Path of Exile - The Harsh Truth

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Oh, the game most definitely doesn't favor group play. It has all sorts of things that discourage it, like screen clutter, the 1 death policy coupled with map size, no atlas progress for anyone but the party leader, how rezzing works outside of maps, and so on. Overall, the group play experience is lackluster.

It's just that the game has other issues, like poor xp once you get past a certain level, plus magic find impacting currency, that mean certain OP builds want another person on the map.

Basically, it won't lead to group play. It'll lead to people offering to take people along to leech xp while being carried, to essentially function as a map modifier that boosts xp and currency drops, while upping mob hp.

It's the same things over and over. A couple of logical counterpoints...

Meaningful progression? Plenty of it. If you choose to blame the devs and only listen to streamers instead of figuring out your own builds, that's on you.

Combat/Class Design - only half the classes/weapons are even in the game, calm down.

Every online game has RMT and GGG does not "push" anyone towards it. If you don't enjoy the game but force yourself to play it by breaking TOS and buying in-game stuff with real money...I dunno what to tell you, that's on you.

The rest is just self-justifying ranting. You can't possibly "know" the direction of an EA game with (self-admitted by the devs) a thrown-together-in-3-months endgame.

As for "The harsh truth", you could have stopped and been ignored after the title. I'll trust the workers at a company with over a decade of success and damn decent support and communication over an online rando that blames everyone else for the things they don't enjoy.

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Leonemeaeus#0087 a écrit :

Yes and no.

There are clear advantages to group play, such as increased item rarity and the ability to exploit certain mechanics. For example, "culling" builds are largely ineffective except for last-hitting or exploding entire screens or rare mobs to apply a massive Increased Item Rarity modifier.

Yeah, that's basically what I said.

If you are someone that likes group play, you're very likely to not like it in PoE2, because the mechanics do not encourage actual group play, overall, as it makes for a pretty lackluster experience.

But mechanical elements make it so that people will take advantage of the mechanical elements of grouping to have an extra map modifier, with the likes of carries and bots. That, though, I'd say is not group play. It's pure power gaming, min/maxing.

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From my testing playing two player with my gf since PoE started, alot of the stuff we found became chance shards or regal shards. We burnt more exalted into maps than what we found. We decided just alchemy maps were better instead of burning exalted, which seem to work. Having alot fun with her in group play.


I see potential building how you want. Hell I was clearing tier 15 with Mist whisper makeshift crossbow extremely strong crossbow If you discover how to use it correctly, I notice alot people tend to go for stat stacking gear.

But there's alot of gear capable of doing tier 15+ that you wouldn't expect. I'm not rich so I run the weirdest cheap gear setup and ends up working when I tinker around with the tree.

I don't know, see potential,though i notice some gear in the description doesn't work as it says. maybe they aware of it?


I do hate when doing tier 15 maps, tier 1 to 2 tier drops. That shouldn't exist.

I do hate burning maps seems like a pointless mechanic to me when so much stuff is going on the screen.


When playing with my gf poison ranger and when a monster dies and exploding a poison cloud can't tell the differents, can be annoying, almost died to that few times.

I think I hate trials with the honor system. I like the old poe style, if you die you do it again vs the honor system.

I hate if one of us dies while playing in two player mode when mapping, the image on the screen will float away weird bug 🫤.

There's alot of dislikes, and annoying bugs, had to make a new char to get to cruel difficulty to save my witch because her soul core quest item disappeared and the only way to complete quest was to get my witchhunter to party with her to complete the alter quest for her 😅.

I have my dislikes too plus with annoying bugs & gear not working the way it says in description, but overall I've been enjoying the early access.

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