Don't feel like playing anymore.

I could give you several tips of how to approach a new fight in order to learn it and not die in the process, but since you don't want any help i won't.

So i am just gonna tell you to try harder.

Just

do

it.

Do like every hc players, pay for piety and malachai kill.

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gvieira wrote:

I checked your 3 tempest chars.

All of them have almost no life on the passive tree and a lot of equipments with no life at all, or really bad life rolls.

I agree that the game has some flaws on the awakening, but the problems you found are completely your fault.

Maybe... but you're not looking very hard.

You also seem to think I have some control over what equipment I have... I don't trade. You do. That's why you think the game is easy and I don't.

Anyway, this is more about my motivation to continue than about changing the game. They've made the game very unmotivating.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

The barriers you've put up at the end of act IV normal are prohibitively punishing.

And what about the barriers you have put up for yourself?
You're clearly not a very gifted player yet you impose all of these additional restrictions on your play, and that's fine, if you enjoy it.
And now here you are submitting your feedback on a version of the game that the designers never intended to release, you do realize that?
What are they supposed to do with this feedback? Should they reduce the difficulty of the game until all the people who refuse to use the tools and information available are able to get by? On Hardcore?
I don't think so.

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Zed_ wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

The barriers you've put up at the end of act IV normal are prohibitively punishing.

And what about the barriers you have put up for yourself?
You're clearly not a very gifted player yet you impose all of these additional restrictions on your play, and that's fine, if you enjoy it.
And now here you are submitting your feedback on a version of the game that the designers never intended to release, you do realize that?
What are they supposed to do with this feedback? Should they reduce the difficulty of the game until all the people who refuse to use the tools and information available are able to get by? On Hardcore?
I don't think so.

Nope. They should be aware. They should be consistent. It's likely that they are neither. I'm not asking for the game to be made easier... I'm letting them know that they've made it too hard. There's a huge difference.

They've designed a game where players feel that they are justified in playing in a way I've always (since before your parents were born probably) considered cheating. They expect us to let "elite" players play the game for us. I quit playing chess back in the day as soon as my coaches started telling me I had to adopt openings developed by other players. Bullshit. I stopped enjoying it. Same goes for games like this. As soon as someone tells me I have to trade for items someone else has found, I'm pretty much done with it. Chess is a fine game. Don't change it. PoE is a fine game. I'll get by without it. They've turned it from a game I can enjoy with my standards of play into one I can't. They should know that.

A4n has been nerfed to embarrassingly low levels. I beat Malachi with a self found two hand melee char just the other night. Heavy strike + melee phys + lgoh + life leech. I face tanked tentacles + degen circle, even stayed in range of his slam. 4 life pots and a granite. Keep fortify up and he dies. It is very very simple now, easier than normal Dom ever was for melee self found prior to 2.0.

Your maurader's tree is atrocious. Absurdly inefficient and some baffling choices. Skipping great life nodes and traveling all over the place for stuff you don't even need early. That build should fail. Compare with my tempest marauder's tree. Only 1 more point and vastly more survivability. Why would you try to self find crit 2h stun? Take rt, put those fortify and accuracy points in to life, master craft life or res on to gear rather than using those single digit rolls.

You just moved your king out in to the middle of the board in your first 5 moves and complained chess is too punishing.

you need a break to get your strength together.

I remember the time you passed the wall known as Cruel Dominus.
something I didn't do yet. the only time I got past him in HC wasn't Solo, and it also wasn't self-found.

so you can beat Piety and Malachai too. I'm certain of it.

but this doesn't mean they are fair fights, by any stretch. especially not in A4 Merciless which is outright ridiculous.

Farewell, Shagsbeard. I've enjoyed reading your posts for years and learned much from your perspective. I used to play exclusively HC in Diablo II, but had an active guild to support me with legit gear. I tried self-found once with a Paladin, but could never have made it past Baal without help from my teammates. Much respect for those who tough it out alone.

I took pretty much the opposite approach to yours in tackling Act 4 in PoE. Back in patch 1.3, I leveled a Facebreaker Scion up to level-56 at the start of Act 1 Merciless. After 2.0 was released, I rebuilt her passive tree with one significant difference - maximum life regen. I then soloed the whole game in Merciless, without having seen any of Act 4 ahead of time. I played strictly HC style, until I had to resort to using one tp to bail out of Sceptre of God and refresh pots before killing Dominus' second form. By that point, I had 400 life regen and was doing 30K dps with Ice Crash, so I was pretty buff for Act 4.

The first half of Act 4 was fucking great, I loved Daresso's arena and Kaom's creepy nightmare. Mobs were dense and relentless and the boss fights were tough but fair. My build, however, relies on stuns and kills to generate Endurance and Frenzy charges, which run dry against solo bosses. I could still face tank Daresso and Kaom, but had to kite them as well.

All this background is to set the stage for Act 4 Piety. I'd read about her death beam and how to dodge it, and had Flame Dash to maneuver with. I was prepared to tp out repeatedly and take as much time as necessary. So I was game at first and yes, it's "doable", but everything about it is cheesy in the worst one-shot D3 tradition. Getting into melee range was such a pain in the ass I finally got bored with the run-around and just zerged her to death. For a SC melee fighter, the most gratifying way to kill her is to ressurect at her doorway, ignore the beam, and just pound her until she's dead. I would not even attempt it in HC, it is cheap and demeaning like no other boss fight in PoE, not even Malachai, who is rigged up with life bar immunity at certain points in the final battle. I had to zerg him too, but once you learn the scipted setup, it's a fair fight and a worthy finale.

My advice, if you want to reconsider the game - hold your nose and have someone take the bitch out for you. As shitty as it is for a fully powered, level-72 SC character in Merciless, it's total bullshit to waste a partially formed HC character in Normal on such a shameless travesty. IMO, the rest of the game is well worth the price of this one venal sin, an indignity soon forgotten.

I'm not gone... I just don't feel much like playing right now and felt GGG should know about why. I'll likely get over it. I have a 3 week vacation coming up out on the Caribbean. I'll be back.