The most mentally exhausting gameplay loop in PoE history.

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bredin wrote:

Believe it or not I'm not going to complain about the [lack of] loot, or the overtuned Archnemesis mods.

IMO Sentinel had the best looting ever seen in PoE. Almost anything I did seemed viable as a strategy and that lead to a wide variety of gameplay that kept me engaged right up to the last day.

During the league I farmed blight, delve, legion, alch'n'go, juiced, bosses etc for the sheer fun of the variety alone while being able to delete content I'm not fond of like heist (sold a lot of coins, tho), breach or expedition after I'd done the required amount of it for altas passives.

I got a lot better gear than ever before, crafting stuff that was beyond my ability in the past. And I barely used recombilizers. Probably because the first 10 or so just ate the best mods and I gave up on them early.

I understand why sentinel was removed; that kind of league mechanic requiring maintenance, eg Legacy, Harvest or Synthesis, has never been kept past leagues end.

But what I really wanted to talk about was game flow in this league. The Archnemesis mobs kill the flow. You smash a few packs then come to a grinding halt dealing with a AN mob, which you have to deal with because you dont want to accidentally kite it into the next AN mob where it would become exponentially more challenging (read: rippy).

So the mapping experience becomes a lot more stop-start than before. Part of this is the lower gearing than usual, which incidentally makes your drop rate (and thus progression) exponentially lower.

Given that the AN mobs are more tanky in relation to gear you get an increase in tension during the fight [I believe this to be a design target, and is not necessarily a bad thing] followed by tension release of killing the s.o.b and seeing a bit of loot. Except that a lot of the AN mobs have on-death effects that dont hit you for a second or so after the mob is dead, usually as you are scanning the loot drops. So now get another little pause (and tension build) as you scan for said ondeath effect, before you can loot.

The result is that the game has become the most mentally exhausting experience in PoE history.

Just a week ago, PoE was relaxing and rewarding. Now its neither.

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Darqion wrote:

You sure you played the league or watched others? I've seen big name streamers hack away at AN mobs for minutes. Are we assuming the top .1% doesnt know what they are doing too ?

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Trill1987 wrote:

I just got into red maps and now i see what people are talking about, i skipped the last two leagues and just now got a taste of this new archnemesis crap. This is beyond fun, i spent 5 minutes kiting a rare who took 0 damage from 80% of my casts and when he did take dmg it was so minimal it barely moved his hp bar. If he landed a hit on me though the poison dot alone was near enough to one shot. Who designed this shit

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POEtayto wrote:

yikes hyperbole and sweeping generalization

if you are kiting around a mob for 5 minutes then you are not geared correctly for the content or are not making use of game mechanics to overcome the situation

the an mods are amazing and give exciting slot machine aspects to non-boss kills

overall it sounds like you just wanted to make an i quit post and provide nothing constructive so bye