3.6.3b Patch Notes

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wolfwing wrote:

GET RID OF DECAY. it's the worst part of this league, due to way too much RNG in how it works, and where it decays. It shouldn't be possible to fail in seconds, or like what happened 4 times yesterday in a row, you can't use one exit, because the path there auto decays before you can even get there. Happened in memory nexus I was trying to head north to get to a distant memory, and every path I put there, the north path was decayed by the time I reached all the paths.

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GrumpyMcElbows wrote:

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GrumpyMcElbows wrote:

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The Synthesis Beach Tutorial Memory no longer spawns for players above level 25.

GGG: We want to maintain player interaction by never interfering with face-to-face trades.
Players: First, the speed meta has basically killed face-to-face trading by not making it worthwhile for a player to interrupt their profitable activity just to trade a single map or low-level unique or rare. Second, the absolute metric fuckton of items that drop make it so that it's better to skip picking up rares altogether and just focus on picking up currency or high value items so you can buy whatever you need. Third, the playerbase has expanded so quickly that finding an adequate trade for an item you need can become extremely time-consuming. Finally, bots have become more reliable for trading than actual players. "Face-to-face trading" is already dead. Holding on to an outdated philosophy seems short-sighted at best and outright belligerent at worst. Will you ever facilitate an easier way to trade?
GGG: Haha! Absolutely the fuck not.

So whats the answer? You want to start an auction house? Wouldn't that make it easier for the bots you mentioned to further undermine the trade economy of the game?

I don't understand how some players target this as an issue. What other ARPG supports 3rd party programs that price check your items for you?

What other APRG exports your stash tabs to websites and allows you to individually or bulk price those items? Or set up a Shop on a currency trading website? Or track trade exchange rates and trend it over a 4 month period, allowing you to see increasing/decreasing trends on standard, league, HC or any combination there-of?

I would like to refer the quoted poster to Forum>Development Manifesto>Trade Manifesto. There's a post from Chris Wilson from 2 years ago giving a broad scope of GGG's opinion on this type of "easy trade" and even if it isn't necessarily a specific direction of their intentions for trade in the game, I challenge you to come up with a solution that not only falls within their guidelines, but solves all the problems you mentioned.

If my directory is too hard to follow, here is the link https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2025870

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GrumpyMcElbows wrote:

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The Synthesis Beach Tutorial Memory no longer spawns for players above level 25.

GGG: "We want players to engage with the game how they choose."
Players: "This one wide open area I can cheese is the only enjoyable zone in all of Synthesis, an otherwise tedious, frustrating, and exhausting league. Can I choose to play the game that way?"
GGG: "Haha! Absolutely the fuck not."

I did not think it was possible to make me hate a league more than Betrayal, but . . . Here we are.

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GrumpyMcElbows wrote:

GGG: We made a league with a heavy focus on crafting! You want to get a few rare items with the same tier of specific mods and you'll get rewarded with awesome implicits!
Players: Cool! Did you increase the drop rates of scours and annuls? Did you focus dropped fractured items toward the highest available bases so our inventories wouldn't overflow with chaff? Did you simplify the system so it wouldn't be ambiguous or overly complicated so players would know which items to keep or which mods to focus on?
GGG: Haha! Absolutely the fuck not.