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Please could we have any sort of update in regards to bug fixes, patch notes, ps5 client release/progress/update anything at this point would help


Now like most i have been dissapointed with this league launch and the overall state of the game this league, this league went from a highly promised and anticapated league filled with fun, promise, and hope for what looked to be a outstanding league.

possible one of the best leagues GGG have released.


HOWEVER the game has been plagued with freezes, crashes, and problems, from the League Launch or therefore lack off, to graphical inconsistancies, freezes and bugs.

radio silence is literally the worst thing in this instance you could possibly do to a playerbase and community.

i get it there alot of problems, alot needs fixing and im sure the GGG Devs are working hard to sort things into a playable state HOWEVER this is fine for GGG Devs because they are they are the ones working on the game, they are the ones communicating internally and discussing whats happening going forward with the patches and stuff etc etc.

i watched a video yesterday about GGG and mainly Chris Wilson and his attitude towards the progress of Path of Exile and how he took the advice of Kripp in regards to consistancy and the importance of making sure people always know when POE events and leagues were releasing and making sure people could relay on GGG for there releases.

this seems to have been lost on the console community on the whole.

If i could suggest something there is no denying that this League start from console players has been one of the worst to date HOWEVER not all is lost all people want is abit of communication and something to look forward to.

if i was a DEV or a Moderator for this website id do a update for the community which would settle alot of the complaints even if it was a small update

I.E. - Ps5 client is in proccess, it going to take abit more time - we plan to have things sorted in 2 weeks - 3 week atleast it a time frame people can get behind, instead of radio silence people are losing faith in GGG the longer the silence goes on.

with Path of Exile 2 looming - this doesnt boad well for GGG and the faith for console users, now i totally get it your main player base is on PC, and you main streamers are on PC so that naturally is your priority.

HOWEVER GGG has branched out to console, and as sure this player base for both Xbox and PS should have a certain level of community commitment and although GGG is very transparent with PC it seems lacking with console.

people are not asking for the world and a 100% definiate time and date all people want is a ball park approximation for potential PATCH NOTE UPDATES on bug FIXES or the state/process of the PS5 Client this i can confirm from a player stance is out of excitement for the Ps5 client and also frustration because of the problems this season has haas proformance wise.

im sure the GGG Devs are working very hard. but the player base is visiably upset, saying nothing is doing nothing but harming the console fan base in the long run i really hope there is a update soon or if not this post has helped to look into getting some info out on the forum for the console guys.

look forward to hearing anything from GGG

I agree. All we need at the moment is communication.
After all, we understand that developing and fixing problems takes time, we know that the GGG team is now heavily focused on PoE 2, we know that the console audience makes up a small percentage of the total audience of the game, we know that developers also go on vacation (especially in August).
But we don't know if the team is aware of the problems on the consoles, we don't understand why the ps5 client was announced a month ago and is still not available.
We also don't know what to expect from PoE 2 on the console in the future, because experience shows us that if the game is unplayable for a month and does not fix in any way, then is it worth starting it in the future?

The right thing to do is for everyone on PlayStation 5 to abandon the season. Only then will GGG see the lack of respect on its part towards PlayStation 5 players.

I agree with both of you, everyone is having different issues and a different experience honestly since the update (last patch) i have had very very little problems with the game and as such i spent money on some MTX i always said i would support the game as long as i felt the game was looked after, however there is afew small issues (personally)

i have seen alot of other people tho... having some hella issues, and thats not cool to be what probably feels like left in the dark over it all i really hope there some news soons and specially aimed at console and not just a "patch" which goes out to fix all PC problems.

as for me personally i feel that alot of the Atlas Maven tree points dont work as instructed/advertised, same with some of the Scarabs i know there a bug where if you put the wrong scarab in the wrong map device slot it doesnt allocate it correctly.

remembering what goes where to make sure it works shouldnt be a thing but here we are.

hopefully something good comes soon before season dies out because people get sick of silence or things just not getting fixed.

btw GGG if you are wondering whats wrong with the Atlas and scarabs etc etc the biggest thing iv came across personally is WHAT IS THE POINT OF SCRYING? the cards do not drop in other areas ever i have literally tried 8 modded 5 scarab strongbox deli beyond (K'Tash) maps fully juiced, tried all different combos of div scarabs in different ways with boxes without boxes and i cant even get a flipping Brothers Gift to drop on the SCRYED map.

but hey ho hopefully something gets sorted soon.

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WarhawkOfficial wrote:

WHAT IS THE POINT OF SCRYING? the cards do not drop in other areas ever i have literally tried 8 modded 5 scarab strongbox deli beyond (K'Tash) maps fully juiced, tried all different combos of div scarabs in different ways with boxes without boxes and i cant even get a flipping Brothers Gift to drop on the SCRYED map.

but hey ho hopefully something gets sorted soon.

First, I want to check something...

Are you aware that the way Scrying was presented in the league reveal was misleading? It does NOT "swap" the divination cards between two maps. It overwrites the cards of the map you choose with the cards from the map you're in.

So, in order to have Scryed Brother's Gift onto a different map, you must have found a Nameless Seer in Burial Chambers.

Assuming you did that, the next issue is that the card itself is very rare. It's only about 4x as common as The Doctor (or Fire of Unknown Origin, if you prefer).

So the expect number of maps/card is quite high.

