Hope we get an absolute banger next league. Anything I forgot about Necropolis?

This league couldn’t even hold Mathil. That’s not a good sign.

My biggest problem with this league was how the corpses were dropped. I absolutely hate it when you fight mobs that are densely packed on the screen and all of a sudden 5 corpse loop panels pop up. They cover absolutely everything on the screen be it remain mobs or other drops. I don't know who designed this interface and thought it's fine.

that line about feeling apathetic felt too real, when kalandra league happened i was so upset that GGG were trying to force this annoying change that no one liked, now all this necropolis shit is going on and i just can't care

Love how they wanted to combine scarabs and sextants, then made it worse by having you buy 6 allflames per map

I think the corpse system violates some really basic principles. I don't want to hand place 88 mats ever.

The major problem with the league was the tediousness of the crafting mechanic.

I am personally considering not playing again until they take a hard look at the balancing of the game. As a primarily solo player who trades occassionally it is hard to keep up with a game balanced around group trade.

The reason that all of my friends bounced early actually had nothing to do with the league mechanic. Correlated with T17s, but wasn't them either. They all don't want to buy stacks of scarabs in order to be even remotely functional. They're all alch-n-go enjoyers and this league completely removed alch-n-go as a reasonable option for currency farming. While it didn't stop me, it did have a clear negative impact on my enjoyment as well. Sometimes I just want to blast maps and not worry about juice.

You hit all the big points. In the interview with Jonathan I felt like Jonathan argued that MF was needed for endgame characters to aspire to, which is just not how it plays out in reality. People abuse MF to acquire currency and then use that currency to make the actual multi-mirror endgame character that has no MF. It does not operate within the normal parameters of the game. No one adds just 20% MF and call it a day. You either abuse or ignore it entirely. Another smaller thing in the endgame that changed with 3.24 was going from 30% increased effect of map mods (60% with Wandering Path) to 90% increased effect of map mods (170% with Back to Basics), which makes normal semi-annoying map mods (like 60% reduced revovery or aura effect) into actual build-bricking mods, which the requires you to reroll even more maps and introduces even more tedium. But that is technically voluntary, even thought you could argue that most farming strategies using it, makes it less voluntary.

You forgot the destruction of Betrayal. Quality and white socket benches gone, Aisling which would cost 1/2/3/4 divines maximum replaced by veiled orbs that cost 15 divines right now. The fact that some flask mods like elemental res are nerfed, the access to Ubers that is crazy limited now because dependent on T17 maps (1 mirror to run 100 Uber Maven, really?) and probably many more that I forgot. This league is a shit show, but I'm still playing.

This league kinda sealed the deal for me to move on from POE. I'm a casual and just don't have the time to keep up anymore.

Necropolis is the league I played the least out of all of the leagues since I started in 3.10. After just 10 days orso from launch I had no motivation to play, felt like I WANTED to play but just complete lack of motivation. I came back to play one build after not playing for a few weeks, but that was short lived(about 5 or 6 days). This video summed up my thoughts on the league well. I feel like some of the most obvious 'QoL' changes were missed from the early league changes(and some of them actually just didn't happen at all in the end). Stuff like the corpses dropping in maps popping a giant window blocking everything, and as you mention a way to layout the graveyard without placing each corpse in each grave by hand would have been huge. Meanwhile corpses taking 2 slots in your inventory on top of all of the allflames was just insane inventory management bloat. T17's were a big miss for me, especially after they said that they weren't intended to be the new endgame farm and instead were meant as an interesting stepping stone to ubers, while the actual implementation was something significantly more difficult than ubers and on top of that the monsters just have a ton of bonuses so of course they were naturally going to become the insane new farming strategy once a character is powerful enough to do so. I have to say that I'm also quite frustrated after so many leagues by now that they're reluctant to nerf the most obvious top end abilities and won't buff some of the things that nobody has played for many leagues. Player DD has been in dire need of a substacial nerf for YEARS at this point, while their excuse for melee being bad is that they want to basically do a larger overhaul to make it feel better to play - but why not just improve the numbers on these skills in the meantime, these things are not mutually exclusive, you can buff melee damage so these things are at least playable in the meantime while they work on a bigger shift. I hope 3.25 is a good'un!

