Path of Exile: Scourge Teasers

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TreeOfDead wrote:

i hope GGG wont kill economy...

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Sabranic_SilverDeth wrote:

Some thoughts:

- In my honest opinion, you should take a break from league development and just hammer out PoE 2. The delays with the sequel are forcing the players to endure a flurry of spread out, negative balancing adjustment - which, I believe are predicated on PoE II. Everything we've seen changed in the last two development cycles appears - to me at least - to be power down-scaling accounting for new items, acendancies and every skill being a 6-link. You're making the players focus on the negative adjustments for many months without the bonuses to even things out. All stick and no carrot is not working out well.

- Five layers of breach stones? I have not ran even a regular breachstone on my own since legacy league. I've never used on of the enhanced ones. Ever. I just sell them all. I make more currency from that, and none of my characters can clear them fast enough to reach the boss regardless. I suppose you always want to challenge the top players - and you no doubt make good money from the streamer videos. But from my perspective, it all just begins to descend into parody after a point. I'll buy one to fill the socket on my tab and never run it. It reminds me of my kids running around playing. "I've got a star laser sword!" "Well I've for a NEUTRON star laser sword!"

- PoE needs some stability. I mostly play standard, and even there I feel like the product is in a perpetual beta state. Specific balance changes don't typically bother me - as I stopped trying to make expensive/powerful characters - but the fact that the game swings so wildly is bothersome. Some stability would be a wonderful thing - I would appreciate that a lot. I might even bother to make a good character. But, in the current system, trying for "aspiration content" is a poor use of my time - as a character capable of reaching that is very likely to be downgraded. I mostly just flip things on the trade-site, as this is the most "rewarding" play-style. And I never have to worry about it not working properly one day.

It's a very odd system PoE has going.

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Ygidua wrote:

When an item does so little like sacred orbs, then why hide it behind such a rarity similar to mirror?

Its still a gamble if you get a good roll with them, so we players might never find it and if we do find one in 10 years, it might make the item worse?

Where is the fun in all of that, why add items that are not available for the normal person playing, yet making them so unpredictable?

The design philosophy is just not clear to me, who is your target group?