MY TOP ISSUES WITH THE TEMPLE MECHANIC - Full feedback after playing it for 100h+
" Yeah, there are legitimately much more complex games out there that don't require you to learn mechanics from outside sources. I have to once again bring up how GGG themselves had no clue how their temple worked considering its initial release and the changes they made to it. I worry that this mechanic will keep being a thorn in their side if they keep it like this. They should go the PoE 1 route and simply delete it until they figure it out. |
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" Making a snake is the most lore-like think people could have end up doing. Also it solves the main issue with temple, destabilization is only a good mechanic if you can fight it, if not it totally drives people crazy. No one likes to invest time for something that RNG blows up again and again. However, with nice rewards and a way to fight it people actually like to invest time in something that they can buildup against the elements. So right now snakes are the fun part, is what saved this league. If they want to diversify temple building what they can do is give diminishing room bonuses with chain length, the most long the chain the easier to maintain with locks but the less bonuses they give. Also to attract people to do not only multiple branches but also matrix builds with multiple rooms interacting in loops they could lower the probability of destabilization based on room level and number of links, so by trowing some room fodder and a bit of luck you could squeeze some good rooms setups for many turns without locks. Added to this, to diversify even more so people don't follow guides 100% of the time, they could add global vaal bonuses similar to the modifiers medallions, these bonuses could benefit your temple for 10 runs or something, and they would benefit specific rooms. This would make players want to adapt to the current bonus, making them fill the destabilized gaps with the temporal buffed room types. You could even make sacrificial chamber have infinite sacrifices so people can adapt their temple to the new bonus. Less agency and make players be totally at the mercy of destabilization would kill what makes temple the fun minigame that it currently is. Last edited by chaosengineer#3256 on Jan 19, 2026, 7:35:07 AM
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The original top 5 issues feel really insignificant - terrain could be better, corner monsters could be a bit less silly, sure.
Balance i don't feel qualified addressing, i'll just say it's awesome to have a semi-reliable source of high level runes, in ssf i rarely see them otherwise. The long term variance in benefits is awkward. More luck is now needed to obtain desired layouts and from the outside it can feel like there's too much reward for the rng being generous - because it's an ongoing payoff. Compare that to Abyss or Ritual which maybe require at least a decent Waystone to become good one time (and tablets etc). The real problem is indeed construction difficulty. Off the top of my head Garrisons get appropriated by an Armoury etc and most often Synth lab can't be connected to anything other than path, which would be fine but since you want to keep it for a while you need to snake it, and so it begins. Perhaps if more rooms were allowed to connect (and i guess raise each others bonuses without upgrading tier?) and medallion protected a 3x3 square we'd be building more interesting layouts |
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