Here's everything that sucks about Path of Exile Kalandra League

[@Zizaran]

Giving feedback is important but keep the comments clean, attacks don't benefit anyone.

[@electricheart7965]

People sadly keep forgetting that they also removed Ultra Wide Support out of nowhere

[@wykettou]

@@electricheart7965 I saw that, I insta quit I even did reddit post with screenshots of their conversations, they banned my post for misinformation. GGG is not doing good attitude right now.

[@electricheart7965]

@@wykettou Was strange logging in and seeing 1/3 of my scrren being only black screen. I didn't say too much about it cause it looked like a bug and people for sure noticed it and it will be fixed......yeah....the moment I read the comment that it was intentially and the, excuse me for saying that, dumb reasoning behind it, I stopped playing. After the nerf changes were found and confirmed to be intentional? I deinstalled PoE and changed my positive review on Steam into a negative one

[@fredericlapierre3379]

Just here to say thank you for all your content and input on the situation! You are one of the pillar of this community, I hope these people won't get to you too much... keep on doing what you do best... dying more than us haha

[@dardar4259]

I feel like you ending the previous video by blaming reddit toxicity for the fact that GGG lied by omission was you failing a vibe check. I'm not saying reddit isn't toxic and makes them communicate less, but that's such a dogshit excuse for not putting the biggest change ever to PoE in the patchnotes that you ending your video with that had me thinking: "ziz is usually so good at the streamer thing of having the least controversial opinion ever to the point where you doubt them having that actual opinion, but this time he failed really hard. He's gonna get flamed".

[@varna2310]

The video PERFECTLY captured every single thought I had about this league. From the mechanics, to drops, to progression to how it feels like it should be a thing for hard mode, and we should instead strive for stuff like 3.18 instead, to the good QoL we got. Nothing was missed. Thank you, Ziz. I'm unable to have my own voice heard and it's very upsetting and demoralizing, but I felt that this video was the same as me saying those things, so im happy to hear all those concerns being voiced by you. I hope your own stress improves and we can all just continue enjoying the game. Sadly, i'm still unable to die less than you do, but one can dream.

[@Bjarga]

Yes, perfect video, this is reflecting my opinion. Only missing point: Plz bring back Beyond. We want this awesome feeling of monsters and explosions everywhere. Yes, it is nuts, but funny-nuts.

[@jeremyjakob9721]

Totally agree! Good takes in this video ziz

[@kbar4462]

Problem with calling this a good case for hard mode, is that the ppl who wanted hard mode wouldn't want to play it. They're all trashing this league, so if it was hard mode they would opt out, despite what they've said previously. Biggest question then though is does hard mode economy mix with regular trade league?

[@ManaCactus]

Is the 3.18 loot not way too much though? Getting chase items like 6l impulsa in 3 days is still easy as hell.

[@MandruDuce]

how was 3.18 something to strive for? Did you not play at league launch? The experienec with archnemesis was dogshit. It was emergency patched 4 times in less than a week. And it was still shit. But by that time most players already had the gear and levels to outscale the mobs so people stoped complaining cause they weren't fighting those mobs in their day 1-3 setup anymore.

[@khroomlet8821]

The harvest changes looked so cool, and I was hyped to strat crafting great gear. Thanks GGG for removing all the useful crafts and turning the mechanic to literal trash.

[@iron-clad9736]

The current harvest is what it should have been from the beginning, end game crafting, not fucking starter crafting with 0 effort overpowered weapons like 1k+ PDPS in day 2

[@meurumtrain4747]

@@iron-clad9736 whatever. Harvest was better how it was before

[@killerm5]

@@iron-clad9736 Just compare the rewards of harvest vs essences (which are a reforge with a Garanteed mod, which is now almost the equivalent of the harvest reforge). Without investment, you can get a couple essences when it triggers. With investment, you get what? 30 essences of high tier/mid tier in a single map. I don't think this is the case for harvest. Plus the harvest will most likely low roll. For example a reforge chaos will not always get you that T1/T2 that you need to be useful.

[@Francorocco]

@@iron-clad9736 it's not even endgame crafting anymore.... it bricks your item if you try to craft on it with harvest now....

[@blackopsy9]

@@iron-clad9736 You are literally high if you think the current iteration of harvest is "end game crafting". Literal substance abuse opinion.

[@martinzyka6432]

I LOVED 3.17 and 3.18, but to be fair, many people Loved 3.13 and started to have problems in 3.14. So I can imagine why they are saying GGG makes the game worse every patch. They have been making the game harder and harder, with less crafting options, so why they felt the need to nuke the drop rates so much (while NOT nerfing blight and expedition loot!) is beyond me. I really think they messed up, and that the current game is not what they wanted.

[@jakken666]

I will give a lot of money for a offline version of 3.13 with the new atlas progression

[@ManaCactus]

They have made the game way easier the last few leagues though? Just look back a while and look at how few ppl killed stuff like shaper The 100 mil dps characters were unheard of, and ppl were at like 1 mil dmg instead.

[@martinzyka6432]

@@GhostAeonWolf why they didn;t nerf chest loot - Expedition and Blight for example? No I think they wanted something different and fucked up. We will see soon, because they need to fix this. Or let it be and you would be right

[@TheEternalVortex42]

@@ManaCactus You must have a different definition of "last few" than most people. Delirium was 9 leagues ago, after all, and that had a crazy power spike.

[@shattered7579]

True, 3.17 was great, first League where I went for 40 Challenges

[@headful4470]

Archnemesis should be a map mod which can roll, a modifier you can select on the map device, a scarab and something you can skill in the Atlas passive tree. ALSO something you can turn off on that tree. Therefore it would become opt-in for the juiciest of builds.

[@rickp2965]

not a bad idea

[@lorenzos2045]

Archnemesis is still badly implemented with older mechanics, especially the ones that require dps check like legion, the balance patch that preceded the league was disappointing, the league mechanic feels like is still in beta and it's not worth engaging, the crafting is compromised, the juicing is compromised, and overall I feel like there is no reward for engaging in harder content that isn't gated behind some grossly punishing rng. 99% of what's good in this league comes from older patches.

[@goldenhate6649]

@@GhostAeonWolf problem being the ‘beta’ issues here are all core mechanics in the game that are pissing off people who are in standard as well. I can take a shit league, but not a completely shit set of game mechanics

[@jakec9086]

There also hasn't been many meaningful buffs to skills in at least 3-4 patch cycles.

[@Anonymous-nj2ow]

arch nem mods and loot. If they don't fix these, it's pretty much over.

[@supremecommander2398]

the worst about Archnemesis for me, is still that there is no entry on the ingame help that simply tells me what those names mean. its great that they felt that the stacking of subtitles under creep-names was too much... but how does it help if it doesn't tell you what they mean?

[@holdinmcgroin8639]

I feel like the problem with GGG is that they feel like something is OP and then nerf it multiple times over, when usually just nerfing it from one direction would be sufficient. Like they should nerf scourge currency by either making it very rare, OR by nerfing the odds of the currency giving a positive result.

