POE punishes normal players more and more

Hello.
I would like to take a moment and write this since im not tempted to play betrayal any more.

Im a casual player who really like the game but simply dont have enough time to play it cuz of work. I decided to spend my christmas break to get as far as i can with available time and ...
I ended up with 9 completed challanges, lvl 87. And now back to working again.

First about the league. By the look at challenges and my available time i could complete around 15. And i guess most of normal (not even casuals - normal) players can get that far. They will hit a wall with those grindy or boss challenges. I cannot simply even get to them. Hell im stuck with tier 5 maps becouse i cant drop tier 6 even with this 39% to drop a map one tier higher (a bug?). The only source of higher tier maps is zana. Yeah i could trade or play party etc but thats not how things should work.
But back to betrayal:
Tora, Vagan, Jordin can one shoot me out of nowhere. I play tectonic slam pure fire element and first of all - i see completly nothing on the ground, cannot see the boss skills, cannot see the boss aoe, cannot see the mobs auras, i cannot see the bosses (have to actually look at minimap for the marks) etc This clusterf*** should be handled better.
Those fights are dumbless - its who kills who first for me - me them or they me. With the life leech my hp jumps uncontrollably. Against Tora my hp can reach 0 in less then 2 sec and im too slow to press the flask button.
Most of other encounters i kill them easily. The adds with auras can mess things badly and they also badly add to the clusterf***.

So it took me 2 weeks to get to Mastermind. Hell yeah. Entered as soon as possible - my mistake. Lost all the portals, almost whole lvl and future temptation to play this league.
There is no explanation at all about the boss mechanics. If it would be easily available and i could replay to experiment what killed me actually it could be better. But i refuse to play another 2 weeks to get to the mastermind again. Its too slow. The fight itself is messed up, i really dont know what to do, where to stand, there are some marks sometimes near my character but guess what - i dont see them becouse of my tectonic slam ground AoE ... Awesome ...

So i spent like 3 weeks trying to complete as much as i could and i failed. The game punishes normal players who dont have time to play half a day or more. The challenges where easier before and they are more and more grindy and hardcore. They "pushes" you more to endgame you would say. But really the endgame requires too much time investment to even GET THERE. No explanation to mechanics (even for me who played since beta) in encounters you cannot simpy replay is gamebreaking.

Sorry for my poor english, its not my innate.

Since you didn't add a tldr I'm putting it here

Tldr: op not able to complete challenges because of bosses 1 shots

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dvasan a écrit :

Since you didn't add a tldr I'm putting it here

Tldr: op not able to complete challenges because of bosses 1 shots

The last paragraph is the shorter explanation. The one shoots isnt the tldr.

you can easily get 3 more challenges and get the 12

twinned maps(buy)
unid maps(buy)
use scarabs(buy)

The game shouldn't be balanced around casuals/bad players.

I mean GIT GUD duh hello?

I agree with one thing - the Syndicate mechanics should have been EXPLAINED from the beginning. Catarina fight - i done 3 times and still yet to figure out why she doesnt die and sometimes she does dies and then for 30 minutes she would be immortal. I just run out of portals.
Also Syndicate management, how to get who where. For the life of me cannot get It That Fled to research for those sweet stones. Just doesnt happen, been trying for one month.

So yeah, there is a lot of tings wrong with this league. I miss the good old days when developers actually spent time making game manuals. PoE being as complex as is - GGG hasnt done jack shit to have something that will explain league mechanics in details. Ever.

and yes, if you play 2 weeks you will get 7 challenges. This league is unlike any other league. One need to play at least a month to get 24 challenges, and almost 2 months for 36. One month in /played 7.5 days, at 20 challenges. But i dont push hard, just play to kill time at work.

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prodiii a écrit :

Hello.
I would like to take a moment and write this since im not tempted to play betrayal any more.

Im a casual player....

I stopped here - cuz PoE is not casual frendly at all and thats why i love it so much, hope that will never be changed. If i want a casual ARPG than i go and play D3 or something else.

No offense against Casual players - some of my friends are. But if PoE becomes balanaced for these type of players it will go down like D3.

The League will end in March, you still have time to finish your challenges. Actually, the challenges now is easier compare to Incursion & Delve where there's a less of RNG base challenges. This time, the challenges are more "base on progress", you gradually unlock them by playing the content.
My game time is also limited (not more than 3 hrs a day), but I still managed to get 27 for now, I can get more in due time before I get burn out.

There are also some challenges related to the syndicate that you can complete in Act levels if your having a hard time dealing at them in maps. There's a lot of guides here & in reddit post about it, I suggest you look at it. There are also other challenges like others suggested that you can buy (NOT paid service) like the unid, scarabs & twinned maps, if your having a hard time grinding them.

After playing this game a year, I realized that the primary hindrance to players progression in this game is not just time & luck but also knowledge. If you don't have the time & luck, maybe you can get it with knowledge.

I agree with you those challenges not even a challenge all you have to do is keep running random maps and half of them will complete by itself.

the problem is you have to spend sht tons of time to do that.

and another half is just too stupid.
reach depth 600? and where the f is sulphite?
400 atlas objective? f you.