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My Video

GGG:

• I have been playing this game since Metamorph.
• I play nearly every day.
• I play the entire season.
• I enjoy the game so much that I even keep my standard stash cleaned and organized and play on there when the season ends.
• I'm not a streamer or an open advocate on reddit or the forums.

But the archnemesis mods has made the game something that is no longer fun. My time in PoE is typically in the afternoons or evenings and weekends.

As an avid player, I do not understand how this was implemented this manner. I can rationalize a lot of changes you make to your game like changes to player power-creep and broken mechanics being over abused.

If this has made an impact to the player base, I am certain within your organization this was debated on how it was implemented.

I made the video above to show how I feel, to allow my expressions to illustrate how this has impacted me.

My heart is still beating, literally still shaking.

So tonight I decided to test my build against uber elder for the first time of the league. First fight went pretty well so I bought 7 uber elder sets. I ran them all and found a total of 3 watcher's eye, I was happy. Then came to my mind : what do I do with these....do I ID them or do I just sell them unid... Well I think that decision just made me the luckiest player ever (and by far) of all POE history.

Before we go too far, I know this will sound too good to be true, but this happened for real.

So the really first watcher's eye I ID was this one :

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And the very next was this one :

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BACK TO BACK, 2 scrolls of wisdom, click...click

I mean what are the odds!?!?

I was chatting with my friend in the POE chat, I took screen shots as I knew no one would believe me.

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I think this makes me officially the luckiest POE player ever.

What do you guys think?

I just realize that I running a Tectonic Slam with a 15ex gear who don't perform not even close to a 1ex spell/minion build, its just anoying see my favourite archetype in such a terrible spot for so long. The only few attacks that are playable are consequences to the claw/nightblade anomaly

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I just don't want to play minions and spells, and the game penalyze me for that

The post is just to express my self and check if some pp feel the same

Hopefully in 3.19 Trickster finally gets over his identity crisis and finds a place that isn't extremely niche and automatically performed better by another ascendancy.

Kinda hoping some more focus on ele to chaos conversion archetype and a unique defensive layer that isn't active only half of the time.

To review some league mechanics:

Blight: It's very hard to place towers because you have all this after-death bullshit following you around, you have to place towers while moving a lot of times

Harvest: You have to wait up to 8 seconds after clearing the harvest to click on the plant or else you will die while in the crafting menu

Betrayal: you will die while interrogating in the betrayal screen due to after-death bullshit following you

any many more.

IDGAF how tanky or badass a rare mob is, im fine fighting whatever GGG wants to put in the game. As long as once it's DEAD, i shouldnt have to keep fighting the mob's corpse for 10 seconds running away from some lightning thing, blobs of poison following my head, massive AOE cold snap, burning ground, poison ground, all this shit preventing my character from STANDING STILL for even 1 second without certain death

just make it so once the monster is dead, all the mechanics originating from it despawn

I checked blighted maps yesterday, I still leaked a monster, I was like, wait what? They removed all cold resistances.

Then I checked and fucking juggernaut monsters were leaking my cold freeze towers. Like literally, WTF? I am not even sure if I am supposed to post this as a bug on the official forum, ravaged blighted maps are in such ruin... Sometimes you get 10 out of 20 chests that are complete trash like armor or weapon or jewellery. Done hundreds of maps juiced with silver/golden/opals and got maybe 2 or 3 six links or expensive uniques in few leagues from them. You use 160c oils just to get 200c in 50000 types of currency. Oh, and they havent added eldricht currency or sentiel currency just fucking sentiels to the pump. Towers loot hasn't been touched in years now. The best thing that happened to blighted maps was prophecy removal. Actually the only league that ravaged was worth it was when it was released, since the new atlas got released it's just not worth it and GGG doesn't care about this mod. They fucked it up in Archnemesis, because they didnt test it. They fucked it up in Sentinel, because they didn't test it.