[@shazarakk]

Figured they'd make fusings a 1/4 instead of a 1/2. That would be entirely reasonable. 1/10 is just absurd.

[@bbbbb8191]

Nerfing the outcome is retarded at best because its not like normal fusing orbs that you can go from 0 links to a 6 link in a single fusing, with tainted ones you gotta climb so if you didnt get lucky in yout 5 to 6 link the item is dead basically because you will not 6 link it after ONE single failed attempt. It should be a very rare drop with a 50/50 outcome, it doesn't work any other way.

[@destroyermaker]

Similar approach to nerfing skills and uniques. They've gotten very aggressive leading up to POE2.

[@stilladreamer1]

Yup like how they gutted 99% of Mana Over Life / Archmage builds. A nerf here and there is one thing, nerfing it in 10 ways is overkill.

[@TheCosmicAstro-]

Scourge currency honestly didn't need a nerf at all. Being able to very slowly alter a corrupted item since the currency is naturally much much more rare than normal currency. Isn't op or a problem..

[@timeless_1337]

Honestly, my primary complaint and the thing that has been killing my fun the MOST so far is the disparity in difficulty of monsters. I league-started Spark and killed A10 Kitava in about 60-90 seconds. Every t1 map boss dies in 5-10 seconds. But Harvest rares, Essence monsters, Blight mobs, and more literally feel unkillable half the time. Its incredibly demotivating and frustrating to feel like you have to map on a bossing character if you actually want to kill all the mobs. Zoom zoom mapping characters just feel dead.

[@dzaijn]

Chaos builds best zoom :-)

[@calebschaaf1555]

I abandoned my poisonous concoction league starter for this very reason

[@T3chnici4n]

People feel like the game has gotten worse and worse every league because league after league they have pushed player power out of ascendencies, passives, and gems. This creates a lot more pressure to have a really solid build and ultimately requires much better items to power said build. The changes don't affect all players the same however which is why you get the confusion. Respectfully, Zizaran is the type of player that is least affected by these types of changes. The ones hit hardest are the average players who happen to also be the majority of the player base and so we see a lot more unhappiness expressed with the direction of the game the past several leagues.

[@Blinddesire]

Exactly well said!

[@Samulisami]

Ziz voice of reason.. love you man. Really hope GGG listens to your feedback.

[@gmoddude12]

Considering 99% of players and Big poe creator names have similar thoughts I sadly highly doubt one more is gonna make a difference I hope im wrong but ggg really Seem stuck on their plans now

[@christianvandegraaf9844]

It seems like the layers of RNG on top of RNG that GGG have been talking about for years have finally come back to haunt them. The massive discrepancies this causes in drops has always been offset by the insane amount of drops we have gotten. Once you reduce that, the whole system breaks apart and turns into literal lottery odds of getting anything worthwhile in a reasonable amount of time. There are two ways to go from here. The first is to just revert to lootsplosions of ages past. The second is to entirely scrap that loot system and put in place a weighted system of some sort. There has to come a point where they realize that tinkering with systems as complex as they have made will result in massive unintended consequences, as has happened now.

[@Matt34677]

The rng is already ridiculous. I've been playing for I guess 5 or so years now and there's so many items I've never seen drop. When they said they were reducing drop rates I couldn't believe it.

[@LoDaFTA]

NGL I was pretty hyped when I read the manifesto. I thought that the changes to harvest, the return of scourge currency, the buff to uniques were pretty cool. It was such a letdown.

[@Daijinthetripod]

Hey Ziz, just sending positive vibes your way, agree with a lot of your sentiments. I personally am having fun this patch but thats because I am just taking it slow and have not yet hit the super end game yet. It is valid to like parts of the league and not like parts of it. It is not okay to accuse someone of being a shill or to attack their integrity just because they may like something that you don't. Keep your chin up man, really appreciate all your content, and have a wonderful day. :)

[@endlessabyss159]

My biggest issue with harvest changes and essence being so difficult is that as a casual player who hasn't even actually killed any of the pinnacle bosses is that those were how you could get decent items, but with it looking like they are trying to push more towards the old crafting system, currency spam, is really not easy to do as a casual player who doesn't have metric tons of currency. Also as a minion player this league kinda sucked

[@ninvusoogoar6098]

makes me suspect they wana go back to the currency spam crafting because they wana make some monies on the side selling currency lolol. wouldnt doubt it if GGG staff are behind a lot of the currency selling sites XD

[@Pandaxtor]

If they are gonna power creep the speed and damage of enemies, they also need to maintain the power creep of our crafting option or else it feels awful to deal with AN.

[@Delpnaz]

Hey Ziz, Everything okay bro? I mean it felt like you were going to burst into tears any moment

[@SerratorX15]

I won't lie, I'm really tempted to just create a PowerPoint in order to compile the collective opinions of the community about how unfortunate a league this really is. I hope they listen to the many, many players and content creators and do something in order to make this feel like a game again. Thanks a ton, Ziz. Your content is as solid as always. ^_^

[@bnick8282]

They will not listen.

[@SerratorX15]

@@bnick8282 Oh there's an incredibly high chance they won't listen at all and that the game will get worse and worse until it becomes something absolutely abhorrent, but one can have a little hope.

[@psycho717]

one thing will work.. MONEY TALKS! Stop supporting POE, then they will listen! :) When they do listen and make appropriate changes, then support again!

[@logik99]

Came back to POE after a couple of years. Uninstalled yesterday after a few days. Even went from HC trade to SSF as a last ditch attempt to find it interesting, what a disaster that woulda been...

[@bigmack70]

GGG needs to fix ultrawide support as well. They broke everything wider than 21:9.

[@rod-snts]

21:9 is bad as well, with black bars on the sides

[@zenitux7272]

It's baffling that they intentionally removed support for ultrawide bigger than 21:9. How was it now a problem for 8 years but now it needs to be removed?

[@63Limar]

@@rod-snts wait, I thought is issue with my mac because I never played from it before.

[@DevilWowzocker]

They removed it and said when you clicked too far out, you didn't move. Now on full-screen you have the black bars and can't confine your mouse to the 21x9. That means if you have a screen bigger than 21x9 and click accidentally on the black bars, you don't move and die. Until that is handled, I'm sadly out of this game.

[@kaeptn]

@@DevilWowzocker jesus christ, that is the dumbest "solution" they could have gone for possibly. thats insanely backwards. multimillion dollar company but cannot smartly implement the most basic game design stuff.

[@minibleau]

Im LOVING the background clip of a 2-3 minute super challenging super fun super rewarding fast paced action packed gameplay of a stacked archnem essence mob xD

[@Kiytan]

I think GGG have always seemed a bit "disorganised" but that really seems to be coming to the front in this patch. The buff then nerf to lightning conduit in the same day, the archnem mods interacting really badly with other league mechanics (something that was a problem last league as well), not telling people about major changes to loot. It's pointless to speculate on why it might be happening, but it does kind of feel to me like things are getting away from them a bit.

