| 2.0 | Crown's Cyclone Facebreaker

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KorgothBG wrote:

Can you level up a new character fast enough? Actually yes you can ... it takes ~16h to go from 1 to 70 and another 8 to get from 70 to 80 .. if it takes you hundreds of hours to reach 80-85 then you are doing it wrong. So no free respecs of tree and bandits , that's true but rerolling a new char actually is a thing. Selling all your gear ... wtf man ... you don't need 76123871523123 exalts to get a build working. You don't need full mirrored gear nor level 100 char to see if a build is good or not and if you like the playstyle or not.

The whole "why bother wasting huge amounts of time and currency" falls short when you just look at new leagues ... you start with nothing yet it seems that the majority of players enjoy that .. so yeah ... there is that. Wasting time really ... playing PoE by itself can be considered a wasted time ... how does playing with a new character is a time wasted and playing with your old one is not ?

And the problem is not that most people don't want to try and play a build taht is viable, the problem is that many players don't won't to play any build UNLESS it is considered "the best" ( though in many occasions that's just not the case ) or the "oh my gawd everyone's doing it so must i" build.

For me personally it's very sad to see that Poe which main selling point is replayability and the ability to create tons of different viable builds tailored by you and for you, has slowly turned into this fotm type of game where 90% of the people play 2 builds for 4 months then GGG nerf them then the same people cry like there is no tomorrow and then they proceed to play the new 2 "best" builds ... then GGG nerfs them etc. etc. etc. etc.
That way many things remain unnoticed, many builds are underestimated, mechanics - neglected and that effectively destroys the build diversity ( which again is the best thing about PoE )

I remember some years ago when i was saying "Hey guys you know what - block chance is absolutely amazing!" and everyone pretty much laughed at me and said "Pff noob block chance is shit only one thing is playable and that's freezing pulse ... kripp says so and everyone is doing that so .. yeah ... go play with your little block... noob"

Or when for years i've been explaining and showing with vids etc. that facebreaker builds are insanely good and actually way too good compared to what you need to get them running. A year ago ( or maybe more ) Blender builds where the fotm ... and i've talked to friends basically saying hey guys blenders are cool and all but they are more expensive and you end up with better results if you just go for the god damn facebreakers, better survivability, better damage at half the price. And most said that i know nothing that they don't care about the videos, about the screenshots about the prices of the gear etc. etc. And on the question "well ok why blender guys? " the answer was simple yet disturbing : "Because everyone is doing it! We don't care about screenshots and videos and comparisons Now shut up!"

You see in my opinion all that "i'll do the fotm and the fotm only" takes so much of the joy of playing PoE for so many people that it hurts me .. it truly does.

And i just find it ironic that many people that i know and to which i've explained about facebreakrs for years have now told me "Hey man you know there is this new build it uses the shitty facebreaker gloves and it's the best thing ever! You should definitely try it out everything else is crap when it comes to melee!" Hell 2 guys even recommended me my own damn guide! It's ironic and it's sad.

That's my personal opinion of course ... and it seems like it is not very popular ... buti think that i've made it pretty clear that i don't care if something is popular or not.

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Phayth wrote:

Umm do you take the 40hp from bandits or the skill point? I took 40hp hope i didnt make wrong choice =(. Im still beginner so idk a lot of things.