Tinfoil hat about verisium

The more ive been playing and sitting there channeling verisium for over 8 seconds to only get 1000 ore, its got me thinking............

The only reason the mechanic is still in the game like this is because GGG is like we will remove it or redesign it and just didnt wanna blast that single change in a rando update? Maybe?

Its actually absurd to me this mechanic still exists in its current form. And its deliberate and by design because when you do the Svalinn boss the verisium ores are just clickable and they give you the ore without a dogshit 8 second channel that removes nearly every single one of your buffs that you spent time generating.

This is basically 1:1 mechanic from Crucible league.

It's incredibly shitty. You spend 10s charging up a bunch of unbelievably rippy monsters that never drop anything valuable for this effort. You're interrupted by any hits and mobs in POE have very long aggro ranges so you rarely can channel the whole thing uninterrupted.

And the atlas passive doesn't even make this channel build up faster. It actually makes it even longer. I mean what the hell.

And if you try to channel it all the way through on HC...well, you're now in SC.

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Esubane#6099 wrote:

This is basically 1:1 mechanic from Crucible league.

Yeah exactly, its just recycled content from Crucible because PoE 2 was affecting PoE 1's development so now we have all kinds of re-used assets.

I don't get why they couldn't have just made it a slider that you drag to your desired amount then click "spawn". Would take like 2 seconds to make that change.

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

I don't get why they couldn't have just made it a slider that you drag to your desired amount then click "spawn". Would take like 2 seconds to make that change.

Because having to charge it while being unable to attack is a opportunity cost, a very important design pillar in this genre.

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Celestriad#0304 wrote:

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Toforto#2372 wrote:

I don't get why they couldn't have just made it a slider that you drag to your desired amount then click "spawn". Would take like 2 seconds to make that change.

Because having to charge it while being unable to attack is a opportunity cost, a very important design pillar in this genre.

The "opportunity cost" is not getting yourself smeared after spawning the monsters, no different to fighting the Black Knight boss in the verisium crater.

This is just a tedious waste of time for no reason. None of the other ore deposits require this.