Please educate me, why does anyone consider PoE to be "hard"?

eh..i think youre confusing difficulty with depth... i dont recall ever hearing anyone call the game "hard" or "difficult"... maybe reaching a high level in hc is hard as a new player though. the game is deep and because of that has a steep learning curve... but hard-two different things.

Dear Toradirus:


People play this game becasuse they, in general, are crazy.
You see, this game requires you to sacrifice your life to it. It is evil.

GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN GOOD BUDDY.


Seriously, though, on ne peut pas faire de progrés sans 30hrs/semaine. Go read a book.

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posterier escribió:

Dear Toradirus:


People play this game becasuse they, in general, are crazy.
You see, this game requires you to sacrifice your life to it. It is evil.

GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN GOOD BUDDY.


Seriously, though, on ne peut pas faire de progrés sans 30hrs/semaine. Go read a book.

Yeah, basically... :(

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prilletime escribió:

I dont think the majority of PoE quitters thought the game was to hard..

They just realized that the game is way to hardcore and the RNG + Chromes + Fuses etc needed to play the build they want is way to much work.

Most new players actually have to go to the forums and read a guide on how to play the freaking game and what items to use.

So when they figure out the first character they made needs 80 orb of regrets to respec because they totally did everything wrong because they didnt read up on how to play the game... Ragequit :)

Something like that especially for people with work and stuff... Like who wants to come home after 10-12 hours of work and farm a few hours for a chance to find a couple of fuses and a few orb's here and there. It's not like they want to spend the whole day in trade channel just to advance in the game either..

Anyway I love the game, and I understand all my friends that wont play PoE because it's to hardcore.

I think that is a problem in itself. Hardly anyone is even trying to PLAY the game, they just follow some guy to become "good". That is why you NEED a 6L, you NEED that 500dps BOW, and so on. Have a look at that guy on reddit beating Atziri on a melee+armour on a 4L in 5DHC SELFFOUND!
Are people so used to getting pushed through games witthout any freedom of choice that they are completely overchallenged if a game actually wants you to PLAY as in Trial+Error?


And farming stuff after work was/is (?) amazingly popular amongst D2 players, and the possible outcome was way smaller. People would just run baal, pindleskin or high ilvl caves for a few hours.
Thinking about it, is MFing mindlessly for an hour that different from an hour of trash tv after work? ;)

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Todarius escribió:

I've beaten normal level with my lightning-arc using templar.

Could you give off your troll game any easier? Come on now ....

Go play the game on hardcore, I will just let it educate you itself.

Lol this guy... Play hardcore mate u don't get a chance to die to bosses. Lmao

I hope for some Touhou-tier bosses now that desync seems to be fixed.

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Mischief67 escribió:

Great troll post.

Will follow.

9/10.

p.s: Selling organic troll food, 10 chaos per portion, pst.

My thoughts exactly. Very clever way to do it might I add. He upped his troll game.

I changed my mind, just about... right now.

Still the OP is either a troll or a total ARPG noob, pick one.

That said I am playing exclusively HC and learned (today no kidding) that "escape -> move mouse cursor -> click logout" (or whatever that is) can be macro'ed. So we all know a monkey can make it in Standard, but now we (read I, me, moi, ich, my body and mind in truth xD) know that any risk and difficulty can be potentially totally negated.

Sad day. Hardcore died and we only got "korean grinding crap" left...

Not taking away the marvelous job that GGG is doing with Act 4 and all the changes, that is really incredible.
But they could at least give us / let us retain some REAL hardcore gaming to play with. I mean, come on... our characters don't even "really" die...

./sadface

Edit: Having read some other comments, please lads don't mistake "hard / hardcore" with "RNG / Korean grinding". One is about skill and difficulty (hopefully) and the later about time investment only.

You beat the Game on Normal and judge the Game nice Trolling Sir ..