The GGG / TenCent "Vision" Needs Glasses. (Video Act 3 Cruel Rootdredge v Cold Huntress)

So it has been a while since i put up other video evidence but this fight is too funny "Vision" wise to resist. This char has 2d 13h played and I have intentionally resisted the meta skill to play the "Vision". The char uses Parry, Fangs of Frost, Glacial Lance, Cull the Weak and Elemental Sundering primarily. I could post me SLOGGING through the swamp but this is more humorous. My gear is what you would expect of SSF playthrough, all rares as good of stats as I can find, top notch spear with +2 all melee skills and 160 max Phys damage (and 1 to 45 fire because ... its the POE2 slot machine). I killed Jamanra in 3 tries (once died because of a one shot and once because of my kid distracting me). I am 3 levels higher than the zone.

Keep in mind this is how GGG / Tencent WANTS US TO PLAY. All of you using screen clear skills will be nerfed. They want everyone to be playing like this. Every league, every char.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISvEl42iI_o

So after getting into it with Rootdredge, I thought this is too funny so I respawned at checkpoint and recorded. This guy spawns minions every few seconds or so and seemingly has an unlimited number. He also does an unparryable ground slam and an unparryable explosive crag that tracks you. I thought I would show a lot of what doesnt work because of the naysayers in the previous thread.

01:10 Because people said "Skill issue, focus on boss" in last thread I started doing that about but you can see that unless I want to stand in the middle of a pack of 40 enemies hitting him, and also then I wont see the ground effect slam or explosive crags, I cant focus on the boss. I MUST kill the trash. In the meantime you can see crags are hitting me for 3/4 of my life. He keeps spawning minions constantly and without limit and faster than I can kill them.

2:38 Lets see how fast he can build minions? Within 30 seconds they fill the "arena" By 03:11 its clear his minions are unlimited and i have screen of whites to deal with. But hey only whites should be no problem right? Uh No. I clear them and resume focus on the boss,

04:11 within the span of one second 3 of the four crags on the scree explode with no chance to evade and I die. Note that at the time I had no idea why, I had to look at the footage after.

05:06 Another death occurs with a one shot kill. Even in slow motion frame by frame I cant figure out what did it.

05:50 Something takes most of my health out (again not visible even in slowmo) and a crag, which blends in nicely blows and finishes me.

06:07 I am back on the boss but by 0617 he already has enough minions to push me off. White minions but they take TIME to kill. Trying to whittle them down knowing the hulks can take me out in 2 hits, by 06:47 the number of enemies on the screen is ridiculous.

06:57 We will try to parry (I know this wont work, I am demonstrating for GGG). By 06:59 I have no parried and been hit several times, roll out parry wont work because its a useless skill like Raise Shield. Oh and now the whole screen is full of minions.

08:07 I have spent the last two minutes just clearing minions, any damage to the boss was incidental but now I am back on the boss. I start hitting him and 6 crags on the screen zero in on me and I am dead in 5 seconds.

09:13 While clearing minions four crags stacked on top of each other blow up and take me out in one shot from full life and shield.

10:06 There are already probably more than 50 minions on the screen. Each white takes 4 to 5 hits to kill with glacial lance. I dare not stop, I will die, I dare not hit the boss, I will die. I simply circle the arena and throw throw throw. Every time I try to grab some frenzy charges with Cull The Weak I risk death to unseen crag explosions.

11:41 After 2 min clearing minions, back on RootDredge. but only 3 seconds later I have to abort hitting him to clear minions spawning every couple of seconds including elite minions.

16:00 After spending all my time clearing minions constantly and moistly abandoning melee I finally get him. He drops a Regal Orb (I have 30 in the vault) and a bunch of junk.

Conclusion:

Every fight moving through this zone is a mini version of this. Slog fest doesn't even cover it. This is why players play lightning spear. My friend (also 54 years old) cleared this zone in 15 minutes with lightning spear. The zone is balance for lightning spear yet GGG / TenCent want us to play "Meaningful Combat" Like what I just showed you. They don't like your screen clear builds and as they did in the previous patch they will nerf them all when the 0.3.0 patch comes out. They think this pace with 2h per zone and a total slog fest will keep you all coming back for more constantly loving the slog fest.

I guess for some people it will, but since thy have lost 95% of players since EA launch, those of you who think this is good are in the VAST minority and most of you are probably playing a build that is about to be nerfed. When they finally get all the screen clear builds nerfed this is how it will look for everyone.

@GGG / TenCent: PLAY .... YOUR .... OWN .... PRODUCT! Stream it on Twitch. Show us all why we are wrong. I am waiting.

I just called my psychiatrist

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keppie#6373 a écrit :

I just called my psychiatrist

Uhhh why? Its just a game, lol. :)

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Kraythax#2592 a écrit :

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keppie#6373 a écrit :

I just called my psychiatrist

Uhhh why? Its just a game, lol. :)

/sarcasm :)

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keppie#6373 a écrit :

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Kraythax#2592 a écrit :

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keppie#6373 a écrit :

I just called my psychiatrist

Uhhh why? Its just a game, lol. :)

/sarcasm :)

Oh, good. :)

Pretty sure, at some point not long ago, GGG professed to 'not have time' to test everything. And it shows. But, i reckon, there was no testing done at all, ever.

Just stats and data sheets. And it makes no bloody sense.

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JoannaDark#6252 a écrit :

Pretty sure, at some point not long ago, GGG professed to 'not have time' to test everything. And it shows. But, i reckon, there was no testing done at all, ever.

Just stats and data sheets. And it makes no bloody sense.

I worked at EA and was credited on FIFA 14. During that time I was ASTONISHED to discover that maybe less than 10% of people working there played any game and probably less than 1% of the studio staff played their own product. When it comes to game producers and higher the number probably drops to less than 0.1% play any game. To TenCent, Jonathan and so on this game is a product. Just that. Like a Wok or an electric Rice Cooker. It is designed to simply make money and nothing else. Any gameplay is inconsequential to it being a product. This is the reason why ALL of the innovation in the past 15 years in video games has come from small studios like GGG used to be. But since TenCent bought GG and TenCent is KNOWN for some questionable monetization tactics, GGG has become AAA. The AAA studios could care less about anything but the bottom line. For example, the gaming community as a whole believes Diablo 4 is a failure. But the reality is that Blizzard sees it as an amazing success. I had hoped TenCent wouldn't take over GGG so much. Seems I was wrong.

Honestly Huntress is a frigging meme. I've wasted 100 hours this league dealing with garbage gameplay like in OP video. Playing a Dark Effigy Contagion Lich now and it's wiping the floor with everything the campaign has thrown at me. Mobs pop, bosses MELT, it's tanky af right out the box thx to being in the ES corner of the passive tree. I died like 30 or 40 times on Queen of Filth with my huntress, just beat her in like 30 seconds with my Lich on first try. And my gear is absolute dog s**t. Still using a lvl 23 wand at level 63.

No Rest For The Wicked looks like the vision that POE2 was supposed to be

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Flowneppets#0528 a écrit :

Honestly Huntress is a frigging meme. I've wasted 100 hours this league dealing with garbage gameplay like in OP video. Playing a Dark Effigy Contagion Lich now and it's wiping the floor with everything the campaign has thrown at me. Mobs pop, bosses MELT, it's tanky af right out the box thx to being in the ES corner of the passive tree. I died like 30 or 40 times on Queen of Filth with my huntress, just beat her in like 30 seconds with my Lich on first try. And my gear is absolute dog s**t. Still using a lvl 23 wand at level 63.

Yeah, they are gonna nerf that. They want you playing like this video.