The Patch

Don’t know if this the right area, but this patch feels underwhelmingly meh.

There’s no mechanics, and they nerf the only one that is fun / enjoyable because of performance.

The other 2 mechanics are so lack lustre and boring. Even as a new player you will not enjoy them in the end game, or the beyond long routes it takes to even acquire the materials to do boss battles.

Emotions (delirium orbs) are a cool mechanic, but extremely sluggish even using them to do maps. I do not want to spent 15-30 minutes every 5-10 maps planning out an extensive atlas / watchtower setup / putting emotions on maps / then having to sort through 15’s 16s or it being a bricked 14. I get the progression till the end, but this just ain’t it.

Gear is so meh, that I can’t even begin to describe how I went from crafting extensively to just id and drop.

Checkpoints are useless. I have run into multiple maps where you can’t even activate the checkpoint because it’s on the outside area or on a uninteractable surface. Don’t even put me on these funnel maps with no alternative way to loop to the beginning, then having 1 rare mob off to a side area that now forces you to backtrack an entire area. I’m sick of this walking simulator.

XP is probably one of the only good improvements for people. Much easier on the later levels to get higher up, but it kinda spits in the face of all the grinders prior.

I am thankful they fixed known issues, but nerfing/not updating the mechanics after heavily impacting them so much is just a huge oversight in my opinion,

I could be wrong, but who knows. I know a lot will just criticize and hurl insults or tell me to get good. I’m 96, got a good build, can function on any content I want. This just to me is so underwhelming as a veteran player. If this is the extent of the “updates” I doubt I see myself continuing until PoE2 is out for at least a year, or until full release.

Let us have fun, stop taking it away and giving bs excuses. Beyond sick of it.

what did you expect to happen GGG , nerf waystones and bunch of other things .

and player numbers are gonna jump up , there is less players on steam now then before the patch lmao.

if you added map stash tab , and that was the only change , that was the whole patch notes . you would have more people happy .

then your 20 pages of patch notes , of which maybe 5 lines are what people asked for.XD

I wanted few things:
-no loading screens on opening map
-atlas showing arrow where I should go to find Citadel
-map stash
-better rares from drop
-no multilayered punishment for death (chose 1 portal or xp, not everything at once, including map is not completed, but losing all the buffs)
-fast travel to hideout from Temple of Chaos

I didn't get anything of it, lol.