[@MyNameIsSalo]

Pretty simple explanation Main lead developers are focusing more on PoE2 and exilecon and letting the current league be more of a side project. Less leadership presence = game direction loses focus. Like they just announced exilecon, what are they going to even do at exilecon? Announce PoE3? There needs to be a fuck ton of content to justify it which is why the past 3 leagues have all been barebones. Which means hopefully we have a lot of content to look forward to, but it’s probably worth giving PoE a break for a few leagues until then. And maybe PoE never improves and keeps going downhill, well we don’t miss out on anything if we jump ship now

[@SilentButDudley]

With Archnemesis a vast majority are still not worth spending the time to kill. The few that are like Kitava touched are loot pinatas, but in 250 maps I’ve found only 2-3 Archnemesis that dropped nice loot when killed.

[@jackham8]

Just wanted to say that I always appreciate your fair and balanced takes to league drama. I always feel like if I want to process my thoughts on a league and kind of break away from the toxic doomerism elsewhere I can rely on your league breakdowns for that. We as a community need to stop drawing picket lines with like, this streamer is a GGG ally and this one's on *our* side. It's really dumb. Everyone just wants to help make the game better. EDIT: Also, I think this could be one of the better leagues, since the changes are in theory really good, they just need to fix the obvious massive issues.

[@RefrigeraThor]

7:05 , Eldritch is severely limited for keep pre/suf reforging use. You can't use it on any weapon, jewelry or gear you want/need to have another influence

[@banwill9813]

I love how you clearly pointed out the issues we have And how awfull it must feel for new players. Not only that you actually pointed out something I completely missed. Why does bestiary And essence need archnemesis mods ?! They were/are a standalone mechanic/ concept when they were added to the core game And for some unknown reason GGG decided to just show archnemesis everywhere why ???

[@chantzgnad88]

Thanks for always being a gamer first...that may be silly to say but so much of today's world it about clicks, but when it really matters you say how you feel no sugar coating....means a lot because our voices may not be heard as often but using yours (as well as many other being respecfully vocal) to help make the game (or keep it) as what we all love....MUCH appreciated! this league has been sad for me for sure but I do hope they start listening. Enjoy your wedding tho man and honeymoon!

[@theStamax]

The spell suppression part you discussed rings very true to me. I saw the notes / manifesto and was really confused since instead of fixing the underlying issue (spell suppression seemingly being way too powerful and spell dmg almost being balanced around it) they just made it harder to get on left side builds. They should just bring it down to like 30% or a number in that range and then nerf enemy spell damage across the board. That way not every build has to get suppression maxed anymore. Hell for all I care they might as well remove it ... it was an interesting idea, but just straight up flat reduction needed by nearly every build isn't particularly interesting.

[@Micromation]

Ehhh the problem with GGG's approach to player defense is that they give you all these options but none of them is good enough so they want you to stack it... and when you stack armor, evasion and spell suppression you find out that while you might be harder to kill, you're also playing zDPS build. They WANT you to die no matter the investment hence why for years people were coming down to conclusion that it's more beneficial to scale dmg and kill shit before it hits you than to invest in defenses. For fuck sake, when they introduced Spell Suppression, they nerfed the living shit out of Block and pretty much deleted Acro/Phase Acro argumenting that it's too powerful and feels mandatory to pick up... DUH how about having invested in ONE defense type actually is efficient and valid strategy?

[@k9jack985]

Make archnemesis into a map modifier like "map contains arch nemesis", so that it could be rolled onto maps, or randomly be achieved by alch'n'go strats. You would have it more controlled, for those that want to run these modifiers, or it can be removed for those, that do not want to go with those. It could also be a sextant mod instead, so that you could enable archnemesis on all maps within 4 charges or something.

[@RevXSavage]

How you feel about Arch-Nemesis and Sentinel is how alot of people felt about Ritual and Ultimatum, even expedition. Were just very divided on what people classified as "Good" or "Bad" leagues, for me I Arch-Nemesis "League" was decent, but I enjoyed myself 10x more in Ritual as a league, Ritual I got burned out on doing but the league itself I played for nearly 2 months. Where as Arch-Nemesis I found boring after 3 weeks and had no desire to push. Even with the reworks to endgame. Sentinel I felt was even worse and I lasted about 2-3 weeks but just fizzled out, boring mechanic, didn't really enjoy making builds that time around. And to be fair I could have just been burned out in general, but I just didn't enjoy it from a league mechanic, changes made, builds, etc. Scourge Just didn't like the backtracking or going to the end of the map and running backwards to then be ported back to the exit and leave. And scourge didnt get good reward wise until the changes which is the same state were in right now. Where Ritual, I was excited to see what I was going to get in the next shop to try to get. I look at Ritual and Ultimatum as "Arena Style" and I actually do enjoy those styles more then these other mechanics. Now were at Lake of Kalandra, played the weekend, and im done. Until changes get made to the drops, league mechanics, I'm not having fun investing my time for almost little to no reward, and I'm sick of GGG Balancing around trade league and not the player. I'm just over it. I say this because they keep nerfing boss drop chances, keep nerfing or reducing drop rates (and no my loot filter is pretty semi strict and still is on that setting). Nothing wrong with your opinion or mine we just like different things and thats ok. But whats murdering the recent leagues for me? Is the Arch-nemesis changes, and the constant changes in a direction I don't really agree with, which is flowing into the leagues which makes it feel horrible to me. The league is being punished by these horrible philosophy changes. Now to be fair Harvest this season was a really good idea, but the balance is so far gone and not balanced at all to what we had crafting wise that....it's horrible, and their response doesnt make it feel like thats going to change much. 0-2 crafts vs the 4-8 we had and 12-24 during ritual, is just bad. It's an unusable mechanic.

[@chrismiranda8370]

I did Kalandra 4 times, saw no drops and immediately stopped playing lol. I already knew something was wrong. I didn't want my leveling experience to be ruined. I actually like going through the acts. This is like the Mirror of Kalandra story/league, one of the most op/rarest items in the game and their not doing it justice by doing what they did. I feel like its a very important league because it's Kalandra we're talking about. If a mirror dropped for you, you would immediately jump off your seat like holy hell!, I finally got it this league. An exalted orb would pale in comparison to it. Thanks for voicing your concerns though man, it makes a huge difference when the content creators speak up. You've done a lot for the POE community. Even Q&A with Chris Wilson for the COMMUNITY etc. MULTIPLE TIMES (Incase some of you forgot). That says a lot bro. Never seen Content Creators/Players go straight to the heads of a game company to discuss improvements to a game. What a great way to show leadership and preserverance.

[@yanismebarki8538]

Zomfg how can zizaran be such a shill, he didn't even threaten a devs life once... Great video, as always, hope your feedback will be heard, your're the voice of reason, we love the game, we want it to be better, especially since we know that it absolutely can be better.

