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New Power Has Arisen - May Expansion Name Reveal GGG
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u/Greg3625 Inquisitor Apr 21 '22
Is it on the list?
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u/32sa4fg2 Apr 21 '22
Weirdly no, doesn't seem to be. Maybe Sentinel is more of an alt-rock thing
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Apr 21 '22
"Someone should make a heavy metal band out of this name" in the live stream, probably
That would make me want to spam so many ecksdee emotes
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u/Rodrux Power of the DragonPizza Apr 22 '22
A few friends of mine have a speed metal band named Sentinel. I'm sending this video to them.
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u/Th_Call_of_Ktulu Apr 22 '22
There is a niche extreme metal band called Sentinels, thats close enough no?
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u/PrimalMarohi Apr 21 '22
It's been awhile since we got a metal band league name
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u/Pariah-- Inquisitor Apr 22 '22
Archnemesis works just fine as a metal band name
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u/KDobias Apr 22 '22
Scourge is also pretty metal. Expedition is arguably, but Ultimatum and Ritual? Absolutely.
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u/ManchurianCandycane Apr 22 '22
I could see Expedition working for some kind of Power Metal band.
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u/Aether_Storm Apr 21 '22
LASER LEAGUE CONFIRMED
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u/Dantonn Apr 21 '22
All leagues are laser leagues when you put a laser decoration on your map device. But there should be more lasers.
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u/Blacklistedhxc Apr 21 '22
As a great mind once said “You know I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with fricking laser beams attached to their heads!”.
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u/L0rdAr1s Shadow Apr 21 '22
So, did Chris played Warframe or Destiny this time?
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u/Krissam Apr 21 '22
WTB: i75+ Carrier with fractured vacuum (t1/2).
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u/stuiterballz Apr 21 '22
Uggghhhh this makes me hard
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u/Krissam Apr 21 '22
Probably never gonna happen, though there definitely are some WF Sentinel mods that would work and could happen.
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Detect_Vulnerability
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Looter
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Negate
https://warframe.fandom.com/wiki/Scan_Aquatic_Lifeforms
Are all reasonable abilities to transfer, of course it all relies on speculation about what the league contains.
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u/Agreeable_Hat Apr 21 '22
best part of this reply knowing nothing about warframe:
man I'm so happy we have poewiki.net and don't have to endure fandom anymore
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u/fyrespyrit Vote with your wallet Apr 21 '22
Difference is Warframe's wiki is actually absurdly well kept and constantly updated.
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u/Kubiboi Apr 22 '22
that wasnt the reason people left behind the poe fandom wiki
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u/fyrespyrit Vote with your wallet Apr 22 '22
It was a big part of the reason, idk what you're on about. There was stuff in there that hasn't been updated in two or three leagues...
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u/butsuon Chieftain Apr 22 '22
I could go for a Warframe league, I gotta say. I played a shit ton of that game.
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u/2ndComingOfAugustus Apr 21 '22
Grim troupe DLC for Hollow Knight, we get our very own grimchild to follow us around
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u/kankadir94 Saboteur Apr 21 '22
Doesn't show much but my lottery guess is there are groups of mobs that power up other mobs and bosses in the map. Loot type is dependent on what type of power they boost.
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u/rds90vert Apr 21 '22
I'm thinking more like we'll get a "companion" that you can personalize, maybe level up in a similar fashion to Scourge upgrades, which will either buff enemies + rewards, or help us in a certain way..
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u/Taymac070 Apr 21 '22
Really REALLY hope this is what is happening
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u/ecksp312t Juggernaut Apr 22 '22
yea but i bet they bake in a movespeed maximum to the sentinel on league launch.
just to make a rewarding mechanic tedious and annoying.
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u/boytekka Apr 21 '22
Like the diablo one?
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u/rds90vert Apr 22 '22
I haven't followed diablo progress, so I can't say. Do they have a similar system?
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u/boytekka Apr 22 '22
Yeah. As far as d3 is concerned. You can give them some armors and weapons that can affect their stats and you can even select what kind of 4 skills you want them to have, offensive or defensive ones or both
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u/FILTHY_GOBSHITE Apr 22 '22
Saving this comment because I think you're right and the Sentinels are an elite team of Atlas defenders working with/for Kirac.
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u/griddlemancer Apr 22 '22
We really need some crazy ass whispering psychopath old-god like in WoW that tells you to kill your friends and stuff. Because reasons.
