Starting a Scion Spark build.
sorry I posted that from work and couldn't have logged on lol
It's sad to me because this was a great game a few years ago. Seems like it just went down hill after nemesis league.
The game is annoying me more and more as I progress further.
Just did a malformation map. WTF. I understand the concept that some bosses should be harder or easier for certain builds, but piety on this map is just stupid. I have over 5k life, capped ele resists, she still basically kills me instantly if I get hit by her beam. Is it chaos damage?
Game is just getting stupid. I don't mind a challenge, but the risk/reward is so stupidly broken. Why should I try to deal with the challenge of that garbage when I could instead do a higher tier map and fight something trivial like Oozeback Bloom.
I'm not even playing hardcore, so this isn't bothering me as much as it would be. I almost exclusively played hardcore when I played 2-4 years ago, and no death bothered me this much. I could almost always look at my character and figure out what I did wrong or built wrong. This isn't that- this is just a case of one map boss doing 10X as much damage as other map bosses of the same damn tier.
The challenge is not in the fights or gameplay, the challenge is knowing exactly which map bosses are stupid and should be avoided and which map bosses are trivial.
It's sad to me because this was a great game a few years ago. Seems like it just went down hill after nemesis league.
While I understand your frustration, I have to disagree about the game not being great anymore.
Its also free to play and if I look at the competition out there, there really is nothing that compares.
I guess this is true. There is nothing else to fill the void, other games just aren't even close. PoE, with or without it's flaws, is kind of the king of it's little niche.
"your main complaint is something that's been in the game for forever"
Has it? I started in closed beta. The hardest boss at the time was vaal oversoul, and after you killed it went to the next difficulty. While the oversoul was tough if you had no idea how to handle the mechanics, it wasn't absurdly hard at the same level as this. Case in point- a character built to tank could take a smash from oversoul and survive. Any ranged character could trivially avoid the smashes, and even melee could easily avoid it once they learned the tells. The lightning was originally much more nasty (shock used to stack up to 3 times), but you could still easily side-step to avoid it without requiring any special movement skill or character build.
Bleh. The hardest hard stuff in the classic game was still totally doable in a normal manner. You didn't have to grind out an extra 5 levels before you fought the oversoul. you didn't need to equip a specific skill gem or piece of gear to make the fight doable. You didn't need to pay a chaos to have some higher level come in and kill it for you (though some people did anyway, just to completely mitigate risk of death).
I highly suggest using Ziggy's guide as a rough template.
My character is destroying stuff.
My lvl 18 Spark fire 8 projectiles, 100% pierce chance, 30% more poison dmg, full chaos conversion, 0.29 cast speed and each spark lasts around 2.85 seconds. Tooltip Dps is only 10.8k but I am doing FAR more dps.
Tooltip Dps spikes to 23k already with 5 Frenzies, and 3 Power charges going.
Once I get a 6L and get my gem to 20 its going to be nuts.
The funny part is because the Sparks travel so far they are killing things 2 rooms away all the time.
http://ziggyd.tv/featured/path-of-exile-scion-spark-build-guide/
This is a really odd way to argue that it hasn't been in the game forever. You went back to when there were two bosses and said that the hardest one wasn't that hard.
if you were on the PoE forums when he was released to see all the complaints about how difficult he was
At the time you could not tank his slam unless you designed a character to only do that.
Piety is certainly a little harder mechanically
If you die to non-twinned malformation piety, it's because you're bad. Run in circles win fight.
Dying to mechanics that A) you've seen before in A4, and B) are indended to be avoided, not tanked... 100% your own fault.
The map bosses I hate are like museum (wtf t3 boss harder than most yellow map bosses, oneshots most builds) and orchard (FUCK Tunneltrap). Oh and Jungle Valley.
I just 6-linked a taryn's shiver after only 26 fusings. I take back all the bad stuff I said about the game.
There were two bosses. Act 1 and Act 2. (You should have argued Brutus if you really wanted an argument) The rest were just champion monsters.
It didn't matter that the slam was 50% physical and 50% fire. If you capped resists and had high armor it still did around 5K damage. At the time you needed something like a legacy Kaoms to reach that.
And yes if you have trouble running in circles the Piety fight is much harder. If you can circle kite it's not really much different.
Dying to mechanics that A) you've seen before in A4, and B) are indended to be avoided, not tanked... 100% your own fault.
Intended according to who? I killed campaign piety fine because I can potion through the beam. Map piety beam was instant kill, couldn't do that. Not the same mechanic at all.
Not sure how you are supposed to circle it either, with the deadzones on the floor and stuns from mobs hitting you and you can't even outrun the beam without a quicksilver flask. What do you do when you run out of charges? Or was I supposed to respec my build to add 25% more move speed before the fight? (it might have been caster boss casting mod on the map)