Temple early vs late, lol balance.

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I'm not an endgame temple fan, at all.

Temple scales into worseness, the more you play it, basically.


However, the temple early is insane.

I just started a new character, I'm level 9. Hit my first temple. The buildup is good, clarity around how to get it is good- then when you get it, the rewards are crazy.

A lesser jewelers orb at level 9? Whoa, busted. Suuuuuper rewarding.

Temple is short, everything feels like where you're at in the game- no clarity around how to build the temple, but whatever, still feels good.


Compare this to level 90, which was my last temple. Insanely long, more difficult than max maps by far, not even close to balanced. Temple is huge, but no space anywhere to fight unless its a path space. Feels overall terrible most of the time, cramped. So the rooms are small, the temple itself is massssssiiiiivvvveeeeee. It takes WAY to long, way. I thought underground abyss took too long- thats nothing to a built temple, bad, very very bad.

Its balance/qol things like this that make me question who is planning/balancing things over at the 3gs. The balance is wak- super 90s wak.

It takes like 10x the time to run a temple than a max(15) map.

The only high level good thing about a temple is the experience. Which doesn't matter, because if you lose the exp its worthless; and ends up just feeling like a waste of time. Which is an entirely different massive qol issue.

Early temple, sick.
End temple, trash.

Balance team needs to think it through again.

Another thing, the temple starts to feel long super early, I think the overall size is way way way off. I realize this is the league content- and I know nothing about leagues btw; but the abyssal league didn't take anywhere near the kind of time temple takes.

I just got my second temple run at level 16. Its rewarding, that feels good, balance/difficulty feels fine- but the amount of time, walking simulation, its gross. Its just WAY too big.

Abyssal underground feels the same way. Do we really want to do another map inside of a map? I do not. Nearly all of the other bonus content feel like they take way less time. Breach, delirium, expedition, alters... then abyss is a bit longer(with underground way longer), then temple is ten million years.