Game Balance in Path of Exile: Expedition

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SADOMIES1 wrote:

I remind you who did not read my post last time, it was here
https://ru.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3079633/page/75#p23991131

I went to the Steam statistics, and once again I was convinced that PoE is a game for streamers. See for yourself: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/PathofExile/achievements/

Mervale is killed by 47% of players, i.e. half of them can't even pass the first act.

Malachaya kills 22%.

Climbing, the maze passes 19.5%

The beginning of the end, level 60 takes 18.1%, i.e. 18% of players still try to play PoE as they can. Let's take this for 100% of those players who did not quit PoE at the first difficulties.

The foot of the mountain-level 70 takes 14.7%, 81% on our scale. It turns out that 19% of those who took 60, no longer take 70.

Up the steps-level 80 takes 10.9%, or 60% of those who took 60. T, i.e. 40% of those who took 60 lvl, no longer take 80.

New Order of the World-Place the Guardian Stone in any area on your Atlas - 8%. Do you understand that only 8% of all players come to the cards? And this is 44% of those who took BGN 60, i.e. more than half of those who took BGN 60 could not enter the cards normally.

There is nowhere higher - the 90th level takes 6% of players, i.e. only 33% of those who were able to take 60 lvl reach 90.

The Creator of worlds-and only 3.2% of players, or 18% of those who took level 60, kill the Creator, i.e. 82% of those who took level 60 did not reach the Creator.

And you know what else is more interesting? 90 lvl takes 6% of players, and the Shaper is killed by 3.2%. It turns out that almost half of those who reach 90 lvl can not kill the Shaper. How do you like this? And, after all, the Shaper is the very first high-level boss. There is no Elder or Sirus in the statistics, and what's new there, Maven? Now think about what percentage of players the development increases the difficulty for. Only 3.2% of players reach the Shaper. BEFORE THE SHAPER!

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delgar89 wrote:

Finally. Give me some damn challenge, not this games for babies that like to run on maps with their eyes closed.... About time this game goes back to its roots. League after league it was getting more ridiculous. Slow it, slow player movement, make mobs harder. Make the game viable in coop not a damn rat race on maps we have now. Thank you!

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KicsiSVK wrote:

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DeathfulDan wrote:

Playing slower, and continuing to die randomly without knowing what caused it and without being able to clear the screen before the screen clears you, monsters and mechanics out of proportion (made to counter the previous supposedly OP "meta"), and continuing to drop slow currency (99.999% of everything that drops is not even worth looking at).....

GGG, we play fast, we zoom through maps, because that's where the reward is and because if we don't kill first we get killed first. You have to understand slowing us down without bringing the rest of it down is just lame. I'm happy to spend 30 minutes on Sirus if it drops anything interesting and it doesnt DIE BEAM from off-screen! I'm happy to spend 10 minutes clearing carefully and then another 5 minutes on a map boss, as long as it is worth it by being rewarding and being fun and not killing a decent build randomly with zero room for reacting. I'm happy to spend 30 minutes on Maven if she was worth doing and her auto-attack didn't hit for 4k with several projectiles in sequence (kills build with 8k ehp in one cast in melee range with zero room for getting out of it).

GGG, you made it so that we NEED to play glass cannon super fast builds or super expensive tanky HC builds that are very limited and slow. Wanna slow it down you need to fix the stuff that makes us speed it up.

100% agreed. I was hoping and looking forward for GGG to give us a good incentive to play slow but I already had issue with the limited drops last league when the game was fast due to the reduced drop rates of maps. Now this is doubling down on making me grind with no rewards.

While they think this will make me want to play more unfortunately it wont. This is breaking my heart to have to move away from a game that I played and spent money on religiously for about a year and a half.

Sad momnets for casual 2 to 3 hour a day gamers.