Totally agreed. I stopped playing for two reasons, the league mechanics are just cumbersome, I think that's the best way I can describe it. And T17 was demoralizing in terms of difficulty.

T17s killed the vibe

There should have been a node on the Atlas tree that disables corpses, allflames, and the whole thing on the map device, and could gives like 5 atlas points as compensation. The node that gives you 20 atlas points but disables scarabs is decent example.

Tedious crafting Forced league mechanic (haunted mods) Corpses blocking view Spreadsheet for 1/4 chances to jackpot The whole crafting as a jackpot Every 1-2 days something is nerfed Untouch devs from the game Intrussive mechanic (Even Metamorph wasn't that intrussive in your gameplay than Necropolis currently is) Mark's arrogance on feedback T17 are demoralizing Ubers are a joke compared to T17 Lowest player retention (even lower than Kalandra league) I mean, the league isn't the problem here, is how Mark approach the direction of everything. Not even Chris tried to pushback on playerbase sooo hard, and yet, """he plays the game""", how untouch from the game, it's sad. Let's hope 3.25 at least +10% of the league is actually tested.

The main problem for me, I felt how shitty trading was this league. You want to bulk buy copses, and it's 35+ person in the list who is the first one to acknowledges your trade request.

On top of everything else, having atlas passives for the league mechanic kinda sucked. I thought the idea was nice at first but all it turned into was mandatory points you had to spend to maximize the league mechanic. I still think they should be on the tree, but it should be more of a keystone thing where you only pick how to make the mechanic different, not you straight up lose profitability by not spending points.

as a super casual who just follows guides every league but has been playing for a decade+ the lack of qol's and mid/bad leagues have just been stacking up the last few years. at this point i just check out the league launches because thats what i've done for so long but i now usually drop the game in a week or 2 as opposed to the 6+ weeks i used to play.

to be honest a better decision would have been ,making the fragments drop from the lower grade pinnacle boss (uber shaper fragment from normal shaper and so on ) then people could also learn the fight a be better in the uber fight.

Please keep up then fight that MF is a huge problem. I feel like I'm screaming into the void when ever I talk to anyone about it.

Thats what you get when you put the trainees to run POE while you focus all the bigD devs on POE2

Added difficulty for no extra reward and the largest divide in raw drops we have seen in a long time. It feels good to get a div drop more than once every couple hundred maps if you are not doing group play or MFing at the upper end of the game.

GGG is putting all coins on POE2, it will end killing both… 😢

This is one of the most scuffed ones for sure, in week 3 i thought its already second month of the league lol (Its like looking at watch every 5 second expecting it to go faster because you're so bored). I didnt visit Graveyard a single time, so no items been crafted, i dont want to interact with this mess, i dont want to play mild version of gauntlet - i just want to be happy, okay?

The league (coffins, scarabs, allflames) are designed this way in order to force players to buy stash tabs.

No, I agree. I dropped my first mirror this league after 9600 hours. Didn't change my will to play it.

thanks for putting my feelings into words

I really wish they would reconsider the 3 month league cycle. in interviews they seem almost proud of how close to the wire each league release is, but it doesn't give them enough time to readjust the core design when there are fundamental issues. GGG is the leading studio in this genre and not an indie company anymore. its reasonable for players to expect a more finished product than what they have been delivering lately.

Imagine being on console. There is no bulk trading, and it made this league feel really bad. In addition, searching to buy the reasonably priced corpses made you have to scroll through over 1000 pages of coffins. (Takes about 20 minutes each time you wanna search) Yes, I know you can message on the website, but few people reply when asking to buy.