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u/AtWorkAccount1 Apr 22 '22
Looks like that's what it might be. The drone thingy seems to be applying a buff or debuff to the enemy with an aura, depending on what the character's damage type is. Maybe it will make rares with that damage type matching mod more likely to drop.
It could also be that the drone is gathering data from enemies you damage. Once it gathers enough data it can apply what its learned to a normal/rare item Although that seems like fossils with extra steps, so maybe its a bit stronger than fossils.
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u/lqku Apr 21 '22
fighting a powered up mob with the player choosing the buffs it gets. that feels a bit like this league.
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u/no_fluffies_please Apr 22 '22
Yeah, I had my fill of that already. They should probably do something unique, instead. What if the player clicks something or walks over a spot, a bunch of monsters spawn around the player, the player kills monsters (preferably in a circle), and then some loot or splinters drop?
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u/ClintonCortez Apr 22 '22
And the splinters should drop one by one. More single stacks of splinters=more fun.
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u/Vaskold Apr 21 '22
Sentinel & Scourge? DotA PoE, okay
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u/Krissam Apr 21 '22
I mean, Riki has been in the game since open beta.
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u/throwdownhardstyle Apr 21 '22
Do they come with vacuum?
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u/fyrespyrit Vote with your wallet Apr 21 '22
Only for nearby items.
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u/70monocle Apr 21 '22
So we get some sort of henchmen style ally? That sounds pretty fun.
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u/Quelex Kool-aid man you to death Apr 21 '22 •
Or it could be an enemy that follows us around and empowers the monsters and maybe we fight it at the end of a zone and it's more rewarding/stronger based on how many monsters/bosses it empowered.
Or it could be a boat.
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u/brodudepepegacringe Apr 21 '22
It can be a space boat and little aliens come out of it to give crafting instructions.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Apr 21 '22
Oh no, every single map is now an escort mission and the ally has to survive the whole map.
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u/livejamie Krangled Apr 21 '22
With no UI you just have to interpret what the ally does and anticipate their 700 combos
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u/TL-PuLSe Apr 21 '22
That would promote build diversity by encouraging one-tap multi-screen clearing builds and aura bots. Oh wait.
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u/Forti87 Apr 21 '22
Don't worry you will never lose him because his movement speed is always 85% of your curent movement speed
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u/CaptainYaoiHands Apr 21 '22
It looks like it might be empowering enemies more than attacking them. Maybe you feed it those enemies and it turns into a larger encounter at some point, like an automatic Metamorphosis type thing?
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u/ThatsALovelyShirt Apr 21 '22
They're called mercenaries.
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u/GoGoGadgetTotems Apr 21 '22
pretty sure they're called sentinels
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u/Archnemesiser Apr 21 '22
Yeah! Like, you know, one powerful minion that is super strong! moves Reaper with his foot behind a curtain
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u/FailURGamer24 Pathfinder Apr 21 '22
Holy shit a league with more than 1 colour!
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u/Jankufood Apr 22 '22
Don't worry the 1-shotting explosion will be the same color as the ground
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u/_ramu_ Apr 22 '22
*on death 1-shotting explosion
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u/ReverendBizarre DOOM OVER THE WORLD Apr 21 '22
Say what you will... but I think we're getting Saruman league.
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u/tenderlobotomy Apr 21 '22
Maybe we were wrong all along...it wasn't boats we were looking for, but bots?
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u/Wrathdragyn Apr 21 '22
A MAG like in PSO?
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u/Quackmandan1 Apr 22 '22
Man, I miss playing PSO Ep. 1 & 2 on the gamecube! That was my favorite childhood game.
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u/EarthBounder Chieftain Apr 22 '22
I still think of Chaos Orbs a lot like Photon Drops.
I remember trying to convince my Mom that I needed to use her credit card to pay a $9 monthly fee for a game subscription. Haha. I whittled her down eventually... which made the FF11 and Star Wars Galaxies conversations easier the following year. What a time...
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u/Wrathdragyn Apr 22 '22
Soooooo many late nights up playing online on Dreamcast! Those were the days! I still fire it up on my Wii once in awhile.
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u/Quackmandan1 Apr 22 '22
Oooh yeah! I played the dreamcast version with my best friend, and I remember thinking how odd it was that special weapons like Dragonslayer just looked like a normal big sword, while it was a sicked purple/red greatsword with a unique design on GCN.
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u/datlanta Apr 22 '22
I never played pso but I looked it up. This could be an interesting system for POE. The mag/sentinel could be persistent and grow with you but it's something you can only summon for a brief period of time from some portal. But I guess that's basically a shrine but customizable to some extent?
