. But their relative value has decreased dramatically with today's announcement. I would estimate that today I lost the equivalent of about 2k to 3k ex in item value. Of course this hurts a lot. However, that is not the main point. I have enought et/ex/mirrors to be fully equipped in the new tier-1 stuff within a week of PoE 2.0 going live.

What is much worse is that I feel that this will happen again. And again. And again. This is what drove me from WoW and all the other games. I want my time investment to be meaningful. I really, really don't like it when the results of several hundres, if not thousands, of hours of gameplay is simply taken away.

Some might argue: "But Faedris, did you not enjoy those hundreds of hours of playing PoE?" I sure did. However I did so, because I was "working" towards a permanent goal - a perfectly crafted item, for example. If you take the permanency of the (value of the) item awyay my fun is gone. Grinding for perfect itmes feels meaningless to me, if they are no longer perfect after the next patch.

I sure will enjoy PoE 2.0 anyway and continue to support it. However I do believe that this is a very, very bad design decision. If it is really *neccessary* to introduce new, higher tier affixes (I do not really see this), at least provide some form of trade in for the old 6*t1 items and mirrored 6*t1 items. It does not have to be 100% of the average crafting cost or a whole mirror but at least preserve some of our efforts.