Why I'm quitting PoE and no longer recommending it to friends

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Chris wrote:

If there was a vendor recipe to guarantee six linked sockets if you traded in 1500 fusings, would you use it?

Edit: I'm not saying it takes 1500 fusings to get six linked sockets :P

I wouldn't

I would, however, accept 500 fusing for a 6L.

before anybody flames OP for quitting because of that, flame me first for my reason -

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falkor99 wrote:

It was a fun ride, I played something like 5 builds to merciless and many more halfway there, but maps is not the end game it is fusing grinding. Admit it.

I've never had a 6L on any character and have had no problems taking about two dozen characters into and through Maelstrom of Chaos and now Maps. It's not that I couldn't have afforded it over many hundreds of hours of play time, it's that there's never been a need for one.

It's not a problem, unless the problem is that you feel you can't attain 100% of everything in the game in a few months (and I don't think GGG desires that).

As a side note, PvP will finally give people a reason to grind out that perfect gear (since all the current content in the game can be completed fairly easily with 4Ls, a unique or two, and maybe some quality gems per-build). I could understand a lot of the 5/6L complaints with PvP, but not until then.

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faerwin2 wrote:

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Chris wrote:

If there was a vendor recipe to guarantee six linked sockets if you traded in 1500 fusings, would you use it?

Edit: I'm not saying it takes 1500 fusings to get six linked sockets :P

I wouldn't

I would, however, accept 500 fusing for a 6L.

Now that's an offer you cannot reFUSE...

I would do the 1500 fusing vendor recipe, I'm not a fan of fusing items, and I just sell all of them or use them for 3l alt gear.

On a related note, I think the sell price for linked gear should be better than the unlinked gear, so that 5l should be an exalted instead of the lowly armor scrap or whatever. The 6l should sell for much much more than the 6-Socket's price, not really for the market, but so people who don't know of their value don't accidentally vendor the items.

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Chris wrote:

If there was a vendor recipe to guarantee six linked sockets if you traded in 1500 fusings, would you use it?

Edit: I'm not saying it takes 1500 fusings to get six linked sockets :P

I wouldn't spend that much on it but if it was half that i would consider saving for it.

I hate RNG, true it will keep some playing but lets face it...most people don't want to spend a month or more farming items for a random chance at getting the desired result.

Someone is likely to say it makes the game to easy so no, but RNG isn't difficult it's just time spent grinding mindlessly and some random luck.

Tera Online has the same problem with it's enchanting.
Aion has it worse for it's enchanting.

You could alleviate the problem slightly by doing what Tera has done...if you gain a link it cannot be removed..the RNG is still there but at least you are gradualy getting there...but i would like to see a limit on the amount needed to gain the link... some rng but you will get the link by the time you spend 100/125 fusings...so by the end the max you could spend is 600/725

I dont get it. YOu tell us that engame is not existing and at the same time struggling to get a 6l. really?
6l is endgame as is a better weapon than this unique slow-as-shit mace.

IMO the only problem that exist is maps droppiong is relieant of iiq. BTW fusings are extremely easy to get. You just dont have to spend all your wealth to get thousands of them immediately cuz it's luck-based mechanic.

The problem with random is having small chances. Random Numbers are cool if there is something around 50%. Getting 6L has such a low chance of happening, that the Number of fuses you need for one are spread from about 50 to maybe over 1000.

I would simply change it a little bit. Give an Item with a certain link-state a better chance to get better than getting worse.

But since it was already mentioned, that increasing the quality may have an impact on fusing in the future I guess this isn't even needed or you could combine both. For every point quality the chance to improve the item increases.

But I agree 6l is like the holy grail of item-attributes. Well and after 2000 years the grail is still undiscovered. So you should not complain after 8 weeks.

yeah i think the random nature should be slightly more in favor for greater links or # of sockets than what they are right now, but quitting because of that? pls go, its still closed beta and im sure the devs will continue to pay attention to peoples feedback about this

I consider 6L to be the Philosopher's Stone of the game build-wise. Get one of those and you can suddenly do so much more with what you already have.

And people used to devote their lives to obtaining that stone.