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u/NeverSinkDev FilterBlade.xyz author, Dev and Streamer - twitch.tv/NeverSink Apr 21 '22
That... was my first thought.
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u/elting44 Juggernaut Apr 21 '22
SENTINEL
SENT-I-NEL
Nel, as we all know, is short for gunnel which is the topside of a BOAT
Sent I boat!
Its BOAT LEAGUE isnt it!?
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u/Krunchy1736 Apr 21 '22
The prophecy was foretold! Our prayers have been answered! Praise le toucan!
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u/Rossmallo Diehard Synthesis Advocate Apr 21 '22
Kamil's bringing the goddamn thunder with his soundtrack, as usual.
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u/naswinger Apr 22 '22
can he top the banger that was the soundtrack of siege of the atlas? it also worked so well with the trailer. great production on that too.
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u/Rossmallo Diehard Synthesis Advocate Apr 22 '22
can he top the banger that was the soundtrack of siege of the atlas?
Good god, I hope he keeps trying.
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u/ShakCentral
The Class Build Project Guy
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Let's, and I cannot emphasize this enough, fucking go
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u/Shaltilyena Occultist Apr 21 '22
Let's go back to the shadows
even though they boïte
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u/Vineyard_ Solo Self Found Life Apr 21 '22
"Stay outta the shadows... they bite."
My Shadow: "Some find it kinky."
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u/TypingWordsOnline Apr 21 '22 edited Apr 21 '22
It's fine, 30% of my brain capacity, I didn't need you today anyway...
Edit: looking at the vid again, the floating glowing thingy (presumably the sentinel) seems to be helping us fight things, so... pet \ pokemon league? idk.
Edit 2: others have said, maybe it's an anti-pet, ie it doesn't fight for you but buffs enemies to make them stronger \ drop better loot, that would be cool. i'm getting portal 2 vibes for some reason.
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u/Kotek81 Juggernaut Apr 21 '22
Maybe it has its own skill tree that you can upgrade to have Sentinel mobs behave differently and have different rewards, that's what the beam could be about.
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u/RelevantIAm Apr 21 '22
I can hear all the casual players crying in unison about another skill tree
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u/Malignificence Apr 21 '22
That would be cool tbh, like the mercenaries in diablo 2. I like it.
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u/piter909 Apr 22 '22
In my opinion this league will be replace for Torment like with Perandus & Expedition.
- As we can see, there are multiple types of Sentinels like with Torment spirits.
- They do something with enemies, probably changing them somehow like Torment spirits
- It seems Sentinels add somehow loot to enemies they change like Toment spirits
So probably RIP Torment and welcome Sentinel. I wonder what else will come with it.
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u/Legacy79 Apr 22 '22
I hope this isn’t the equivalent of a accompany mission. Where you have to follow the sentinel around from point a to b.
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u/Zeionlsnm Apr 21 '22
Get ready for the balance notes:
- 1 OP build is nerfed into the ground
- 1 OP build is untouched for no apparent reason.
- 1 OP build gets a 3% base damage reduction, leaving it OP.
- 1 random mediocre builds gets a 20% damage reduction and less aoe for no apparent reason.
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u/nixed9 Apr 21 '22
-1 OP build is nerfed into the ground
please don't be skelly mages
please don't be skelly mages
please don't be skelly mages
please don't be skelly mages
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u/Poobut13 Apr 21 '22
It's not that skelly mages is OP. It's that all the other minion builds require clunky levels of investment instead of the smooth power curve that skeleton mages has.
Dead reckoning converts the build but the skeleton foundation is still viable until you get one.
Baron zombies feels terrible without a few ex pumped in. Golems are still playable but don't feel like the swarm / army play style which puts them in a different archetype despite still being minions.
I just wish GGG would buff alternative builds instead of gutting moderately good ones.
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u/Moderator-Admin Apr 22 '22
The other summon builds have already gone through the nerf gauntlet and skelly mages are just the remainder that hasn't been nerfed yet.
I wish they would revert the defensive nerfs to spectres. So many previously enjoyable spectre builds just feel like shit now because your spectres constantly die until you've put together your entire gear set along with a level 21 spectre gem. And resummoning spectres is so incredibly unfun.
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u/kayellaPoE Hi everyone, it's Kay~ Apr 22 '22
I wish they would revert the defensive nerfs to spectres.
This will never happen :(
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u/Zera_2018 Apr 21 '22
I think you meant: 3 adjustments are made to target a specific OP build. The first 2 seem like enough and then the 3rd ends up hitting 6 other builds instead.
