Anyone playing Ruthless - opinions so far?

I am playing on Ruthless, minion witch - only level 7 or so.

- the zone nameds seem much harder, and drop maybe one or two white items
- drops over all are very rare, got one rare item so far in 4 zones
- Chat is very quiet, except for trade chat (noone selling items for currency, want to barter for other gems)

It is quite interesting so far, feels moving from one zone to another as a progress instead of the boring blitz (for the nth time) through the same acts ad nauseum (takes me forever anyway in normal leagues)

Anyone else play Ruthless? Want to share your opinions please?

thanks

I love it. Haven't felt like playing PoE like this in a long time. Level 38 Elementalist right now in Act 4 tunnels. Fireball Ignite and Golems later.

It's artificially tedious and not quite what I expected I'm afraid. Player character does feel like 2013 which is great, but nothing else in the game so far is seemingly tinkered with. I've always enjoyed a slower gameplay but monsters still go brRRRrRrrrr.

How does the league mechanics feel?

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Kennelmus написал:

monsters still go brRRRrRrrrr.

If that's true (and oh I have no trouble imagining it to be), that's a really big problem. It'd be as though they heard players wanted more steadily paced, methodical, tactically meaningful gameplay, and decided that 'slower character movement and growth, got it!' was the answer...when you simply can't have steady paced, methodical, tactically meaningful gameplay with monsters designed to counter much faster, more destructive characters.

From other posts here and elsewhere, it seems Ruthless has been less a situation of accurately simulating the pace of PoE's 2012-13 beta and more just a case of delayed character power in a setting and campaign in which it just feels natural and logical to go zoom zoom zoom. That really does sound tedious.

I've played a good amount during the alpha and enjoyed it quite a lot.
I'll pick a ruthless league up with the next league tho. The mode is still in dev and lacks a few nice things like league challenges and stuff.

I'm only 22 but I'm liking it so far. I don't really like endgame/maps anyway so having a mode where I can just focus on getting through the acts is pretty neat.

League mechanic not fun at all, way to hardcore from the start, prolly gonna skip another league.

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Foreverhappychan написал:

it seems Ruthless has been less a situation of accurately simulating the pace of PoE's 2012-13 beta and more just a case of delayed character power in a setting and campaign in which it just feels natural and logical to go zoom zoom zoom.

That's exactly my experience, sadly. The only thing slowing down the gameplay is the debuff inflicted to the player and it feels very "unnatural". I had been waiting for this mode for quite some time but it is either prematurely released or they have missed the mark.

It was introduced to be a different experience but in reality it is just the usual game that is just exceptionally tedious to progress.

You might still want to personally give it a try though.

Sounds like SSF with extra steps.