I will say it again…the real problem with your game is NO BUILD DIVERSITY. I don’t care for POE but the only thing I love about POE is the “almost” unlimited build designs which make the playability indefinite (re-playability).
Stop being stubborn and put some REAL EFFORT into giving players more options with theory crafting, build designs and gear.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
EDIT: Every season its 1-3 builds and 1-2 classes…complete snooze fest and usually a similar build from the prior season
Even PoE falls victim to the meta. There will always be top builds that people will copy.
It’s no different than here. Although, with PoE you run a much higher risk making an absolute dog water build that you can’t do any content with at all.
%, if you don’t follow a guide, you can completely botch your build for endgame content within both games. Sure you can use just about any build you can think of to get through the campaign, that’s not too hard, but once you get into the rest of the game beyond that, you’re going to struggle, hard.
PoE has always rewarded knowledge of the game, but at the same time it doesn’t reward experimentation to get to that knowledge, nor does it provide you that knowledge at any time. You have to quite literally figure it out on your own, or look it up.
The biggest problem is duping and cheating and RMT. After this its bugs and then its balance.
They have no idea how to address duping.
They dont have the manpower to fix all the bugs.
They arent even trying to balance game anymore. ITs just put out a featured build for each class with a new unique and call it a day.
Been saying this since season 3…6 core skills per class and the rest is forgetable, they just slam a new unique on one of these hoping that it would be enough…
Well its not enough, for the most of us…they are still the same boring skills tied with a different colored ribbon (just like helltides)
The skill tree is laughable as it is (if we want to name it a tree at the very least).
I don’t even know if blizzard was aiming for this game to be played for many years or even (decades) im only brave enough to put this in brackets.
Probably 20 year old Guild Wars has more build diversity than this game, and they stopped the developement of that game atleast 15 years ago, hell i would even go out and say that D2 has more builds and way more fun character journey and developement…just another rant take it or leave it i dont care…
Blizz needs to wake up or they’ll be out of this genre sooner than they think.
How they can add(fair…) leaderboards in expansion ? Fór RMT duplicators ? Look at helltide leaderboards.top rankers =
1- copy chinnese build
2- buy RMT 9 k husks to get mytjics
2- buy RMT all full GA gear
3- look Iam top player …
Ya it’s no different they have meta head over heels above other builds. Poe though those meta ppl spend all day trading or rmt their gear. Poe does have diversity I can say that,I don’t think I have ever beat a Pinnacle Boss solo.
I like the diversity of the game and not concerned about those bosses lol
Yes its easier to make another toon then fix a build you messed up . I experiment a lot I know, lol. Following guides my look good ,but chance are you won’t have the right gear to do it and botch a build.
Poe 2 is no different the Poe 1,knowledge of interactions with skills is req. It’s still a big learning curve
Not defending Diablo 4 here but POE 2 build diversity is a lie, sure you can build whatever you want but there are countless build choices which will lead to you not even being able to kill certain campaign bosses unless you find crazy gear. A handful of builds outshine everything else by lightyears.
The only thing that makes POE 2 seem hard is the potential to be one shot if you don’t dodge out of the way at the perfect moment many times over a long fight, or you fail to stand in the right spot because you don’t know the mechanics of a fight.
It is almost as if POE2 was designed for streamers.
Diablo 4 needs a full rework to go back to what made the gameplay fun or scrap it and make Diablo 5 after learning from this huge mistake. Then they should sell it at a huge discount for those who own Diablo 4.
A smaller team will improve quality, you don’t need social media relations positions or whatever they are calling that these days. Marketing can be shrunk too, awesome gameplay will sell a game, Diablo 2 cutscenes were just a cool bonus back in the day, not a tool to get people over-hyped.
POE2 has nowhere near the diversity their systems suggest they should have which is why this is such a huge complaint in that community.
D4 has more diversity than most give it credit if one considers a build in this game is differentiated by changing out only the damaging skill. There aren’t enough utility skills or applicable legendary paragon nodes to even consider those categories.
In both games, players are generally not referring to diversity at all and instead only what primary damage ability sits where on the power curve. This is irrespective of whether or not such a position is even practical or if it truly sits there at all.
my biggest problem with D4 is its a chore to play since the mount is so slow and gets stuck on all the invisa pebbles/corners in the game. How do you find these pebbles you ask? well, press 1 of your 3 gallops and BOOM you find one, want to find another? press gallop again and boom - theres another almost like the after school baby sitting teacher from the breakfast club…
Not sure they were ever trying. Seems like they just want to cycle through different broken builds each season. Which, I suppose, does get people playing different builds from season to season.
I have seen a lot of people on here say " it doesn’t matter and why does it bother you that other people dupe?" I don’t know if it’s cope or if they really don’t see the problem.
%, if you don’t follow a guide, you can completely botch your build for endgame content within both games. Sure you can use just about any build you can think of to get through the campaign, that’s not too hard, but once you get into the rest of the game beyond that, you’re going to struggle, hard.