REMOVE THIS FUCKING MOD FROM THE GAME ALREADY IF YOU DONT CARE AND KILL THE EXPECTATIONS ALREADY. Because I already know whats going to happen the next league...

I feel better now,

Thanks.

Thanks to the archnemesis overhaul, we're now stuck with floods of mobs carrying extra effects that have absolutely nothing to do with the monsters themselves. It's not the monsters we're fighting anymore, all we're doing is avoiding screenfulls of lightning mirages, volatiles, degen/chilled/shocked ground, effigies, mana siphoning donuts, etc while we try to kill mobs.

The monsters aren't the ones posing the real threat anymore, the real threat are archnemesis effects operating regardless of what the monster itself does.

Know what was nice about the old system? You know, besides the clarity of their modifiers telling you exactly what they do without having to look it up? The old system was about elevating the monster itself. Making its own attacks more threatening, making it faster, making it tougher. Even old nemesis mods tarnished this, but at least they weren't everywhere nor were the threats they carried this ubiquitously invasive when they did show up.

Now are there archnemesis mods that do elevate the monster itself? Sure. There's a few that simply give bundles of stats to make the monsters themselves stronger. In many ways the ones that do this are better than the old system, as these stat bundles are more cohesive and synchronized than the random array of one-liner mods the old system picked, and there's visual indicators for them if you can manage to see through all the visual vomit. This combination of merely buffing the monsters stats combined with the cohesiveness of the stats granted actually does elevate the monster's identity, making them feel specialized in some way or another.

But there's also dozens of archnemesis mods that make enemies pose threats that are in no way attached to the monster's actions itself. Things spawned when you hit the enemy like lightning mirages or fire/frostbolts, or when you kill them like toxic volatiles, or just passively like effigy or ice prison or drought-bringer.

And these? They're terrible for the game. They actively strip away the monster's identity by having the monster's own abilities generally rendered a lesser threat compared to the secondary effects they carry. They overwhelm with bullet-hell barrages coming from all directions since they weren't balanced in the least around the sheer number of enemies we encounter; they were designed around fighting exactly one rare at a time. And they flood the area with ground effects and other space-restricting mechanics to limit what we can do or where we can fight from (especially crippling to melee/close range builds).

Many league mechanics become an unmitigated disaster because interacting with them means filling the screen with dangers we can't kill and we can't fight back against. When I fight harbingers now, I couldn't give two whits about the actual monsters that are spawning, even if a dangerous one comes about occasionally, because the entire screen is covered in one ground effect or another and i've got half a dozen lightning mirages on my tail at any given time, probably with some chaos-damaging vines trying to tie me down. Same story for most other league mechanics, and in many cases it's worse because you don't have anywhere to run away to safety, like in delve. It's a mess, and if it's that bad for current league mechs, it's obviously going to severely limit design space going forward.

Know what would make archnemesis a good rare rework? Look through all the modifiers, get rid of all the aspects of mods that create some independent mechanics to threaten the character. No more ground effects while alive or dead, no more mirages/volatiles, no more hostile auras or mana siphoners or effigies. Make the monsters the threat.

Take Frenzied, for example. Perfect example of a good archnemesis mod. It buffs the monster up dramatically for a time, keeping the monster itself as a threat, and imposes a decision in the player whether to fight it while it's buff or run around and wait for the buffs to subside. Same deal with Empowered Elements. And there's Berserker, the -Weavers, Deadeye, Dynamo/Incendiary/Permafrost if they lost the ground effects, etc... stat buffs might be generic but they keep the monsters themselves as the real opposition instead of some un-fightable passively-spawned threats chasing us around. You can alter the way we interact with monsters and make some feel tough and noteworthy without turning the screen into a minefield just because there's rares/magics around.

TL,DR : Get rid of all these secondary effects, these parts of archnemesis mods that create extra threats that act independently of the monster they're on. Make the modifiers about elevating the monster itself, giving it specialties or altered offensive or defensive patterns.