It's hard to keep up with the inflation of prices

This has always been a thing in poe where if you don't play enough to be ahead of the pack, then you're basically making pennies on the dollar, and this league it's worse than ever before. You guys have nerfed and deleted strats over the years, and with the most recent strat deleted from the game, harbi beyond, where you could target tink scarabs, the 2 scarabs that people use in breach, bloodlines and cascades have reached 500c and 150c respectively, which is absurd considering how long the maps take and the overall return, not to mention that the astrolabe is 850c.

The supply situation is dire.

It's insane to think that i'm at a point where i have a character worth almost 3 mirrors and i'm making fewer divs/h than i used to make a few days ago, it kills my entire motivation to keep playing this league.

The game severely lacks diversity in viable strats that can be scaled according to how strong your character is, and even though the league itself is above average for what it provides, it's very lacking in many aspects to the point where there's nothing to look forward to, nothing to strive for, no aspirational content that i would want to do that requires further investment into my build, because there's nothing besides breach... you've seen breach, you've seen it all.

with that being said... any scarab changes/additions soontm?

Yeah.

They must revert changes to T17, bring back Abyss, Blight etc.

There is nothing to do but farm EASY content.

3 mirrors not even 2 weeks in is already billionaire status. dont know wat ur complaining about. i have like 15d

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Hustla4Lyfe#7743 wrote:

3 mirrors not even 2 weeks in is already billionaire status. dont know wat ur complaining about. i have like 15d

We complain about not having content to do with mirror builds.

Boxes with mirror builds are just a joke.



There must be hard aspirational content -> great rewards.

And why exactly is Nightmare maps -> Uber bosses not aspirational content? Or The feared rolled with the most possible % ?

tHose three things alone are not in reach of 99,99% of the playerbase and you say there is no aspirational content. Just wow.

And why would you invest 3 mirrors i a build and then complain? You could have done 3 builds for 1 mirror each, because variety.

3 mirrors is, as mentioned, hundreds if not thousand times more currency than most players will ever have. If you cannot see that, you have completely lost touch.

Just start a new build man, maybe something off meta which actually needs a mirror to even work, haha. If a 3 mirror build would have challenges in this game, most people wouldn't even be able to complete the campaign, lol.

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

And why exactly is Nightmare maps -> Uber bosses not aspirational content? Or The feared rolled with the most possible % ?

tHose three things alone are not in reach of 99,99% of the playerbase and you say there is no aspirational content. Just wow.

And why would you invest 3 mirrors i a build and then complain? You could have done 3 builds for 1 mirror each, because variety.

3 mirrors is, as mentioned, hundreds if not thousand times more currency than most players will ever have. If you cannot see that, you have completely lost touch.

Just start a new build man, maybe something off meta which actually needs a mirror to even work, haha. If a 3 mirror build would have challenges in this game, most people wouldn't even be able to complete the campaign, lol.

100% this. I think anyone who says the game is too easy has either:
A: Completely lost touch with the playerbase at large due to making extremely expensive builds that trivialize everything.
B: Have mastered the game mechanics, effectively beating PoE in its entirety.

The game shouldn't be balanced around either of these states, otherwise it'll become unachievable for most people. If you want a challenge, you should gimp yourself. Make off-meta builds, turn a non-viable trash build into treasure with your immense wealth. Your only limit is your imagination.

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

And why exactly is Nightmare maps -> Uber bosses not aspirational content? Or The feared rolled with the most possible % ?

tHose three things alone are not in reach of 99,99% of the playerbase and you say there is no aspirational content. Just wow.

And why would you invest 3 mirrors i a build and then complain? You could have done 3 builds for 1 mirror each, because variety.

3 mirrors is, as mentioned, hundreds if not thousand times more currency than most players will ever have. If you cannot see that, you have completely lost touch.

Just start a new build man, maybe something off meta which actually needs a mirror to even work, haha. If a 3 mirror build would have challenges in this game, most people wouldn't even be able to complete the campaign, lol.

sure, there are people that enjoy creating 2-3 or more cool builds and once they're done with the builds they won't touch the game again, but i can assure you there are a lot of people like me, where the joy comes from upgrading my one character, putting as much time and effort into it, and running a lot of maps with it. See, my journey doesn't end when my character is "done", i enjoy blasting maps, but for that there needs to exist aspirational content, aka the harder the content, the more rewarding it is, and that also inspires the need to invest into your character, meaning more play time, meaning the league is longer lived.

Aspirational content is also incredibly good for casuals, so that when they look at the fubguns and the proplays's, they can see something transformative that's totally different than the game they're playing right now, knowing that one day they'll get to experience that, maybe not right now, but just knowing that there's a goal of reaching that plateau where they can see a different view of not dropping 1-2 chaoses per map, but multiple divines and tinks

Lastly, i'm not complaining because i've invested into my build 3 mirrors and there's nothing for me to do, breach is plenty fun, but because everyone is doing breach, it saps a lot of the profit that would come from it; right now there are maps where you don't get 3 divines from your map to warrant your initial investment of the supplies you put into it. That problem would go away if there were other strategies that were as good as breach, on top of having better strats to farm supplies like tink scarabs or specific astralobes.

I understand game balance is a tough nut to crack, but right now it feels like whoever's in charge isn't even trying to provide a good endgame experience, and that's where people sink most of their time playing poe, it's not running a campaign or completing your atlas, it's doing endgame strategies and upgrading your characters, and right now the endgame is lackluster, they've removed/killed more strategies than added as of late, despite them promising that they'll work on the endgame for a few leagues now. Well, the endgame that we have right now is 1 farm that everyone's doing that is 3 times as expensive in supplies than it should have been.
P.S. i know i have an elitist take, but i don't think i'm wrong either, they've nerfed and nerfed and nerfed, and i do think this league and the currency changes are a step in the right direction, i just want there to be more, not necessarily more rewarding content, but more diversity in the content we're doing.