POE aint Diablo2 successor anymore. It's now Diablo3's successor

Just me, or is it weird that a level 100 character has those quests up?

I see... it's just a project to see how fast a character can be pushed to 100. 18 hours is impressive. People shouldn't read into that too much.

Kinda like today. There's a major bike race coming through town which follows my commute for a stretch. The riders do it well over three times as fast as I do. They're averaging speeds I can't get as a max in a sprint. Pretty much unbelievable speeds.

Whole different game is being played here. Lots of people working together to make this happen.

I disagree. fundamentally the problem with diablo 3 was a total lack of depth and its visual aesthetic


And while i detest the clear speed meta .. that is functionally the one and only major issue it has.. its a huge fucking issue and it poisons a lot of the game .... but...

it still has the aesthetic and it keeps the pacing pretty well until maps
and it still has significantly more character depth than diablo 3 ever will.


plus there is a pretty reasonable chance that ggg will murder fuck support aura bots ..

or at the very least they will do something about commander of darkness and grand-spectrum mana stacking because they quite literally break the game

Impressive playtime!

PoE is PoE its evolved into its own thing, obviously it was inspired by D2 but it also lifts ideas from final fantasy games and other games.

At this point its changed so much that its truly its own game

His post has nothing to do with D2 or D3. He's just commenting that the achievement of this group of "pros" makes the game look too easy.

Yet another Sexcalibure thread without depth, created with a single purpose; to provoke. Are you trying to create The French Revolution vol. two or something?

I don't get the D3 comparison either. I guess it has something to do with paragon levels?

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VolcanoElixir escreveu:

I don't get the D3 comparison either. I guess it has something to do with paragon levels?

People used to compare PoE to D3 on launch and say that D3 was shit because you could get to max level in 4-6 hours or powerlevelled in 10minutes. Considering max level in D3 means nothing as opposed to level 100 in PoE, this just further emphasizes the changes PoE has gone through in the last few years, straying further and further away from its original design and becoming more and more mainstream/casual oriented (like D3 and Blizzard games).

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Namcap escreveu:

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VolcanoElixir escreveu:

I don't get the D3 comparison either. I guess it has something to do with paragon levels?

People used to compare PoE to D3 on launch and say that D3 was shit because you could get to max level in 4-6 hours or powerlevelled in 10minutes. Considering max level in D3 means nothing as opposed to level 100 in PoE, this just further emphasizes the changes PoE has gone through in the last few years, straying further and further away from its original design and becoming more and more mainstream/casual oriented (like D3 and Blizzard games).

Having only played D3 before they introduced paragon levels, the problem with level capping in that game was that the game was deliberately designed to cap your level at 60 before you even hit the highest difficulty, so leveling a character was never an interesting goal because it'll happen by accident if you decide to make a character. At least getting to level 100 in PoE is still an optional challenge well into mapping and not something the game just gives you while you're still in act 8.

Like I said though, this is before Paragon Levels so I have no clue how much effort is required to max paragon levels compared to PoE.