the biggest "LIE" of this game...

There seems to be a lot of confusion here between build diversity and skills diversity with some added chaos damage of gear diversity.

I can choose a witch (and always do) and I *always* find myself with the following choices:

1) Fireball & General fire specialist.
2) Spark & General lightning specialist.
3) Freezing Pulse/Ice Spear/shot & general cold specialist.
4) Minion Master.
5) Physical Wander.
6) Critical Daggers.

Then there's the choice multiplier of CI or Life. So that's now 12 choices.

And these are just the cookie cutter builds. You can take the Witch anywhere on the board and do anything with her, but the above are the 'prime' directions a Witch would go to in order to fully immerse yourself in the R of RPG.

You could have your Witch Leap Slamming with a Two Handed Axe or Poison Arrowing with Acrobatic finesse - but that's not really immersing yourself in the R of RPG, that's kind of like being silly for the lolz of being silly, or spotting a potential exploit etc.

In D&D you could be a Druid who spec'd themselves into a Two-Handed Tank, but if the game was limited to 20 levels, you're just lolz'ing with the game because the rules are not designed so that a Druid will be a Two-Handed Tank - they do not get the Bab bonus or weapon specialisation feats or apt increase, which is what makes a Two-Handed Tank a Tank. If there was a spell or feat or equipment which permitted a Druid to gain those advantages, then yes, exploit found.


But my Witch with 12 specialised choices is still a Witch. I can't dual class or multi class. I can't give a different race, not even a different gender. I can't give her a coven sect or specialised guild membership.

I'm still a Witch. I'm just a Witch using different 'skills'.

So this question of build diversity in PoE is more about skill diversity really.

But then... with people who talk about build diversity in PoE, are they actually meaning skill diversity because in PoE it's the skill which defines what a 'build' is and not the build which defines the build?

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kasub написал:

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because in PoE it's the skill which defines what a 'build' is and not the build which defines the build?

A skill it only a small part of a build. There is many things varying builds that use the same skill such as :

- Build defining uniques that make the character play differently.
- Skill gem combinations of course.
- Passive skilltree pathing determining if you're speccing into crit, elemental damage, physical damage, aura based character, bloodmagic, stun based character, block based character, CI, eldritch, acro..etc.
- Your other skills which compliment your main skill can differ one build from another.

If you're going to be that pedantic, then even the most basic RPG game will have 'endless' build variety because a simple fighter could be a Sword+Shield, Two-Handed-Sword, Dual-Wield Swords, Bastard Sword+Shield, Bastard Sword Two-Handed, Short Sword+Lonsword OMG I can't even be bothered to think of all the *variety* any RPG has in 'builds'...

And then you say if they wear a different item of clothing...