Is anyone still excited for the update?

Remember the vast majority of players never post on forums, and when's the time most people have been happy with a product and made a thread about it? Doesn't usually happen, so not only are you seeing a small fraction of players on the forums, you're seeing an even smaller part of them that gets mad and posts.

I'm more excited for this expansion and league then I have been for any others, personally.

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CreatorXM escreveu:

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iteration2 escreveu:

And now those items I invested in are all most likely going to be completely and utterly worthless, and I feel like I wasted all that time.

With these kinds of changes made with just about every major expansion it feels as if PoE was specifically developed to not only encourage, but force players into only playing the characters in the league they were created during.

This wasn't always the case. It used to be that if you had a piece of gear, and they deemed it too powerful moving forward, you got to keep it in standard. Usually, anyway. Of course other things might change to make it less valuable, and that's unavoidable. The skill tree would change, the meta would change, skills would get buffed and nerfed. But there's something altogether more dispiriting about having gear that you spent a lot of time and currency on, and then the next day its values have been slashed into oblivion.

And I really don't get why it's necessary. Leagues and Standard are very different beasts, and some people like one and some like the other. Standard will never affect the leagues, and standard is already full of obscenely powerful legacy gear that most of us will never be able to afford, so why ruin the fun for anyone trying to taste even a tiny portion of that?

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iteration2 escreveu:

This wasn't always the case. It used to be that if you had a piece of gear, and they deemed it too powerful moving forward, you got to keep it in standard. Usually, anyway

As a standard player (even if on console) myself I can understand your disappointment.
But, only speaking about the last 2 yrs, when game came out on console and I started playing it, I've seen a pretty coherent direction about retroactive nerfs and legacy stuff.
If making an item legacy will somehow break the game, even if it's standard, they won't allow it. It was pretty clear that Aura Stacker would have been nerfed and the CJs would have probably been the way to do it. Still I've sold every single lvl84 6 pass Aura Jewels I've dropped because I was sure that the nerf to CJ was going to be retroactive.
Same for Disintegrato or Martyr of Innocence.

In the last 2 yrs what did they made legacy? Starforge, which is a good weapon but it doesn't "break" anything, Shapers touch, really good but don't break anything, some unique jewels, same story and so on.
I know nothing about their policy 4/5/6 yrs ago, from my understanding it was different (Aztziri Vacuity, Vessel of Vinktar), but in the last 2 yrs, it was coherent in my opinion.
Still, I understand you, chin up :)

Don't think too much on the people whinging and complaining about nerfs or this or that. It happens literally every league. The path of exile community is low-key toxic, frankly. Or at least a loud minority is.

That being said I think this league is gonna be a hit. League mechanic looks simple yet fun and the increased player agency with the new atlas passives is a simple yet huge change. Also, I think there will be an increase in player retention at the top end due to more people aiming for that hideout at 36 challenges.

I can't speak for anyone else but personally I was a bit burned out of PoE in general and I was planning on waiting for PoE2 to start again but this league in particular piqued my interest and I'm probably not the only one.

As a super casual standard Player this will be the 1st league that i Will get to and Do endgame stuff...

so yeah im excited as hell....

i love BIG meta shaking Updates acompanied with Event mechanic changes.

im excited too make my party screen with more eyeblocking projectile with deadeye ascendancy

as a superduper player im excited about the amount of free map juice :D gonna do this juicy 4 crafted guardian stone maps till i have 1000 ex and quit

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innervation escreveu:

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Wissle escreveu:

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DarkJen escreveu:

Many players hate Sirus? Ggg adding it to maps.
Many plrs hate lab? Ggg make it more needed.
Many plrs love to play specres? Ggg kill that gem coldblood.
Many plrs love necro at whole? Ggg nerf it 5th league in a row.
Many plys hate watchstones grind? Ggg adds more watchstones.

And this is just from the top of my head. There is alot more.

Speaking myself: I lost interest even after second announcemet of the coming league. And the last ones were strictly toxic ones. With lies and false statements. I werent skipped any single league so far for a several years.

But this time — I'm not starting it.
GGG gone too much overboard with nerfs and falled too low in my point of view. Thats kinda picture I have so far.

May be it will help you s bit.
To understand.

I see, thanks for the input!

I don't think you should be thankful for that input given how abjectly fraudulent it is.

I despise the Sirus fight but they aren't adding the full fight to random maps.
The lab isn't any more or less needed than it was in 3.12
Spectres will still be an above average build at equivalent levels of investment.
Oh no a top 3 ascendancy got nerfed again. Guess what, if it's still top three, 'they'll fucking do it again'.
And I too hate the watchstone grind - to this day I haven't farmed all 32 in a league and I doubt this league will be different. But I love that they're putting the new watchstones in. Because they're not 'grind' only, I can buy them from other players. Which means doing content I enjoy for a reward I want instead of trash conquerors/sirus.

When 'input' is as far removed from reality as that was, you have to question the motivation and honesty behind it.

You really thought its not gonna be like this?
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3010537

Who speaks about reality.

Many players hate Sirus? Ggg adding it to maps.
Many plrs hate lab? Ggg make it more needed.
Many plrs love to play specres? Ggg kill that gem coldblood.
Many plrs love necro at whole? Ggg nerf it 5th league in a row.
Many plys hate watchstones grind? Ggg adds more watchstones.


AMEN.

Well, I´m happy to see that so many players are so excited even before it has even started. I was also excited even before anything League started couple of times. But more often than not, I started and dropped out after a few weeks.
Well, anyway, GL to all of ya.

Start of the League: Yaayyy, new League, yohoo, thrilling, yihaa. People playing: 935 000.

1 month after League start: Still Active players now 421 530.

GGG after each and every League: It was a GREAT and marvellous succesful League, thank you to ALL participants.

Each and every Streamer of regular Path of Exile Streamer: Or if you like, you can and may even call them Celebrities. And rest assured, they say it every darn league, this is so cool and amazing play and I love this game. While actually they are sick and tired of the whole shit and actually even though they do like the game as a whole, they would really like to take a break from a league for once.