Thoughts on new breach?

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Sadaukar#2191 wrote:

I like the old breach encounters more.

I cannot express how much I dislike the damn walls in my maps.

But even the "regular" breach is somehow worse imo. The monsters are always the same, no variety, no surprise, no excitement. U just stabilize, kill 4 rare monsters and that's it. (sometimes a "boss", who's pretty underwhelming)

I liked opening the breach and getting excited when it was a Chayula breach or even Uul-Netol in the earlier leagues. It was fun and it would sometimes change the way u'd interact with the monsters. Chayula being heavy chaos damage, so u had to dodge the projectiles ect. Uul being high physical and stacking spikes, so u'd better not linger around where those stand.
Even Tul breaches were special, if u had minions and u were not immune to chaining projectiles, u could get bursted down pretty quickly.

I don't know, I want to like the reworked version, but the more I play the more I wish it wasn't reworked.

The only thing that is good about this league is the tree, but even that has massive downsides in that it spits out early and mid-tier gear way too much. It makes pretty much every other league mechanic obsolete until the very endgame for currency or special stuff. (oils ect.)

The Grafts are fine and give some new opportunities for builds, but we all know those are temporary.

tl/dr: walls suck

I think the "old" breach bosses inside breaches were just fine, especially if you was a newer guy who had just started doing maps, it was very tough to kill them then.

If you wanted a higher challenge, you could do the breach map instead or even the flawless version of it? (or why not all 5 at the same time, with maven's crucible? I guess now thats also removed.)

I think the graft being temporary and then being removed by next league is fine, because each league come with some new interesting mechanic to get gear by.

The more i play this new breach, the more i hate it also. I hate the TowerDefense mechanic (we already got blight, we dont need another) plus there are plenty of TD references in delve too. The Hive Fortress is super annoying to do, i just dont bother with it anymore and i cant see myself doing it for the next 5 years in poe too. The only thing fun was the original to open a breach to the "demon" side world and now it is also gutted because you no longer get XP there.

Instead of doing all this, if they wanted something new, they could just kept the same old breach and rework the monster or models, like for example the esh monsters with the ants is the same ants that came out in act 4 in the first area there. (what year was that released again? 2018?) so it means the 3d models is 7 years old.

Again i have no complaint about how the old models were or looked, they were a smooth experience for my PC and didn't cause any lag, unlike many other new mechanic mobs that do. (like Delirium) plus the new breach mobs don't look anythinig "demon" at all, they look more like something from Delirium or beyond mobs you spawn.

Hope this league is just a one-time-thing and everything will return to normal after this league is over. Possible the worst league for me, and this is a rare moment when even its more fun to play on standard then the league.