Over 60% of players are playing "Lightning Spear". Where is the build diversity?

Well if they nerf LS and warrior POE2 will be the first ARPG in history with literally 0 builds. When they said they don't want meta builds I didn't think this was the way the devs would go about it. Endgame is basically a cow level cus ain't nobody seeing it. T4 pinnacle white mobs tend to do that surprisingly.

They aren't nerfing LS because if they did that right now they'd lose half their player base raging out. They have to buff other stuff first. But honestly, people want to be able to do what they can do right now with LS. People don't want to drag through everything at a snail's pace and get no rewards.

There will never be build diversity in this game. POE1 is the same way.

So get used to it.

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Well if they nerf LS and warrior POE2 will be the first ARPG in history with literally 0 builds.

Does unfortunately feel like that. Hopefully in 0.3 we get a more balanced endgame.

if devs had any sense they would use LS as an example of how to make skills that people want to use in an ARPG

-Fun and satisfying to use (<-most important)
-Great at blowing up small monsters
-Lots of variety of ways to use it with support gems
-Gets better when you synergize with core systems like charges
-Good interaction with many uniques (kitoko/call of brotherhood/etc)
-Not good at dedicated single target (bossing), which makes players use and support other skills.

It's a great skill, it's fun to use. Other skills might look cool, but also don't work, so of course we don't use them. Why would we use poorly designed, non-functional skills that have no obvious payoff for investing into them? I really love glacial lance...visually. It looks awesome! But it's too limited. It also looks SO awesome that spamming it completely blocks vision and gets you killed. Ooops!

Lightning spear isn't overpowered. It's PROPERLY powered. Scaling a skill up to do what LS can do should be what the game is about. That is the level of fun a video game needs. Straight up, that's where its at.

I'm not going to play this game if I can't blast maps, and nobody else is either.

These guys know how to make ultra fun and addictive gameplay, they did it with PoE1, and they need to be ALLOWED to do it again with PoE2. They are being held back by somebody, and that somebody is going to have to get a clue eventually.

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Aulyx#1181 เขียน:

There will never be build diversity in this game. POE1 is the same way.

So get used to it.

You could literally play flame dash totems and it'd be better than most of "dev approved" PoE2 builds.

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onetruelai#7327 เขียน:

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Aulyx#1181 เขียน:

There will never be build diversity in this game. POE1 is the same way.

So get used to it.

You could literally play flame dash totems and it'd be better than most of "dev approved" PoE2 builds.

I don't think its all the devs, but somebody on the dev team who is in charge thought that 'parry' was something players would actually do in endgame.

There's no diversity because GGG only allows some skills to be good. Half the skills in the game have dogshit scaling and attack time modifiers that make them worthless. Then Jon goes out and says players can't be faster than monsters because it would be dogshit.

So what am I supposed to do, just stand their and with my ass out waiting for the monster pack to have their way with me? Nah, apparently the answer is literally just use your basic attack. Wow, what a cool ability. So fun, very engaging, much skill.

No faith this game is going to improve. Devs are too sensitive about players not liking their terrible design decisions. Yeah bro, parry is so cool, let me just stand still and put up my shield up while 100 white mobs throw shit at me. So sick, it's like I'm actually getting pelted with turds.

its a live service game this is always going to happen. devs arent silly they know what they are doing. it is baked into the formula. this month we make amazon great, next month lets do it warriors

i even think they nerf the shit out of a game and then slowly "fix" it so they can appear to be great devs that listen and are improving things.
problem reaction solution
...but thats just a conspiracy theory right? theres even the old saying no publicity is bad but it nearly bit them in the arse this time.

lets see what we got atm, game gets nerfed community goes nuts, devs make rapid changes and its like they are the second coming. oh dear how fickle and easily manipulated people are

take it or leave it but thats how things will be

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I'm not going to play this game if I can't blast maps, and nobody else is either.

Yeah fair point, only issue is almost no other build can do this. You either do low damage, or low clear, or both on most builds while you struggle to even stay alive. That's the whole issue here which forces your hand to just play builds like LS. Which is why I was hoping they add more to other weapons/classes too as options.