Affliction is the most rewarding league mechanic ever.

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Affliction is NOT the most rewarding league mechanic ever. It might be one of the top 3 most league mechanics that the 1% can abuse. PoE is a game that you have to abuse and exploit to succeed. This is why these people are called the 1%.

Affliction is stupid. The reason why everyone is running abyss is because affliction does not do much for any other mechanics. It goes against everything PoE is. Your suppose to have options on content to run to be rewarded. With Affliction your only option is abyss.

I play on console. Just started the league a week ago. Look at my stupid build. 3d it cost me and I can run t16 full juiced 6k+ wisps abyss. This might be one of my best builds I ever played and it craps all over my 500d srs build i had last league.

There is always something to abuse or exploit in every league. The devs nerf everything to the ground. They have to add new content for the season. And the 1% figure out what works and what to exploit. Same cycle every league.

If your not abusing abyss and just run maps the drops feel like they did a year or two ago. Where you would get a couple div drops everyday just running maps. 50% of the time my starter character would get a div dropped before I hit maps. This no longer ever happens.

Affliction just shows me how much the devs have nerfed all drops the last year or two. And how stupid I have been playing this game.

I am sure Affliction is awesome for ssf. For trade league all the loot exploding is junk. I have like 20k alteration orbs in just a few days. Its worthless has no value. So stuff that did have value no longer hold value.

For example on console last league a Aegis would sell for 10x divs. This league its vendor trash.

You can guarantee next league will see huge nerfs all around.

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Id1eRace wrote:

Affliction is stupid. The reason why everyone is running abyss is because affliction does not do much for any other mechanics.

Spoken like a someone who knows nothing about how the league mechanic works and someone who doesnt know how to use it.
Not everyone is running abyss, and those who do are running abyss because of the Spire and extra proj interaction. No other mechanic spawns this much rare enemies thats why those who want to min-max, are doing it.
Even if you dont add abyss to your map AT ALL, the league mechanic is beyond insane. I wont tell you numbers because people always like to bitch that "we dont care about divh" (while they clearly do) but running legion instead abyss feels much better and makes you like 15% less.

Poe has sunk into mediocrity providing little challenge and adventure, despite having over a decade of continuous development. Poe is all about lootsplosions, pretty boring imho.

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Poe is all about lootsplosions, pretty boring imho.

Was for past few years. Thats why its getting more popular.

It is. The easier game - the more popular game.

The current state of the game difficulty is:


The next step is to add HH / MB in acts as quest reward and autoplay function.

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Aynix wrote:

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Poe is all about lootsplosions, pretty boring imho.

Was for past few years. Thats why its getting more popular.

Probably an oversimplification, it was getting more popular when they didn't do it as well

there is no denying players love power creep though, most of the best leagues have a solid amount of creep and players blasting and yes to anyone who is arguing otherwise this is the most rewarding league mechanic ever unless you are in an absolute miniscule group of people who only judge on pre maps in which case it was probably ultimatum or insert farm spam quarry here league.

If you judge by anything else this one is top by an absolute mile, if you are maximising the content its about 10x the next one and even if you don't you can make absolute bank blasting T1's with wisp juice and zero effort and still make very solid currency. I didn't get my watchstones done until a month in this league there was that little reason to do it, map progression is almost irrelevant.

Edit: Harvest is probably still top if you are SSF but honestly this one shits out so many build enabling uniques and crafting currency that its hard to go 100% in on that, but that in itself should tell you how rewarding this is because Harvest was unbelievable for SSF.

It's the first league I can't stop playing because I'm having so much fun. All other leagues I immediately stopped after 38 challenges. I can gather enough currency for any build I'd like to try, and I love it.