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The second reason is that we removed a massive historic bonus to item quantity and/or rarity that applied to some league-specific monsters. We replaced it with a moderate (2-3x) increase to item quantity, to offset the fact that they often have more life than regular monsters and some cannot drop maps.


so whith one line you have dystroyed mapping great thank you

Game not worthy my time in the current state.

Good job (not)

What Chris is trying to say is, that he and his team has understood the problems and will soon buff cleave to +3 radius.

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guiguill1989 wrote:

I'm so glad that i've not spend money on supporter pack. This league is garbage. ArchNemesis is pure cancer now. The drop rate is horrible. Please, give me back the old POE where it was fun.

This league was the last for me. Gotta wait for POE2.

Believing than Poe 2 will solve the problems, cute.
Only your money can solve the problems.

This does not excite me in the slightest. Only thing keeping me around this league is Lightning Conduit being fun and arguably overpowered.

Drops are scuffed across the board. Some nice big drops randomly, but largely they're trash and not commensurate with the effort/risk of many AN rares that are stronger than map bosses.

Kalandra has insanely inconsistent difficulty and drops like complete and utter trash.

AN mobs feel like a huge step backwards to early 3.18 before the more granular changes limiting some of the worst mob combinations were made and the result is an extremely inconsistent experience. 60% of AN rares are trivial and ignoreable, 15% are insanely tanky to the point of spending a minute+ to kill it for nothing, 15% are insanely risky and will teleport on top of you/chase you around almost 1-shotting you constantly, and the remaining 10% are the ones that spawn a million on-hit/death effects that cover the whole bloody screen that I thought were supposed to be toned down.

And please, at this point just delete Harvest. We get it, you hate what it stands for. Just remove it so we don't have to waste 1-2 points blocking it off if we're gonna have to run 20+ harvests at T16 just for a single mid-level craft.

Great league concept. Great QoL changes overall. Lake looks great visually. But good lord, after this league I'm absolutely 100% convinced that GGG either doesn't do any real qualitative testing of their leagues pre-launch, or that the people doing the qualitative testing are extreme masochists who also don't play PoE so have no frame of reference for what they're testing.

GGG...maybe it's time to start doing league launches earlier in the week instead of on Friday's before y'all leave for the weekend? I mean, get your weekends because folks deserve it but like...maybe Tues/Wed for launches so there are folks actually in the office for the first few days to make urgent/quick changes?

Leagues feel like the quality keeps getting worse and worse. Great concepts, terrible execution.

"What we're working on"

Making the game worse and keeping it that way. Got it.

GGG has forgotten how animals minds work lmao. Once you provide a high value treat you can never return to giving low value treats, because its no longer enough to satisfy them.

bored already... well other games are calling, just bloody give chris his hard mode and leave the core game alone

The second reason is that we removed a massive historic bonus to item quantity and/or rarity that applied to some league-specific monsters. We replaced it with a moderate (2-3x) increase to item quantity, to offset the fact that they often have more life than regular monsters and some cannot drop maps.

GGG, please. Undo this change. This rocked the core of the game's foundations and if you leave it like this, you'll forever change what the game is and not in a good way. :( I've been here since 2013, supported you through all the ups and downs but this is one of the most perplexing changes and I just cannot understand how you could do this and not even mention it before now :( I'm actually stunned.

I'm usually really positive about most things you guys do, but this

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The second reason is that we removed a massive historic bonus to item quantity and/or rarity that applied to some league-specific monsters. We replaced it with a moderate (2-3x) increase to item quantity, to offset the fact that they often have more life than regular monsters and some cannot drop maps.

how was this something not put in the patch notes, heck this is even balance manifesto worthy.

I know you guys are going to tweak somethings to make it feel better, but please when you are making changes this large, tell us.

I'm not going to go to an extreme and say I'm never spending money again, but this league has taught me not to buy a supporter pack(s) until a few weeks into the league. If I feel unhappy about the state of the game a few weeks in, I'll skip that one, and if I enjoy the state of the next league, then I'll grab one then.

I love your game, if I didn't, I would not even be posting here because I would move on. Even if what you want to do will make the people angry, please tell us about it, don't just change something this big and not tell us, that just makes it worse because it makes us question why you would not tell us.