Why is Path of Exile even played? This game has the worst boss encounters off all time. Let me explain.
This is one of the many noobtrap bosses in this wretched game. As you can see from the screenshot its a visual clusterfuck.
The High water that encircles you deals massive cold damage every second. the center deals constant random lightning damage to random spots. The center is the only place you can statistically survive and also where the boss is. Even with max resists the cold damage will kill with maximum of two hits. The lightning is slightly weaker (slightly lol).
So why is this a noob test? Because you can avoid all damage by simply porting back to town when the water starts to come in, then you go back in the portal and you will be immune to everything for 16 seconds. That's right, You just wait it out until its safe to attack again! the boss starts fighting again and his bullshit water and lightning stop making the boss a fucking joke to beat. The funniest part is that the clowns at GGG patted themselves over the back about how this game has "great encounters!"
Why is Path of Exile even played? This game has the worst boss encounters off all time. Let me explain
>Why is Path of Exile even played?
People wanted more diablo-like content without waiting for Blizzards slow development cycles, this game filled the void.
PoE isn't about boss fights, it's about playing with different crazy builds. Pyroclast Mines and a myriad of other builds can kill bosses within seconds anyways.
They force you to play through this garbage story mode to get to the maps.
>cucklone
>left click default attack
>not having cold and lighting capped
>thinking that is a clusterfuck
Go back to /poeg/ you faggot
That's a screenshot i took of the internet. I don't play this trash anymore.
Because it is fun. The boss you posted while being visually bad is piss easy. You move literally a few centimetres from time to time in this phase while watching the ground and the sides.
Fucking plebian.
>dont' play the game
>complain about the game
yikes
OK, Chris.
what a shit thread
kill yourself OP
durrrrrrr
I was with it from the very beginning. each redditor patch made it more and more worse until it forced me to quit.
Its shit and now tries to be more like Diablo 3 than Diablo 2. Ironic really.
nobody cares
yep no one plays this shit. who cares?
PoE devs got into their heads that their game should be more like dork souls. So they started introducing these bosses that you have to actively dodge in a game that vomits screen clutter on you every frame. Such a brilliant idea.
I'm hoping 4.0 will take a more reasonable route in design but based on the exilecon footage that's not going to happen.
It going to be much worse especially in POE2.
Most likely yes. Those 10 minute long boss fights in fucking act 1 looked awful.
>hey lets make the boss run around the zone for 2 minutes at a time while being invulnerable
>hey lets make an early game boss that you need to fight like your character was end game ready
Yeah put me off. I did have fun laughing at Kripps ugly mug though as you could see he just wanted to go home.
"Merlins Shop of Mystical Wonders Explicitly forbids doing this to the magical scRying pools?"
check em.
>Let me explain.
stopped reading there
game is not about boss encounters, how bad/good they are
game is about loot
It's the best in its series, sadly.
Also, you should've posted the abortion that is Sirus instead of giant enemy crab. That is a real abortion of a fight, especially this League post-buff.
I played for one season this hot garbage piece of shit of a game, and that's the boss encounter I enjoyed the most because that attack
it was something different
kys
What loot? the ones you buy form GGG's item shop sites? Or did you really think this one game selling microcrap can sustain such a large workforce of trannies they have.
You enjoyed an encounter that could be skipped using a portal? reread what i wrote, cunt.
>He has to portal out to dodge lightning bolts
Infinite kek.
The point is you CAN portal out to avoid phases. Oh fuck off, Chris.
>the game is shit on purpose!
dilate, PoEtranny.
The entire game is designed around a logout macro. You still don't have to use one even on Hardcore. What is your fucking point?
are you autistic?
I played this, it was OK until the point where you have to redo all the acts with a different boss at the end
>it's shit on purpose. what is your fucking point?
Except that all those crazy builds fall apart once you get to yellow or red maps. The devs regularly kill successful builds every season in favor of the next 4 fotm.
Storm Brand Archmage is the most fun build I've played in a while. Now that you can bind recall to left click it's so much smoother.
>OP is also a Wojaktard
At last it all makes sense.
Read what you posted. You are defending a game balanced around exiting the game to avoid death.
Classic ad hominem
It's going to be even worse because they're probably going to push the difficulty changes onto the rest of the bosses in the campaign. Not just act 1 and 2. They already buffed boss HP in the endgame, making it difficult for a lot of non-meta builds to function well at bosses. Starting to feel like GGG only want players building BV, brands, or orb of storms for spell gameplay.
>dying to Brine King
Get filtered. I thought you were going to complain about Sirus, who is legitimately a terrible boss, but Brine King is incredibly easy, both in the campaign and in any map tier he appears in.
PoE is played because it's the best ARPG on the market. Grim Dawn is alright, but just doesn't cut it. That being said, the current league is absolutely garbage and I quit it day 2. Hopefully next one doesn't suck dick, "March releases suck" and all that. I've played since Warbands and the only worse league was Talisman.
But I didn't post it..
>You are defending
Words in my mouth there, user.
I'm stating facts. If you don't like it, don't play it. You lose nothing. I know full well it's a terrible design practice.
Also for fuck's sake, the OP doesn't even play the game anymore. Why would you ever take the side of someone who openly admits to not playing the game they are crying about?