[@GenocideLv]

he delusionally keeps repeating AN is great in case you didnt notice. Just what ggg wants to hear. Yea bro we love all the prev. league mechanics ruined with AN injection because once in 50 maps they will drop fractures items!!! WOW! Totally worth it!! GFYS moron.

[@9024tobi]

I'd argue that blight was the best league mechanic ever made for summoners and the league in general brought the best update for this archetype to PoE

[@peterj.2114]

I keep refining my thoughts around the archnemesis monsters and my current take is this: Archnemesis monsters need to have smaller variance between being a joke and being unstoppable - that means increase the minimum as well as maximum possible mods on a rare with map tier and move those extremes closer together (say white map rare should have 1 or 2 mods, yellow 2-3, red 3-4). However, certain combination of mods should also be EXCLUDED entirely, as getting a particular combination can prolong the fight by 5-10x or result in you getting oneshot, COMPLETELY RANDOMLY without any player agency whatsoever. The rewards need to also change dramaticly - currently rares with certain mods drop the same type of item like 50 times - this doesn't seem to very useful and all and should change to higher rarity or the loot should be split between different item types to mimic the old way, where we had 10 rares instead of one, each dropping different stuff. On top of that, white and magic monsters should have combined drops comparable to the drops from rares, to prevent mapping builds being at a disadvantage. Once the variance or the difficulty and drop value from rares is brought down, the core game might actually be back close to what we had, but more interesting with the archnemesis mobs providing some challenge that you can counter with having a good bossing character - previously those builds had a disadvantage in mapping, being generally slower.

[@fang_xianfu]

I wonder if a good first step is to take the Archnemesis modifiers away from all league content. Blight, essence, beyond, all that stuff goes back to the old modifiers. That makes rares that spawn in maps basically another kind of "league content" that appears in maps randomly, and they can do more to adjust its difficulty in isolation, maybe even add more atlas passives that interact with random map rares and not league rares. Then they could go back to all the league mechanics and individually think about whether they'd be more interesting / more fun with some of the archnemesis modifiers added in, or even custom modifiers specifically for that content. For example, delirium and expedition mobs have a lot of their own stuff going on already so they probably don't need archnemesis modifiers on top. Perhaps they could also then go back to map bosses and think about what needs to change with them, too. I also think they shouldn't worry about how rewarding the content is to start off with. They should START by making the content fun to play. Stacked essences with loads of archnemesis modifiers is absolutely not fun to play. Stacked archnemesis modifiers giving huge reductions to damage / ailments etc are not fun to play. Perhaps having more easier rares is better sometimes than one harder one (or perhaps that's what magic monsters should be?). Then once they have the content in a state where it's fun to play and spawning at the right rate to be fun in maps, then think about how a loot design should work that's appropriately rewarding for that content. If the "best version" of essence is much easier mobs, it's fine if those mobs don't drop much except the essences themselves. If the "best version" of betrayal is a bit harder by having some archnemesis modifiers spawn on the rares there, make it a bit more rewarding. If the most fun version of archenemsis rares is basically "boss fights" that are much harder than actual bosses, that's fine if they're appropriately rewarding.

[@Vimalth]

The problem with the proposed archnemesis changes is that they won't solve the underlying problem. Like, look at the clip at the beginning of your vid where it takes you 3 minutes to kill this essence monster. if all the changes work out, this monster will have maybe a third less life - turning slogs like this into slightly shorter slogs and calling it a day is just completely missing the problem.

[@Herbie251277HK]

Thanks for your honest words buddy....I can feel your pain in the temperature of your voice. We are with you. Together - in the way you are doing it - we will convince GGG to not only overthink their decisions but most importantly listen and change it to the better. Sending some positive vibes over...

[@drandana3661]

Too much vitriol achieves the opposite of the desired effect! You are right, POE is a company run by actual humans capable of error and they will listen to their players. Let's be honest, GGG is historicaly very good at trying to please their players. And to be fair it's an extremely complex game to balance given how much new content they give us every single year for absolutely no money.

[@supremecommander2398]

at the final league reveal stream, someone asked about "hardmode": the answer should have been "most ideas went into this update"

[@fangere]

Levelling with minions was fun. I always love minions. Then I got to maps.

[@batmenbeyont7775]

Mapping with minions is easy so long as you have the right gems slotted. From there it's incremental gear improvements and anointing. I recommend you check out Kay's channel, she has a wide array of minion builds. Last league I ran Skele Mages and got to Uber end game. Only reason I didn't continue was causeI got bored.

[@Uelibertiga]

@@batmenbeyont7775 Was easy. Last league is vastly different to this one. They "reworked" minions so the scaling by gem levels is nerfed and the dependence on gear is much higher then before (and good luck dropping anyting this league). If you play a build with permanent minions you can´t click as fast as they fall over. Especially in the lake. Ghazzy made a good video showcasing his animate guardian which was extremely tanky and died to a breach.

[@batmenbeyont7775]

@@Uelibertiga Ah, rip to minions then. Mb bro.

[@crispy_dktv]

As a casual player like me, this league is no fun. I don't play 8-10 hours everyday, because you know work is kind of needed too. I agree with everything you said in the video. Thx Ziz, for everything.

[@vuanhle537]

Each rare should only have 1 Archnemesis mod , more mod could allocate on atlas tree Bring back Harvest craft (divine lucky/ Reforge keep pre/suff) by adding extra Exalt as cost Fix the loot

[@wujekstalin1]

Archnemesis should be like any other league not on everything. Like old Nemesis. It should have passives on atlas etc. so you could block it or chose to run it

[@cyberthreat7735]

as a new player enjoying the game, this is stuff I don't want to see people crying about

[@stilladreamer1]

I honestly think the drop in loot would be a good thing IF it was balanced out by actual better loot. And not that "25% more high level bases" crap. The ideal solution for me would be something like: As ilvl goes up, the lower tiers mods gets blocked. So a ilvl86 item would for example have lowest 5 tiers of life blocked... Then it could be a good thing because you spend less time cluttered and picking shit up and when you get something it you have a real chance for an upgrade. It really sucks for most players when they first realize they should just not pick up rares and just farm currency and buy / craft everything... But without something like that the reduction in loot is ridiculous.

[@tzimiable]

Yep. I couldnt care less about loot explosions. If loot was diminished by 90% (of what it was before this league) that would be fine, if what dropped was actually good. But its not.