One could think , they set the limit to 64 to sell more stash tabs . But who knows . Also the broken explod. Totems where added by GGG, bcs there was a race for ubers on ruthless. Im sure its the only reason they kept it in the league .

PoE isnt only option anymore. They have less tolerance for experiment. My fear is if they cant hold avarage player numbers, they would go predatory monetization route which will start the downfall.

It's interesting because the resultant items of the necro crafting were pretty similar to like, recombinator items. Just it was waaaaaay more fucking annoying to curate your corpses, you had to kinda already have a plan while you were "building" the craft. Just a million little instances of fuckaround when a functionally similar mechanic just dropped what amounts to a giga awakener orb for you to yolo your gear together with.

You mentioned the increased effect of map modifiers and back to basics farming methods of T17s. I think without those they are in fact a stepping stone to ubers (at least after they let us reroll them with chaos). My main gripe is that the atlas tree "hat" nodes give increased effect of map modifiers which means if I want to engage with T17s at their base difficulty, I am cut out of most of the bossing nodes on the atlas. So I need one tree for farming T17s and one for farming T16s to drop T17s. The graveyard crafting was also a little too powerful imho and they overbuffed it. I made an insane phys bow (triple T1 phys, T1 attack speed) in SSF and I felt almost nothing when I got it. I think recombinators really got it right. Some amount of chance to make insane items but not so high that you're basically guarantee something insane for some build. The league mechanic on the tree was also an interesting aspect though I'd rather have a separate tree for the league mechanic only, again something sentinel got right.

I think GGGs point about magic find being another axis to scale would be more valid if it were available outside of very specific uniques. For example, if it was a corruption implicit only or something.

I wonder if t17s were simply NOT being run by the vast majority of people and just being sold, so they tried to add some easy juicing rewards to them to up the number of people trying them?

Spot on video, this could not have been said any better.

Agree, one of the worst leagues so far.. also dropped it after 1,5 week

I totally forgot that sentinels had their OWN TREE! I want them so baaaad!

Frankly, the most annoying thing about the legue is the new scarab system. There are now 116 unique types of scarabs, that ALL DROP INDIVIDUALLY, plus the atlas tree is now focused on scarab drops, on which your map content depends. Everybody loved when GGG made all currency drop in stacks, that reduced the ridiculous amount of clicks necessary to pick up all the currency, that dropped. Now they reversed this by forcing us to pick up 116 difrerent types of scarabs, thta only drop in stacks of one.

If they had the lantern function like it worked for Acts (where prior area clear impacted next area lantern options), they could have curbed the fishing issue, and give a sense of progression for chaining maps and kinda curating your lantern effects.

Although my time with Necropolis was short, it was the league where i became the strongest. I got my first mageblood and completed all ubers for the first time. Crafted nutty fractured/influenced gears that i would have never done in all the previous leagues (maybe harvest). This league was the highest power fantasy experience ive reached from all my time in POE. It was so easy to get geared and craft god tier gear, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The reason no one is playing this league is not because of the league mechanic. If they removed the league mechanic altogether, you still wouldn't play. The game is just in a terrible state and is the result of not balancing things for years. Skills and skill archetypes haven't changed...like why are there still builds that can one-shot uber bosses on day 1 gear still a thing? How has that not been patched the following league? Remember when MF could only farm whites and maybe early yellows until you had multiple mirrors invested? How are they farming t17's? The game has become a joke and its sad more people are having fun in D4 than POE. Dare I say....POE BAD

I liked the multi fractured itens and perfect rolled itens but having to buy 88 coffins... This league would've been a blast if we had action house tbh

T17 was the biggest mistake in the game since the mapping started ,builds that clear t16 super ez had a miserable time in t17 , build diversity is died with t17

Honestly thank you for this, I brought up this issue in another stream about T17s (Difficulty/unfun/forced builds) and I got told that I need to "Get gud and its a skill issue" because I don't want to be forced to play top tier meta builds and have the fomo of "If I dont do T17s then im at a massive disadvantage". Like I get it, there will be groups that will beat solos, there will be people juicing harder but at least with T16s it felt like an even playing field, not where two days into a private league the CoC DD player is farming t17s dropping a crap ton of loot. (Actually happened to me)

Scarab system killed the League for me. Finished Atlas, did all invitations and farmed ~100 divines in 5 days of play. Then quit because I couldn't stand the new lategame.

