One portal deaths kill my will to play the game

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PaintMaster#2396 wrote:

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Cyriac_Darakus#1022 wrote:

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PaintMaster#2396 wrote:

Do maps with 4 mods.

Except that to progress the atlas passive it requires you to do 6 mod maps. Having a Third Tablet requires 6 mod maps, the tablets offer far too much to ignore them

The game is not polished enough and is far too rippy for the current 1 portal system, not to meantion bugs and constant crashing. Currently it's far too easy to die from a random unseen off screen meteor or some other rubbish, and of course this just increases significantly further with more map mods.

The next argument is going to be "Make a better build"

I can run a T15 6 mod map and not even bat an eye and the next one I run, encounter 1 rare and instantly die, hell even the wrong type of white mobs with the wrong modifiers can wipe out a toon. I can kill all the T3 bosses in under 10 seconds and still randomly die in a 6 mod T15 map.

The next one will be "don't run modifiers you cannot handle"

Sure thats fine, but then you are limiting your character options even more. The other issue here is that a lot of the modifiers are always dangerous, regardless of your build.

There are only a handful of good build options that can truly run 6 mod maps properly with almost no risk. These also usually require a good amount of gear investment due to their popularity. This then brings the question as to how can you achieve this point without the superior drop rates of the T15 6 map mods.

The other concept with these top tier builds is that the reason they work is that they achieve this through raw power, with massive amounts of damage that covers entire screens worth of monsters, completly bypassing any game mechanics in place.

For a game franchise that is meant to be about creative freedom they sure like to shit on that with terrible unintuitive modifiers and having their gear progression so wack that the best way to win is to not engage with the game at all.

Isn't that crazy that in order to not die you need either better defense or paying more attention when playing?

Wouldn't mind to see your character, maybe its glasscannon and its actually your problem that you die.

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1LeggedGuy#0271 wrote:

Hello and Happy New Year,

Death in End Game mapping is far to punishing.

Upon a singular death in a 6-mod map:
1. Loss of Waystone
2. Loss of XP
3. Must re-do map
4. NO TABLETS while re-do'ing said map

Death to Boss in any Waystone:
1. Loss of all content in Map.
2. Loss of XP
3. Boss back on full health
4a. If failed again must re-do map
4b. NO TABLETS while re-do'ing said map

Finally made it to Atziri: Die to Unknown mechanic
1. Cant get back to her unless a bunch of maps and good rng.

Finally make it to a Citadel: Oops died
1. Good luck finding another one.

This is a lot. I don't understand the HC like mechanics in the SC. I recognize that I may have some bias coming from PoE1 and loving my 6 portal defense. It just feels bad. It's the only time that I actually want to stop playing the game. I have almost 1400 hrs in the game and even more in PoE1, much more lol. Its a buzz-kill in the whole game play loop.

Just let me play your amazing game.

Piggy Backing.