Ruthless Mode is the best thing since Diablo 2

This league I finally gave this game a serious try and I fell in love with it. Went in blind, got through most of the campaign and loved the little I've seen of the game... but there's just too much stuff, too much bloated content and ways to generate overpowered items, also the focus on pre-made builds and ingrained knowledge is a major turn off.

I was about to take a break after binging so much of the game when I learned of Ruthless Mode, gave it a shot and it's the best ARPG iteration I've played since my countless playthrough in LAN with my brother at Diablo 2, taking it easy, hoping for a half decent drop and trying not to die.

I've heard plenty of veterans used to zooming around doing screenfuls of damage/second hating how slow it is, but to someone that hasn't found a good ARPG experience since Diablo II 20 years ago, and isn't tainted by how "Path Of Exile is supposed to play", I have found the true sequel to that masterpiece. Thank you GGG.

And from what I've seen Path of Exile 2 is closer to Ruthless mode than the current bloated meta, so I'm unreasonably excited to play it. I'm a new fan of the game and the company that isn't afraid to reinvent itself and the meta.

(Also, as a fan of OSRS Ironman mode, I just love having to work for my drops, and to feel that my crappy weapon or gear has some story behind it)

I'm just a bit sad that the vast majority of player is not even indifferent to the game mode, but seems actively hostile that there is any amount of attention from the team to this game mode, at least on Reddit.

nope

Whatever floats your boat, dude. We enjoy what we enjoy.

Yeah its hard to sell Ruthless on top of a game people already play. Really, the sales pitch as "Experience the same content, only with much fewer builds being possible, and much, much slower".

Perhaps PoE2 will be a happy medium between the current system and Ruthless.

I still think Ruthless messed up by having no support gems. That doesnt make builds harder, it just makes many impossible. Whats the point of that...

I've played path of exile 2 it's not even REMOTELY close to ruthless ask any fucking streamer and they will tell you the same thing.

fuck ruthless lmao this game is the best since d2

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

I've played path of exile 2 it's not even REMOTELY close to ruthless ask any fucking streamer and they will tell you the same thing.

every single streamer I listened to has said the opposite, poe 2 is a mix of poe and ruthless poe.

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auspexa wrote:

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

I've played path of exile 2 it's not even REMOTELY close to ruthless ask any fucking streamer and they will tell you the same thing.

every single streamer I listened to has said the opposite, poe 2 is a mix of poe and ruthless poe.

And it has to be tbh. In PoE there are millions of drops but almost nothing is worth to pick up. That can't be reasonable for an ARPG, drops have to be meaningful.

Well, you know the saying

One man's PoE is another man's d4.

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I still think Ruthless messed up by having no support gems. That doesnt make builds harder, it just makes many impossible. Whats the point of that...

Ruthless DOES have support gems. All of them are available to players in any Ruthless mode. You just have to find them.