Labyrinth,the worst content ever made in POE?

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Char1983 wrote:

Removing Ascendancy from the lab would change it significantly. It is a check of your build and your skill as a player. If you can do it, you get rewarded. If you can't or don't want to, you don't. I don't like Cruel being locked behind Act4 either, but yeah, it is just the way it is.

And yes, there are arguments for having the points locked behind the lab. Namely that a game should require skill to complete, and the lab is the first piece of content since Atziri that actually requires skill and not just trading and following a build guide (Atziri can be trivialized, too, though). There are some bosses that require skill as well (by now, I actually like Malformation Piety, though I hate that she still lags badly, and the fact that the room is cluttered with shit that makes using movement skills unreliable), but you can just skip those and still get to level 100 by following a build guide and grinding mindlessly.

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Turtledove wrote:

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Char1983 wrote:

Removing Ascendancy from the lab would change it significantly. It is a check of your build and your skill as a player. If you can do it, you get rewarded. If you can't or don't want to, you don't. I don't like Cruel being locked behind Act4 either, but yeah, it is just the way it is.

And yes, there are arguments for having the points locked behind the lab. Namely that a game should require skill to complete, and the lab is the first piece of content since Atziri that actually requires skill and not just trading and following a build guide (Atziri can be trivialized, too, though). There are some bosses that require skill as well (by now, I actually like Malformation Piety, though I hate that she still lags badly, and the fact that the room is cluttered with shit that makes using movement skills unreliable), but you can just skip those and still get to level 100 by following a build guide and grinding mindlessly.

Labyrinth does absolutely nothing to require any skill. Izaro requires skill but the boring tedious and not fun trap nonsense requires no skill.

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Telzen wrote:

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Turtledove wrote:

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Char1983 wrote:

Removing Ascendancy from the lab would change it significantly. It is a check of your build and your skill as a player. If you can do it, you get rewarded. If you can't or don't want to, you don't. I don't like Cruel being locked behind Act4 either, but yeah, it is just the way it is.

And yes, there are arguments for having the points locked behind the lab. Namely that a game should require skill to complete, and the lab is the first piece of content since Atziri that actually requires skill and not just trading and following a build guide (Atziri can be trivialized, too, though). There are some bosses that require skill as well (by now, I actually like Malformation Piety, though I hate that she still lags badly, and the fact that the room is cluttered with shit that makes using movement skills unreliable), but you can just skip those and still get to level 100 by following a build guide and grinding mindlessly.

Labyrinth does absolutely nothing to require any skill. Izaro requires skill but the boring tedious and not fun trap nonsense requires no skill.

Then why are there posts all over the forums from people saying they can't complete it? People dying to traps, people dying to Izaro, there are posts all over the place with people complaining about them.

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Char1983 wrote:

If you have less than 15 minutes of gaming time available per day, you should probably find another game. You can still do it, given you get your character to be able to do it, just do it on the weekend when you have half an hour.

Aim for somewhere at the top, don't run in circles cause that never helps (not in maps, either), and spend a total of maybe 2 minutes in the actual traps. If that is too unbearable for you, don't ascend and stop complaining. Seriously, it is getting ridiculous, and your arguments get more and more laughable.

EDIT: You probably also find reflect, bearers, and corrupting blood "boring, tedious and not fun" I guess?

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Baxta wrote:

GGG does this shit pretty frequently. Act 4 was hilariously broken on release and there is still no reason to kill Merc Malachai apart from the challenge.

The solution is simple though:

Either ignore it or pay for someone to run it for you (its pretty cheap).

They aren't going to change it to make sense or be balanced, so there is no reason to get upset about it. Just accept it's stupid, pay someone to do it and move on to maps.