Prophecy Challenge Statistics

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Iceman6005 wrote:

so what you're telling me, is that i am currently in the top 1.5% of PoE players in the Prophecy Leagues? SSSWWWEEETTT #GOALS

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Tereng wrote:

In my opinion you don't need to hang around global 820 or spend exalts to get challenges. It sure helps speed up the process though. I have been just playing this league normally like every other league mapping, levelling my masters with dailies (not everyday tho) and trying out new prophecy stuff.
Getting till 24 should be pretty easy, and even 30, from 30 to 36, you will need 820 and currency tho, I agree to that.

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markww wrote:

Prophecy League started 3/6, so these stats are after one month

Perandus League stats after 6 weeks (ie roughly 50% more play time) https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1650705

People who state the league is terrible/dead etc because of these statistics are clearly talking out of their arses.

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failsafe001 wrote:

Wow, I thought people were really into this league!

Nah, turns out the prophecy was just labor to most players. Too much back tracking, and little reward from the prophecies themselves. Even with the update to reduce the backtracking prophecies, it was too little too late and even then, most prophecies were still not that great.

In the end, it came down to... "Should I devote my day off to play the game and farm maps for exp and lootz? Or deal with these prophecies and my silver coins." IMO, prophecy was a great idea but had terrible execution.

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Sure_K4y wrote:

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papersbag wrote:

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failsafe001 wrote:

Wow, I thought people were really into this league!

Nah, turns out the prophecy was just labor to most players. Too much back tracking, and little reward from the prophecies themselves. Even with the update to reduce the backtracking prophecies, it was too little too late and even then, most prophecies were still not that great.

In the end, it came down to... "Should I devote my day off to play the game and farm maps for exp and lootz? Or deal with these prophecies and my silver coins." IMO, prophecy was a great idea but had terrible execution.

I have to agree here. While there are prophecies out there which can be used to great effect under certain circumstances, most of them do not f♪♫♫♪ng matter at all, once you entered merciless difficulty, and/or started mapping.

Even the fine-tuning that was done to get the prophecies more in line with what players actually need/want/have to do from lvl 70 onwards, did very little to remedy the inherent disease of this league, which is "backtrack, or pay, or both".

If I do not want to do a certain prohecy, because there is no benefit for me at all, or I simply can't do it, because I need a specific item/event for it, I have to pay to get it sealed. This might seem like a "lazyness-fee" to some degree, but in the long run it devolved into "insult added to injury" for me. It's like saying "Well, you just had bad luck at the price of 1 coin, now you need to remove it for the price of another x coins". To top it all off, the player actually has very little control over the timing of when these prophecies occur, which makes matters even worse, when you have prophecies that just won't freaking proc for the love of god.

I can remember when ZiggyD uploaded a podcast about this league relatively early on, saying that this league would be the best so far, in terms of design. Don't get me wrong, there are many good ideas here, and I congratulate Rory for putting this together, but the backtracking sucked from day 1 onwards, and it still does. I stopped counting how many times I killed the council by now, eventhough I did not even want to farm them to begin with, but removing council related prophecies is too darn expensive, let alone that it wouldn't make much sense. So you have to do those runs, to prevent your prophecy-screen from getting messed up.

Case in point, this league is either keeping me from doing what I want to do, or it's making me lay down greatly increased amounts of coins, just to be able to enjoy it's unique features, while actually playing the core-game somewhat properly. To me this league has become some kind of shopping cart, with a will of its own, unless it's being fed with coins.

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markww wrote:

If you don't want to run the council just sell the keys or prophecies for chaos then you can turn the chaos into silver coins if you need more. You don't 'have to' do any prophecies.

As an example the Feral Lord V prophecy sells for around 6c, it costs around 14/15 silver to seal, 6 chaos will buy you 50+ silver coins (prices from standard) Volkuurs key sells for around 20c. Honestly if you are getting that many keys for the council you can make a ton of whaever currency you want.