Path of Exile

Kirun said:

I absolutely love the league mechanic and the tree is perhaps the best mechanic they've ever put out. That said, there's a reason I never run Breach on my Atlas tree - I fucking hate it. It sucks that such an awesome mechanic is tied to such shitty content.

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Why hate Breach. I wouldn't say it's my favorite but my first and only 100 is from doing breaches and I found it fun and relaxing.

Penance said:

Why hate Breach. I wouldn't say it's my favorite but my first and only 100 is from doing breaches and I found it fun and relaxing.

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Visual clutter is godawful. Overlapping colors, ground effects, particle effects, etc. and for melee builds is easy to die off-screen because of projectiles you can't even see. Performance is also awful with all the clutter. I have a 7800X3D and a 9700XT and I'll get massive frame drops during them.

Time pressure mechanics are lame as fuck. The whole, "go fast or get nothing" just feels like shit when you "fail".

Compared to more "modern" stuff like Delirium, Harvest, or Expedition, Breach loot tables are bloated with low-value currency shards and clutter. Breachstones are the only real "good" rewards because Breachstones are the only part of Breach that is mostly tolerable. Plus, all the micro-looting is a pain in the dick.

Poor integration into modern mapping. Breaches will often spawn in super shitty spots - corners, chokepoints, walls, etc.

With Breach 2.0 they've basically fixed the shitty loot part making it feel unrewarding, but all the other issues are still there and that's the part that I hate the most.

Fair points