News Part II

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Thieldan wrote:

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vio wrote:

it's getting boring.

i mean as soon as ggg implements monster mods which prevent one hit kills or requires someone to backtrack some centimeters, player s storm the barricades for nerfing it.

how could they implement some mechanic which can't be mastered by just sinking massive time into it but requires some skill instead. a challenge, horrible!!

My thoughts exactly. Avoiding traps is easy if you pay attention, and most of Izaro's attacks are so predictable and avoidable that you can do it pretty easy regardless of build. Just have to stay on your feet.

Omg yet another trash lab sucks thread from someone who doesnt even have enough experience in poe to know what they are talking about. Rehashing other peoples words is not going to support your "cause". There are plenty of statistics fighting your opinion that lab sucks, and as such players are quiting or leaving the game, till lab gets fixed. On the contrary the active player base has increased and player retwntion is higher. Steam charts do not lie.

Likewise billions of people dont play poe. I can guarantee there are less than 150k active players in poe. Steam charts do not lie, and chris wilson said end of 2013 active player base was 70k at "peak" times. I highly doubt active player base has increased so significantly, or else GGG would not have less than 20 staff members and content would be much better. Those fake numbers poe uses to market their game are total different accounts created since alpha or beta, not total active player base. Chat spam bots are a problem and they get banned every day, forcing botters to make new accounts, and inflating that "number of downloads" number they use.

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Jgizle Joined:November 3, 2013 - MagmaTusk Level 89 Juggernaut Standard League

Regulator Guild:Diablo Joined: October 23, 2012

Not listing any character less than 85(except pvp ones) or those i deleted due to riping in standard.

IanFraserKilmister Level 95 Marauder Hardcore League
CumBeggar Level 91 Ranger Hardcore League
WildCaptain Level 89 Templar Hardcore League
AnOldTimerLevel 86 TemplarHardcore League

CharlesSchuldiner Level 93 Marauder Standard League (see reddit famous HC character) RIP to screenfreeze
RonieJamesDioLevel 93 MarauderStandard League RIP to screenfreeze
CragHackTheMarauderLevel 90 MarauderStandard League RIP

Vaginal_Bleeding Level 28 Witch Hardcore League
Chen_Stormstout Level 28 Duelist Hardcore League
AccidentOfBirth Level 28 Templar Standard League

Active racer, pvper, alpha tester, up until the end of prophecy doing highest content possible (except of course lamebyrinth) with non ascendend characters.

Completed 4/8 challenges in Domination/Nemesis
Completed 5/8 challenges in Ambush/Invasion
Completed 5/8 challenges in Rampage/Beyond
Completed 4/8 challenges in Torment/Bloodlines
Completed 4/4 challenges in Torment+Bloodlines 1-Month
Completed 4/4 challenges in Torment+Bloodlines 1-Month HC
Completed 5/8 challenges in Warbands/Tempest
Completed 20/20 challenges in Flashback
Completed 32/32 challenges in Talisman
Completed 36/40 challenges in Perandus (4 labyrinth related challenges)
Completed 36/40 challenges in Prophecy (4 labyrinth related challenges)

Im pretty sure i know what the fuck im talking about. Also the opening post contains plenty of sarcasm and satyre, it would be wise to use your brain to understand which part is what, not only here but as a general rule in real life too, to avoid ridicule amongst others.

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Chadwixx wrote:

Lab is garbage though, they took every annoying aspect of poe and added traps.

Maybe lab is garbage for you, I like it. There are only a few things in it that I dislike, namely the extreme lottery on helmet enchants.

Also, every annoying aspect? Depends on what annoys you. I mean, there is no masters I have to level there, or weirdo master missions where I have to run back half the level to get to the master, there is practically zero backtracking if you know how to do it (sometimes you have to run back a screen or two, not more), there is no RNG gated content (well, Uber lab is a bit gated, I'll give you that, but not as badly as Uber Atziri or even just Atziri), there is no forced trade. There is a pretty much guaranteed reward at the end of the lab, so for example if you run Uber lab, you can be almost guaranteed to make a profit (if you go for a full key run at least).

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Chadwixx wrote:

I think the dev team was very mad at the player base when they made the lab and decided to try to piss them off.

If you honestly think that, you should see a doctor. And no, that is not me being mean or sarcastic, that is what I honestly think you should do, because if you do, there might be something wrong (it does sound paranoid to me).

Regulator, your characters are hidden just like jgizle's. So comparing your extensive experience with his Is silly when as far as the public is concerned, you only have a 95 hardcore character and a 93 standard character and he only has an 89 standard character.

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GeorgAnatoly wrote:

At least it was mildly entertaining.

I've run the lab 100+ times and I admit when I have to run it for points I hate doing it but when I run it repeatedly for loot/enchants I'm happy as shit, go figure.

Honestly the first 2 labs are kinda maeh. The Uber Lab is fine because you actually get something and it has a really high mob density mostly too so you can even just level in there for most parts. The only annoying thing about the Uber Lab is getting the Trials.

And the thing that makes lab quite easy is that you can prepare fairly well for it. You know which dangers you face and can prepare for it or even build your character around it. Not having any dangerous amounts of elemental damage of course makes it easy, because elemental damage is usually what kills people. Some Endurance Charges, a Basalt Flask and whatever your build can get and neither the traps nor Izaro are very dangerous.

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Maybe lab is garbage for you, I like it. There are only a few things in it that I dislike, namely the extreme lottery on helmet enchants.

Yeah... I don't even go for them anymore... or I just take them if I have no boots or gloves needing a decent enchant (mostly boots though).

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My thoughts exactly. Avoiding traps is easy if you pay attention, and most of Izaro's attacks are so predictable and avoidable that you can do it pretty easy regardless of build. Just have to stay on your feet.

Paying attention is more than you have to do in many other parts of the game. A few bosses have decent punishing mechanics now if you don't be careful, but mostly it is still just killing things so it has no chance of killing you.

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Char1983 wrote:

Also, why do 90% of "lab sucks" comments I read on this sub-forum come from only two posters?

That's not fair. It's two + their alt accounts & room mates. :P

On a totally serious note: OP you don't seem to understand that it's safe to say that for GGG there aren't any "issues" to address or manifesto about the Lab to write. If the "issue" was as serious as you guys convinced yourselves that it is, GGG wuld probably say something by now.