[@ahernjt]

Hey Ziz, I started playing POE at the end of Ultimatum with the help of a Lifer friend, got crushed, and thought to myself this isn't the game for me. Expedition started with "the big power nerf" up roar, and I thought that there was no way I'm trying this game again. Then something special happened, I started doing research and I looked to the "Gods of POE" for guidance. Your channel was one of my first resource finds, and I decided to give POE a try again. I've seen you being called a shill, or a "company man", over the past several leagues, and those Titles couldn't be further from the truth. People like you are the heartbeat of the game. You are the crash test dummies that line up every day to pilot GGG's experimental power fantasy simulation; you crash, you burn, and you rise again. GGG and "The Haters" especially, need to show you some F^^king Respect, because without you, this little experiment dies years ago. To GGG, please save face. 1) Issue a public apology, and Admit you shit the bed. 2) Make this EPIC FAIL an EPIC WIN by publically round tabling "The Gods of POE" to decide on how to fix this, and get it done ASAP. Moving forward keep these forums operational and transparent. 3) You are going to have to give the player base another "good faith" damage control incentive to come back to this league and play. NOTHING would speak louder to this than giving players more mtx perks for completing their atlas, or other endgame content. Whether it's free loot boxes or a free Kirac's vault, hitting your bottom line shows the world true conviction. This EPIC FAIL could actually be the best fuck up you make in the history of the game, if you use it to UNITE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. Godspeed Exiles

[@MFewwy]

You forgot how hard the Archnemesis was at the start of 3.18 so they had to nerf it 4 or 5 times (maybe even more). It was fine 1 month after but the start was god awful. I dropped the sentinel league because of that. The scourge was amazing for softcore, after that it was a shitshow every time. With loot this bad I have to farm for a whole month to make my build, because I don't have much time to play. I loved crafting with harvest, and sell the crafts to the other people in guild or else, now I don't have that, because the drop rates are miserable and best crafts are removed. Archnemesis stressing me the fuck out when they kill me instantly and I wanna it out of the game. I don't wanna see 3 or 4 mode rares that are more dangerous than a map boss. What about removing the archnemesis entirely from the FUN league and leave it to the hardcore players in their "megahard gigachad mode"? GGG is trying too hard to satisfy 2 different kinds of player base at the same time and they're failing to deliver in both cases. Just separate the game into 2 different modes already and leave softcore players with their toys.

[@glenn4919]

AMEN TO THAT!

[@figa5567]

elderitch currency doesn't work for influenced items, so it being more common won't fix the lack of keep pref / keep suff.

[@levisilvey9607]

Just wanted to say thank you for the video. Please don't let anyone who calls you a shill get to you. I've always thought you've spoken your opinion honestly and optimistically about each league. Your positivity is a wonderful thing, and it's something that motivates me, a stranger, to want to play each league. There are enough purely negative critics in the world, don't let those folks get to you. Thank you and keep up the top notch content!

[@mlazNJ]

Internet Ziz, remember that, a lot of kids, teenagers, immature people. You are the best POE maker ever , not even close. Stick to being 100% honest, why you are the best. I am a 48 yr old male and been watching you for years and you have helped me so much in POE, like crazy. Keep your head up.

[@xYamakaze]

In a game with limitless diversity on paper, it really does feel as if they're trying their hardest to eliminate it. In the past, you could genuinely pick whatever fun looking build you wanted, and it'd be more than viable, even if you were a mapping based build doing bosses, and vice versa. Each and every subsequent league, little by little, that diversity has been plucked away to the point where everyone's just playing the same "most optimized" meta builds. Because it feels as if we're forced to if we still want to have any semblance of joy playing this game still, and not want to bash our heads in fighting the same rare mobs for over 5 minutes. And sometimes we still do spend 5 minutes killing a single rare mob, even with the more optimized builds, at least as solo trade/ssf players. This doesn't even touch on the loss of gameplay diversity either, but that's more an issue isolated to this league VS my previous argument. No return on investment from mapping monster drops = Heist only, baby.

[@cr6458]

this is blatantly false lmao. I have been playing since beta and this has never once been true. There have always been mega dominant builds, even more than now. Lots to offer feedback on but this aint it

[@Micromation]

​@@cr6458 Nah chief. Double dipping era specifically was which has seen the most diversity because you could take any skill and make it work. Today so many builds are FUCKING DEAD purely by collateral of GGG focusing on few outliers and targeting it from multiple angles that they kill completely "ethical" builds in the process. Current list of starter builds that are not complete fucking ass that you respec out of as soon you get some currency is a fucking snorefest. You would not find a single fucking league in the past 10 years where people would voluntarily sign up to play fucking Righteous Fire even if you held a gun to their temple. Few last leagues in general were really fucking boring if you didn't want to spend 10x more on a build to make some other skill work. Either that or slitting your wrists trying to convince yourself that Toxic Rain doesn't want you to turn off the game and go play something else instead. The sheer volume of repeated nerfs to minions league after league made it to the point where SRS that technically didn't receive any mentionworthy buff is considered playable. That's the state of your fucking "diversity". The idea of diversity is not that there aren't dominant builds - the idea of diversity is that you don't have to fucking play them to simply not grief yourself. I couldn't give two fucks about someone deleting A8 Sirius in 3 seconds because I can play something that is fun instead. Current repertoire of viable builds that don't require robbing a fucking bank is nothing but a snorefest of epic proportions and amount of completely dead abilities has never been higher. I'm not gonna play a game like a fucking job in order to get something off-meta to the point where it just doesn't feel absolutely terrible to play. With all due respect, go fuck yourself. Nobody who ever played off-meta gave a shit about meta heads but it is their choices that keep shrinking, not the other way around. Holy shit you've got my blood boiling....

[@ElDuroLak]

@@cr6458 there will always be meta, but that does not invalidate pointing out the degradation of playing outside that meta. GGG has a habit of nerfing everything around a problem skill before nerfing it directly. This does have a domino effect on other skills that were not dominating the charts.

[@cr6458]

@@ElDuroLak I just completely disagree. I think there are way more viable builds now than a year ago or even before that.

[@xYamakaze]

@@ElDuroLak Exactly what I was trying to say, thank you. Archnem mobs are so overtuned (ex. build invalidating modifiers) to the point where it feels as if you're being actively punished for trying to play outside of the meta. You now have a noticeably worse experience overall playing off-meta, instead of only marginally/situationally worse while still having as much/more fun than playing meta skills and builds you don't like.

[@kennystorgel686]

Finally, someone actually explaining what is wrong properly, hearing all the bad comments about the game and all is so sickening, just trashing the game in general. Ziz you are always so calm and telling things honestly as you see them and I love that, love all the content too.

[@Pomokuri]

I very much disagree on the "great ideas, terrible implementation" bit. So many changes in this patch stem from terrible ideas instead. Take Archnemesis for instance. Like you said, slapping it on every rare mob in the game is awful. The system just isn't made for that. However, slapping AN on every rare mob IS part of the initial idea. The implementation details are things like the number of mods on each mob, the numerical values associated and such. Here, the idea itself is awful, and will give awful results no matter how good the implementation. A better idea would have been to restrict archnemesis to league content or a map modifier (like Beyond). The loot changes also stem from an awful (and quite incomprehensible) idea : that players need less loot overall to slow their progression. I'd even say not communicating them in the patch notes was all part of the plan. The deletion of all the good harvest crafts isn't an implementation detail either : it is part of the core idea. It was always GGG's desire to demolish harvest, and that would certainly happen when they made it tradeable. I would agree that the lifeforce amounts are implementation rather than idea, but to be honest they barely matter given the crafts we have left. The only change I would argue stems from a good idea and suffers from a bad implementation is the Lake itself.

