This was a very good league

This was the best league for me. Easily.

Main reason for that was the in-game AH which broke my brain. In previous leagues almost all of the drops where just random stuff but now suddenly everything was currency in it's many forms. After making my first own (very strict) item filter every drop was meaningful. Btw, Last Epoch taught me that.

Then I saw this video about the most important button by Subtractem. NOW I had the knowledge what to buy and the currency to buy it.

My previous record was unlocking two void stones and couple of favoured map slots. Now my record is all the maps, 132 atlas tree points, 4 void stones and all the favoured map slots. I also tried previous league mechanics while running maps and found out that I really like blight maps.

My wish list for the future

- keep in-game AH!!!
- make stuff that drops basic currency also drop gold (eg. blight chests)

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tsunamikun wrote:

the league is fun enough, and gold farming is also actually fun when you think about what you're doing to acquire it. Blasting maps with insane pack sizes and rarity without most other frills. and that as fast as possible. Isn't that exactly what you expect from a speed focused arpg?

As i'm running through the Lighthouse in t16 opening up all the boxes... and my buddies are like wth are you doin. "Pickin up all the damned gold I can". They stopped asking when that very occasional divine pops out. :)

2 different things here:

First point, the league feels way too bad for me because there is zero loot drops and the game is based around gold farming. Honestly you can't leave kingsmarch out of your game if you want to farm currency, since the random divs either from low shipments or random mappers are far more often than your own drops in maps.Currently I am working slowly with a lot of idle time on the town around getting my first 50m gamble.

Second point, the AH looks godly and feels as the only thing that's carrying the league. The gold tax is great as it pretty much keeps every bot out.
TLDR I hope they keep the AH with the gold tax/ number of orders but also get rid off kingsmarch and buff the retarded loot drops in maps.

Guessing this is just indicitive of modern PoE (last time I played before this league was in 2021) but honestly this league annoyed me more than anything. The only builds that seem to survive are ones that off screen enemies (I E killing them before they get to even see you) or glass cannon builds. I super love how gambling has not only been a constant league mechanic but is now a mechanic in you losing EXP or not. You have a 50/50 chance of getting 1 shot by some 2 foot 6 troglodyte you failed to notice because all of the high powered skill builds have visual overload.

same. loved it

Meh it was pretty boring. Mid league.

Honestly I dunno why but I've been playing much longer than I thought I would. Got 36 challenges and planned on quitting, but here I am, farming more ultimatums.

Maybe league's good. Maybe I'm just bored elsewhere in my life.

Well, the base game is great so I like to play. The league mechanic for me is just OK since I prefer mechanics that spike mapping like Sentinel and Affliction. But....the mechanic is fine, is something new and isn't horrible (for me) like TODA and Sanctum and the worst league in history Necropolis.

I agree with OP, me too, this league has so many positives, although I am still a bad player and most likely always will (I am just not as fast and cannot even imagine how those hardcore players play), well as an excuse, I am also much older. But back to this league, I feel they really did some balancing with monster damage, the previous league, I just quit, I was so frustrated and didn't play for a long time ( or maybe it was the one before - Necropolis ), I love the whole Kingsmarch town thing, my only critique would be, that it's so expensive, so much gold needed for everything, hope this will change and really hope, this will become part of the core game, including Faustus, love this currency exchange thing, it's so great, brilliant idea. this league has really made me want to learn even more about details in POE (although I have 4000 hours in, like I said, I am not a good player and yes, I educated myself on many basic topics) but this time, I really used the wiki a lot and added even programs to help during the game. So yes, I agree with OP, (sorry for the long post. And big Thank You to GGG :)

The town rng is brutal, switched to gold farm a week ago and I don't think I can keep going. Farm gold, roll workers is all I do, lvl10 mappers are not for me I guess.