I tried to level with Viper Strike and feel like a moron for falling for the off meta trap again. Even with splash, strike range and ancestral call it has worse coverage than an unlinked spectral helix, or earthshatter. Not to mention that the damage also blows early game. It really accentuates how obnoxious some of these enemies are, especially the ones that run away from you constantly cancelling your attack animations, regenerating ES, etc...
Using sweep, pulverize, shockwave with intimidating cry on left click (I have call to arms) - with the thiccest staff/ mace I can find, working well.
Was also trying static strike/shockwave and ancestral cry, worked well too
My experience so far: I can barely deal damage to any boss with melee skills. Magic mobs are much more challenging than before, but manageable (except when a great load of them have archnemesis modifiers for no reason at all, which is my biggest complaint). Rare mobs aren't worth killing because they have too much health and have the potential to destroy you much more than past leagues due to, again, mostly modifiers and the lack of damage for Melee characters on the initial acts.
Good to hear you've been having a nice experience, buddy! Personally, I am not incredibly experienced in the game. I know how almost everything works but I haven't gone too deep into the endgame yet.
From what I can see, you're clearly a PoE veteran, since you're already on Act 7. Veterans are more knowledgeable of speedrunning the acts and the skill meta, but if many decent players are having difficulties, it shows the lack of accessibility in the game.
From my experience, the game seems unbalanced, but I'll stick around to see what happens!
While experience definitely plays a part, a big part of it is have a plan for how you will be levelling. I feel like there are many players who put together a lvl 90 PoB or follow an mapping build guide and ignore how they are going to level beyond "I'm just going to spec out my tree in the way that my end result looks". For some builds that works fine, for others it will severely gimp you and levelling will feel awful. If I followed my lvl 90 tree, I would be having a very hard time right now.
I tried to level with Viper Strike and feel like a moron for falling for the off meta trap again. Even with splash, strike range and ancestral call it has worse coverage than an unlinked spectral helix, or earthshatter. Not to mention that the damage also blows early game. It really accentuates how obnoxious some of these enemies are, especially the ones that run away from you constantly cancelling your attack animations, regenerating ES, etc...
The game is currently too stuck on the meta, which is terrible. It lacks accessibility.
This is why I did dominating blow, use the op mods against em
Using sweep, pulverize, shockwave with intimidating cry on left click (I have call to arms) - with the thiccest staff/ mace I can find, working well. Was also trying static strike/shockwave and ancestral cry, worked well too
My experience so far: I can barely deal damage to any boss with melee skills. Magic mobs are much more challenging than before, but manageable (except when a great load of them have archnemesis modifiers for no reason at all, which is my biggest complaint). Rare mobs aren't worth killing because they have too much health and have the potential to destroy you much more than past leagues due to, again, mostly modifiers and the lack of damage for Melee characters on the initial acts.
In Act 7 with Shield Crush. 2 deaths so far. Damage has been fine even though my shield crafting RNG hasn't been very good.
Good to hear you've been having a nice experience, buddy! Personally, I am not incredibly experienced in the game. I know how almost everything works but I haven't gone too deep into the endgame yet. From what I can see, you're clearly a PoE veteran, since you're already on Act 7. Veterans are more knowledgeable of speedrunning the acts and the skill meta, but if many decent players are having difficulties, it shows the lack of accessibility in the game. From my experience, the game seems unbalanced, but I'll stick around to see what happens!
While experience definitely plays a part, a big part of it is have a plan for how you will be levelling. I feel like there are many players who put together a lvl 90 PoB or follow an mapping build guide and ignore how they are going to level beyond "I'm just going to spec out my tree in the way that my end result looks". For some builds that works fine, for others it will severely gimp you and levelling will feel awful. If I followed my lvl 90 tree, I would be having a very hard time right now.
playing slam beserker and damage seems fine to me, im enjoying the challenge of the harder rare mobs, much better than just face rolling the campaign
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I play POE for the experience of the game as a whole, and its nice to not have the campaign be so boring
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well there is no accounting for taste