[@xutfw]

Thanks for being a community voice Ziz. You could just phone it in and dip out for your wedding but you're out here giving our issues better visibility. Thanks again

[@DredomRandom]

Play testing should be done by content creators that specializes on specific builds so that every PROs and CONs can be balanced, if the new mechanics will be good are dull, if the changes will be healthy for the economy, and stress that archnemesis is not a good idea as the NEW foundation of the game.

[@GenocideLv]

Key point to play testing that i suspect they are missing is doing the acts and having a ssf stash along the way for reference of how viable league mechanic and map sustain and crafting resources actually become. I doubt they go through all the ropes and all the struggles

[@pearz420]

@Tomb Stoner SSF is Chris Wilson's preferred game mode and in his opinion the way the game is meant to be played.

[@LlaroldLive]

Well said. Last league was my favorite since I started playing back in Delve league (Diablo Immortal announcement weekend!). This was easily my best day 1 league start, and by the end of the first day I was already feeling let down by the league mechanic and nerfed droprates. I'm still playing, I hope they can get more substantial buffs in soon. Definitely feel like they really dropped the ball in every possible way this league. Its fixable, but they're going to have to do a lot.

[@janniknielsen9292]

It's hard to hit the sweet spot, when you nerf players, defences and their diversity choices, loot and crafting while ramping up monsters even further. When the game only introduced one single active gem and one rework of an unused Ascendency, you probably gonna be short on interest in the league. By each league the players feel all the more pigeon holed into more narrow decisions to adapt, rather than the game catering to its real potential of diversity. They have the ingredients, but it needs to come together and they are getting further away, since the pandemic. The design ideology is getting frightening close to Asian dev approaches, rather than Western, and despite what they said in the past about Tencent not influencing their decisions, it seems all the more apparent when they double down, rather than listening to the community that built them. It feels like the guy that was sanctioning the Delirium weekly league is responsibly for these things, and as such completely disconnected to what actually makes PoE a standout game.

[@adventures12345-l]

What’s the delirium weekly league?

[@Francorocco]

btw they made it even worse for build diversity by removing the harvest color craft, you can't even use 60% of the unique armours anymore because it's hard as fuck to offcollor stuff now, so if you're a caster just say bye bye to any str or dex chest because it would cost you thousands of jewller orbs to get your collors going, and then you will still need co link it, unlike before that you could buy a 6l item and fix the colors as a final step

[@TheCosmicAstro-]

It sucks because they have been doing this since expedition league... and weirdly no one is really talking about it. Saying we've had a great past 3 leagues isn't exactly accurate. Sentinel was good but only because sentinel was good. And of course the atlas passive tree is amazing. But in terms of general game changes and not the league mechanics or atlas tree. They have consistently been fucking over the player and their choices at diversity since 3.15

[@Francorocco]

@Tomb Stoner no, it isn't, i play ssf since ultimatum and was never that bad

[@Francorocco]

@Tomb Stoner also i realy don't get why for it to be tradeable it has to be so scarce, why are they so scared of people buying stuff? someone with unlimited currency could buy a lot of that, why everyone else has to suffer? isn't the point of farming a lot of currency to be able to afford stuff anyway?

[@dzaijn]

In a game where the actual goal is to climb in power and seek demi-god status I can't help but feel like a very small cat in a shark tank when ANYTHING hits me this league. Loving it so far but everything you said was beautifully put and extremely true.

[@huey2k2]

It genuinely feels like what GGG wants is completely at odds with what the general player base wants. They keep pushing and pushing to make it difficult and grindy in spite of the fact that most players simply don't want that. Don't get me wrong, I like challenging content and I enjoy grinding, but it shouldn't be mandatory to progress your character to a reasonable level of power. There should be difficult and grindy content available for those who want it, but at the end of the day the vast majority of the content in the game should be doable to the majority of the player base. They also seem to have forgotten that the main reason people play these games is for the loot, we want as many slot machine pulls as possible, and GGG seems to want to do as much as they can to limit that. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert, but generally speaking, games that listen to their player base have longer and healthier life spans than games that don't, and GGG seem to have taken the stance that they know better than the players do. It's not a recipe for success long term.

[@Zerashadow]

I feel like a problem GGG is facing here, like with many other companies is that on one hand you have the players who say "ohh the loots are so bad, it's not worth my 2 minutes i spend on the map" and on the other hand you have players say "ohh it's so easy to get the best gear, they should nerf it" so they need to find a balance, wich can be hard, especially when ppl expect it to happen over night most of the time.

[@lifelovelittlethings]

Please continue having measured responses. Outbursts and drama may be more "entertaining," but measured, calmly articulated feedback is what really gets listened to.

[@zlovemyscxf-_-7680]

the loot pool is so fucking bad right now holy

[@mfproduct]

Empryion's video on the juiced map comparison where their group makes like 60c on a fully maxed out map that takes 9 mins to run is crazy bad.

[@zlovemyscxf-_-7680]

@@mfproduct yeah just saw all the ''crazy'' group farming clips this league

[@OnkleGaming]

spell supression is so weird to me because you dont really feel it until you have more than 70%, kinda wish they remade it so that you always surpressed the spells if you had spell supression, just that with more gear you supressed more damage (until a cap), would make it more exciting to get a gear piece with a lower tier roll too. right now it kinda feels like ailment avoidance, you have 100% or you dont have it.

[@TheUbberman]

I have to wonder if the sheer... OVERWHELMING negativity is a matter of the Camels back breaking. There's been so many people angry at Archnemesis becoming core, complimented by varied other gripes (Such as an issue with melee builds and goofy build viability)... so this super-down on Archnemesis staying, a frankly unjust nerf to loot, stabbing crafting AND a lackluster league mechanic just pushed people over the edge.

[@Ply447]

Add it the balance of skills and monsters is frankly a shell of what it use to be, you require way more effort to reach goals than you could reach before, and in some cases now, the effort is simply not worth it, minion survivability is completely gutted to the point AG is worthless as a skill, spectres drop dead so often now too. Those take time and effort, and in AG's case, money to setup, and with the current game, you risk them being completely blown apart in normal content, let alone things like breach

[@wujekstalin1]

I have been pointing this shit out for years until they finally banned me on POE subreddit around Heist league. Now everything what I said is happening but like 5x times over. People just gave free pass for GGG for far too long

[@JanjayTrollface]

Yeah for sure, like the camels legs were starting to shake a little bit and then instead of adding a few straws they just threw 2 bags of cement on as well for good measure.