Im so addicted to this game that im still in the league doing challenges while being one of those leagues that i really not having fun. Cemetery is tremendously powerful maybe the most OP mechanic we had so far but managing corpses and not having the option to skip the lantern was a huge mistake and probably killed the league. The need to have several quad stash tabs to actually play the league was also a big mistake, people will pour money into this game because they love the game not because they NEED to or else.

Multiple Micro Nerfs " / Nerf to Currecny Strats and FOMO as a Result Overcorrecting Fun " ( see above ) Wheighted Trans Gems after a Week in ( I got the Good Ones Relativly Often Early , then didnt . Bad RNG ? Sure , but it was kinda Obvious ) T 17 ( Forcing Players to Play Overtuned Builds or they miss out ) Forced League Mechanic or Rather Difficulty Divine Chance Nerf on said Mechanic ( Making Stuff even More Scarce for the Sake of it ) As a Somewhat Tryhard / Semi Casual Player , this League just didnt feel Right . Stuff felt to Scarce and Forced " . Hope that next League will be better .

Würde für mich zu lange dauern, dass alles zu übersetzen, daher kurz und knapp in meiner Muttersprache: Ich stimme dir voll und ganz zu. Habe trotz 24days playtime nicht einen graveyard craft gemacht. Die Gründe hast du ausgeführt. Du hast aber auch einen einen Grund genannt, warum es trotzdem lohnenswert war zu spielen. Das Spiel insgesamt und insbesondere der Atlastree und der Scarab-rework sind einfach grundsolide und bieten den für mich passenden Spielspaß. Guter Build, optimierter Atlas (wieder tausende Unmakings verballert) und go. Die Alllflame-Embers waren auch ganz ok. Keine League, die mit den großen Leagues wie Heist vergleichbar wäre. Eine coole Leaguemeachanic wäre für mich auch nur noch die Kirsche gewesen. War aber auch ohne sehr nett. Vielleicht sind meine Ansprüche im Moment auch zu niedrig. Danke für deine Einschätzung!

well worth the watch

For me Necropolis is super nice, I started in sc trade an get burned out after 1-2 weeks, than I restarted in ssf hc - and oh my god the league Mechanic is excellent for ssf 😊

Sentinel was one of my favorites as well. I still have my fractured enlighten 4 gloves :)

PoE: the game where rares are harder than Ubers 😂

I will explain what you are experiencing: There are backbreakingly bad leagues, like Lake of Kalandra. Sudden hard shifts for the worse in a massive way that draw plain outrage. Then there are bad, boring leagues. Kinda like Crucible, and now Necropolis. They're bad, but not so bad that there is outrage, people are just exhausted and hope things get better. People cannot take bad leagues forever. Maybe one or two, even three or they just get frustrated. How much somebody will take depends, but I left after a week. The league mechanic is painful to interact with, and I saw the first patch and then left. They only put out one patch after the first week, and that is it. Why would somebody stay? To abuse divine printing? T17s? Are those fun methods or reasonable to do? There isn't much else to do. I'd love to play other ascenandices like Gladiator or Winter Orb, but they're so bad and they can't keep up. Or death's oath, but they are garbage and I am essentially playing with additional difficulty if I do. I'd rather wait for a good league

In Kalandra I played the whole league because my TS CoC Ice Spear character dominated archnem monsters so I dont think I had issues like many players. This league, however, I've mostly been playing Standard, deleting old characters, regearing others that were broken by losing alt quality gems and other nerfs, amassing divines and mirrors, and focusing on a couple expensive projects for fun because that's more fun for me than gravecrafting in a dead league

They shouldve make corpses can be traded/fulfilled with Arimor to exchange for currency/div cards etc...

