Path of exile has a terrible flaw. Gems are put in gear pieces but only one piece of gear has 6 slots, the chest piece. Meaning that only one attack skill ends up boosted with five support gems, which makes the game promote builds with a single skill people spams non stop. Diablo is much better as it offers a lot more builds with many attack skills on the bar, for a more fun and more varied experience.
It may take math skills to build a character in path of exile but it takes no skill to pilot it.
You can prefer D4 to POE, nothing wrong with that, but your examples are not accurate with regard to what’s actually possible in POE. A helm or gloves can give you an effective 6 link. 2H weapons can be 6 linked and have a support skill built in, for another 7 link.
You can have way more skills on your bar in POE. Many people run more defensive skills than are possible in D4. POE is vastly more modular.
POE is also an independent developer with better management, 10 years into innovating ARPGs, at the highest level in my opinion.
I like both games for what they are. I can only do one POE league a year because it’s pretty intense.
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Umm lets see according to pc metrics. Diablo 4 and diablo 3 are siting at the same user score at 4.9. Thats not good when d4 just came out and d3 has been out for 10 yrs
Poe is sitting at a user score of 8.
That sure doesnt sound like poe is worse than diablo 4
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You know all those people saying the white knights/defending of this game are blizzard employees on smurf accounts
This literally just made me believe
This can’t be real
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I could understand if you cried about getting a 6-link of good stats being a bit too difficult in PoE because it can be a pain for a beginner. PoE 2 is getting rid of that though and giving you 6 links off the rip.
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GGG is not an independent developer. They havent been for over 8 yrs with tencent owning 80% of GGG
“Diablo 4 is better designed than Path of Exile”
Pretty sure if you thought this you wouldn’t be wasting your time on the D4 forums you would actually be playing the game.
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I can’t f’ing wait for that.
I mean… Diablo gives out affixes that are likely to only support one type of damage in a build and do the same thing? I don’t think it affects much until the very high end, but around NM 65 I am now looking at my trap rogue going “these trap bonuses are not helping my rapid fire and my rapid fire bonuses aren’t helping my traps” …
I might have to focus on one if I want to go higher…
You’re right, it takes basically no skill to actually perform the gameplay part of Path of Exile, but like…
We are literally playing a game where Lilith kills are being done by locking her out in the first round, finishing in 90 seconds, and there are Druids doing T100s by facetanking. Diablo is pretty much the same.
My honest conclusion is:
Diablo III and Path of Exile kind of have collectively put gameplay on the backseat to gear grinding / build crafting and I might be done with ARPGs after this ^^;
But path of exile had ten years to fix their stuff and they didn’t where as diablo 4 was just released.
Diablo III had 10 years to fix it’s stuff too, and they went down the path of combat having the depth of cookie clicker.
I don’t know what will happen with Diablo IV since it’s a different team to be fair, but I feel like watching for what happens with things like Bulwark Druid and Bone Spear in the next little while will be telling?
Yeah not even bothering reading. This game is absolutely nothing compared to POE.
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PoE is filled with millions of previous seasons that nobody cares about and just avoid entirely