Announcing Path of Exile: Bestiary League

I've only skimmed through the announcement.

Mechanically, I'm really excited for this Pokemon approach. But given my rather sensitive human nature, I hate the idea of slaughtering my beasts to fully utilize them.

No need for a discussion, I know this doesn't make much sense, but it's been my first thought. I actually question myself if I want to play this league for that reason. Probably yes, but I won't like this part. You could instead remove them from our possession by setting them free as a peaceful solution.

Will we be getting all the Ascendancy change information before the league starts?

I need to plan plan plan!

New Zooland :)

New league is nice enough, I guess. Honestly, the game already has plenty of content to satisfy me, so I've no complaints one way or the other. Except for one, though it's pretty major. Typically, what gets me excited about new releases isn't the league mechanics or additional zones or bosses, but NEW SKILLS!!!

And now I open up the announcement page and see...just 2 new skills (plus 1 new support). Needless to say, that left me a sad camper. :/

If you care community replies and i agree with them, this time, this is worst league idea.

Literaly almost everyone said "no no no"
if you dont count fanbois as usual.
You supporter packs cost almost same as GTA5 or uncharted.... Really ???

You really think you deserve this this money, with same shitty layout, with shitty same boss fights, and you reaLLY put more into prophecies where almost all players hate... ROfy i am almost done when i saw your "fated uniqes section"...


0 dollars for you from me in this league. Period. This is what you deserve GGG for this retarded league ..

I AM NOT GOING TO SPEND A SINGLE DOLLAR IN THIS LEAGUE.


PLease please guys follow this trend. Do NOT let GGG runaway with this retardants this time.

Again... What they are asking you for support packs are cost same as $100 milliom dollar games. WE HAVE FED GGG enough. Same shit as always. Pls PLS stop supporting them till they put out real contennt.

League looks cool but I'm not so hot on starting all over, so I'm still deciding whether to play league or standard. I'm wondering if anyone knows which content (or what the precedent is for which content) will be available in standard? All the bestiary stuff will probably be league-exclusive, but what about uber shaper, ascendency changes, new items, etc? Just started playing POE at the start of Abyss, so I don't really know how this works. Thanks!!

My 2 cents

I am excited for the new league, but sceptical.
Its a mechanical league, like say talisman en prophecy.
On the other hand, i'm sure GGG learned a lot from those league (like talisman)
The implentation needs to be clear and accesible for everyone.

Talisman was a great idea, but excecuted horribly.

Bestiary is a good idea, hopefully it's excecuted properly.
I'm only in doubt that the capturing will be tedious and repetitive.
I have no doubts the actual crafting etc will be awesome and renewing.

In an interview Chris stated that some are very rare (10-20 hours gameplay)
please god no, not this again, stop forcing us in to these cancer chat rooms to unlock our goals.
I dont want to, but you make it near impossible to find everything solo...

I just hope by some are very rare, they mean for instance the corrupting blood ones, but please not the monster types... I dont wanna be watching 820 24/7 to get my bestiary done...

bestiary aside, all news is amazing

- fated uniques (30!!!) => build enabling please
- ascendancy => thank you!
- uber guardians / elder => if its for only 8 people, DONT make it a challenge...
- new skills => shield spectral throw, ok i guess => lava ground slam? just fix ground slam? another summoner skill => more necro?
it's been said a zillion times, please just fix outdated skills


Please release ascendancys so we can start planning!

All in all, after reading the initial upcoming league info and stuff in the comment section. Mixed feelings are what i have about the upcoming league at the moment. Ofcourse that basically doesn't mean anything at the moment because the full patchnotes havent been released yet.

But currently regarding the "fast clear speed" meta that is popular in PoE, paying attention to special mobs hiding in packs to be captured could be a nuisance to that particular clear speed. on top of that the actual capturing process induces more slow down. That and the derogatory comparison with "pokemon" basically sums up the major points of critique and negativism of the comment section.

Honestly, the people that dislike capturing these mobs can just skip them and play like they always do in their higher clear speed pace. On the other hand it can now provide an opportunity for players that dont like this higher paced clear speed, to capture enemies, and use them to possibly craft valuable items later on which could then be bought by the high clear speed currency farmers by trading.

Anyway, i will surely try out this league although i initially dont like the "enemy capture" type of gameplay in this type of game. thanks for the effort and trying different ideas though GGG!

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Lwe1389 wrote:

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Velari wrote:

Yeah, still don't agree with the new direction you've been going with challenge league supporter packs. From 60 bucks every second challenge league to double that every single challenge league. Really would have been nice if you at any point explained why this decision was made, perhaps some kind of understanding could have been garnered.

And that is aside from my issue with releasing challenge league supporter packs with every single challenge league, which, you know, was originally not how they were presented and justified. But hey!

"Gold supporter
lunaris supporter
hydra supporter
sovereign supporter
beast supporter
subjugator
alpha manticore supporter"

lol wut

... I don't see why you are listing random supporter titles in response to me?

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Sierra275 wrote:

League looks cool but I'm not so hot on starting all over, so I'm still deciding whether to play league or standard. I'm wondering if anyone knows which content (or what the precedent is for which content) will be available in standard? All the bestiary stuff will probably be league-exclusive, but what about uber shaper, ascendency changes, new items, etc? Just started playing POE at the start of Abyss, so I don't really know how this works. Thanks!!

The Bestiary, its associated crafting and its new uniques are the only things that'll be league exclusive. Uber Shaper/Elder, Elder orb, Ascendancy changes, new skills and new Fated uniques will all be available in Standard as well. A (probably scaled-down i.e. less frequent version of) Abyss league is also being implemented into the core game starting from Act 6. You'll also get to keep all your stuff from Abyss league in Standard. They'll go into extra remove-only stash tabs, which disappear if they're emptied - most folks just leave them there so as not to have to use up their regular stash space (feel free to empty your remove-only Abyss currency tab, if you bought one, since you can just pool all your wealth in the Standard one given its much higher storage capacity than regular stash tabs - same with Essence, Divination and Fragment tabs).

I should warn you, though, if you're planning on making new builds in Standard - the Standard league trade market is ridiculous compared to the leagues. Everything is worth either nothing or...well, more money than you likely have. There's also fewer players to trade with, as leagues are more popular, and so it might take you longer to buy what you want. This is all if you do actually trade, of course.