"Maven's Invitation: The Hidden" rant.....

god forbid the game be challenging again.

we're so used to it being an absolute joke and never failing anything the first time we try

i hope the other bosses that come looking for elder, or w/e the maven thing is, are even way more difficult. so that actually most people will fail them over and over and over again. and it isn't until persistence and perseverance kick in that you can learn adapt and overcome to actually win.

i like the days of MMOs when new dungeons were released and it took months for entire guilds to complete them. time to figure out how the mechanics work. time for you to get adept at those mechanics. time for you to get the required gear to overcome the dps checks to succeed in the face of those mechanics.

we're talking about the hardest content the game has to offer. not just that, but multiple hardest bosses stacked together. this is uber elder 2.0. we're also talking about 6 days into the league, and people (not specifically OP) are whining about things being difficult.


right. and what does GGG do? they've already severely nerfed the sirus stuff multiple times. they'll cave into the tears which are an illusion of majority and nerf this shit until its a joke as well.

poe 2.0 is just going to be loading up on the beach with all the latest mirror tier gear decked out in pure MTX waiting for you to click zoom zoom automate and just watch the game play itself.

i think ppl are getting too used to playing bullshit games like the last of us where it isn't a game, its a fucking movie, and quicktime events are not fun or engaging. do you want poe to just be a quick-time event regardless of your gear/build/etc?

personally i want a game that is challenging. thats the fun of it. there is so much to do and so much to upgrade in PoE you need to obtain those things in order to beat the challenge. even then, its up to you, as a player, to be good enough to do it.

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xMustard написал:

right. and what does GGG do? they've already severely nerfed the sirus stuff multiple times. they'll cave into the tears which are an illusion of majority and nerf this shit until its a joke as well.

I agree to some extent, however I think the way you define challenging content is a bit flawed.

There is absolutely nothing challenging about being 1 shot by a rare mob buffed into oblivion that offscreens you no matter what you do, or how you build your character. That shit needed to get fixed pronto and if you disagree, then you haven't encountered those buffed archers prenerf, period.

Another example is uber atziri and reflect, which is an outdated mechanic that pigeonholes you into a certain build. Nothing challenging about it, just artificially limiting options. You build a miner 2ex char and 1shot her easily, meanwhile your other build that happens to be stronger by several factors cannot run her simply because it is not immune to reflect.

Like you pointed out in your last paragraph - the way to design challenging content is to do it in a way, which requires you to learn the mechanics and build/upgrade your character in order to progress. Bullshit offscreen 1 shot mechanics, or perma reflect don't fall into that category, because whether you succeed or not, is not up to you in any way, shape or form.

Had someone inquire about it in my build thread and had no problems myself at all. In start the fella seems to buff them up strong but after the defensive modifiers expire, they melt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ew4K4X5zpo

Also farming these 4 breachlords is only 10 minutes, the length of your average map these days.

If you actually read my post, nowhere did I even refer to the breachlord fight, which is completely fine.

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Kiss_Me_Quick написал:

Had someone inquire about it in my build thread and had no problems myself at all. In start the fella seems to buff them up strong but after the defensive modifiers expire, they melt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ew4K4X5zpo

Also farming these 4 breachlords is only 10 minutes, the length of your average map these days.

It just costly to me to jump area level to 83 and waste an invitation and 4 breachstones..

You know there is a wonderful item called Orb of Scouring.

i failed it 2 times in row now because i lose like 11k hp when the one lord does his full range snowstorm into my face for 5 sec

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zzang написал:

Technically you could play spectres or golem mancers with more dps and not fail because you can run around and dodge while all the still powerful summons do the job.

its not so simple

i sinked around 15 exalts in my golemancer
and damage is nowhere high

my spectres dying and health regen is not that epic

but i will eventually get there




btw you know you can just orb of scouring this invitation ?
and get normal tuned bosses

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Sitzura написал:

You know there is a wonderful item called Orb of Scouring.

Yes you can socket out watchstone too

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Zebedin написал:

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zzang написал:

Technically you could play spectres or golem mancers with more dps and not fail because you can run around and dodge while all the still powerful summons do the job.

its not so simple

i sinked around 15 exalts in my golemancer
and damage is nowhere high

my spectres dying and health regen is not that epic

but i will eventually get there




btw you know you can just orb of scouring this invitation ?
and get normal tuned bosses

White invitation still has area level 83. Quite a lot of monster dps and life and other parameter are scaled with area/monster level