How is one supposed to design their own builds as a semi-casual player?

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k1rage wrote:

well, seems like some folks dont realize that there is a middle ground to be found

I very often look at a few builds that are similar to what im theory crafting in my little head.

upon consulting said builds I then tune them to meet my wants, needs, and desires.

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Ygidua wrote:

I think it depends on how smart you are and how well you can actually abuse the system.

What streamers and nerds do is nothing else, they abuse game mechanics so that they gain an advantage. ZiggyD is very clever there and almost always the builds he comes up with, are nerfed the season after. :)

As for me,

I wouldn´t even know where to look up builds, plus I would never play something I dislike, just because it´s affective. I play video games for fun and that's how I like to keep it.

Did I clear all content like that? No I did not, but this had less to do with difficulty but actual lack of drops. I leveled to 90 and never saw a guardian map, never found all six trials for uber lab, so that all I could do was merc lab and Atziri, plus t 15 maps.

In my opinion, we casuals struggle much more with the lack of drops, than with the too high difficulty. We would need to clear thousands of maps, to be able to meet shapers guardians, hundreds of thousands monsters need to be killed, to find that one unique item for our build.

These things are the problem and not so much the lack of our own creativity or too demanding content.

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k1rage wrote:

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Ygidua wrote:

I think it depends on how smart you are and how well you can actually abuse the system.

What streamers and nerds do is nothing else, they abuse game mechanics so that they gain an advantage. ZiggyD is very clever there and almost always the builds he comes up with, are nerfed the season after. :)

As for me,

I wouldn´t even know where to look up builds, plus I would never play something I dislike, just because it´s affective. I play video games for fun and that's how I like to keep it.

Did I clear all content like that? No I did not, but this had less to do with difficulty but actual lack of drops. I leveled to 90 and never saw a guardian map, never found all six trials for uber lab, so that all I could do was merc lab and Atziri, plus t 15 maps.

In my opinion, we casuals struggle much more with the lack of drops, than with the too high difficulty. We would need to clear thousands of maps, to be able to meet shapers guardians, hundreds of thousands monsters need to be killed, to find that one unique item for our build.

These things are the problem and not so much the lack of our own creativity or too demanding content.

thats why there is trading bro

game is kinda build around it

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Shagsbeard wrote:

If you've learned to play the game with scrub builds you've made up yourself, you'll do fine with scrub builds that you've made up yourself.

If you've learned to play by copying builds with no understanding of what you're doing, you'll fail at making up your scrub build.

If you've learned to play with scrub builds and switch to a well designed build, you'll be amazed at how powerful a character can become... and get bored with it and go back to playing fun scrub builds.

If you've always played with well designed builds... keep playing those types of builds or learn enough from doing it that you can create well designed builds on your own.

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Ygidua wrote:

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k1rage wrote:

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Ygidua wrote:

I think it depends on how smart you are and how well you can actually abuse the system.

What streamers and nerds do is nothing else, they abuse game mechanics so that they gain an advantage. ZiggyD is very clever there and almost always the builds he comes up with, are nerfed the season after. :)

As for me,

I wouldn´t even know where to look up builds, plus I would never play something I dislike, just because it´s affective. I play video games for fun and that's how I like to keep it.

Did I clear all content like that? No I did not, but this had less to do with difficulty but actual lack of drops. I leveled to 90 and never saw a guardian map, never found all six trials for uber lab, so that all I could do was merc lab and Atziri, plus t 15 maps.

In my opinion, we casuals struggle much more with the lack of drops, than with the too high difficulty. We would need to clear thousands of maps, to be able to meet shapers guardians, hundreds of thousands monsters need to be killed, to find that one unique item for our build.

These things are the problem and not so much the lack of our own creativity or too demanding content.

thats why there is trading bro

game is kinda build around it

But there is no trading at SSF leagues :)

You are right, though. If you don´t trade in this game, you will lack behind. Last season I was so lucky with a threshold jewel, Baron and the ZOmbie mace, I breezed through content. :)

But then when I did not find any further maps, portals ... to advance in the game, I called it a day and my minions went back to the graveyard to play blackjack with the rats there.

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Arrowneous wrote:

Of course not but we "filthy casuals" can read between the lines and put 2 and 2 together (and get 4 not 22) and know that GGG is coding PoE for the top players (the 1%) and mostly eskewing the rest of us and especially the low end casual players. PoE is designed from the beginning to be an old school hardcore arpg and GGG has mostly stayed with that thinking. I don't fault GGG at all for keeping PoE as hard as it is at the endgame (and some bosses) and that just makes it all the harder to be a casual player here. Yes the Xbox edition of PoE is a nod toward the casual arpg crowd and rightfully so because no serious hardcore arpg player will every be playing PoE without a keyboard and mouse.