Path of Exile

My friend was asking me about Lost ARK yesterday. From what he told me, it doesn't sound like it has expanded much beyond Russia and Korea. He knows I play PoE, so he commented on some things he liked more in Lost ARK than PoE: gameplay, UI, polish, art style. I can't disagree with some of those, but rather than debate him on those grounds, I instead explained what I like about poe.

Planning a build in pob and then verifying it works in poe.

He response was that doesn't sound fun. I then spent far too long basically explaining power creep and gameplay speed up has led to building around completely eliminating threats instead of dodging them while playing(outside of learned boss fights).

It's obvious GGG is trying to slow the game down since a large portion of newer skills are 1-2 combos. I can't say they're succeeding since they seem to have refused to learn their lesson from Delirium and gone back to relying on one-shots to keep player speed in check instead of just making monsters live longer.

My question: does slowing down the game also lower the required build complexity? I'm thinking something D3, I never put the same amount of time into planning a build because you simply didn't need to.

Aura Stackers​

As new mechanics have been introduced and players have optimised builds, characters using multiple auras have grown significantly in power, both offensively and defensively. These builds moved above our acceptable top end level of power. The addition of Alternate Quality effects on Aura Gems which added extra effects to your auras were a large contribution to this. We have made a few radical changes here:

• Aura alternate qualities that granted you and nearby allies extra effects have all had significant value reductions. We believe in the general case, especially when playing solo, these will still be desirable given the regular quality effects on aura gems provide very little in most scenarios. This is something that will be revisited if the standard quality bonus granted by all auras is changed in future.
• Small Passive Skills on Cluster Jewels that granted increased effect of Non-Curse Auras from your Skills and increased effect of your Curses now grant 3% (from 6% and 5% respectively). These desirable stats were scarce on the regular passive tree, often requiring large investment to reach each cluster, but they became very accessible once cluster jewels were introduced. After this change, using multiple Aura Cluster Jewels together should be less efficient relative to the regular passive tree.
• We have also adjusted the Cluster Jewel notable passives Stalwart Commander and First Among Equals as they also were providing too much accessible aura effect.

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Hahahahaha, get fucked aura stackers. Better later than never and I don't necessarily agree with how they did it, but still something that was very much needed.

AladainAF said:

I don't mind the current way of trading, but they need to integrate it into the game itself. What they require you to do now is stupid.

You should be able to have full functionality of poe overlay, as well as a suite of trading tools, within poe itself. You can do this without making an actual auction house.

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Do you think they could manage that without a severe performance hit?

Are minions back to where they were before Blight?