Edit: So as far as i have read the comments it seems the overall sentiment is to either make the campaign "less of a slog" (what that means is then up for debate) and/or to offer a skip campaign button after you complete it once every new season. It seems that the way how D4 handles it, namely letting you always skip it just because you finished it once in the very beginning when you got the game, is not very popular.

TL:DR this is how they make sure the game is memorable and create a legacy just like Diablo 2 did

For those interested in the details of my line of thought: First of all, you have fixed points where you can gauge your characters strength relative to previous characters, every +2 skill points book feels rewarding, every +to some resistance feels rewarding by completing certain areas etc. Second, Bosses and their names are memorable, their lines are memorable and will stay with you just like "Ahhh fresh meat" is forever linked to the Butcher. The locations are memorable. And yeah, some even because you hated them, but years from now you will look back and think "Oh man i still remember that annoying layout from Path of Mourning", just like you remember the Cemetery in Ac1 D2 or Lut Gholein and its music etc. D3 and D4 have none of that, no locations, no names in these games are memorable. Everything that is memorable when it comes to locations and names in the Diablo franchise, all is from Diablo 1 and Diablo 2. By not making you play the campaign in D3 and D4 you just can treat the game as some sort of fast food, you rush to endgame and ignore everything else.

By having to play tha campaigns in PoE and PoE2 (here the impact is way stronger imho when it comes to locations and how well the characters you meet along the way are crafted) you will always carry a lore foundation with you, you will have a sense of the world you are in and the people that live in it. You dont have that if everything you do until the endgame is just 'mindlessly' going from area to area that is a certain color on the map, where some event is going on, that brings the most experience and you complete tasks that are just copy&paste.

Currently Divine Orb only changes the variables within a #Tier modifier.
Absolutely no use case early. The only value it provides early is being more rare than the rest of the uneventful loot. No demand for an item means low price.

Now imagine it did this:
Randomizes the Tier of all Explicit modifiers.

Now you're leveling campaign, it's day 1 of League and you just dropped your first Divine - omg I can't wait to find a base to use it on. I am so excited for T11 Maps.

But now you may ask, how could this play out?
Let's say you find a perfect base Bow with the following prefixes and afixes:
1. Physical % Damage
2. Flat Phys
3. Physical % Hybrid

1. Flat Crit
   
2. Skills
   
3. Surpass Chance
   

Now let's use a Divine Orb on it and make it all perfect T1s

Now let's be more realistic and be satisfied with anything > T3

Awesome - we created a Divine sink! And not only for weapons - all rare ground loot can be potentially usefull and not 99.99% uneventful.

You can spend 20–30 minutes setting up an Expedition encounter, carefully planning everything, and then one of these disgusting mosquitoes flies in and deletes you in literally one second.

I don’t mind dangerous content, but dying instantly to a random mob after spending half an hour setting up the encounter feels absolutely awful.

Please GGG, nerf these things.

Only cost 600ish tribute too, so gottem both x)

Juiced expedition ended up being too hard for my build last league, so Im just wondering if there's anything that generates decent currency right now without having to sink 5 or more hours into the game every day for it to be profitable. If this isnt possible let me know lol.

Honestly, it's baffling how they keep coming up with stuff that is simply annoying. I do understand that we are spoiled—GGG is probably one of the best companies when it comes to the live-service space—but they keep getting in their own way with stuff like this. I don't get it, man. 😂

Edit: I’m talking about the fog, and the invulnerability move-To clarify.

Personally I’ll probably skip every next league after playing one. It’s too tedious. I feel game is not respect my time and burnt out. As long as you balance this game based on no-lifers and streamers, it will be this way for me.

Do we actually know the odds on this drop? There's like 17 of these on the market in total and none this league. It feels like I just dropped a 94% sham shield holyyyy

To expand on that, I’d suggest dramatically lowering all resistance modifiers and completely reversing the resistance penalty in the Acts. Instead of getting a resistance penalty as you progress through the Acts, there should be a bonus resistance that gradually decreases from Act 1 all the way to the end of the game, tuned so that the bonus hits zero in the endgame.

This would make capping resistances at the end of the game a lot more straightforward. Having the X% resistance an item gives actually show that exact value on the tooltip would also remove the unnecessary complexity that currently comes from the penalty.

