Is the game worth playing right now?

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frenrihr wrote:

I see a lot of complains in the forums right now and those prevent me to replay the game, mi biggest complainwas how difficult was the lab and how that system worked, i don't know if anything has been done to improve the lab or make it easier.

I see a lot of post talking about 1 shots etc. that I remember was really annoying in past experiences and it seems tha game is still badly balanced.

Is melee viable now? because last time i played melee was garbage but i think last expansion they did some balancing and made melee overal better, i remember when i played everything revolved around long range attacks or magic and melee was terrible and pointless.

So i just want to know if the game is worth playing right now considering what i just said.

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GreyLensman wrote:

Lab today is trivial if you know what you're doing. (And it can be brutal if you don't.) There are really two kinds of folks: those who only run it to get their ascendancies, and those who run it to farm enchants - either for themselves or to sell.

Yes, you can be killed be one-shots that you can't do anything about, but it doesn't happen very often. If you have some idea what you're doing, you can make it deathless into mapping no problem. Beyond that takes some serious experience with the game because there are a LOT of ways to die that feel nasty but really are totally avoidable.

I feel for the HC guys, because there is definitely a bit of a luck component at very high level, but if you're not playing HC it's nothing to worry about.

Melee is quite fun and there are a lot of ways to play it. If Blight farming red maps is what you want to do, though, you are going to be limited to certain non-melee meta builds. That's just the way PoE is working these days.

There are plenty of ways to enjoy the game, as well as some things to not be happy about. When I see unhappy people, it's usually around a specific set of things that aren't the way they want them.

Cheers

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dehogynem wrote:

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frenrihr wrote:

I see a lot of complains in the forums right now and those prevent me to replay the game, mi biggest complainwas how difficult was the lab and how that system worked, i don't know if anything has been done to improve the lab or make it easier.

I see a lot of post talking about 1 shots etc. that I remember was really annoying in past experiences and it seems tha game is still badly balanced.

Is melee viable now? because last time i played melee was garbage but i think last expansion they did some balancing and made melee overal better, i remember when i played everything revolved around long range attacks or magic and melee was terrible and pointless.

So i just want to know if the game is worth playing right now considering what i just said.

Let me give you an advice. Do not ever believe blindly in a youtube video. Just because a pro player was one shoted in lab, and he makes a big deal out of it, dont get discourged.

Try the game, play it, and decide yourself. I never got one shoted in lab, does that mean lab is easy? no. It lab insanely hard? definitely not.

Just do it man, watching youtube videos and reading the forum has no effect. Actually trying does.