Sharing my experience as someone who plays since delve league, but rarely ever grinds to endgame bosses - I actually did most non uber content this league, still playing at this point to figure out what atlas trees I''m into, and didn't engage much with trade but managed to get a reasonable amount of divs with no exploits. All of this, because I enjoyed playing the holy relic of conviction. It's rather odd that a build incentivized me to play more than the league content itself, only to realize - if that is the case, then the league mechanic was barely worth engaging (and I agreed with all the points mentioned). I already liked holy relic and saw it go meta and kept playing it, worried that it'll get a heavy nerf next league, despite it not being the most op thing ever. It's easy to build around, but that doesn't make you instantly tanky or a one shot machine. If anything, it shows exactly what you said, fun builds tend to lag behind. And as soon as something gets deemed "too easy" it will be instagibbed with little consideration to how weak it was before. The regular holy relic is still not that strong, it should be buffed to compete with the transfigured version and not the other way around. It pains me to see that so many skills are left on the dirt and it becomes more and more apparent the more leagues we get that the market doesn't want us to use them. Then people like me, who barely have the time to even know about exploits or only get to maps in 1-2 weeks post launch, feel easily demotivated because the devs, while discussing balance, don't spend a lot of time thinking about those who have to compete in a market working against them from day 1 in terms of efficiency. I know it's hard to cater to casual players and hardcore players alike, but it'd be a hell of a more fun to see even 50%+ of skills being competitive, regardless of the market. Still waiting for non poison DoT build buffs, my wintertide brand dream is melting ^^'

T17 made me feel like that beginner player who struggle to get to red maps and wouldn't dare dream about t16 juiced farming.

This is why I like Poe. GGG takes significant risks on game design, making the game feel alive

Kitavas Ice bolts got me all my voidstones, favored map slots (1st time; second league ever) and a few t17 clears. Was hella fun. Looking forward to whatver you got for next league! Thanks!

The issue of difficulty and build diversity is a definition of vicious circle. GGG adds a new, difficult endgame system -> only the top builds can do the system so people won't play builds that otherwise would be fine -> over time we get buff/changes so more builds are able to reach the new benchmark -> now we can complete those systems on a budget league starter and don't have any true aspirational content -> GGG adds a new, difficult endgame system. Old pinnacle bosses were to easy, so we've gotten ubers and when we've reached a point where ubers could be defeated with a bleed boneshatter ssf build we've gotten t17. The cycle goes on.

As SSFHC Player,i have to say this leagues mapping was insane rippy. Like every Pack of Goatmens, Fireball Skelles or Cannibals are more feared then the map boss. Haunted mods can get crazy combos.

A crafting system can’t have all three of the following: 1) produces powerful endgame items, 2) is accessible to everyone (no super-rare inputs), 3) is quick and easy to do (i.e. not tedious). Poe has the most optimizing playerbase of damn near any game out there, if a system has all these traits the market will be instantly flooded with perfect items. If one has to be sacrificed then #3 is the lesser evil imo. Just like trade, the tediousness is a feature not a bug - you have to do something to try to deter the degens from sitting in hideout for 20 hours a day printing and ruining the economy/experience for those trying to play the game ‘normally’.

My issue with poe is the lack of QoL. No vacuum looting, no increase to looting range, no identify all, no deposit all into stash tabs. Its like GGG wants to balance how much people farm by giving them RSI to slow them down. Necropolis crafting was such a massive blunder by GGG. Again, its like they learned nothing from every other crafting mechanic they have made, and what kind of QoL is expected in games.

