Mandatory Campaign is a good thing

imo being forced to take every character through the acts makes each character feel more important, if I could just skip the campaign I would feel disconnected from the character and get bored with it very fast.

however i do think it can be a bit of a slog to get through ngl.
i would like to be able to farm a specific gear set that is way overpowered against the acts but it is destroyed after you kill act 10 kitava, or maybe once you hit lvl 70 the items become unequipable.

random thoughts lol glhf

is it a slog though?, my lazy ass can get to maps in a weekend and i am by no means speeding though it.

But why even bother with that sort of gear? there are items that are ridiculous for levelling a char that can stay with you to maps even and don't get destroyed.

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lagwin1980 wrote:

is it a slog though?, my lazy ass can get to maps in a weekend and i am by no means speeding though it.

but do you really want to waste a weekend doing that every time you want to try a different build? if we had to do it once or twice per league fine, but some people want to try up to 10 builds. so they need to waste a weekend each time?

i'm starting to think that the campaign is there so ppl dont try too many builds in a league

i think it's to prevent people jumping quickly on the bandwagon of new op builds recommended by streamers.

as soon as some overpowered interaction of skills/items/mechanics is discovered, people wanna exploit. that asap, thats imho the motivation behind many of those "skip the campaign" requests.

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another motivation is to switch to another character class with the current build to get more powerful. it's a "decisions should matter" issue

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what would be the consequences of enabling players to skip the campaign? imho it's item price inflation because if more people are able to jump on a new build, demand for those items explodes and so do the prices.

results are more people complaining about items not being affordable, blaming fake sellers, market manipulators for it :) a classic symptom fighting.

I don't care about skipping the campaign. I mean I don't have anything against it either, it's a perfectly valid option and if it was available, people could just play how they wanted, that's cool. But for me, the game is the game; it makes as much sense to skip to maps as it does to skip all the maps too and be dropped at the most difficult end boss with your pick of the rarest uniques pre-equipped. Feeling the progress of different characters at different stages of the game is a big part of the appeal for me, and if I didn't enjoy playing the fundamentals of POE I wouldn't play it at all.

More than skipping the campaign, I'd like the option to have all the "extra content" integrated before maps. Yes yes, have us do one "as intended" run first, sure, that's fine, but after that.

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dudeimadolphin wrote:

imo being forced to take every character through the acts makes each character feel more important, if I could just skip the campaign I would feel disconnected from the character and get bored with it very fast.

however i do think it can be a bit of a slog to get through ngl.
i would like to be able to farm a specific gear set that is way overpowered against the acts but it is destroyed after you kill act 10 kitava, or maybe once you hit lvl 70 the items become unequipable.

random thoughts lol glhf

If you don't mind it, power to you. Some of us want an alternative (looking at you, Endless Ledge). Players should have a choice.

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dudeimadolphin wrote:

however i do think it can be a bit of a slog to get through ngl.i would like to be able to farm a specific gear set that is way overpowered against the acts but it is destroyed after you kill act 10 kitava, or maybe once you hit lvl 70 the items become unequipable.

there's a ton of twink gear in the game, various budgets

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=poe+twink

tbh comparing to D4 the campaign here is peanuts lmao
then again u can skip it after once over there xD
then again once more after the first time in poe it get's even faster cause u have twink gear :P also leveling in poe is much faster. so ehh xd

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TheBagman wrote:

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dudeimadolphin wrote:

imo being forced to take every character through the acts makes each character feel more important, if I could just skip the campaign I would feel disconnected from the character and get bored with it very fast.

however i do think it can be a bit of a slog to get through ngl.
i would like to be able to farm a specific gear set that is way overpowered against the acts but it is destroyed after you kill act 10 kitava, or maybe once you hit lvl 70 the items become unequipable.

random thoughts lol glhf

If you don't mind it, power to you. Some of us want an alternative (looking at you, Endless Ledge). Players should have a choice.

You have an alternative, it's called Diablo 4. Go play that instead of trying to change the game.

it's good the first time in a league, not so much after