On August 07 2017 02:58 Redox wrote: Also I dont like bartering at all but I found it to be pretty important. Then you also have to know what is worth what which is hard when you are new and you have to manage your stash etc. Became all rather annoying to me.
This is the single thing that's kept me from getting into PoE. The entire barter system feels deliberately arcane and annoying to navigate solely for the purpose of appealing to peoples' D2 nostalgia. When the player economy was also the worst part of D2 as well and only existed out of necessity due to lack of any in-game currency with real value or systems for automating player buying/selling of items.
On August 07 2017 02:58 Redox wrote: Also I dont like bartering at all but I found it to be pretty important. Then you also have to know what is worth what which is hard when you are new and you have to manage your stash etc. Became all rather annoying to me.
This is the single thing that's kept me from getting into PoE. The entire barter system feels deliberately arcane and annoying to navigate solely for the purpose of appealing to peoples' D2 nostalgia. When the player economy was also the worst part of D2 as well and only existed out of necessity due to lack of any in-game currency with real value.
Eh I kinda think it's a silly reason not to play a good game If you have a solid group of people to play with and you're not super grind hardcore player you can get what you need to get yourself to endgame pretty easily without having to use those PoE sell sites
I'm going to start tonight after I finish my last eternal event run
On August 07 2017 02:58 Redox wrote: Also I dont like bartering at all but I found it to be pretty important. Then you also have to know what is worth what which is hard when you are new and you have to manage your stash etc. Became all rather annoying to me.
This is the single thing that's kept me from getting into PoE. The entire barter system feels deliberately arcane and annoying to navigate solely for the purpose of appealing to peoples' D2 nostalgia. When the player economy was also the worst part of D2 as well and only existed out of necessity due to lack of any in-game currency with real value.
Eh I kinda think it's a silly reason not to play a good game If you have a solid group of people to play with and you're not super grind hardcore player you can get what you need to get yourself to endgame pretty easily without having to use those PoE sell sites
I'm going to start tonight after I finish my last eternal event run
On August 07 2017 02:58 Redox wrote: Also I dont like bartering at all but I found it to be pretty important. Then you also have to know what is worth what which is hard when you are new and you have to manage your stash etc. Became all rather annoying to me.
This is the single thing that's kept me from getting into PoE. The entire barter system feels deliberately arcane and annoying to navigate solely for the purpose of appealing to peoples' D2 nostalgia. When the player economy was also the worst part of D2 as well and only existed out of necessity due to lack of any in-game currency with real value or systems for automating player buying/selling of items.
Third party tools have done a lot to fill in the gaps for both Diablo 2 and Path of Exile at least. There is a lot that GGG could do with the trading APIs to make them significantly better, but such changes have been in the works for years so we'll see if it ever happens.
What's interesting about the whole Diablo 2 nostalgia is that Path of Exile was the closest match. I don't think GGG would be in the same place without that considering the competition with Diablo 3 and Torchlight 2 that released around the same time. I will agree that the game has become needlessly complicated over the past five years though. Pretty much every league has been integrated into the game in some fashion so you've got systems upon systems upon systems that have become a monstrosity.
On August 07 2017 02:58 Redox wrote: Also I dont like bartering at all but I found it to be pretty important. Then you also have to know what is worth what which is hard when you are new and you have to manage your stash etc. Became all rather annoying to me.
This is the single thing that's kept me from getting into PoE. The entire barter system feels deliberately arcane and annoying to navigate solely for the purpose of appealing to peoples' D2 nostalgia. When the player economy was also the worst part of D2 as well and only existed out of necessity due to lack of any in-game currency with real value.
Eh I kinda think it's a silly reason not to play a good game If you have a solid group of people to play with and you're not super grind hardcore player you can get what you need to get yourself to endgame pretty easily without having to use those PoE sell sites
I'm going to start tonight after I finish my last eternal event run
I think Battle of the Bastards is still my favorite, but they've clearly learned how to effectively convey the chaos and sheer luck of being in and surviving a battle.
But yeah, not much is more terrifying to men than when 'standing your ground' means 'get roasted'.
On August 05 2017 16:43 iCanada wrote: Damn dude. POE's new bosses hit like absolute trucks.
Act 5 + is significantly harder than Cruel or Merc ever was. Aggro AI, big damages. I'll leave it at saying I'm real glad I didn't pick HC. haha.
The one boss that really sucked for me was Maligaro. If you stop to try and destroy the traps his attack mauls you, but if you run into traps those maul you, and there's no room to run around the traps. Eventually I just spammed potions and burned him down.
EPT
(((((( I wana play too.