It was also really hard to go from Last Epoch to this PoE League. I went back to LE after a week

corpses not stacking was just insane to me, i had tabs named "FLOOO and OOOR" with additional corpse tabs named "OOOO", and even me who didn't play a ton had like 6/7 tabs of "OOOOO" something else you should have touched on, not having fragment tab and having extra tabs was probably extra hard on anyone who hasn't bought premium tabs

I think what people need to understand is that PoE 1 is no longer a priority. All of their resources are going into PoE 2, and whatever content we get is just slapped there so that they can keep the playerbase engaged and milk some more money until they get PoE 2 out.

I wouldnt be surprised if they always intended to change the corpse itemisation to be free but started at 1c to slow down the use at league start

I played this league for about 6 weeks and only really lost desire to play 2 days ago. I enjoyed graveyard crafting since it gave me and my friends gear that'd we'd normally never be able to afford, though buying corpses sucks. but really the entire market just sucks to use most of the time. I think I've blocked over 1000 people by now and still have waves of adding 30+ people at a time. the league mechanic just highlighted it really badly. 5:45 As someone who liked the graveyard, I only ever did a single craft with 40% adjacent booster since it was beyond painful to try and buy 30 corpses you needed and then add on "I want to buy 15 of X, 12 of Y, 3 +50s, and explicit reroll corpses. And all of the X and Y corpses need to be Demon." "Sorry don't have any demons." "no +50s or explicit reroll either?" "Yes but not demon." "I only need X and Y demon." "Oh. okay." *trade* made trade a lot more confusing for people. T17s felt like the dumbest joke GGG has played on us. Everything else about them aside, with how hard they are locking the 5th map slot behind them is so stupid. Thanks for giving us all these cool new scarabs to use it should would be great if we had the extra map device slot to actually use them while farming. I know most scarabs can be used by itself, but some really work a lot better with 1 or 2 other scarabs on top so not having it available means you just can't run it, or can't do combo strats on your atlas as effectively. 25:30 the league mechanic being force sucked a lot early mapping. every time I rolled "accompanied by map boss/harbinger/exile." was basically gg map since friends and I weren't strong enough yet. It really sucks trying to finish mapping when you only have 1 copy of said map between your group you're clearing with. Also the 64 corpse limit plus them being 1x2 is what had me purchase 2 quad tabs. I had the all special tabs, and like 8 regular premium tabs I'd use for holding things but when I filled 2 of them up in a few hours of farming I knew I was going to need so much more space. This was by far the most P2W feeling league in terms of how stash tabs have feel. So many corpses became skip or itemize and toss on ground if covering up something useful very quickly to try and save space.

Very well said, you touched every complaint i had about the league and i played a full 2 months then got completely tired of the league mech even tho i have crafted some pretty crazy items that im very thankful for.

I collected over 20 stash tabs of corpses and never used them, because the mechanic is to clunky to use. I planned to do some crafting but eh,... We get so many UIs that fill up our whole screen (betrayal, alva, delvemap, beasts,...). Why not a map of the graveyard and bury the bodies from there? It's kinda fun that the necropolis is an extra area we can walk around and inspect. But it makes the crafting so annoying. That's like if you would need run through the bestiary and pick the beasts for crafting manually, while still needing 4 specific beasts. If necropolis crafting ever comes back i really hope they change that.

On paper, Necropolis was a great idea, but the execution ended up with game play that felt overburdened, and cumbersome. Path of exile is already a heavy inventory management game and this league mechanic made that weight feel just a bit too heavy for my liking, which is why I didn't enjoy this league.

I hated the T17s, the league crafts take a long time to be possibly good (and sometimes a few tries). looking forward to the next league

Ive been saying this a for the whole league, they rly shouldnt have had one of the most impactful league mechanics at the same time as a total endgame overhaul. Too many changes in a league that has a huge juicing component and a huge crafting competent, would have been much better served with a league mechanic similar to Tota

i actually didn't mind graveyard crafting... but the bottlenecks they created with corpse rarity forced me to do what i hate: trade.

