Last Epoch is definitely better than POE now, and here's why.....

lol there's not even multiplayer and the end game atm is stale.

It's not bad but it would need years to even remotely compete.

Also $35 B2P is already more expensive that $15-20 you need to spend on tabs to make life easier on PoE.

Also it doesn't beat PoE 1 but let's say it's close somehow... then PoE 2 is going to hit everything out of the park.


But I want to be positive, I believe the ARPG scene needs healthy competition. I hope it does well but at the moment there's no rational way to even remotely think it beats PoE - coming from someone who is not liking PoE's circus of loot direction.

I am more excited about D2R.

Lost Ark while technically an isometric MMO looks fantastic and is coming this year I think to NA.

I was watching a friend play LE last night, and as he was going over all the features of the game all I could think was how it made PoE look so archaic. Auto-pickup currency, clicking a crafting material picks up all nearby crafting materials, dedicated inventory slots for said materials, an actual crafting system that doesn't rely entirely on RNG manipulation, and combat that actually feels like a back-and-forth battle and not a race to see whether or not you can one-shot the enemy before they one-shot you. Yeah, it lacks the passive tree and gem systems I like so much, but it's time for a hard truth: Those are illusions of choice. You're always going to use the same support gems to cram as many Mores into your skill as possible. You're always going to take the scion life wheel if you're in range. Every build feels the same in the end and the weight that gear has on your power level makes it all moot anyways.

Last Epoch looks like a modern ARPG with modern QoL features and game balance that doesn't actively spite the player. Path of Exile has always felt like an ego-driven project clinging desperately to outdated ideas.

Havent played or heard of it. I think before i left Wolcen was supposed to be the "poe killer" and i havent heard much of it since it was hyped. Same thing goes for that other MMORPG, i forgot its name but it was also supposed to be a POE Killer.

"Newness" is a huge factor in fun... but it wears off quite quickly. So coming here with claims that LE is a lot more fun than PoE doesn't cut the muster. It's still new for you. You "discover" stuff. Those moments are getting rarer and rarer in PoE.

So play your game. Enjoy it. Have fun while you can. Come back after playing it for a year or two and explain why you're still playing it.

But don't post "reviews" for it after a week or two.

These Last Epoch plugs are hilarious.

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xPiranha написал:

These Last Epoch plugs are hilarious.

At least they are slightly more credible than the Wolcen shilling was

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RandallPOE написал:

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xPiranha написал:

These Last Epoch plugs are hilarious.

At least they are slightly more credible than the Wolcen shilling was

Why though? I see no credibility difference. Wolcen looked to be a fun game. It largely wasn't. LE looks good too. I bet it would hold my attention for a couple weeks with me feeling somehow "empty" at the end of it. If it weren't for the buy-in, I'd probably have given it a chance a long time ago. I'm really tired of throwing money at companies hoping their game is good. Still haven't gotten past the tutorial in Cyberpunk. Not going to try that here. Last game I've purchased and felt good about was Risk of Rain 2.

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Shagsbeard написал:

"Newness" is a huge factor in fun... but it wears off quite quickly. So coming here with claims that LE is a lot more fun than PoE doesn't cut the muster. It's still new for you. You "discover" stuff. Those moments are getting rarer and rarer in PoE.

So play your game. Enjoy it. Have fun while you can. Come back after playing it for a year or two and explain why you're still playing it.

But don't post "reviews" for it after a week or two.

There was a post on the PoE reddit a few weeks ago about how 'I've got 4,000 hours in PoE and just played LE for 40 hours and let me tell you how much better LE is!'

It's like, yeah, try playing LE for 4k hours and PoE for 40 and I bet this post reads a lot differently.

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Tin_Foil_Hat написал:

Havent played or heard of it. I think...

Just don't.

i think wolcen has a fun playthrough when you play it for the first time after some of the patches now. nothing more though.

same with LE, its fun for a playthrough every few months with all the updates, other than that its rather empty, has an empty endgame and feels generally too clunky for me. It has some Qol but the gameplay feels a little stiff.
Also having like 5-10 more skillpoints for endgame would make it actually more interesting, right now youre more or less forced into very standardish builds.
Its decent and has potential but is far from a poe killer rn