Where is PVP Now and Where is it heading?

Former D2HC PKER/dueler here. Can I find a similar experience in POE? Does GGG have plans to expand upon PVP? And if they do, then how?

Thank you.

Seems pvp is dead right now in Devs eyes. Lot of feedback and no answers.

2.0 made a lot of broken build and ruined totaly some playstyle (like 2h is total shit unless you have best in slot gear)

GGG in recent post said they don t plane another pvp big patch so I think it is pretty much dead.

Great ARPG are also known for fun pvp and i think in 2.0 PVP is not fun. Lot of build doing nothing but stand and not fight (blocker/regen es) lot of build running away using broken move skill (some bow users with their blink/mirror/smoke combo), lot of broken skills that one shot you (trap/ea+icewall))


YOu think you became a god at level 100? well sadly you can t enjoy it in pvp because it seems HLD is too hard to balance.

Sadly High level pvp is too broken to bring fun unless you lowball and use Explosive arrow like 90% of the top 10 players. Yes diversity of pvp build is worst than ever in this version of the game and melee is a joke.

It is not fun.

Look in Sarn arena most people go there and chat because really talking instead of fighting in this game is more fun now.

LEvel 28 pvp in temp league is your way to go if you want a little more fun.

It used to be a lot worst, the balance is not too bad atm. Some builds suffer more than others, some are stronger due to jewel slots and 2.0 meta, but i have played when things were much more broken.

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lolozori wrote:

Look in Sarn arena most people go there and chat because really talking instead of fighting in this game is more fun now.

This is so true...

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hauntworld1 wrote:

It used to be a lot worst, the balance is not too bad atm. Some builds suffer more than others, some are stronger due to jewel slots and 2.0 meta, but i have played when things were much more broken.

Indeed, it's not too great at the moment but it has been a lot worse before

Are the developers interested in expanding upon PVP? It seemed like they were more interested a few years ago...

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BringMeCoffee wrote:

Former D2HC PKER/dueler here. Can I find a similar experience in POE? Does GGG have plans to expand upon PVP? And if they do, then how?

Thank you.

No.

You remember Pking garbage players in Diablo2? I'm sure you know the ones by now, they came in many forms. Well PoE is kind of the opposite. Firstly you can't Pk anyone, secondly its all queue based and a half assed FFA arena. Lastly and this is the best part, the people PvPing you'd swear were the same shitty ppl you'd crush easily in Diablo2 but in PoE can stand still, have 0 skill and kill you in 1 shot. It's almost as if GGG got Pk'd....a lot and decided to do everything in their power to buff up the shit players of the world.

Oh and when you do queue up for PvP 9:10 times it's just some troll looking to draw matches with half dozen Cwdt set ups, 0 real offense and a 15k+ es pool/aegis/zealots oath so you're wasting your time entirely. It closely resembles .12+ hacked to the max Diablo2 where you'd hit a guy and he'd instantly chicken mod to town infinitely making PvP pointless.

Give it a try though, just do yourself a favor and don't put as much effort into it as some people did. Ultimately it's exactly what I outlined above and I'm not exaggerating. If anything it's worse and the players are worse then I give them credit for too but PoE's 0 skill required design covers it good enough.

It's basically as poorly designed as Diablo3's abortion they call brawling. Just with a Diablo2 style re-skin and a few system changes. The ease of success (stand, hold critical attack, profit or explode with critical Cwdt set up...etc..etc..) is on the same level of crap as Diablo3's. The little graveyard FFA arena is as crap as Sarn and the fun factor/skill required and longevity is as crap too.

Haha....

You want to hear it's dead or horrible balanced so nobody is there?

The game design is an Asia Grinder to create temp PVE leagues with the same ideas over and over again and 1-2 support packs a year.

Sarn arena (HLD) has become very active on leo's daily day requiring sarn arena kill/survive or on week-end.
PVP Look somehow balance and funnier.

A lot of people complain about pvp being unbalance and things, its just that you need a char built for pvp, which is most of the time, not the case.

Im personaly starting to play sarn arena way more often because its getting more popular and balance. (Or maybe there's more people building pvp build.)


You can have fun in PVP if you really want to. There's still a community aiming for this in Path of exile.


( PS : im playing in standard, and yes there's some people using crazy legacy stuff making them (nearly) gods, but well it's even more challenging finding a build to handle them.)