can we please stop the power creep, already? (or better - reverse it)

Is it that hard to get the point i`m making with highlighted videos?
I`m asking you again i can highlits how i 6l items, but only show the last 100 fusing i use before i get the 6link. I can do that with 20 pieces, is that show that you will get 6l with average of 100 fusing ?
I could burn 2000, but to highlite only the last 100 before i make the 6l, and no one will know(except me) how much i burn before that.
This is what highlight is all about.
You never get the full picture.
GO red the comment section.
He didn’t go from zero to shaper. There’s more to the story.
Not just that but he was ALSO using a helm enchant that gave the flamethrower trap 6 flames instead of the usual 4. That's another significant dps boost.

This is not my comment, but from someone who knows the full story.
And once again, just because you do the Shaper with 1 character or build for some day, that doesn`t mean it`s like that with most build.
And yes sometimes it`s pain to get all the fragments.
He will never be able to even get to t15 maps in SSF in 1 day.
You get my point now?
Also he was leveling in maps, that was given to him, so he can level fast enough.
Before you know the whole story, you can`t say for sure this and that.

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yeah, it's real hard to get a helm enchant. especially with fossils now, too.

you're right. that video was definitely a conspiracy. how else could someone get gear and play this game?

there's definitely been no power creep in poe. it's all just a gigantic conspiracy. and you know this because there are zero videos of me playing.

This was A STREAM.
And I'm pretty sure he DID stream the whole 24h.

What is hard to understand with that ? He only got the fragments because he merged the character when he was ready, and then only used the fragments to do the content.


He literally could not have been leveling in maps given to him.

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DeathKnight_Berserker a écrit :

Not just that but he was ALSO using a helm enchant that gave the flamethrower trap 6 flames instead of the usual 4. That's another significant dps boost.

Given he was using arc traps, bear traps, lightning spire traps ....

There's nothing wrong about "highlighting", as long as viewers know and understand what they're seeing. Streamers, youtubers, and all these people, are aiming to the same goal: monetize their vids. No more, no less. And let's be coherent: it's hard to monetize a vid in which you spend 20 minutes 6-linking an item or chaoing another one until you get something you can use. It's boring, and streamers/youtubers know it so they cut that part. And the same goes for, in example, doing XX or even XXX lab runs until they get the helm enchant they want. From the viewer point of view, it's boring af, so they just skip it.

It's being done here and everywhere else, people knows and there's nothing wrong with it. Is viewer's matter to understand what he's seeing. To deny this phenomenon and say it doesn't happen is to sin of naivety. And to deny it reffering to it as a conspiracy... hahaha that really made me laugh.

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Lykkoith a écrit :

There's nothing wrong about "highlighting", as long as viewers know and understand what they're seeing. Streamers, youtubers, and all these people, are aiming to the same goal: monetize their vids. No more, no less. And let's be coherent: it's hard to monetize a vid in which you spend 20 minutes 6-linking an item or chaoing another one until you get something you can use. It's boring, and streamers/youtubers know it so they cut that part. And the same goes for, in example, doing XX or even XXX lab runs until they get the helm enchant they want. From the viewer point of view, it's boring af, so they just skip it.

It's being done here and everywhere else, people knows and there's nothing wrong with it. Is viewer's matter to understand what he's seeing. To deny this phenomenon and say it doesn't happen is to sin of naivety. And to deny it reffering to it as a conspiracy... hahaha that really made me laugh.

So instead of spending 20 minutes to 6l an item DURING A STREAM, they skip the process by in some magical way only showing the highlight of it DURING THE STREAM? Genius. You deserve a Nobel prize.

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DeathKnight_Berserker a écrit :

How exactly you expect a game to go backwards? Every game elove and the damage goes higher, items get better and so.

Your definition of evolution is seriously flawed.

There is a difference between "evolution" and "power creep".

When smart game developer gives power to players, he also adds challenges to the game, to let players use their new powers to withstand new challenges. And when player powers greatly surpass challenges, it's POWER CREEP exactly!

Im confused. So you want a progression where every league they release items worse than already available? Design new skills that noone will use cuz the existing ones are better?

Then when they have all this new content they designed for no good reason cuz no one should ever want to use it cuz then it would have to be in one way or situation or another better than an already existing choice. But that they for some reason would design and implement anyway. Then they nerf the currently best old stale option to be in line with the new inferior ones, shake up the meta, get people angry about nerfs, require further rebalancing and nerfs, destroy builds, have people quit the game, etc. Then after a while when the game becomes too hard and noone can kill act 10 kitava anymore before lvl 90, they nerf the mobs so people can kill them again.

The point of time is to move backwards? Miss old times and look at the future as an invader you need cut down to size?

Are you for real?


For posterity below spoiler was added after OP answered but before I saw it.

that reductio ad absurdum is almost impressive.

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robmafia a écrit :

that reductio ad absurdum is almost impressive.

Your initial post you mean?

I`m done, i say what i think and my points stand. Whether you like it or not.
If you was reading the post a whole, not catching for 1 or 2 words and put them out of the content, then we could have normal discussion.

Zorajin post tells you all you need. This is the way to go, not nerf this, this, that, that, destroy that and that build, and player base goes down big time.
Devs realize that.
And 25 times i said that the game need new challenge, for guys that hit 100 for example, or that are mad riches and don`t know what to do.
But if they make all content really hard, and you start sweating in there and feel the challenge, how the guys that doesn`t have the items, neither the currency will feel the game? Impossible right?
And there is nothing wrong, where you build is worth of 100+ or 200+ exalted, to be really, really strong. Otherwise what is the point to develop your character???
And last from me. Dev took the right direction with Delve. You can get challenge in there. You go deeper it`s get harder and harder.
There you can really test your build.