0.4.0c Hotfix 15

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LeonardoSilvaDF#3295 wrote:

disrespecting player's time has been an issue since you decided to put a lame exp penalty on deaths, which I just endure... but anyway...

XP Penalty has been a thing since Diablo 2 (It's always been in Poe). It's really not hard to hit 90+ where most builds are basically "done", and there's omens that mitigate most of the XP loss if you're trying to push to level cap as a challenge.

I do agree the approach to the Vaal Temple issues was pretty half-baked and didn't really respect time investment into the mechanic, but the XP penalty is a good thing.

Great, now please make the Temple less convoluted to engage with!

Temple is not fun to build as is, it is not fun to watch the stuff you are trying to build collapse. The "snake" thing is stupid why should I have to resort to a static build pattern to mitigate the worst part about the Temple? The destabilize thing always feels bad. Just let me build a damned temple with all my points and run it once.

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I do agree the approach to the Vaal Temple issues was pretty half-baked and didn't really respect time investment into the mechanic, but the XP penalty is a good thing.

The entire Temple Mechanic is Half-Baked. You can see all the ingredients for something great that just didn't cook long enough. In fact there are probably too many ingredients.

Thx GGG!

At this point it doesnt really matter to me. Temples were ruined by the patch, my friends list is empty, and stressing over getting 1 lock to save my chain is well past being annoying.

It was already a struggle to build a nice temple, but with GGG fighting against us, it just isnt worth it. They wanna push fodder temple meta, have fun, im out.

Just hasnt felt right at all since Chris Wilson left. Console features trump PC players experience, MTX is pushed hard before 1.0, QoL missing at every single level (its by far the worst in maps, i never want to map in PoE 2 its awful!).

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Cynical_Tree#5725 wrote:

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LeonardoSilvaDF#3295 wrote:

disrespecting player's time has been an issue since you decided to put a lame exp penalty on deaths, which I just endure... but anyway...

XP Penalty has been a thing since Diablo 2 (It's always been in Poe). It's really not hard to hit 90+ where most builds are basically "done", and there's omens that mitigate most of the XP loss if you're trying to push to level cap as a challenge.

I do agree the approach to the Vaal Temple issues was pretty half-baked and didn't really respect time investment into the mechanic, but the XP penalty is a good thing.

I don't agree exp penalty is a good thing and I do think it is a disrespect to player time to give anyone negative progression. Don't care if it was present on D2. But I won't argue with you about this subject - you can have your opinion. I was addressing the current subjet (patch) and current mentality of the developers.

Bye.

Thank you for reverting this. Was this applied to console? I'm on a PS5 and can still only lock tier 3 rooms.

Good move to revert, but still feels like too little too late. Swapping spymaster with Golem 3 WEEKS INTO THE LEAGUE was also a boneheaded move. You made a complicated mechanic (which was fun), but then set a precedent that you can rip this mechanic apart at anytime you want and willy-nilly brick hours of player progress with a click of a button. Players are going to rightfully going to be skeptical and hesitant when approaching future time consuming mechanics.

Thanks for reverting this change. I appreciate being able to run temple again with some measure of success.

As somebody that spent a lot of time talking mad trash about the original change; I will give credit where credit is due and say that GGG, for what I believe is the first time ever, reverted a change.

Thank you all, it is really appreciated. Kept the league alive for me and many many others.