Bring back Phrecia Event as a private League option or a regular event

I remember the Phrecia event half way through Settlers league being the most fun I've ever had in Path of Exile. I have chatted with many players in global chat and many express the same opinion. Phrecia was great, as a player.

The reasons it was fun was that you could pick the league mechanic you most enjoy doing and juice it to the ends of the earth. Whether that's Alva, Jun, beasts, rogue exiles, strongboxes, essences etc. You get the point.

The idol system was a great way to introduce extra juicing, providing far more control over the mechanics you choose to juice. You could fully invest into 1 single mechanic which in a world with only the Atlas Tree and scarabs is not possible.

The main limiter in today's Path of Exile for juicing a mechanic is the atlas tree only containing 3-4 node clusters for any given mechanic. This leads to the player being forced to invest into 3-4 different mechanics once all atlas passive points have been acquired.

I do think the idols from Phrecia event have a place in the base game of Path of Exile, albeit in a smaller configuration or a nerfed state. Allowing more juicing of a mechanic than atlas tree + scarabs can provide.

Another idea is to have a Phrecia rerun 2 months into a Path of Exile league. If you are worried about the items coming into the league itself after it's done, make it a void league, where items do not transfer over to the parent league.

I urge you to consider Phrecia as an asset, not to be thrown away after all the hard work that was put in to creating the idols and the ascendancies. The ascendancies were cool, but my main love for the league was the idol system.

I would love to have an extra incentive to come back half way through a league to experience Phrecia again. If not as an event, as a modifier for Private Leagues. The worry again being transfer of items into the parent league. The modifier for the private league could include making the league a voided league if selected.

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Idols were a fun progression system, felt nice having permanent buffs to every map I did regardless of scarabs/atlas tree. Harbinger farming with like 20+ harbinger bosses in the map was super fun. And the ascendancies were nice too.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

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Idols were a fun progression system, felt nice having permanent buffs to every map I did regardless of scarabs/atlas tree. Harbinger farming with like 20+ harbinger bosses in the map was super fun. And the ascendancies were nice too.

I agree, it was very fun to be able to juice mechanics like that and really focus in on the ones you enjoy, and a lot of mechanics were viable too.

i wish people would talk about phrecia more, goated league fr