Next, since you mention strongboxes, I'll point out that Div boxes don't drop cards based on the current map, but from a huge drop pool of most divination cards. You can still get cards from the current map, but scrying doesn't change your odds. You *do* get a chance for the monsters spawned by the boxes to drop cards, but it's no more effective than other methods of adding monsters.

Finally, since you mention Div Scarabs, I'll point out that a ton of threads have been made (both PC and console) saying the div scarab they changed is broken. (It's the one that is suppose to give certain packs like 1000% div card drop rate). The reports suggest that they actually reduce div card drop rate. I have no idea what's true, but I probably would avoid using them until GGG does a patch.

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First, I want to check something...

Are you aware that the way Scrying was presented in the league reveal was misleading? It does NOT "swap" the divination cards between two maps. It overwrites the cards of the map you choose with the cards from the map you're in.

Yeppers - So basically i have been doing the strat where the boss has the cards at the end i have been getting ruffly around 600+ card drops

T14+ Maps i moved the Burial Scry via Seer from 4 maps so far to different ones around the map IE Defilled Cathedral to Beach, Sepulchre to Jungle Valley and Burial to Dunes

the 800% increased Div cards Scarabs in my experience didnt seem to do anything so i stopped using them so if the general sence is that they dont work i kinda norticed that and stopped them the other div card ones the 8 - 12 increased pack of Doedre's monsters drop Stacked decks iv had hundreds of them.

i have used Mavens Div card chisels, iv used just normal chisels, increased pack chisels with div scarabs the only one thta seems to work quiet consistantly is the Boss has the cards and kill them for the cards but its super super super tanky, its tedious and way too OP (the monster) i nthe end and iv only went up as far as around 600 cards

in Lvl98, LS iv done all content with ease and working towards my ubers, t17 n T17 Bosses are easy for the build but that div card stat is rediculas and if thats the only way to actually get a decent div card drop well... its very under tuned because i fought a boss for like 25 min it was that tanky and i got like T4 and under Div cards so effort vs reward is just not there this is with increased quant from either eater alters or Exarch.

i feel like trying to target farm scryed cards just seems non existant, and as for diiv cards are like 4x harder to find i presume that the cards ARE ment to be found at some stage ?? im lvl 98 on this character and i have a 93 character as well, iv ran maybe 2000 maps+ 1 character has around 650,000 kills to other prob about 800,000 maybe.

Last season i farmed nearly 3 million kills on one character i reached out to support who told me "its just bad RnG, and although i took that one on the chin for the same thing to pretty much be happening the next season as well. makes me believe that there is 1 of afew things at play

either

1)Console has a watered down version of "loot drops" or because the player bases are smaller and there less people who "fully" understand how to juice a map/Farm that the numbers for loot drops are based upon PC and the PC player base numbers so on PC more people play and blast which is why loot seems much better where less people who know what there doing on console = less higher tier loot dropping or being sold on trade.

2)as console is clearly getting bare attention or love (at the min from devs moderators of the site or general quality for the console version of the game), its not a priority so its kinda just lets to its own devices to a extent.

3)while coding that the "loot drop values" there has been a incorrect (.) decimal point put in meaning that the "loot drop value" is way way off mark. and id want to refer to people on PC getting mirrors and mirror shards, Mageblood from Mapper etc etc and boat loot.(id just like to add this has actually happened before in previous seasons i believe its happened again especially after watching alot of streamers/game footage online including highlights of drops from a DAILY highlight YT channel as well)

i watch global alot while playing i normally farm for multiple hours a day mainly because i stream, and i have a disability so im home quiet alot and PoE is my entertainment/hobby

i have never seen (actually i think there might have been 1 guy in global but legitimicy is unknown they might have just been saying) but basically iv not seen or hurd of anyone getting a mirror from boats or a mageblood from mappers infact i dont even think iv seen or hurd anyone on PS even getting a Mageblood from Seer this season, i did see 1 person get a Head hunter

4)the amount of complaining from console side of things i would like to think that a company wouldnt be this petty but again because of the radio silence and lack of communication with console player base i really hope after the diabolical lack of a season start with the "non play test of the game to see you couldnt even sign in" and then everyone called them out for it, THAT GGG would NOT go as far as to lower drop rates as a "punishment" for the complaints. (this i dont believe would happen but you never know).

now the last point i made is about out there however over the years i have seen a kinda of "we dont like what your saying so your banned" mentality, which sometimes imo people have been saying the truth and yes i might not be nice to hear but soemtimes its justified..

but like i said personally i think because of the lack of play testing and then all the bugs and freezes i think "values" and how the Atlas works/Atlas buff and rewards have also been effected for console just like the Scarabs that actually make less cards drop when it shouldnt

I came to say I lost my mageblood valdos map because of the state of the game. Valdo requirement was to complete the ultimatum and the game crashed mid ultimatum. League performance has been an all time low for me. PS5 client may or not fix things, but can only hope. Rip mageblood.

Yeah, Div cards drops are pretty bad this league. Maybe bugged or a overall nerf happened.

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MaxW81 wrote:

Yeah, Div cards drops are pretty bad this league. Maybe bugged or a overall nerf happened.

Yeah i used to farm them and although i would go through hundereds of thousands of cards once you finally found a decent one it made it all worth while, its almost got to the point iv had to unspec out of the my loot filter just to see a Div card drop lol