Path of Exile 2
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Xevy
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Trials are an interesting psychology test.
When Sanctum came out in PoE1, people loved it. They liked the Rogue-Like in game and some people wanted it to go core.
Then it did. Most people didn't do it until it became uber lucrative. Then people loved it again. People only did Sanctum. This was when PoE2 0.1 came out and they saw it was hot.
Then they nerfed it in 3.26 and no one runs Sanctum. It was never about fun, it was always about loot. But the problem is this snapshot of popularity is baked into the game now and the majority of people hate it and with Chaos Temple currently being the only alternative, it turns a lot of people off PoE2, and especially making new characterss, entirely.
It's why you need solid direction instead of just pandering to the flavor of the month. If you try to appeal to the masses, you cripple yourself when they decide they never really wanted what they thought they did.
Never let the sheep lead the shepherd.
When Sanctum came out in PoE1, people loved it. They liked the Rogue-Like in game and some people wanted it to go core.
Then it did. Most people didn't do it until it became uber lucrative. Then people loved it again. People only did Sanctum. This was when PoE2 0.1 came out and they saw it was hot.
Then they nerfed it in 3.26 and no one runs Sanctum. It was never about fun, it was always about loot. But the problem is this snapshot of popularity is baked into the game now and the majority of people hate it and with Chaos Temple currently being the only alternative, it turns a lot of people off PoE2, and especially making new characterss, entirely.
It's why you need solid direction instead of just pandering to the flavor of the month. If you try to appeal to the masses, you cripple yourself when they decide they never really wanted what they thought they did.
Never let the sheep lead the shepherd.
Khane
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Uhhh. People fucking hated Sanctum. They loved the rewards and the power creep but having to do 32 maps to build a Sanctum you could fail completely coupled with most builds in the game sucking at it made most people actually hate the Sanctum itself.
Why are you such a meme?
Next up Xevy suggests most people love Heist.
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Tranny Chaser
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During Sanctum league I was running them one after another with an atlas optimized to get the most rooms the fastest. Cutting the price of things from the merchant to zero while running merchant relics was just the right kind of nonsense. Unless a league requires you to do part of one for a challenge I never go back. I'm just super over it. I loathe it's implementation in PoE2 along with Ultimatum.
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Tranny Chaser
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It's an auto battler sir.
That's another league where I was doing the mechanic and nothing else way longer than really made any sense. I just liked it. It's coming back at some point but I'm not sure I'm going to want to grind to max rating again. I might still like it but I might not. No way of knowing until we see it's new implementation.
Slaanesh69
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Yeah, Sanctum was one of the first leagues in recent memory that completely shit on some builds. Accessibility is one of the pillars of player retention.
Yeah, pro twitch gamers could do any build, but the average player could not run an RF build through the first floor for example. I actually rerolled and played the league through, but that was annoying.
Putting my 2 least favorite PoE mechanics OF ALL TIME as ascendancy trials in PoE2 was a real nut shot.
Springbok
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Saw crack ants were back, played a few maps and feels basically the same. Out of boredom, made a LA deadeye and am up through end of Act 4. Rofl. Can see why 70% of all over 80 players are this spec. It shits all over minions, and felt op as fuck even in act 2/3. Took a while for minion to even feel good, then a lot of investment to feel great. I've invested nothing but upgrading bow every break even, and the scaling feels crazy. Wish there was an op melee class to play, but will probably get this char to maps and wait another 6 months.
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Yeah they should tone down Deadeye JUST a bit, and then bring every other archetype up to around that level.
I'm at level 76 with 3 of 4 ascendancies and it has been super easy......I die here and there from something I didnt see or didnt react fast enough for, but it's been powerful and chill the whole way.
Xevy
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It was a game inside of a game. People who enjoy games probably enjoyed. Meta cucks all running Boneshatter at that time couldn't and they got fucked and it was hilarious. Most builds were absolutely fine in there. Awfully telling when there's a "WHAT GUIDE CAN I FOLLOW " guy versus "oh stuff to do in my vidya game" guy.
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Tranny Chaser
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Xevy
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We had a metacuck liquidate his entire worth to make that build, got insta killed twice in there with 900hp and quit the league. That's what they fucking get.
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Tranny Chaser
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Looking back at it now I can see that the cost in no way justified the performance.
Penance
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Yes Xevy is a meme.
However I liked sanctum
I also played boneshatter in there. I had fun. After a while you couldn't really lose many runs. I'm a huge fan of roguelites though so I'm quite biased.