Couldn't agree more with the video. Solid feedback for GGG. I tried to hard to play this league but couldn't do it, just felt wrong and annoying. That's coming from someone that plays hundreds of hours each league and even played a bunch in Kalandra.

On t17s - As someone who normally plays glass cannon map blasters, I was happy this league I decided to try something new and did DD necro. I was able to farm t17s fairly easily because of it. One thing about t17 mobs I don't get are the revenants with the on-death/Detonate corpse effect. It gives you maybe less than a second to get out of the effect otherwise it's a 1shot (even with the 500k EHP I had). For one of the QOL's released at the start of the league for corpse explode to have animation/sound/timing based on severity, why did they leave (or add) this one in that doesn't abide by that?

Great summary, I completely agree, thank you.

nail on the head bro, well said. I kept giving the game a chance here and there but ended closing the game after a few maps. Sealed the deal when an amazing item that would sell in an hour to in a few minutes would just sit in my Trade tab because the amount of people that still play this league 1.5 months down is so low now.

When I saw that graves first time and lerned that they removed option to put molten sell under "move" button I was out...

Looking forwards to T16.5's :p

Crafting leagues are almost always streamer leagues. The only exception was Sentinel because it was so easy...just slam two pieces of gear together.

biggest gripe for me is that they keep overhauling endgame but overly neglect early game like it doesnt exist.

All good points. Hope Mark/Team watch this even if its not a bingo

Everyone forgets about the awful decision to remove the ability to bind instant skills to left click and introducing automation instead, which does the same thing but worse and costs a gem socket. Automation can and should be bypassed completely by using numlock, which is clunky but is also the only way to cast an instant spell on CD without CDR nerfs or losing a socket. That change made a lot of builds incredibly clunkier yet gets slept on due to everything else in Necropolis being a dumpster fire.

Can this whole video be made into a Bingo board somehow

I started playing during affliction, cant comment on most stuff do to lack of experience, i really appreciate the simplicity of grave crafting and having the ability to get most items i need relatively easily and cheaply

This was my first time playing PoE ever. i tried the game for about 2 hours when it came out on steam, didnt like it and quit. idk how many decades ago was that. wanna give my take and wanted you all to know how noob i am. with that out of the way. i started with a ziz build, pretty ez to play, EA, ziz have a lot of content about the build that was really ez to get it to 90+. eventually i made to t16 with my EA, was doing pretty well in t16 then i tried a single t17 and was 1000% destroyed, felt like shit. that my character was trash and that i did something wrong. after annoying all streamers with noob questions i got to the conclusion that I had to lvl another character, one that was able to do t17. So i went and lvled a dead eye LA, i know. people meme about floor pov LA dead eye but i have to say. it was a mega blast leveling . super fun. got rid of my EA gear and put some LA pieces to start mapping. after a few days is when i realized that i was addicted to the game. i could not stop playing and i was still farming t16. having a giga blast. once i had some ~decent~ gear i decided to try t17 again and for my surprise it was an 180 from my EA try. i was clearing the map with few deaths to thing that i just dont know yet. right, giga radius mob skills, some mods that were deadly af for my build. after 2 weeks i managed to farm 2 mirrors, doing harvest 8-10 hours a day( yes im a loser) got myself a giga bow and quiver and managed to grab some new/better gear too, with that, t17 became an easy run. bosses dying in a few seconds and it felt like t16 again , im still trash doing uber bosses, i dont think that my build is the best for it, maybe it its and im just bad. with that said. i wonder how my perception of the game is skewed, right? coz until this league, t16 was the hardest map and all the builds were made thinkin of that and with t17 that changed a lot. t16 feels like its nothing. i can grab everysingle negative altar and still melt everything and still have way more fun playing t16 but i couldnt coz if i want to make any progress gear wise i need to farm t17 to get the currency needed , it can be done in t16 but it would take so much time and its not viable and as a new played i can only expect content hard or harder than t17, right? i cant see myself doing t16 if the game keeps the pace like this league and take makes me sad coz t16 was super fun to play but not worth for my currency . i wish i had played the game before to enjoy more t16 and more builds and not feel like im lacking so much by not doing t17, idk. new player talk. 100% noob but thats how i feel. loved the game. dropped idk 200 bucks already lol and i still have so much to learn and try, so much content, love it. well. thats all. have a good day everyone.

