Why is Mathil able to do everything that is impossible according to most of the complains here?

Mathil plays the game super casual he just plays a lot.

He has no farming strat, he does random content and plays whatever he likes at the moment.

His atlas passive tree is inefficient and unproductive if you dont go for fun and focus on EX/hour

All his builds are off meta and/or cheap (I dont think he made a single build this league with over 50ex investment).

He doesnt really craft, his "crafting" is just randomly spamming chaos, essences and fossils on gear and maybee finishing it off with some basic crafting like blocking mods ect.

The only thing he does is playing what he likes and investing a lot of time. The thing is he still beats most content with every build he plays and some are even able to kill uber uber bosses.

According to most threads complaining about the current state of the game that is impossible.

Yes Mathil plays an insane amount of hours every league but you can just play 2 or 3 builds over the whole league instead of 20 like Mathil and archive the same things he does easily.

Im not trying to shit on Mathil with this post, he can play however he want and I guess his approach saves him from burning out. Im just using Mathil and his casual playstyle to show you that he basicaly proofs you wrong live on stream every day.

he plays this game for a job so of course he will be really good at the game. just like regular people would be good at whatever regular jobs they have.

he's not special though,others who stream for a job can also do all content. they probably play meta because its more fun but if they had to then they could probably do content with off meta build too

the people who complain about the game play for fun in their off time,and the game is not that much fun this way because you need to invest a lot of time to get the most out of this game

I cant speak for Mathil but I think alot of players complain because this game is 100% balanced around their streamers which is an big problem.

Ive played the game off and on for several years and its always been the same story, players struggle to get by then Empyrian releases some absurd video of him and his army of proffesional flippers abusing something then its nerfed into the ground and the average guy is just left fkd while the streamer just moves on to the next way of printing money.

You know like how back in the day ALL the pro racers would bitch and moan about how easy it was to get 100 so they kept making that harder too.

PoE is a good game but Chris just wants to be popular and has been beholdant to ziz and the same handful of people for years, thats what people get tired of honestly.

Like Mathil for example, hes an E gamer, he plays for his income, we cannot play to the extent or degree he does so why is our game balanced around a player with his ability, its an issue and just is what it is, it wont change.

Ive accepted it at this point and currently PoE is just less of an dumpster fire then other games so I find myself back again.

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JCOH35 wrote:

Ive played the game off and on for several years and its always been the same story, players struggle to get by then Empyrian releases some absurd video of him and his army of proffesional flippers abusing something then its nerfed into the ground and the average guy is just left fkd while the streamer just moves on to the next way of printing.

Yeah comparing yourself to a group of players that basicaly run the game like a buisness is not healthy. Those groups have deticated people that do nothing beside rolling maps for other members of the guild. Think about that, how crazy that is compared to the average player.

That said I encourage everyone to join a guild even if its just a super casual one. Helping each other out with map drops early and other stuff really makes most of the daily problems of PoE go away.

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JCOH35 wrote:

I cant speak for Mathil but I think alot of players complain because this game is 100% balanced around their streamers which is an big problem.

Ive played the game off and on for several years and its always been the same story, players struggle to get by then Empyrian releases some absurd video of him and his army of proffesional flippers abusing something then its nerfed into the ground and the average guy is just left fkd while the streamer just moves on to the next way of printing money.

You know like how back in the day ALL the pro racers would bitch and moan about how easy it was to get 100 so they kept making that harder too.

PoE is a good game but Chris just wants to be popular and has been beholdant to ziz and the same handful of people for years, thats what people get tired of honestly.

Like Mathil for example, hes an E gamer, he plays for his income, we cannot play to the extent or degree he does so why is our game balanced around a player with his ability, its an issue and just is what it is, it wont change.

Ive accepted it at this point and currently PoE is just less of an dumpster fire then other games so I find myself back again.

good post. this is why i have little hope for poe2. all these things will be there as well. its just some new acts and maybe the game will run a little smoother, but balance will be around the streamers still.

Turns out that skill an knowledge of the game has a lot to do with it. Learning to move correctly. To position hits. To "play" well.

Once you learn this stuff you can avoid much of what would kill a less skilled player.

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JCOH35 wrote:

I cant speak for Mathil but I think alot of players complain because this game is 100% balanced around their streamers which is an big problem.

That argument is simply stupid. Poeple do those thing os SSFHC within 40-60h of league start. Mathil rarely has over 3 days of playtime on his characters. Thats how much of playtime you need. It doesnt matter if you will reach this 50 hours over a week or a month.

The real reason is that players have a very hard time admiting that they suck. They will blame everything but not themselves. Harsh reality is that most of those that complain are just not nearly as good as they think they are.

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Zerber wrote:

Mathil plays the game super casual he just plays a lot.

That kind of already breaks the definition of casual lol And how can you say someone who plays for money is casual on any level.

1. Mathil has an immense amount of knowledge about the game, the gear, the mechanic and scaling nuances, the boss encounters, modifier interactions, and more. There is nothing really casual about Mathil. (SC trade & off-meta doesnt mean casual)

2. This game is so insanely dependent on 3rd party tools... idk even what to say. Even Mathil doesn't have every piece of gear and every possible crafting affix memorized. Without PoB you cannot even make informed decisions about gear upgrades and dps impacts. You cannot craft (higher end) without the database telling you what influence, ilvl, base, slot, and more are required.

3. I also think it's super disengenous to say that his builds dont have planning, or are generally inefficient. It's just not accurate. I will grant that each build isnt absolutely min/max, which is because he plays so many builds each league. If he actually played 1-3 builds, you cannot tell me he would be unable to do so. This is clearly a business decision for him, and the content on his streams.

Lastly I would say that many players have different goalposts. Especially here or on Reddit. What does "successful build" even mean? Finish the acts? Yellow Maps? T16 unlocks? Maven? Uber's? 100 Deli?

TLDR: Mathil is a very very good player. Has more knowledge than most anyone. He chooses not to play harcore or min/max his builds because he is running a business, and knows what his audience wants.

Mathil is not a casual player... playtime of a single character doesn't represent the entirety of that character. Every character you play is earning you items/uniques/currency towards all of the characters you play.

He does play a lot and has played a lot every league. He is indeed very skilled at the game and knowledge means so much in this game. But this doesn't mean that the game is just fine. Nearly everything in PoE is playable in some way but playable doesn't always mean it's fun or in the right spot.

I can only really speak on behalf of melee archetypes.. yeah they are mostly playable sure. Even strike skills can be tuned to be decent skills, which is technically fine. Not every skill has to be the best. But that doesn't mean that skills can't feel better to play, have more options, be stronger.