[@cthulawha]

I've been playing since Talisman and it really feels like they have tried to re invent what they had going ever since. each league has seen something to slow the player down and make less builds viable, they add all sorts of new shinies and seemingly complex wastes of time and then nerf the couple of fun ways players come up with to farm this crap all the while piling power creep mechanics on top.and making hard speed caps along with damage checks. very frustrating and why I've bailed for Chaosbane and Inquisitor lately,

[@AndrewChicken]

As a super casual player this game still feels very fun to me, but I can see how some of the things you mentioned would be frustrating for ultra late game players. I just appreciate how you mixed praise and criticism in this video, pointing out what you like and don't like about the update. I think it's very easy for people to only focus on the negative things, and not appreciate the positive. Like you said, if you didn't enjoy the game, you wouldn't play it. Keep up the videos, they're very helpful for noobs like me! 😀

[@taylorw8952]

Just wondering, how can you say you enjoy archnemesis in its current state due to challenging and rewarding mobs while spam clicking and walking in a circle for 3 literal minutes? 🤣

[@holysecret2]

I loved harvest crafting these past few leagues. I did a lot of research into mods and stat weights and rolled plenty of valuable items, especially jewels. Divining them perfectly felt like good etiquette and it was fun storing those crafts for when I need them. I used the keep prefixes craft on my minion cluster jewels as well, in order to roll attack speed. That was my go-to method, and now it's just gone. I had a chance at it every couple of harvests, and it felt rewarding. I can't afford to pay 10-20ex for a jewel, that's what they went for. So I don't know if I'm even interested in crafting (and by extension in the game) anymore, since it centered so much around harvest. And I never even used TFT or things like that, you could totally use harvest without that. I just always took the 3-5 Items with me in my inventory that I was working on, so I could roll them immediately with harvest.

[@IAmSchilling]

Worst League for me ever, mapping feels absolutly horrible, absolutly no currency drops, my atlas completion is at 80 and did not drop a single valuable item, making literally 5/c per hour only because I do chaos receipe. I don't get how they could fck up their item quant and qual that hard. Gotta quit this league until patch,. I'm sad, that I bought a supporter pack for the first time ever. :( PS: I don't like doing heist or expedition so I'm fcked. I absolutly love poe normally, why did it have to come to this mess, really ruined my week.

[@blitze3244]

I hate heist as well. Nur this League there is literally No Option to Go in a different way If you want to improve your Gear....sadge 🥲

[@PanPrawda]

Offtop/ontop: There was a mechanic introduced a while ago, along with three different skills - links. Mechanic that killed both entities if either one got killed. And a mastery introduced that allowed linking with minions. And now minions got nerfed. To the ground and below. Ggg knows what they are doing alright.

[@piotrkrauze2208]

I really appreciate the fact you're not overly emotionally attached to this. I'm a returning player after 4 years, and I've been so confused on why people say "this league is bad" when I'm having fun of a life time. So I went on the internet to educate, and listening to 20 minute videos saying just "this league killed poe", and that" this is the worst league ever" while screaming anger through tone, and not giving any reason other than "bad loot" really does not explain anything and paints them in a weird entitled light. So yea thanks for being professional :)

[@SusejFTW]

The play testers must have been testing hard mode before testing the new drop rates & said 'this is fine'

[@calebnguyen4536]

Hope you are OK man. Love your content. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. But that never an excuse for abusive behaviour.

[@MiniRokys]

If anyone was wondering, I got to maps, get all the strongbox nodes, bought scarabs, did maps with map craft, spend approx 70-80c together on those 10+ maps with 8-10 strongboxes per one, I ended with 7c Yellow maps... Alch and go, nothing from strongboxes... And I this is after I respected from Harvest and Essence because, F that

[@mfproduct]

It feels like the community is in a toxic relationship with GGG. Where the community and content creators provide constructive feedback to GGG and GGG just grunts, makes some placating remarks before staring out the window at it's "vision" of what the game should be.

[@MydrecaNaPopa]

most players just complain all the time, then they quit come back and complain again

[@mfproduct]

@@MydrecaNaPopa I agree there is alot of bitching and moaning, but it does seem like genuine feedback is just being ignored. For example Ghazzy's remarks regarding AG which he stated he raised with GGG before league launch.

[@MrElrood]

​@@mfproduct Yeah, but you need to shovel through mud and shit of toxic comments to get to any constructive feedback. Would you in clear consciousness told anyone you are employing - read through this shit and give me what's worth anything? And even if you did, imagine, you were told to and after you read so many "go f*** yourself" and "go hang yourself" and "what a total idiots" would you be in state of mind where you can easily decide what is "he is an idiot" vs "okey, he has some points"? This toxicity imho has drown constructive feedback.

[@TheDrachlyznardh]

I forgot that the eldritch currency allows for targeted reroll of affixes. I have only seen a few of those dropping, maybe I'm too casual. But I wonder now if those were actually intended as a replacement for metacrafts

[@ZeroFlotsie]

Actually looking forward to d3... Because at least it drops items and things die within 2 minutes

[@SheinelI]

Rift boss would like to differ

[@ZeroFlotsie]

@@SheinelI you mean the end of the map boss? That's okay, at least its not every 2 rare mob pack that takes that long :)

[@martinzyka6432]

I played D3 after years and 1) nothing changed, and 2) it bored me to death after 3 days. PoE in bad state is one thing, d3 is a completely different story. it's so shallow

[@stephenjohnson5353]

...and new players who don't know what they are doing are really struggling... even in non-hardcore there is an eventual wall... appreciate the perspective from this channel

[@utmastuh]

Unfortunately it's too late. This is the steepest drop in player numbers after opening weekend. Now new games are coming and people aren't going to trust ggg anymore. Ritual and ultimatum were the best state of the game. Currency and items were plentiful and there was much more build diversity available. I don't understand people who still hate on that. Kalandra is what you deserve for hating on the better leagues

[@SilentButDudley]

I really hate the POE community. We have two extremes, where one side is constantly berating changes in the game while the other defends any change, no matter how harmful it is to the state of the game. Both sides are just so stubborn and toxic, not letting a middle ground exist.

[@balvin8524]

This league is bad, but reddit is insane for calling every streamer that haven't quit the league a GGG simp.

[@Oenth21]

Most aren't doing that.

[@botondhoos4648]

"honestly, im frustrated and sad" - said in a wholesome voice, with wholesome music playing. Lmao ziz, never change!

[@syrvitor696]

Well Zizaran, there's a lot of folks who mistake 'optimistic' for 'shilling'. Don't let them get to you x'D You are great, and your commentary is always a nice dose of level headed feedback. As much as anything can be. The same people that call you a shill while doom scrolling and not finding a video where you are sufficiently angry, will now head to reddit and start typing comments such as "see, even zizaran is mad" kind of comments. You're the target or the ammunition.

[@johnhehman]

i've been watching your content for well over 6 years, this is my first comment on any of your stuff. Don't let the turds calling you a shill bother you. Keep doing it the right way.

[@ammocache3365]

This is my first time playing PoE, and I love the game so far. I haven't gotten anywhere near the endgame yet (through the vast confusion of trying to learn the passive skill tree) though so I have no idea what to expect. The currency system does seem odd though.

[@drandana3661]

The currency system is pretty complex, but there should be more! You don't really need to worry about these league problems since you just started. Odds are your build will encounter difficulty around level 70-75 anyway. New players should disregard salty old players :P have fun and always use the wiki!

