A Few Specific Balance Changes in 3.2.0

Things that aren't fun and I wish were reduced:

Dailies. For anyone with a job it's a bit of a pain when you've only got an hour of free time that day to feel like you missed out because you didn't login within that time frame. I feel like this could be resolved usually by having a stack of up to 5-7 that they can hold in bonus quests, so you don't get better time management (Saving them up but getting more exp in one shot) but instead still have to do as many, but aren't plagued by middle of the week pain. There are other possible solutions for sure but if dailies don't give much no one does em, if they give a substantial amount people feel like they lost out if they can't do them, and since they're daily, that's often for people who work 1-2 jobs.

Rotations. It was a cool concept for friends but it turns out to just having to spend time in 820 near the start of the league, deal with potential scams (I've luckily very rarely run into this problem), and slow/laggy people can get pretty annoying too. Basically it comes with all of the problems of a global game's multiplayer but now you feel obliged to sit through it yet there are rarely enough people doing it at one time where you can yell "NA Server daily Zana ROTA 2/6" and hope to fill it pu with all NA people. People will suffer when that one EU Amsterdam person connects and lags everyone to high hell but isn't strong enough to carry it himself as the only guy not lagging.

HELL YEAH!

NERF-HAMMER on those ABUSERS! :D

...and I kinda felt so much sadisfaction, when I read the NO BREACH this league :-D
I was instantly like: HAHAHA that's what you all QQ moaners here deserve
because after releasing preview of Bestiary league nearly every QQ/Hate post was like: Breach was best.

4 x lvl 7-8 strand runners, no Oni. Harder you say?

Nice. Very nice. Finally a proper Bisco's nerf, instead of just reducing it's chance to drop like the last time, which was proved to be pointless.

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Penetros wrote:

Things that aren't fun and I wish were reduced:

Dailies. For anyone with a job it's a bit of a pain when you've only got an hour of free time that day to feel like you missed out because you didn't login within that time frame.

Nice thought (as well as what I cut out from your quote as well).

I'd propose having them on a weekly cycle instead. You can complete 7 runs of these "weeklies" each week, each master. Run them whenever you like within that week, but can only run 7 each week. That would also solve a lot of out-of-sync master experience as well for those who finish leagues in less than month, because you run weeklies for the masters you have in your current hideout size, then if you max the size later that week, you add more masters and run them as well.

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Penetros wrote:

Rotations.

I'd wish they'd completely re-think the 40th challenge. Instead of having 100 damn runs of whatever end-game boss, make it much more meaningful and varying sub-challenges to complete. It would get rid of rotas, force the 40/40 seekers to actually jump through a more time-consuming hurdle, and give the rest of casuals something interesting to do but not necessarily complete the challenge.

monkaS ..

Wouldn't it be better if instead of max 5 sextants it would be max 6 or 7 or 8, whichever is the highest possible sextants on one map? Because if u are limiting it to 5 sextants for a map with possible 6 sextant slots, then it makes quite big impact on whether the map will be good or at least okey for running. For example Strand Map has 7 possible sextant places and when it loses two sextants it makes it much worse, even though it isn't that good already, or Cage Map and Vault Map. Or maybe it is intended to make these maps worse?

How were people farming Oni-G in 4 hours in 3.1? Maybe if you were insanely lucky and it dropped immediately after reaching lvl 7. It took me just over 4 hours played total to get 4 characters to lvl 7 (about 1 hour played per character). My first Oni-G didn't drop until all of my characters were over 3 hours played each, so that was 12+ hours played total. And that was by killing Hillock 8 times every 5 min with the 4 character rotation. For me, 12+ hours was 6 days of playing the game at about 2 hours per day - so that already was 6 days into the league before even getting to the starter town!

Oni-G was a great option for someone like myself who plays casually and SSF (was self-imposed SSF even before SSF leagues existed). Other than Tabula, it has been my only 6-link that I have ever obtained. Without it (and I will not farm for it if it will take even longer to acquire), then my build options will be even more limited if I want to have any chance at end-game content.

Well, back to ED Trickster yet again...

love the changes

Sooo, the Nerfhammer hit hard again.

Another example of GGG showing their incompetence in balancing the content properly, yaaay.

I don't care, I didn't expect anything else. It's just a game. Whatever.

But one thing crushes my will to play this.

Oni Goroshi

I farmed two OGs in Abyss league, and man ... it was a terrible experience, it was somehow the worst experience I have ever had in any game. NO FUN AT ALL!

When I read about the droprate nerf everything fell apart, OG was one of the last things that made me want to play PoE. When GGG announced the droprate nerf and the general nerf??? of OG ... wow, what the fuck? "Hey, you are theorycrafting a build for about two weeks now based on one item? Well, these are for you McNulty!"

But then I was thinking, get yourself together man, this is not the end of it, well, the game sucks now, the devs have gotten very very far from what I actually liked about PoE years ago and they progress in directions that make it an unbelievable clusterfuck for the generation LoL ... whatever

I'M JUST GONNA BUY THE FUCKING SWORD FROM A FUCKING BOTTER, YAAAY! Because this seems like the way GGG wants casual/regular players to get it?!

THANKS GGG, THANK YOU! Thank you for letting me know, that you hate me. [SARCASM]

To clarify, I ALWAYS play by the fucking rules, I never botted in ANY game. Guess I'm a fool huh?

*seufz*

I think it is now time to take my antidepressants.

GO BOTTERS! ... [SARCASM]

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"Oh, and have fun with the 3.2.0 Uber Hillock fight when you do find him ;-) "

"FUCK YOU?!"