Path of Exile: Synthesis FAQ

When you wait 3 weeks to explain how a league works you should know there is a problem. The league is bad and will likely go down as the worst league to date. Please do better next expansion.

Ho i see, it was an April Fool League, nice one, but it came a bit too earlier^^.

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webas wrote:

What can you expect, they are small team overworking themselves for the content we dont need. Instead of giving a league very 6months they go for 3month league which no one plays after a month anyway. And later everyone is back on standard league or checking other games.

And they are barely making profits so they cant make royale happen for a day. Too many people will play it. Thats bad. It cant happen when too many people play it.

P.s. try grim dawn latest expansion - that is actually amazing experience and its not a joke.

They probably came to the conclusion that it is more profitable for them to create a junk league in which no one will be playing after a month, rather than quite good, in which no one will play after two or three months.

Such tactics will continue to work for a while before all current and potential customers realize that they are fed trash every three months. For now they are probably saved by bots, because the number of real players drastically diminishing, but the number of farming and trade bots is still high, which causes the illusion of a large playerbase.

Now they do not care, because they have released a game on PS4, which improves their financial results a bit, but two or three shit leagues and they will feel it even in wallets, because how long can you feed people with something like that? While each new league will be worse than the previous one, because not only will they have less and less time to create anything, they will still have to fight new and old bugs, which will only be stratified.

That's why in about half a year they will face tens of thousands of distrustful and pissed players, the release of Borderlands 3, probably also some new league in Last Epoch beta or some DLC to Grim Down. I wonder what they will do next? Wait, I know. They will develop dozens of new fancy wings :P

Dear GGG,

Thanks for the post. It's good to have some more information.

That said, for me it's too late. I think that considering the complexity of this league, we needed proper documentation before / at release. I started playing on the first day and the synthesis mechanic turned me off right away. Why? Because I can just run the memories during the story and maps for currency like a breach and ignore the memory nexus and not really lose much if anything.

Last night I decided to give it another shot, got junk junk loot for my time and immediately went back to mapping.

The league looks really cool but unfortunately the mechanic(s) involved are not compelling or worthwhile. I think that people who enjoy crafting would disagree with my last statement. It's probably a great league for crafters who want to figure out how the synthesizer works. For me... I can't be bothered.

I have enough other fun stuff to do like Delve, mapping, challenges.....

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Kelvynn wrote:

This league's mechanic is so confusing and counter-intuitive that it needs a special FAQ, as after 3 weeks a lot of people still have no clue wtf is going on and what they are even supposed to do.

Case in point:

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All reward memories begin to decay as soon as you activate the memory's Stabiliser.

Activating the STABILIZER makes it UNSTABLE.
/facepalm

This is what irritates me the most. I thought e.g. also in maps, that the decay comes in, and you have to click the stabilizer to either stop it or at least slow it down partially. nope, it does fuck all in that regard. It could be called "Bex's Pogostick" for that matter.

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DeadManWalkin wrote:

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Kelvynn wrote:

This league's mechanic is so confusing and counter-intuitive that it needs a special FAQ, as after 3 weeks a lot of people still have no clue wtf is going on and what they are even supposed to do.

Case in point:

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All reward memories begin to decay as soon as you activate the memory's Stabiliser.

Activating the STABILIZER makes it UNSTABLE.
/facepalm

This is what irritates me the most. I thought e.g. also in maps, that the decay comes in, and you have to click the stabilizer to either stop it or at least slow it down partially. nope, it does fuck all in that regard. It could be called "Bex's Pogostick" for that matter.

Yes! Exactly this! Makes no sense.

Dear GGG,

I started playing this league about 4days ago and so far i'm enjoying it. This league reminds me of incursion league.

Teleported to a new zone where you have to click on the 'doors' you want to open then come back into the area you came from and all the loot spawns. After a few encounters you go to the nexus / temple and reap some extra rewards.

The fractured items are a bit useless and synthesised items are difficult to get right. But aside from that the league seems ok.

I don't understand the big hate on the league tbh you get more loot per map you run, extra loot from the nexus and new bosses as well.

Granted we've had better leagues but this isn't a terrible one (like bestiary was for example).

As far as improvements would go maybe fractured items could 'lock' the highest tier stat on the item rather than a random one? Maybe make the synthesizer less random somehow or give us control over which mod we'd like/ which of the 3 base items we used we'd like as the results base?

Anyways i'm heading back into the league keep up the good work. (and sorry for any spelling errors) :)

there is no answer to the most important question:

Why this league is so shit, and the is very little done about this?

GGG, please do not merge Synthesis into the main game after this league.

Also remove the Betrayal Syndicate stuff it's terrible.

Thank you.

you almost got me there. Synthesis actually was a long term planned aprils fool.