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

The whole point is character progression.

And it is in absolutely no way related to monster's AI, not even close.


If you can just slap three gems and destroy all the story content while picking trash on the floor and not caring about anything, there is no freaking character progression, and it's exactly what is happening FFS.

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Fruz a écrit :

The whole point is character progression.

And it is in absolutely no way related to monster's AI, not even close.


If you can just slap three gems and destroy all the story content while picking trash on the floor and not caring about anything, there is no freaking character progression, and it's exactly what is happening FFS.

Hah like you've done any progression.

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Fruz a écrit :

The whole point is character progression.

And it is in absolutely no way related to monster's AI, not even close.


If you can just slap three gems and destroy all the story content while picking trash on the floor and not caring about anything, there is no freaking character progression, and it's exactly what is happening FFS.

um, that's the same thing I was saying?

you call it character progression, ok.
why do you farm stuff and make your character stronger, if not for roflstomping enemy minions even faster than before? this game in its core is extremely simplistic. play, farm stuff, get stronger, play faster, farm some more, rolfstomp harder, farm some more, enter godmode.

that's the whole definition of an arpg. this here happens to be a very complicated arpg and you can kill some time with different stuff like crafting, but at its fundamental core this game is super simplistic.

dont try to make it more "competitive" than it is. it's a farm game where you roflstomp ai minions.

no it isn't.

You just want to smash crap.
I want choices that I made on my character to matter, you don't seem to care about it at all as long as you smash crappy mobs.

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Fruz a écrit :

no it isn't.

You just want to smash crap.
I want choices that I made on my character to matter, you don't seem to care about it at all as long as you smash crappy mobs.

lul
he plays an arpg and complains about smashing mobs. alright bra, you obviously dont want to come back down to earth. enjoy.

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grogzor a écrit :

he plays an arpg and complains about smashing mobs. alright bra, you obviously dont want to come back down to earth. enjoy.

why don t you play Xenon 2 then? Seems you are confusing arpg and shooters. Well if it can make you feel better, GGG kind of conditioned you to think that way.

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Head_Less a écrit :

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grogzor a écrit :

he plays an arpg and complains about smashing mobs. alright bra, you obviously dont want to come back down to earth. enjoy.

why don t you play Xenon 2 then? Seems you are confusing arpg and shooters.

I'm not sure exactly with what he is confusing aRPG with, but if building choices don't need to matter to him, shooters might indeed be a better fit (Also it does requires some skills, different ones, maybe he prefers easier games like PoE regarding that, idk).

why would building choices not matter? they are obviously part of the character progression.

if you want to enter godmode and roflstomp everything faster than others, then your choices obviously do matter.

that's the definition of an action rpg. I have no idea what the fug you people are even talking about.

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grogzor a écrit :

you play, you farm, you roflstomp ai minions. what exactly do you expect?

...and this sounds like something fun to you? a "game" with no challenge? watching netflix while clicking around, without looking?

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grogzor a écrit :

however, if you are talking about pvp, then I can understand you at least. that's a totally different thing. but as far as I know, the pvp part of this game is almost nonexistant as in "nobody is playing pvp in poe", so obviously ggg doesnt give a damn about it.

pvp's been pretty much abandoned by ggg. they occasionally add new, dumb uniques/crafting options to ruin it even worse (like a few posted in this thread) - generally without a fix or with a fix arriving about a year or more late (ie: EA, zerphi's).

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grogzor a écrit :

why would building choices not matter? they are obviously part of the character progression.

You could literally go through the whole storyline SSF with only white items on a 4L and destroy everything.

How much do choices matter when you can do that ?
THEY DON'T, because some gem combinations are completely OP just on their own.
Factor all the power creep from item and choices barely matter, because you can destroy the content while making mistakes everywhere while building your character anyway.


This is the whole freaking point of the thread, like wtf ?!