Necropolis League - First weekend recap

Necropolis League is off to a bit of a rough start. The patch is very good, but the league mechanic is not great. What happened, and what can GGG do to fix it?
Llarold’s going to break it down.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Patch 3.24
9:12 Necropolis League
24:34 My league start
28:24 Outro

[@PathofEvening]

And just like that, GGG released their "What We're Working On" post: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3501124 It's good!

[@Adam202]

Changes seem pretty good. Especially being able to select which base you want. However, I still think they should let people opt out if they want to.

[@BB_The_Impaler]

Big disagree on Allflame embers. There is absolutely no need to have friction around inventory management, that is purposely annoying people not offering difficulty. People don't want to think about their inventory outside what is in their bag at that moment. See D4 for details

[@PathofEvening]

The inventory component of them is not great, and that does not seem like it's being changed. The ability to swap in new monster packs for specific rewards is pretty cool. It really should not have been itemized by default. As for seeing D4, we've been there and done that, no thank you!

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

What keeps me happy and playing is trying out new builds not struggling to get past act1 and slow behind progression. RIP

[@PathofEvening]

Are you saying you're struggling right now in Act 1?

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

@@PathofEvening I've been olaying for many years so wouldnt say struggling just annoying.

[@PathofEvening]

Hopefully some of our build videos can help move things along faster (if you want to).

[@fok8810]

To me it felt more like item generation not crafting

[@PathofEvening]

Fair enough.

[@mattayers425]

Another Great Vid. Do you have a profile link somewhere ? wanted to see your setup with new automation gem

[@PathofEvening]

Thank you! Here you go: www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/Llarold/characters

[@yungdrila0197]

i crafted like 50 boddies on a bow and it was really good but just on a bow that i cant use

[@PathofEvening]

There's always trading!

[@yungdrila0197]

@@PathofEvening true but sadly I’m on Xbox and from what I’ve been trading it’s not very active

[@yeahright420]

Big w patch incoming select the base type your asking for too

[@PathofEvening]

Yup!

[@georgerobert8215]

Can you share the pob of your build?

[@PathofEvening]

pobb.in/NIrRIW8B9VmY

[@LionheartBeatz]

LMB Guard skills nerf is so sad ;_;

[@PathofEvening]

Yeah, took some adjusting.

[@jadetrentrichards255]

The only thing that frustrates me is that POE takes a much better computer to run the game now...and I used to love Hardcore gaming but I die way to much where I normally wouldn't back when the game was reasonable on your cpu.

[@PathofEvening]

Yeah, it has been disappointing to see performance go down in the recent leagues.

[@OursHommePorc]

I’m disapointed as I was expecting 2 things 1) a build up to the story of necropolis, à la betrayal 2) actually using items to craft

[@PathofEvening]

Reasonable expectations.

[@Zurglmi]

Scarabs rework is good But Necropolis needs work, some QoL and clarification

[@PathofEvening]

Agreed.

[@Mazeingpower]

i am jaming and slamin

[@PathofEvening]

That's right!

[@slimi_jimi]

Where are the scarabs lol

[@PathofEvening]

In strongboxes, mostly!

[@BGriffith85]

GGG just posted big changes. Looks good, but we shall see! 🙏

[@PathofEvening]

Yup!

[@doodchappin]

Too late again. They do this all the time too. Shit the bed, change it, doesn't matter. Everyone quit again anyways.

[@ShadyHarbinger666]

No. It's not good because the harm is already done. Do you know what would be good? If GGG tested their mechanics before release...

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

I quit in act 1 Again... for reference I went back to standard to convert all the veiled scarabs. Many Hours aka days in and still not done yet.

[@PathofEvening]

So it's a big NOPE on this league for you?

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

@@PathofEvening Yup, back to League of Legends lol

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

@@PathofEvening And sum casual standard to fix the Poe itch here and there.

[@PathofEvening]

They did fix some things, so there's hope.

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

@@PathofEvening I'm having a hexBlast of a time in standard lol. I'll pass this league even though it looks insane with the crafting.

[@justmurky157]

Fixed cuh

[@PathofEvening]

Yup.

[@soundtorial4567]

Core game is 10/10. League mechanic mobs are overtuned as always. The crafting is really strong at endgame but heavily gated behind gameknowlege about weightings. The fix patch will make the crafting busted

[@PathofEvening]

Yup!

[@YoutubeStyleChannel]

If a league mechanic being bad is enough for you to quit the league, I think you should play a different game. I enjoy POE, so even if leagues didn't bring new content, only an economy refresh, I'd still play. I'd love to see devotions and hauntings combined, so every pack is tougher but has a reward, and good rewards are more common. I've only seen a single divine conversion reward, and it was a pack leader 50% chance to convert jewelry drops to a divine, safe to say I got 0 divines.

[@PathofEvening]

Exactly. Combining devotion and haunting would fix a lot of the complaints about the design of the monster mods. They tried something new, and that's good, but the main takeaway is that this is why they always link risk and reward onto the same monster. It's extremely weird when they are separated from each other.

[@satibel]

archnemesis was bad enough for me to quit sentinel and kalandra. the main issue is that you can't not get the harder monsters.

[@jannol1269]

League is not much difficult. Those are default monsters, the league has no effect on leagues which are way more dangerous. The most difficult about the league are allflames which are optional. So the way how I see it, the league is easy and take away only a bit of time, but the rewards are smaller as well. So low risk, low reward. I am ok with that, we allready have so many leagues, I am playing expedition third league in row and still feel there are things to learn. And the crafting? I only used it during leveling for rares. Late game crafting is gonna be so complicated, I will only use it to sell the expensive corpses.

[@PathofEvening]

Some of the Necropolis monster modifiers can be pretty dangerous, 10% more damage per monster left in a pack when a pack has 30 monsters is a lot when that's also being multiplied by map modifiers. Even so, the issue is more that it's an always-on modifier that's not very rewarding. Not great!

[@TomCat-zo5ig]

What boring, unfun build are you playing?

[@aaronunboxed9815]

Don’t be negative please

[@PathofEvening]

We have no regrets giving constructive criticism.