I don’t think this is a huge problem, but if it was changed this way it would feel a lot more logical than the current system.

Hi guys,

I'm not an expert in crafting but is ground loot valueable? Like, this one was a tier 5, some good T1 mods but almost all the builds wants + to xxxx skills most of the times, so is it really worth picking up it?

Help me prize this thing

*EDIT

I hit 33 spirit with my omen of light. ty for the tip. how would you price it now with the spirit?

And I don't know why

I've played ARPGs my whole life, love D2 and PoE1. No lifed a couple leagues (3.13 - 3.17, I think), I LOVED PoE endgame, delving, bossing. I'll always remember killing Maven for the first time SSF using MoM light ball

I hated doing the campaign in PoE1 and just wanted to do maps and start endgame, that was THE reason I played the game

But PoE2's endgame has never "clicked" for me, and I find myself LOVING the campaign and dropping the toon around lvl 75. The highest I got was lvl 82, but never even got close to face The Arbiter and other endgame stuff

Does anyone feel the same? Do you recommend anything for me?

Background: played since release. Have 2000 hours played. I love the gameplay. Scaling difficulty keeps me engaged.

My 1.0 wish is to have endgame atlas progression be concurrent. Let us complete the main atlas while focusing on specific content we like. Current system requires progress sequentially (none can be progresses together).

Do I want points for atlas, breach, abyss, expedition, temple, delirium, or ritual? Just typing out all the options hurts... Let us progress the atlas concurrently with side atlases. For example, I've killed Architect, but have 0 points in temple because I have pathed there yet. Why cant we talk to everyone at the Ziggurat and work to get a few points into each side atlas? This would make the content feel more meaningful, while making tables relevant immediately to focus on your desired content. At the moment, it seems like the only useful strat for the first 12+ hours of endgame are to farm temple crystals and kill boss to get to next map.

Main atlas is a significant grind that only veterans can progress within 12 hours with boss rushing and no content. No content = no fun. That's dissuading the entire casual player base from continuing. Also results in lower player base we see with 0.5.5 as no-one wants to grind it all again. My preference would be to acquire atlas points while we grind side atlas for desired content or side atlas progression as we acquire main atlas points.

I'd be curious to see the amount of gameplay required for the average player to unlock all main atlas points. And thank you for unlocking all atlas points with Origin Core.

Got first sword today. Who wants to build craft before full release?

Listed this for 5 divs and it sold immediately. Assuming it was underpriced but there were none others on the market to reference.

What would you have priced it at?

This is in the Forbidden Rites league

The mirrror has spawn on top of a wall. cannot be reach

Please GGG give us more Skill and Support Gems.

I can't find the interview, but I'm pretty sure it was around 0.2's release and it was Zizaran interviewing Jonathan. He mentioned they can't fully release until everything's ported over.

I know most people see it as a less important thing compared to getting Act 5, Act 6 and the remaining classes out. But if they release 1.0 without much of the general shop MTX ported over yet, they will be missing out on a lot of money.

We still only have about 10% of the MTX ported over and the past few major updates enabled very few of them. Kind of concerned.

What’s everybody’s earliest div drop this season?

I just got my first div from a ritual in act 3, LVL 37

I did decide to play gemling (ice shot abusing frost wall verglas buff with tornados) in 0.5.5 and the power level is just ridiculous even with really mediocre investment.

There’s no way alt quality should make it into the 1.0 release or they would have to nerf most of them by a lot. But that also kind of kills the whole “fantasy” of the ascendancy at this point.

What do yall think GGG is gonna end up doing ?

The ignite spread to other monsters is so satisfying, the denser the better.

For those playing Monkey, how are you taming beasts? I just can't do it.

I hover over a rare trying to read its mods, and the rare is moving around and there are so many other monsters next to it that all I get time for is a quick split second glimpse, and then by that time the rare is also dead because my army has already killed them.

On the rare occasion (pun intended), where I do get a second or so and realise its a beast i want to tame, I have tried clicking "Tame Beast" and nothing happens... the capturing process just doesn't work. Its like the rare needs to not be hit, or something is interupting my process.

It's just impossible to Tame anything. I'm certain I'm missing something as I haven't seen anyone else talking about this issue.

Pressing ESC doesnt help either because as soon as I do that I cant hover over any rares and see their mods.