[@ammocache3365]

@@drandana3661 I've been using a Blade Vortex build I found online and it's actually been a lot of fun. I found a Vaal Blade Vortex with max rolls on day1 and immediately was like, "Oooh spinny blade go brrr." and so now that's basically my life lmao

[@drandana3661]

@@ammocache3365 nice!!! Elementalist or assassin?

[@ammocache3365]

@@drandana3661 Assassin, running full poison!

[@drandana3661]

@@ammocache3365 oh fun poisons are strong. Hope you have enough success to try out a few builds this league. Welcome to the best arpg that's ever existed

[@gman4072]

They should have added passive notables on the Atlas for the Archnemesis, similar to beyond. You have increased chance for rare monsters to get archnemesis mods with increased rewards. Making it the norm was a bad idea

[@starkiller34]

So happy I started this league Raider. I now agree it is the best league start ascendancy: Zoom zoom + easy spell suppression.

[@Liquificati0n]

I’ve played off and on since the beta and there is a lot I don’t understand yet in the current league. I just haven’t kept up to date. I absolutely do not consider you a shill. You’re clearly passionate about the game and are very detailed and articulate your opinions well. For me sometimes a lot of that info is too much for me to process but I feel that you laid everything out clearly in this video.

[@Dx_Ach]

If they want to keep drops this scarce they need to: 1) Buff currency drops to compensate 2) Introduce loot 2.0 3) Have a hard cutoff on Item affixes based on itemlevel

[@Kazuath]

People are calling you a "shill" because you are being level headed with your criticism instead of baby raging and flipping the fuck out over it. You haven't been making eye popping clickbait videos with titles like "has GGG finally turned into Blizzard?!!?!?!". This is what those people want and expect instead of the mature approach you've taken, kudos for always being a voice of reason.

[@charliegill8740]

I haven’t played since… before harvest. It’s nice to see how every league plays out the same.

[@samuelfomoadams4612]

I like your idea of a new currency for meta mods, but, maybe they wouldn't need to go that far? What if Defensive meta mods = Divine Orbs, Exalted meta mods = Everything else. [D for defense, E for everything else.] Would make both drops equally exciting for the player AND still allow decent value for the drop, regardless of RNG [Getting 7 exalts in your case, instead of divines.]

[@RGbcc]

Welcome to the normal player league ziz :). Where you get no loot and most of the problems get fixed after you stop playing. One of us!

[@CoinFlipAhri]

They are making the game quite a lot more grindy, but there are a lot of players that consider ~50-100ex builds to be endgame and never really went past that, now it will be even harder for them to get some fun build going

[@B143DP]

I feel like the AN mods that don't grant fancy rewards could literally have strongbox rolls like +1-3 Magic items or +1-3 Rare items. That way they can have guaranteed drop chances instead of like 95% of them dropping nothing?

[@princecuddle]

Honestly what GGG needs to do is introduce a PTR server just like what Diablo 3 does. Diablo 3 releases a PTR 1 to 2 weeks before the start of a new league to let players play test balance changes for the upcoming season. If GGG did this and launched a PTR while omitting the new league mechanic from appearing in that PTR phase players would have 100% caught the issue with loot drops and so much more that GGG apparently cannot do themselves. Chris being a CEO 100% doesn't have the time to micro manage all departments that are needed to develope POE. He most likely issues orders for loot to be normalized and someone from their balancing department fucked up really bad this time around and said that things will be fine and Chris just trusted their words. Apparently devs are not capable of playtesting their own game. This is why PTR for the week following the patch notes release is a very important thing to consider.

[@wanderingraven]

Ziz seeing you fucking sad as shit, is a dozen times more impactful than seeing you rage. Especially for people like you and Ghazzy, seeing that intense sadness fucking hurt.

[@NeoZhinzo]

For some context, I do believe that the reason people say that the game has been "getting worse" is that for the lower level players this defeated feeling that people are having this league is what they've been having for a few leagues now. It's just hitting better players a lot harder this time. Ironically, as one of those people myself, I haven't even been feeling that much worse this league than I felt last one. And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic there. I feel pretty neutral about both leagues. I can't deny there has been a slight feeling of schadenfreude though, hearing some of my usual complaints like "crafting is too expensive" coming from people who usually would kind of brush that complaint away. If there's one thing I would love to come out of all of this after GGG inevitably buffs stuff back up, it's that understanding that those feelings people are having now is how other people felt before. And to them it wasn't about "zoom zooming" or "having easy free power". it was about having the ability to meaningfully interact with the systems of the game. Y'all just hold on tight, even if nothing else comes out of this league. next league should have a ton of positive changes to offset the damage done by this one. Take care of yourselves, everyone.

[@anyfourwordphrase42]

Anyone who calls you a shill is a moron and should be ignored. They’re just looking to rile you up. You’re the best. Keep on keeping on

[@fatman9644]

Last league I developed the plan of investing many atlas points into harvest, now I am not sure if it will be even remotely worth it

[@house_of_ember327]

You're not a shill buddy. I appreciate your videos. I'm playing summon raging spirits. The only reason I managed to get to yellow maps so far is because of the 5% life back everytime a raging spirit dies. Shield charge makes mapping quick. But I don't think it's anywhere near HC viable. Keep the videos coming.

[@codetaku]

Responding to 5:19 onwards Zizaran, people aren't saying all of the last 3 league mechanics are bad (I don't know where you're seeing it but NO well-upvoted posts or comments on reddit are saying that), they're saying core game balance has just been on a downward spiral. And I get that you still disagree with that--you want the game to be hard, you like the challenge, you play this game professionally and if the game balance stayed like 3.13 then I get that you would just get bored with it from finding content too easy even in HCSSF due to the ease of crafting when you literally play the game full-time. But hopefully you can at least understand where people are coming from on that? 3.13 was the ONLY league where 20-hours-a-week players could craft their own gear and be happy running off-meta skills. Build diversity is one of the core ideas presented in PoE's marketing since literally 2012 and 3.13 was the only league in PoE's history that fully delivered on that promise for the mid-level players (obviously the "real casuals" aren't even making it to maps most leagues but GGG has never cared about catering to them). Every other league the average endgame player has to play meta skills to even feel like they're playing the game. Normal people don't have the time nor skill to make more diverse builds work the way you can. The average player is just sick of GGG balancing the core game around *you.* We want 3.13 and even 3.14 (with the nerfed but not completely gutted harvest) balance back.

[@skully8692]

did any of this ever get fixed

[@sonosheereleoux2694]

as someone who works 8hours a day 5 days a week, this kind of nerf hits me the most. I usually do 1-2 days per act. that was before the big nerf. damn. this is getting hard to play casually and in a short span of 3 months. I dont think I would be able to play 2 builds. the trade market naturally dies after a month or two since most people already achieved their goals on the league. this blows.

[@krolltheknight]

My voice hardly matters because I’m not super invested in POE but I’ve played every league since Breach. These balance changes seem quite intentional. Good vid

[@paragrin8385]

Do you think that reroll pre/suff should be back on harvest?