Path of Exile(diablo clone)

Been playing this for a couple of weeks now and have been really enjoying it. It felt like scratching an ARPG itch I've not managed to scratch since Titan Quest.

Playing lightning tanky templar now in act four on normal, and decided I'd do the labyrinth quest...

So went through the place for like an hour or more, a few sections past the first boss fight, getting very bored with running down dead-ends over and over again, waiting for floors to cool down, traps to move... the whole thing was becoming high tedium and then I lose concentration on a series of traps and I'm dead in seconds only to find there're no checkpoints and I need to do the whole thing in one run.

Well, that has really soured me to the game tbh. I don't have the time nor the inclination to play through all that dull maze-running and pointless patience tests in one sitting. The place is way too big with too many annoying ways to get lost, the traps aren't fun, they just feel like they're there to slow you down.

I was kind of looking forward to fleshing out my build on subsequent higher difficulty runs, something I've only done with Diablo 2 and Titan Quest before, but now I feel there's no way to optimise my character as I'll be lacking an ascendancy class.

Now I'm just planning to finish normal difficulty for the sake of completion and then move on to give Grim Dawn a try.

Can't get my head around the decisions GGG made when putting the labyrinth together the way they did with the restrictions that are in place. Just no way I'm going through that and all the trials even once more, let alone on each difficulty. :(
 
Never been a fan of the labyrinth either. You could just skip the labyrinth altogether after completing it once per difficulty (and maybe uber) and just focus on mapping instead as labyrinth is just one optional part of end-game.
 
Yeah the Labrynth thing soured it for me a lot, you basically need to dedicate an hour or two of your life to complete it. The lack of portals don't make it fun as if you are time constrained (like myself) there is no point in running it.

I knowing is the point of ARPG's but I tend to get bored by them by the repetitive grind nature and praying to RNGjesus for upgrades. That to me just loses the fun, a living story idea ala GW2 would grab my interest as it is I tend to get bored after normal completion or at best one veteran run.
 
Yup, things like the lab & the map drop nerf really killed the game for me, not played in some time now, only thing i did with lab was wait till i was stupidly overpowered, just to get the ascendancy done, never went in apart from that.
 
Yeah, I don't mind a bit of grind and getting loot drops is part of the addictive nature of ARPGs for sure, but I also just can't reliably dedicate two hours to one sitting of a game so the lab is just out for me.

It's not even the grindy aspect of the lab that bothers me, it's the whole conception of the place and its mechanics - it's a big maze with traps that only serve to slow you down. There's no real skill in getting past traps, they just make the run slower and more annoying. If they'd made the sections a quarter of the size, increased the mob difficulty and kept the Izaro fights it might have been a nice upgrade quest. As it is, I'm just not motivated in the slightest to do it even if I could give it the time it needs.

Bought Grim Dawn last night after posting in here and maybe I'll give that a try later on.
 
No1newts said:
Yeah the Labrynth thing soured it for me a lot, you basically need to dedicate an hour or two of your life to complete it. The lack of portals don't make it fun as if you are time constrained (like myself) there is no point in running it.
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not really, if you're leveling i usually just do the lab once i hit meciless dried lake and do both nortmal and cruel in 10mins or so. merc lab depends on the char.
also use poelab.com for daily layouts speeds up the whole process.:cool:
 
less than 1 hour to go :)

still enjoying my bow build, so this league...phys, poison, bleed, crit, leech. should be ok :)

either Split Arrow+Poison+Pierce+Slower Proj+Crit Chance again or might try Puncture+GMP+Poison+Slower Proj/Pierce+Crit Chance

with Toxic Delivery on the Shadow-Assassin everything melts, 3 months of Drillneck hunting here we go :)
 
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Gonna be a while :(
 
Been playing this since beta and it's the only game I play now on any platform! Don't get much time on it but started a shadow Bv toon on the new league really enjoying it. Another question does anyone play this on a laptop, looking to get one for working away with and putting this on it would be nice, not a massive budget but anyone got any ideas?
 
dunker said:
less than 1 hour to go :)

still enjoying my bow build, so this league...phys, poison, bleed, crit, leech. should be ok :)

either Split Arrow+Poison+Pierce+Slower Proj+Crit Chance again or might try Puncture+GMP+Poison+Slower Proj/Pierce+Crit Chance

with Toxic Delivery on the Shadow-Assassin everything melts, 3 months of Drillneck hunting here we go :)
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Karathez said:
Ahh drillneck hunting, had forgotten about that, dont think i ever got one in a league.
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bought mine near perfect rolls for 10c, they're cheap as chips. essence softcore :)
 
currently farming cruel lake for better life drops, not doing cruel malachai with less than 3k life. loving the essence drops, especially the phys ones, did'nt get a death harp bow drop yet so i made one that's better :)
 
dunker said:
currently farming cruel lake for better life drops, not doing cruel malachai with less than 3k life. loving the essence drops, especially the phys ones, did'nt get a death harp bow drop yet so i made one that's better :)
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essences are great for leveling. :cool:
i'm still using my 250pdps bow i crafted at lvl 57 or so (i'm now lvl 81) :p
 
Having tried most ARPGs I must say that POE is the best one, by far. It took everything that made D2 great and improved it all the while adding its own flavour and, of course, complexity.
 
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