2.6k hours...and i've never looked at what the Orb of Horizons does.

yeah I'm an absolute dumbass.

been playing since 2017. every time i've needed a specific map that I don't have I've bought it or grinded previous maps to get it.

I gained about 1 div every 2 Runs with 5k of each crop + 100k dust to the near Port that also gives runes before the patch.
Now I had more than 10 of these runs after the patch and have not gotten a single div, exalt or annul.
Or is my strat one that is not "in almost all cases" this is a buff?
Any advice how to get something out of shipping after the patch?

Whyyyyyyyyyyy Chris???

My computer isn't the greatest, it usually takes about 5-10 seconds to load an area even though I've got an SSD. But this league, loading into towns is literally taking over a minute. I've timed it, it's consistently been 70-80 seconds each time. Did they change something about how MTX are loaded or something? It's driving me up the fucking wall.

I feel like somethings up. The mobs feel insanely tanky, some rares die instantly, and some take an insane amount of time to kill. I feel like it wasn't like this in Sanctum at all, was there a ninja change?

It's clear to me that the vision of where PoE is going and how I'd like to spend my time aren't the same place. To me, it seems like PoE is moving all-in towards designing around what makes players play longer, instead of what is most fun while they do. Making it brutal and grindy makes a ton of sense with what we know about gambling psychology. That's cool. While there's a lot of anger in the player base there's also people who are excited - but I don't think the game is for me anymore.

Which is a shame, because there's a ton about the game that I really enjoy. In an ideal world (for me) I'd be able to pay to buy PoE like a single player game and mod it and tweak balance to my personal taste. I'd joyously pay the "standard" $60 for the base game and $30 bucks for every update. I could probably be convinced to pay twice that.

I expect that's completely impossible, but I feel like another solution just might be. Can I pay a premium to just get to play under an old league/set of rules? For me, specifically, 3.13 was the most fun PoE ever has been (playing since beta). But really, it would be really great to be able to start a private league with any old version that I like better. No, I don't need it to dump into standard or export. I guess it would probably have to be completely ssf so there's less playerbase splitting. That's cool too. I have zero idea if this is possible with GGG's code or server setup, but from an outsider's perspective, it seems like a way to get money from someone who's walking away at a low development cost.

For the redditors, yes, I'm at the "bargaining" stage of grief. Thanks for the good times, GGG.

My character now has 4.8k life, 80/79/79 max res, determination with armor nodes, dread banner for less accuracy on enemies, 3 endurance charges, 30% attack block, fortify, CWDT molten shell, granite and jade flask, % life regen, replica conqueror's efficiency, non-channel reduced mana cost. I just achieved my 100th death and I was working on spell suppression (53% atm) then chaos resistance next and then Chris' new reddit post dropped and now I need MAGIC FIND TOO? I was looking at my gear, currency tab and trade site and thought what's the point and just uninstalled... I was having some fun because the base game is just that good, but now...

What else affixes do I need next league? When does it stop?

EDIT: Just wanted to say I didnt stop having fun after reading reddit, my deaths kept racking up the higher tier maps I go and I just got more and more bored...

Seems like an awful lot of emphasis is being placed on it for a "side project". Hosting the big boss kill event on ruthless kinda shoehorns people (not me lol) into playing this "side project". Why not have the event in SSSFHC which is part of the main game?

Hi there.

I live in South Africa where the dollar is insanely expensive so was relieved to see that GGG finally implemented regional pricing with the POE 2 early access pack so that it does not feel like I am paying a month's rent when buying anything from them.

I was waiting to purchase the early access pack when I got paid at the end of the month and have just seen that the price is now more than double what it was 2 hours ago. Any ideas what happened? Was the regional pricing just a glitch ?

Super sad because now I can't afford the early access and I was really, really excited for it.

I am currently leveling a BV character.

I level it from level 12 to 22 using BV and holy flame totem

And the entire time i am going "jesus christ BV does LITERALLY NOTHING"

well I was using a tabula and just threw in random support gems and grab random uniques to level with...

So I had a grim sorrow equipped and a void manipulation...

So it converted all BV damage to cold and then it could not do elemental damage...

I have 7000 hours in poe...

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How do you guys feel about this? It feels like most the leagues I’ve played the ones with the lowest prices I seem to have the most enjoyment in? Is this just a me thing?

(Not to say the countless issues with the league isn’t present)

It could be like a mission impossible "we can get you in there but we can't get you out of there" type thing. Then the more we loot on the way out the more shit we have to fight. Or they could even do the delirium thing or gets more difficult the more chests we open.

That way we eliminate the first boring half of each heist, and get rid of the stupid alert level bar entirely. Problem solved - greatest league ever.

Edit: Which bar is more fun?