Upcoming patch schedule and Open Beta date estimate

I for one am interested in the new endgame. Those of us who have been around for a while know that Chaos is only temporary, and frankly just making mobs do insane damage isn't a good design. But we knew that, and like I said, Chaos is only temporary. Current Merciless feels plenty hard for those of us not blessed with insane gear.

So, here's hoping that the new act-three endgame, whatever it is, balances more closely with the difficulty progression and provides a nice challenge without being stupid hard.

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unsmith wrote:

...being stupid hard.

That's the entire point of the end-game in PoE. It's supposed to be excruciatingly difficult. Actually, the 3rd difficulty was supposed to be like that. After tons of complaints, they added the 4th difficulty and made it very hard so players could beat the 3rd rather easily. After even more complaints, they added MoC to take the place of the stupidly difficult difficulty.

Players just don't understand that it's supposed to be that hard. No one is supposed to be able to finish that last act and move on to the end-game with smooth progression. It's supposed to challenge even the best players with the best characters. After months and months of gearing and leveling, a character should handle it decently, but still not easily.

so when open beta will start,there will be a char wipe and after that it won t be another one when the full game releases?

nice !! started to play today ,BIG +1 for more color-ish enviroment , graphic quality is awesome but like more colors , something like that on preview jpg image

I'm considering buying a supporter pack to start playing, but, I'm concerned about the impending character wipe. Will anything be carried over after the wipe? I'm not really willing to pay yet if I'm going to spend hours with the game only to see it all go back to zero in a few months.

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tigersfan wrote:

I'm considering buying a supporter pack to start playing, but, I'm concerned about the impending character wipe. Will anything be carried over after the wipe? I'm not really willing to pay yet if I'm going to spend hours with the game only to see it all go back to zero in a few months.

See you mid-August.

Great job !

Honestly UI needs some work. hopefully they squeze it in before open beta, as it looks right now alot of people will definetally not appricate it.

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Players just don't understand that it's supposed to be that hard. No one is supposed to be able to finish that last act and move on to the end-game with smooth progression. It's supposed to challenge even the best players with the best characters. After months and months of gearing and leveling, a character should handle it decently, but still not easily.

Yeah, I dunno, that always bothered me. The highest difficulty setting that ANY game has should be set to be ridiculous. I feel bad they had to add difficulty levels to appease players. That seems dumb. If you can't beat it on the hardest difficulty, it's for a reason! Practice more, get better gear, find a close group of friends you can practice with to develop strategies! The most fun you can have is conquering a challenge that has haunted you for some time! I like nothing better than defeating a boss that has hounded me forever and so on.