SET FREE THE ASCENDANCY POINTS (or rework the lab) [New ascension methods/lab rework ideas]

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The_Reporter wrote:

Lab is casual friendly now?

Bet it's still as boring as ever.

Thank you for your constructive feedback and suggestions, The_Reporter. I'll put it on your record.

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Xavathos wrote:

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Nishrek wrote:

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goetzjam wrote:

Which is why I go back to why anyone would post here or at all with "lab sucks"

The Lab itself is not a problem.
The problem is AP gated behind the Lab.

Ascendancy points. Labyrinth. Trial of Ascendancy.

Nice. You can use google and dictionary. Gratz! Thank you for the very constructive feedback!
You wrote what it is
I wrote where the problem is.
If you can't see the difference, then I can't help you.

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Zalhan2 wrote:

Its subjective I know. I do boss fights with tons of stuff in WOW all the time. Its just a badly designed fight. It's not fun and it scales badly with a lot of builds. Maybe without the boring ass time sinks I would have time to like it, but I don't think so.

As it stands I am not wasting the time to get to it I really hate everything but the last fight with a passion.

Right. By the way, what do you think about Pier and Plaza bosses?

As a longtime hater of lab, I fully support the alternative to giving ascendency points at certain levels or act progression.

Lab always felt super out of place to me. It is definitely build biased and some of my most powerful builds never saw full potential because of one shots in uber. I realize this is bad play on my part, but no other content follows this "hardcore" mode in softcore.

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jddc78 wrote:

As a longtime hater of lab, I fully support the alternative to giving ascendency points at certain levels or act progression.

Lab always felt super out of place to me. It is definitely build biased and some of my most powerful builds never saw full potential because of one shots in uber. I realize this is bad play on my part, but no other content follows this "hardcore" mode in softcore.

So you hate the lab and you hate trading, what do you enjoy about the game then?



Giving them based on story progression or something you already have to do is literally the worst option. Period


It feels out of place? Maybe because its a separately designed piece of content that pairs a higher reward behind it? 1 shots in uber LUL, you mean if you don't play around the mechanics properly? Um breach domains sort of follow this hardcore mode mechanic, if you die in a breach domain chances are you aren't getting to the boss.

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jddc78 wrote:

As a longtime hater of lab, I fully support the alternative to giving ascendency points at certain levels or act progression.

Lab always felt super out of place to me. It is definitely build biased and some of my most powerful builds never saw full potential because of one shots in uber. I realize this is bad play on my part, but no other content follows this "hardcore" mode in softcore.

jddc78, thank you for voicing your opinion that ascendancy points should best be made available an alternative way. I've added your name to the list of players that have voiced a similar opinion now at 911 names. As the list get longer our voice grows stonger. Over 330 threads discussing labyrinth problems with over 910 posters in support

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jddc78, thank you for referencing the most confusing thing that I ever heard the great Chris Wilson say, paraphrasing something like, "In Labyrinth we wanted to give softcore players the sense of accomplishment that hardcore players experience." The most common response I've heard to this statement was, "If I wanted to play hardcore then I wouldn't be playing softcore!" I definitely agree that the platformer-jump-here-run-there game play in labyrinth feels out of place in the great superior arpg-kill-monster-get-loot game play that is in the rest of PoE.

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The_Reporter wrote:

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Xavathos wrote:

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The_Reporter wrote:

Lab is casual friendly now?

Bet it's still as boring as ever.

Thank you for your constructive feedback and suggestions, The_Reporter. I'll put it on your record.

Your record is worth less than my record. A pile of beans minus a few beans.

Glad to be of service.

I am not sure if this is trolling or badgering? Either way I suspect it's over the line.

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The_Reporter wrote:

I agree. It's bizarre that that user has a 'record' of me. But if it keeps him happy, who am I to interfere?

My mother used to always talk about the "Heavenly Father" having a record of everything we do. It must take a huge army of record keepers to do that. I'm very pleased to learn that our Heavenly Father has someone assigned to that duty for the PoE Labyrinth threads.

P.S. Any guesses as to which religion always talks about Heavenly Father having a record of everything we do? Perhaps that's multiple religions? I don't really now.

P.P.S. Do you think that all of the hard copy records have been moved over to digital copies by now?