Why no one is playing Path of Exile, from a concerned fan.

Let's face it the PoE community is dying! We have hype and dreams at the start of every new patch or league and it slowly dies out 3-4 weeks later to a small core of a few thousand diehard gamers. Before I go on a diatribe, I will warn you I am a casual and I don't have a max level toon yet. I've been playing poe off and on for the last three years. I'm an avid RPG gamer and I do want POE to get better and become a great game to the likes of Lineage II, Dota 2 etc...Here's some words of advice. Feel free to add your own additions too it. Please don't roast/white knight so hard thanks.

Anyways since the community is dying, why not entertain this hardcore community with "real" mmorpg slice of life or events that will make people enjoy the game instead of resurrecting a dead zombie every patch? Even your most loyal YTer like ZiggyD is playing other GAMES wtf?

Let's face it please GGG stop the Zip & Zag D3 insta-die zombie mechanics. the zippyD chu chu train diablo 3 rolladice mechanics, seriously stop it! The classic 1 hit or I die mechanics. Take games like C9 or other mmorpg where u *HAVE to evade some attacks. Just having a character zip through maps and mobs dying isn't really what roguelike game was all about. Go back to your roots like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate. Troll builds like the "jump" on attack build and the 50 million projectile on attack build seriously can't be meta. Or that permafrost frostwall fighter in pvp.

Another issue I have with the 3.0 era patch is the post damage calculation mechanics. Nobody cares about getting minute "increases" anymore or even weapon nodes, when 'MORE' is better. Seriously no one care about increase nodes anymore. You guys are creating only two real classes in POE. The 10K, 0 dps Fat tank or the 10k DPS 2k hp glass cannon. You can't have both! Again I'm generalizing here but you get the point!

There is "No late game" as for us noobly casual whom will probably beat merciless lab but won't get pass tier 15 maps... Seriously level 100 cap is not good, there should be uncap levels like Maplestory etc...force PvP exp increase like other MMO with leaderboards or *incentives. Imagine if you can only get EXP increase pass level 88 by PVPing.

Also what is up with that league like "solo self found" seriously WTF, No Man's Sky level rich man's glass castle WTF. This is a multiplayer game not video poker, Stephen Paddock. Sure mapping is fun the first 100 maps. Shaper, Azitri ubber lab sure. But why not more. Give us endless infinite dungeon or bigger open worlds. Late game PK maps to Clan based boss fights like wow/lineage 2 etc.. Have custom event week of "endless wave map" event map like, "tower defense" or PVP capture the flag/king of the hill events with prizes.

Let's face it "Useless uniques" it's the cancer of this game. Nobody wants them and they are being pedo for 1 alts in game. Seriously 60% of the uniques are just useless and serve no purpose but leveling gear. Only lab enchantment is their saving light. Giving them "scaling" mechanics or attributes or "increasing stats/value" over time with usage or something. Instead of collecting dusk in the OCD gamer's chest.

Another issue is the last acts is too easy. From the 10 Day races. I believe end game should be only filled with "rogue" exiles pass act 7 onwards with some sparce elite minions like those of the Daresso map area. Doesn't make story sense to have level 67 skeletons that die to 1 hit etc.. aka Stupid bots late game. Every monster pass level 50 should just be invasion bosses or elite exile. Just having filler monsters for sake of the level to fill up the exp bar just really boggles my mind.

Let's talk about the In-flexibility of the current passive tree or the current meta. 50-80% of the time now it's to grab the Marauder & Duelist starting nodes such as the "warrior's Blood" & "Heart of Warrior" nodes and the "Master of the Arena" & "Bravery" nodes if you're at bottom area. It's just way too efficient. Non-spellcasters rarely even venture up on the northern HP nodes if ever as compared to previous patches like 2.0 or 1.0 when people would travel all over for HP nodes. Take for example no logical marauder or duelist will EVER get "Purity of Flesh" or "Written in Blood" hp bonuses.

If you want people to play you gotta get more Wow/Lineage II/MMORPG rare/weekly special bosses/maps... Encourages people to play like "steampunk hat week" or some crap. Or a rare unique running only this week events! more special events instead of just races! People rather come and play for events like "Halloween" or "Christmas" events than say "new" patch or X race or Y race.

In my mind the ideal game would have 5 spells. Two offensive spells, two defensive and 1 passive/aura. Or another "class" specific spell. Right now there's nothing to differentiate classes until the "ascension classes" and the different stat gains. Right now every character you are forced to carry 1 "passive" damage aura and 1 herald... Not taking them you're losing so much DPS, there should be a bonus for people who don't run them rather than not. Same with golems and minions. In a sense sort of like the armorless "300" should have some movement or evasion bonus for not wearing chest armor or some crap. Just my two cents on that.

Also bring out the "rare" flask. Unique flask really aren't enough!

Thanks for reducing the level gap exp gain. I know it was annoying as hell to play with a friend and see him/her slowly get less exp the further we play, until you are like 5+ level apart. I know you guys have done a tremendous job in reducing the gap compared to 2.0 etc.. But yea it needs more. Players more than 3 levels still suffer quite a bit. But seeing a 2 level higher ally peel away to 3, 4 levels higher within a day is just really frustrating. Having friends with a 10+ gap not wanting to play together is really strange IMO.

Let's talk about hideout, allow players to have tophies or aka "player remove only item" hideout, caves and armory rooms instead of this infinite room chest and "pimp my hideout" sims cave. Imagine walking to a guy with all his MAX roll glass in-cased 50 exalt helmet on display!

Finally allow players to wear gear underneath the chest armor. Such as a Tabula or t-shirt/lingerie etc.. Might as well give us "wing" slot after act 5 and crown slot as well after act 10.

Lastly but not least! Make your own POE cypto-coin based on exalt drop. The POE/Exalt drop is based on 3rd party pricing. Bitcoin is the "proof of concept" of work.. In a sense exalt drops could be our POEcoin with the smallest currency being the lowely scroll parcement. Only x is generated by gamers and could be exchanged as "money" or currency for MTX or 3rd party stuff like mugs, tees and hats! Think guys you could be the next iota or ripple or dogecoin! It could be the cypto-currency used by gamers for gamers!

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Maoday escribió:

Let's face it the PoE community is dying!

I am not sure if to take this as sarcasm, troll or a true casual not understanding things or missing facts, correct me so I can build a response to this post.

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Eldubs escribió:

I am not sure if to take this as sarcasm, troll or a true casual not understanding things or missing facts, correct me so I can build a response to this post.

I'm pretty sure it's satirical in nature.

I was starting to wonder if the obligatory daily POE is dying thread had ironically died, since I've not seen one since I came back from a short hiatus.

But there it is, in all its glory!

Good to see you old friend. Thank you for your endlessly relentless singular prophecy which will eventually be true -- if only your prophecy gave us a timeline so we knew when to pack our things.

I don't agree with you on one point.

PoE and Poe community have been dying since I've been here. Almost ded now. Anytime soon. Surely next patch will be ded on arrival... Tick tock, the ded clock is ticking!

Peace,

-Boem-

Did not read that wall of text because its not dying.
Just another DoooooOOOOooOOOOOOOOOooooooooom sayer.
A new league starts and players come back in.

1. You have wasted hours for writing this.
2. You could spend that time learning game mechanics.
3. Its too long to read.
4. Dont be a casual.
5. Fuck Casuals.

how much blizzard paid u