This league was nice ... np with the league and it was fun to play

Well put together video and I think you cover most of the major points. Personally, I wasn't able to league start properly from day 1 because of, you guess it lag, freaking lag where ping would jump to over 100k. It persisted for around 5-7 days, I was able to play for around maybe 10 hours total within that time without the interruption of lag. That completely ruined my mood about this league as it obviously make me lag behind most people.

Thanks for the amazing analysis, just wanna add some ssf perspective: I usually do my leaguestarter to get my atlas complete, then build into some sort of map farmer to farm enough crafting mats and uniques until i enough to create a nice boss killer. last season i had a pretty nice blade trap trickster and a indigon mana stacker (nice in terms of ssf, nothing crazy in trade) and killed ubers even more than once cuz i had so much fun. this season on the other hand i stopped after the voidstones cuz i really didnt find ANY motivation in myself to do another map. i agree, with you: i wasnt angry or anything, it just was apathy. when i saw how annoying reaching ubers was I just quit. the last implementation maybe wasnt great for trade, which i agree was horrible design, but the current drop rates are just a joke for ssf. and since they just stole the meaningful loot from normal pinnacle bosses, all motivation to do those is gone. in my mind, normal pinnacles dont even exist anymore (just elder for the eye). the league mechanic is barely worth mentioning for ssf : i got an relatively early 6-link which is nice, but after that... the farming required to get something meaningful is just crazy. while being a lot stronger maxed out, the main problem is that you usually want the same corpses over and over (more gems and less attacks eg) so while you farm those, you will get quad tabs full of other corpses. i got full on ptsd after my 3rd quad tab when i even looked at them.

For me: corpses covering screen, exhausting to buy corpes you need and you can't skip leauge mechanic. Everything forced upon you takes away things i love with game.

Man the Totem-explode build was the most fun build i've ever played. So sad that they nerfed it to death after Crucible league.

I'm just hoping GGG is taking all of this feedback into consideration and learn from their mistakes. I know they can, because they've been through this before. One can only hope, though. I'm still playing and learning, even though I'm not really enjoying the league. Biggest thing for me is the added difficulty with the lantern mods. So stupid. It's like a mini-Misery Gauntlet. lmao

Hope that some poe developers see this video!! And that they can draw some consteuctive ideas! - Less time consuming “clicking” - More prepatch league mechanic testing, especially taking out annoying league steps - More prepatch balance testing would be nice - Maybe do this with a couple preset builds bot simulators in random maps with a couple gear sets for all skills

Unpopular opinion - I had an incredible time playing 3.24. The lantern in the map device was so awesome. I didn’t get into the crafting other than doing the challenges. The allflames were really cool too

Spot on. The best thing about this league for me was the 3 Atlas trees and the new scarab changes which were easy to use and understand as well as a few of the new items like the spectre helmet. That's generally it for the things I remember to care for after quitting the league like 2-3 weeks in. Not much else I can think of on the spot. Besides that, really wish they'd bring back recombinators already. Recombs for 3.25 please GGG, thank you.

Maybe a bit off topic but for me main issue with PoE is that you die way more often by random one shots than just three leagues ago. I haven't played much Necropolis but last league I had a TS Deadeye with bloodnotch+immutable force, spell suppression and many more defensive options that pob made to around 50k ele res and 100k ehp. If I didn't run T16s transmuted at most I would never have a chance to get to level 100 and I only did alch&go without delirium or things like that.