The labyrinth is both boring and frustrating

Agree 100%. I doubt I'll even ascend my toons thats how much I hate Lab. I can still do hardest content w/o ascending. I'm here to kill shit in my free time not run mazes or play with traps. I'd play a different game if thats what I wanted to do.

I wouldnt even run shit mazey maps like Tunnel in 2 years here no way I'm messing with lab.

What they need to put time in is more maps and more atziri type boss.

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The_Wuggly_Ump wrote:

[...] because who would want to use their brain while playing an ARPG? [...]

Wot? O_o

I like that Ascendancy points are a reward for beating a challenge, and not just spoon-fed to the non-thinking masses. That's how it should be, please keep it that way.

Ascended twice already on hardcore and had a blast doing it together with a friend. (both around lvl 33 when entering, after the patch where they toned the boss fights down a bit, didn't have time before that sadly..)

Edit: Improved performance would be nice though.
Got a lot of lags and crashes removed with poe.exe --softwareaudio -gc 2

For me, the biggest impact in reality is the "you CANNOT leave until you are done" concept.
Now, every third person I whisper replies "in lab, write later". So, even if I decide not to participate in Laboratory business, I am still influenced.

Of course, some people do map in a group of six, for them nothing changes too much, but not all of them. Incidency of "Sorry, not now, I am somewhere I cannot leave from for next 10-15 minutes" is now higher than ever for me.

Labyrinth itself is fine.

Having Ascendancy points gated by the Labyrinth is not fine. At all.

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mynameisonlyforthegods wrote:

Labyrinth itself is fine.

Having Ascendancy points gated by the Labyrinth is not fine. At all.

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Join the movement gentlement, lets force that change.

SET FREE ASCENDANCY POINTS

+1

Agreed, while I allready found act 4 ridiculous in comparison to the following difficulty act 1+2, Labyrinth gating the Asc.-points in the way as it is now is really a terrible slap in the face.

I am really really disappointed by the Ascendancy. Was really solid idea and what became of it is just making me want to puke.

Literally my only direct problem with the labyrinth (which I've already posted a thread on) is that my unstable internet is a serious detriment to completing the labyrinth; however, I find the labyrinth quite fun to run, and the only frustration I feel is the frustration of screwing up (WHY did I stand in that trap?!)...or DCing. To me, the labyrinth is great outside of the DCing issue and possibly, just possibly, the sheer unlikelihood of getting the helmet enchant I want (but as I said, that's not really a problem to me).

As far as indirect effects, though...trying to get my Marohi Erqi last night, almost every single person I /whois'd before messaging was in the labyrinth...meaning they can't trade with me. This problem may go away with the next round of trading improvements...but it's definitely at least a minor annoyance now.

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mynameisonlyforthegods wrote:

Labyrinth itself is fine.

Having Ascendancy points gated by the Labyrinth is not fine. At all.

+1

My favourite game of all time completely ruined by this lab. Destroyed the fun completely.