Announcing Path of Exile: Bestiary League

Does this mean we can catch fish now?

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FrooostyTheBlowman wrote:

Does this mean we can catch fish now?

The fact that a fishing mod would make more money than spandex-pants armor sets is lost on no-one apart from the dev team.


No, really.

on second thought, from what I've seen in the video I'll just ignore the new pokemon mechanics and clear maps as usual and if I need items I'll just get them by trading. I'm curious to see at the end of the bestiary league if they are going to show the stats so we can all see how many people actually played these garbage mechanics.

POKEMON LEAGUE POGCHAMP

Seriously though loving the monster petting zoo idea. Also having some monster lore to collect is a really nice thing and will make the game feel more fleshed out in general. Can't wait to build my farm!

Also anxiously awaiting more ascendancy news. Please don't kill necromancer. Please I beg

GGG release some much content every season, the game has insane variation potential on a single build and people are still crying over the game content...
I rarely get over 24 challenges because I spend my leagues theorycrafting and making new builds, failing most of the time and learning from the mistakes I make...I mean...aren't you hyped for all the changes and new features implemented?

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Nameless_One wrote:

3) As stated: the current mechanics (esp for pet builds) make the targeted assassin missions almost impossible. Adding in content that requires 'saving' mobs until a trap / mechanic is deployed is a recipe for disaster. Your engine simply doesn't support this level of nuance at the moment - how's about coding something where "Target X if used = no attacks from pets" etc? Oh, and don't make it a frakking skill, the hotbar is tiny enough as it is (esp. for pet builds).

I can't agree more with this. I just started playing POE at the beginning of abyss league and I LOVE the game. I've already spent $260 and was planning on spending more in the next league...until this league was announced.

My first character was a golemancer and I had a very hard time completing vorici missions but I figured it was no big deal because there didn't seem to be any more like it. I was planning on making another golemancer again for this new league but that looks absolutely pointless now. I'm not saying I will quit the game, but this definitely gives me pause.

It just boggles my mind that a league would be made that makes it impossible for minion builds to take part. It would be mind numbing to even TRY to attempt to play a minion build and trap all of these beasts.

League looks fun already! The non-league stuff has a ton of stuff to find, try, explore. Here's to hoping that some forgotten ascendancies finally get some interesting mechanics to play with (Rage for Berserker is pretty interesting).

The league however... not sure what to think. If done well, could be fun, but it already looks grindy and tedious for little reward. Basically Pokemon for PoE. Hoping the higher tier rewards are worth the time, because the low tier rewards are horrific (no one's got the time to craft skill gems from beasts when you can just... buy them for an alch or less, unless they come with really high quality/levels).

Of course, haven't gotten to try it out yet, so can't say anything else about it.

my hype level is about 10% of abyss hype when that league was announced. more fated uniques? prophecies are almost all completely terrible and instead of re-working that, we get more of the same. the copy/paste mentality of "here are 4 guardians" is getting old too. now we get four spirit beasts - probably in the usual flavors.

the whole beast collecting looks incredibly boring to me and who wants to level yet another master? i dont mind the grind once per league, but i don't particularly enjoy master missions (assuming he uses similar mechanics as existing masters).

ascendancy nerf? glad i was able to play a wander before the nerf hammer comes down on them next patch. at least uber elder sounds interesting since even red elder is trivial for an endgame build. i was looking forward to some improvements of the elder storyline and this looks promising.

surely, i need more info so i'll wait and see what you come up with in the next two weeks.

Sounds cool! I like the monster hunter capture thing, although I wish stuff like this was just part of the 3.2 content update and not tied to a temp league.

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mysterymeat3 wrote:

Pokemon? Neat. GGG needs to go full stop and rework the entire game to be in an anime style. Add Japanese voice acting too because screw it.

Before anyone laughs too hard at this, consider titles like Berzerk, Overlord, or Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash... or even the old Spawn series.

Nameless_One has some reasonable concerns; I will attempt to speak to some of them...

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Nameless_One wrote:

2) It all feels very "end-game content only". While I understand the Whales can finish the story in less than 10 hours, it's not exactly how you create new Whales. How's about a more gentler curve where capturing creatures is implicit from the very start as choice? i.e. each town should have a NPC desiring captures and so on. Gating it behind Hideouts and then making it a crafting grind is wasting a massive potential for a new mechanic. In fact, it's probably the worst way to introduce a mechanic that talented people spent time coding.

I understand this. One possible implementation of a gentler curve is to have his appearance guaranteed early in Act One. Much like Navali, you find him once and he takes up residence in town... the difference is that while in town he offers those capture missions as dailies.

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5) Pokemon land, the Hideout Edition: all cosmetic and sacrificed on the altar (see what I did there?) of boring mechanics. You'd have been far better off making the sacrifice not a boring x1 frog bandit, x4 elemental wheeze, x7 imps with twitching fingers = %10 shot at a craft that you'll ditch in 20 levels but something meaningful. Cosmetics? Check. Pets? Check. New abilities? Check.

I agree that this would be an interesting addition to the recipe roster.