The game is a poorly optimized economy simulator with a shitload of useless old league mechanics that showers you with trash loot that's ugly as sin, so you have to buy mtx.
It has a lot of issues, but those complaints are ridiculous
played every single mainstream mmorpg and im fucking tired of them
wish there was an full online arpg (because of cheating retards) that got group play right, like mmoarpg
but pls no d3/poe retarded end game, its pretty obvious to me that if you want it to be good for groups you just cant have that stupid pace and particles
That's exactly what they want. They sell items on dodgy sites for real money.
Explain this genre to me because I don't get it. Like, yeah there's a shit load of builds you can make and whatnot but it still just looks like mindlessly clearing rooms of trash mobs over and over until a boss, repeat.
I mean, show me a better arpg out right now.
What are you comparing it to?
Nobody plays PoE, especially nowadays, for the act 1-10 bosses.
Hell, the game has the same problem as WoW, where all the content up till level cap and all the old content is basically irrelevant crap that everyone rushes through to get to the hip new thing.
>wretched game
>noobtrap
Like, did you think the crab was hard? Really?
I seriously hope not. Wretched is an extreme overstatement, why are you acting like a whiny little baby about the game?
You get quite a lot for free and you want to bitch about it and whine about how horrible it is, why not just not play the damn thing?
It is supposed to be like a roguelike but its lost its way under the retarded high damage numbers.
If you think about games in general they're a waste of time. Diablolikes appeal to some people with their mindlessness and addictive gameloops.
I am a SSF shitter who has never seen a build in his life and plays a single character every 2 years and i still killed him on the second or third try without any cheese.
Get fucking gud
Thanks, Chris. Enjoy your declining playerbase!
OP's complaints are dumb, and you're entirely right. The game's been going downhill for a while, 2.6 was the height of poe.
If you theorycraft your build correctly you steamroll everything, otherwise it's a challenge. The genre is absolutely wrecking rooms very fast and then dodging boss abilities, the real endgame in poe is learning to craft and playing path of building. The former has arguably gotten more interesting over time, the latter has either becomed more streamlined, or I've become jaded after years and years of playing the game.
i hope for something like this too.
i dont want a comunity, or deep story. i want a game where i can play the game for anything between 2 to 40 hours a week and get character progression in this timeframe. and with the progression i can unlock more options.
This meme always gets spouted in global but it's so senseless. China's Path of Exile client is extremely lucrative to GGG/Tencent, the money they'd be bringing in from running rmt in the west wouldn't even remotely compare to that. Especially when they would have the third world to compete with and randoms who sell their currency themselves. It's much more likely that the developers do not understand how to balance their own game anymore.
>git gud
Why? when you can skip the damage? Maybe the devs should git gud at design ;)
That's honestly probably the best description of what might have gone wrong in PoE from prerelease to now.
It went from being about what you could do with what you found to being about how fast you could gib the endgame bosses before they could do anything back and how fast you can breeze through maps.
>the cold damage will kill with maximum of two hits. The lightning is slightly weaker (slightly lol)
>1838/2205
that said, even if you're an incorrigible retard, the game is shit now because of the power creep
You act like I still even play the game much, a lot is wrong with it but the OP is just a retard.
I have a lot of hours in the game and a vested interest in the game being better than it is now, but those sure aren't the things I'd complain about. Fuck off, retard.
Yeah, little patches of lightning damage you have enough space to juke easily. Not zoom zoom enough for you because he has immunity phases?
Did you not play in a while? they decided to give all bosses at least double health so you can have fun rolling one of three viable builds in the game =)
Work on your reading comprehension, retard.
>Not zoom zoom enough for you because he has immunity phases?
We have that too. Use a portal.
I agree that those fights are all shit. Especially if you have a lot of DPS the encounter is made so that you have to wait for the boss to do nothing for 10 seconds while you're killing adds and dodging shit.
man, I don't fucking care anymore, game's been shit longer than it was good at this point
Closed beta was magic. The current game is tragic.
Why does it matter when you don't even need to?
Skip the phase that way if you want, but to do so and then whine about it is hilarious.
The game probably has the absolute best character customization compared to any current arpg. It also has the most to offer in terms of replayability, content and just raw things to do. Before you say its still shit, it is. This game has a slew of horrible design choices, from the trade system, to bosses and even to how they try to incorporate challenge in the game.
Trade is a wild west anything goes system, this led it to being controlled purely by bots, rmt (real money trade) and has a slew of scams to watch out for, little is done to fix these issues. Bosses have lots of things that can obstruct visual clairity, sudden one-shots, invulnerability phases where you just wait to be able to hit it again, and usually just die to you running circles around them. Since the game is so fast, they make enemies do obscene amounts of damage, giving them the range to target you offscreen, have sudden death effects that will one shot builds that are lacking in mitigation, have map modifiers that many builds cannot run, such as elemental/physical reflect, no regen, no leech and other hard counters to builds, all it does is add frustration when you have to corrupt a map for completion, only to see that its something you can't run anymore. Despite all of this, every other modern arpg is just somehow worse. All it takes is an arpg to be decently done and poe would actually have to try to be successful, this game purely fills a void for lots of people and nothing more.
give me back my fucking skele totems and single target skills
and speed leveling with fucking fireball+lmp in searing touch
Bad design doesn't matter? wtf?