-20% exp on death needed

You picked the wrong game for that kinda experience. Path of Exile is successful because it is challenging, not in spite of it.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

I always undercut all my items in my sale tab until they either sell or get vendored, because I simply don't care

It is unreasonable to complain about items being expensive or the game being harsh when you are the one sabotaging your own progress. Choosing to stick with a weak, barely functional build, underselling items, and refusing to adapt is not challenging the game.
It is creating frustration for yourself.

In real-world terms, it is like trying to operate at 5% of your potential and then blaming the system for the limits you impose. The game will never be designed around an “I don't care” mindset, and it should not be expected to accommodate one.

If what you truly want is instant power and immediate gratification, there are other games that deliver that experience directly. One of them is even a mobile title, which should run flawlessly on your PC and provide the fast, satisfying payoff you seem to be seeking.

https://diabloimmortal.blizzard.com/en-us/

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VoidWhisperer42#5989 wrote:

If what you truly want is instant power and immediate gratification, there are other games that deliver that experience directly. One of them is even a mobile title, which should run flawlessly on your PC and provide the fast, satisfying payoff you seem to be seeking.

Yeah, I already play other games that are much more fun. Maybe if there were some fun,OP builds for me to copy in PoE I'd play a league for longer than a week, but for now that's not the case. They could also make campaign on alts a bit faster, or add a skip. That would help with leveling feeling like such a chore.

There's no shortage of other games that can quickly grab my attention, and I'm excited for March when Last Epoch Season 4 launches too.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

Maybe if there were some fun,OP builds for me to copy in PoE I'd play a league for longer than a week, but for now that's not the case.

There are plenty of builds you could copy, but you’ve chosen not to, and that’s on you. Players like ArtCrusade already pointed out good and cheap totem builds, yet that advice was ignored, just like most other useful input given by other players. Any kind of help or guidance just gets brushed off instead of being used.

So I honestly don’t know if there’s even anything left to suggest to help you, other than maybe pointing you toward other games that might suit you better, because PoE clearly doesn’t seem like the right fit for you.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

A nice feeling is what I accomplish whenever I achieve my goals in games. Some people play ARPGs for the power fantasy, to feel like they're OP af.

Guess what this description is? Competition. Your logic has been completely wrong from the beginning of your statements 5 pages ago.

The writing and statements are so confused because you seem to be oblivious to your own points.

"power fantasy" does NOT exist without having something NOT powerful to compare it to. AKA....competition, growth, experience. Game

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

Maybe if there were some fun,OP builds for me to copy in PoE I'd play a league for longer than a week, but for now that's not the case.

There you go again, directly contradicting yourself and what you stated in multiple other threads.

For someone who doesn't ever play this game "longer than a week" every 4 months....you have a lot of opinions and overarching statements to make about it.

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

"power fantasy" does NOT exist without having something NOT powerful to compare it to. AKA....competition, growth, experience. Game

To me power fantasy just means being OP compared to the mobs in the game, not compared to any other player lol

I'm not interested in competing with other players, this is why I never play in any gauntlet events unless there's a free mystery box/mtx in it. I used to play in the old race events like endless ledge and so on, because you actually got stuff for playing in them even if you only got to like lvl20. I had fun in those, because no matter how badly I did I still got rewarded for playing the game.

Now I only ever play in an event if there's a free box at lvl50, or an mtx raffle at lvl90 or something. Otherwise there's no reason for me to play.


I've never contradicted myself, all I want is to just play a fun game, and I'm giving my feedback on how to make PoE more fun.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

What? I'm not playing games to be competitive, or to improve myself. I play to have fun, to be overpowered, to complete objectives, etc. etc.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

To me power fantasy just means being OP compared to the mobs in the game

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

I've never contradicted myself, all I want is to just play a fun game

This is what's known as a "contradiction", whether you recognize it or not. It's also not even where you started down this direction of conversation.

All the other contradictions such as "I play less than a week" versus multiple times where you say exactly the opposite to defend whatever point you were making in other threads (pretty sure it was the challenge thread, as well as the former t17=bad thead) are repetitive to the point where they are actually memorable.



I will repeat because its not an opinion, it is FACT: there exists ZERO power fantasy without a situation where you AREN'T powerful. The power fantasy of PoE and every other game you have ever played exists because you GREW and IMPROVED your character or your skill to get to that point. It's literally in the name of what you are describing: the "fantasy" of being powerful in a scenario where that isn't the norm.

If you had none of that growth, challenge, struggle, ever....and you started with a build that couldn't be killed and could delete screens in a single button. No experience necessary. No skill necessary. If that was ALL PoE ever was for you.....you would have quit permanently after that FIRST week you spent playing the game. I can all but guarantee it, even knowing how you approach the game and what you have consistently written.

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

If you had none of that growth, challenge, struggle, ever....and you started with a build that couldn't be killed and could delete screens in a single button. No experience necessary. No skill necessary. If that was ALL PoE ever was for you.....you would have quit permanently after that FIRST week you spent playing the game. I can all but guarantee it, even knowing how you approach the game and what you have consistently written.

I'm just confused. Power fantasy can absolutely exist where you're just OP for the sake of being OP and that's all there is to it. I'd have a blast just holding right click to win and seeing divine tinks everywhere. Now that would be some good gameplay.

The leveling and farming currency to buy my gear part, and the campaign is just filler content. And don't even get me staarted on how clunky it is to cap res,do gems,craft magic flasks, set it all up and then you get to do maps. Its a chore I always dread doing any time I get to maps.

I also buy voidstone carries immediately after finishing my quest exarch and eater ones. I simply refuse to do a single t16 map without all 4 voidstones socketed, because for me that's a waste of time. Leveling in endgame is especially tedious because of the pointless exp loss which is still in the game in 2026.

And campaign burns me out so much that I can't even practice it anymore before leaguestart. It is actual Despairge if I do one(1) singular campaign run like a week before a league. Takes me like 10 hours to do campaign and its just boring.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

I'd have a blast just holding right click to win and seeing divine tinks everywhere. Now that would be some good gameplay.

The answer you're looking for is Cyclone Slayer. But you're obviously not the target audience for the game so it doesn't really matter.