32 Endless Ledge races but no Descent or Descent Champions races?

Title. I can tell from the rest of the races that this season is meant to be more competitive (no BLAMT or and of those mods on their own/in smaller combos) but the lack of Descent and Descent Champions races really bothers me. Those are my favorite race types and cannot be played normally for fun. This on its own would not be that bad; everyone has their own favorite race type. However, there are all those Endless Ledge races which, from what I have read, many people do not like as much as Descent and Descent Champions. To me it's one of my least favorite race types as well as the worst of these three race types that don't take place in normal game areas and end in Void League.

Can someone explain the logic here? Is Endless Ledge more competitive than Descent and Descent Champions? If so, why? Will those races return next season? If so, why skip them for a whole season?

Post your thoughts about all this.

Greendude explains the reasoning behind this decision here:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1092947

I too will miss descent. As someone who started racing casually last season, Descent and Descent: Champions were my favorite because of their duration, fun level, and overall enjoyment. They carreid a lot of my points for last season. I really will miss them and hope that they'll reconsider bringing them back.

so more than 1/4th of whole season is least competitive and most rng influenced race. seems like there was nothing to look forward to after all. this + fail timings for boss rushes doesnt give any reason for people to improve unless they have realistic chance to get good rankings

Lets hope some other game will create something similar to what POE races used to be 3 seasons ago. Don't have any hope on GGG anymore.

Maybe they will finally do something about dischargers oneshotting you before you can do something about them.

I will play in it, but this season looks pretty grim so maybe I will give this casual race thing a try. I really expected a bit more considering we're like 2 months behind the schedule.
Both the descent races had their fair share of issues that could been tweaked rather easily instead of just flat out removing them. Changing around some minor chest stuff, and removing frenzy swords would fix like 99% of the race. I just don't understand why they would chose not to listen to the community. Hell, casual players even had descent champs as their favorite race as far as I know.

Boss rushes looks very interesting on paper. I'd much rather see that as the signature with the fixed/famine mods rather than another dive into the docks.
Maybe they just ran out of ideas, and would rather stick to something that "works". Even if that was the case, 2 hour is just plain and simply wrong. Most people prefer 1 hour or less, the ones that actually like long races want to progress anyway.

And still no news about haxorino :^(

edit: Also that 500point bringer looks pretty cool, not going to lie. But I wish it was rather just an mtx that I could use on any other helmet instead, that would also help a lot with the rmt on alt art stuff.

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Warsplit wrote:

Greendude explains the reasoning behind this decision here:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1092947

Greendude didn't post in that thread. If there is an explanation for this reasoning by GGG or one of the top racers, then I would love to see it.

These boss rush races look promising, but it seems like GGG is giving way too much time for them, even for the slower players like me.

I just miss how different Descent and Descent Champions are from the game in general, not even as a race mode. If we could at least practice/play those modes for fun, then I would not mind the lack of events as much.

I'm not against GGG or poe, but im against this Race S9!

Best way to show GGG devs how disappointed we are and disagree with lab test objects on us - boycott this Race 9.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1092941
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