Kza has challenged you... Can you handle it?

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Vhlad wrote:

I'm rank 1 genital jousting on steam, come make a jouster and dethrone me OR are you scared? = LLD

PvP development died in this game because GGG put all of their effort into LLD and didn't get the numbers. It didn't work then, it's not going to work now, and it won't work later. The player base isn't there. The progression motivation for a low level pvp character that cannot do endgame or HoGM is niche.

LLD investment doesn't provide similar utility to perfecting an endgame build, a build which you adapt somewhat for high level pvp. Everyone (or nearly everyone) is playing PoE long-term to optimize their high level characters and HLD progression is symbiotic with that. Even amongst the niche audience who feel motivated to invest in LLD, they're not going to invest to the same extent that we see players invest in HLD. We're not going to see many mirrored level 28 items, maybe a handful from the most die hard, but nothing like we see in HLD.

Merciless sarn is active. High level pvp and ctf are active. That these remain active despite the neglect and horrible state of balance and constant arena crashing is proof that this game can do casual/fun pvp well. It could do it much better with a little attention. Many of us are hopeful for this and will be completely heartbroken if we see another failed attempt from GGG to push LLD.

PoE cannot do esport pvp, with each skill having individual scaling/t-valus, and buffing things by 6% - it's a complete waste. LLD could have been accessible pvp for new players via Leo but GGG made Leo mods super expensive, low level crafting expensive, and Leo leveling super grindy (any new player won't even have a Leo 8 to make low level pvp gear for a loooooong time). There's also crazy stuff we can do with vendoring 5 bricked corrupted demigods to get craftable bases with op implicits. At low level these sorts of gearing differences create dramatic power differences, whereas in HLD anyone can spec glass cannon and be competitive, and have fun.

The value proposition for devoting so many resources to LLD is simply not there, which is why ProjectPT had all these custom rules for his LLD events, to make them more accessible. i.e. 4L max, no corrupted gear, no quality gems, no lab enchants, no ascendancy, and so on. He missed 1 important thing though: no jewels (because, with just a few exceptions, the most optimal skill tree for a level 28 pvp character is maximum jewel slots filled with gg 4 stat jewels; i.e. without restrictions the end state of almost every T1 lvl 28 pvp skill tree is identical, max jewels). Well, that would be the case, if people cared. So few people care about LLD though, that it's trivial to slap on anything and climb the ladder, especially in a temp league.

edit, TLDR: almost no one cares about LLD. KZA wouldn't be here begging for LLD competition if people cared.