My theory is that GGG is nerfing PoE so when PoE 2 releases it can be buffed.

Which translates into positive reviews for PoE 2, despite trashing PoE 1 prior.

In the meantime before PoE 2, they are using players to test the engine and gameplay.

destroy your player base before expansion

perfect strategy

since i like giving pseudointellectual and inappropriate comparisons, this is how i see it

imagine you have been masturbating once a day 5 years ago. every year you add one more so now ur masturbating 5 times a day. it doesnt even feel that good for you anymore, you are just doing it because you are used to it. you know something went wrong but cant really pinpoint when ggg's idea was to put you on an involuntary nofap for a month so after that you could masturbate only 2 times per day and feel better. except you are now used to the dopamine so you will be really mad about that solution

i prefer the dragon ball approach. i mean yeah sure the power levels are getting out of hand. but instead of gimping everyone, maybe its better to see that the game went to shit, but players actually enjoy it because they are used to the rush, so just invent new power levels and fuck pussies like yamcha who cant take the heat

but yeah, i agree with your theory its a bad solution but thats what it seems they are going for

This post was edited by Snyft2 on Aug 22 2022 05:12am

Or they are following the p2w chinese servers model which is pushing for crushing difficulty and misery loot, while still be reachable at lower levels the time to hook people.

Game is so overtuned it needs the nerfs anyway.

PoE 2 being mixed with PoE 1 is frankly a bold and cool idea on paper, but in practice it's actually terrible. A decade of leagues, mechanics and items. PoE 2 won't get the luxury of starting fresh and not having to be bloated with power.

I'm affraid GGG will only up back half of the loot and ask for us to thanks them...
Because it's completely broken, the more I'm mapping, the more i see the absence of loot, especially in league related content (blight etc)

weak

League kinda snooze only few days in but uhh

Maybe they fixing some shit



They nerfed drop amount and didn't even mention it in patch notes lmaoo

This post was edited by SlamFkingDunk on Aug 23 2022 12:10am

Somewhere, in a comfortable apartment in New Zealand, this fucking piece of Chris Wilson is sippin on gin & juice, laughing at reddit and poe forum, wondering which one of his Nerfson Patches he will launch on 3.20

Even with the new patch they pushed out today they didn't even bother to address the fact that most people are getting scraps for currency drops... But they added more armor drops!

Minion builds are just... I don't even know, it doesn't seem to be good anymore? Taking a LOT more effort to be lazy...

They keep micromanaging Archnemesis to the point where the game would honestly be better if it was removed completely, since a majority of the players won't even finish the campaign this league to see more than 2 mod Archs. And if you aren't building layers of defense early, usually leads to insta-death.

For me the whole point of D2/PoE/ARPG's is to go fast, get loot. The entire point of these games is the loot. There's no point of playing Kalandra trade-nerf league if mapping has been halfway destroyed, loot doesn't exist anymore, and there's no point of playing HC-SSF if crafting is also thrown by the wayside.

I know they won't, but they should just revert the loot back to a few seasons past, pre-league levels, imo.

This post was edited by Waaagh on Aug 23 2022 08:42am