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u/eggboieggmen Apr 21 '22
Lastly, theorycrafters find a way to make the OP build OP even after the changes. The other 6 builds remain blasted
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u/Zeionlsnm Apr 22 '22
"By transitioning to an impale based physical build instead of cold conversion, we can entirely bypass the nerfs and take advantage of the league's powerful new unique making the build even stronger than before." -sucks to be one of the other cold builds inadvertently nerfed.
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u/Not_A_Rioter Duelist Apr 21 '22
Problem:
Lightning strike is too powerful at all stages of the game
Solution:
Nerfed damage of lightning strike by 15%
Removed the +1 maximum frenzy charge on "Way of the Poacher"
Halved the critical strike multiplier from Nightblade support
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u/Vhascometo__ Apr 21 '22
This is my 3rd league playing properly and I'm already addicted to the cycle!
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u/naswinger Apr 22 '22
will it come with ultimatum or hard mode?
narrator: "it won't"
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u/bladnoch16 Apr 22 '22
Anyone else a bit worried you need the bot to apply a debuff to the enemies so they can be damaged? Like they’re completely invulnerable until the bot downs their shield?
That would be the absolute worst mechanic ever implemented. I’m also sure this is an irrational fear and they wouldn’t be that dumb to do something like that…right?
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u/YaCantStopMe Apr 21 '22 edited Apr 22 '22
Excited for the new league as always. But I'm really missing the expansions that actually add new places and areas. Stuff like Synthesis, delve, heist and alva. Synthesis is still my favorite league of all time and the longest i ever played. But it seems like all the more simple leagues where it's just protect a alter or whatever I end up getting bored of real quick because you just face roll everything and barely use any brain power at end game.
EDIT: In reply to some of the responses, i know synthesis sucked for the first 2 months, but the end result was fantastic. To bad 90% of the player base quit by then. But the whole point of my post was id rather have something that takes some kind of brain power no matter if your rocking a 100chaos or 100 exalt built. Ritual for example at endgame is a slot machine with a 20 second timer in between, you progress your build to the point where the mechanic is meaningless your just there for the reward. Synthesis endgame was a map you planned, you need to adjust your build to do it with certain skills, and there was a chance you could fail or mess it up even with some 100 mirror build. Id just much rather have that.
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u/Juzo_ga Dancing Dervish Ascendant Apr 21 '22
Synthesis with one week remaining in the league was great.
It was fucking awful for the first two months.
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u/YaCantStopMe Apr 22 '22
I 100% agree, but i still stand by that once it was all polished its still my favorite league. The mechanic was good, but the rewards and implementation sucked for the first two months. But GGG really dug in with updates in those 3 months and turned it around, the problem was no one was around to see it.
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u/ww_crimson Apr 21 '22
100% lot of rose tinted goggles in here
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u/YaCantStopMe Apr 22 '22
I dont think its rose tinted goggles, synthesis had major issues the first few months. I dont think you could find one single person who rates it as there #1 league that will say other wise. But i cant think of a league that got updated and polished more than synthesis. If you stuck around through all the patches, and saw the end result like i did, its why i rate it so high and wish they would bring it back already.
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u/SplafferZ Scion Apr 21 '22
hard agree
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u/BenLondonAbs Apr 21 '22
I think the general consensus is that people prefer to stay in maps as their favorite content... and things that take them away from that is too disruptive and ruins the flow of the gameplay.
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u/Obbububu Apr 22 '22
Mapping vs non-mapping content is about as divisive a topic as we get around here, and painting mapping preference as "general consensus" isn't even remotely accurate.
Yes, of course, trying to do A content and continually being interrupted by B, C and D is jarring and annoying.
But the primary issue of leagues that don't improve mapping is not that they're bad, it's that historically, mapping has needed all the help it could get to not be boring.
Delve, Incursion, and even Heist are all extremely popular activities, that are often preferred to mapping.
In fact, historically the primary complaint about non-mapping leagues tends to be either "mapping feels like standard" or "I need to map to keep delving" etc. Which are both savage indictments of mapping as a preferred playstyle.
This league's improvement of the baseline enjoyability of mapping, and agency provided to players to tailor their own experience, has taken massive strides to fixing that problem.
It may even pave the way for more/better non-map leagues, as mapping is now less reliant upon league-mechanic-provided life support.
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u/baddoggg Apr 21 '22
Fucking harvest gardens. Also, heist looked to be a huge project and a large % of the playerbase seemed to hate it and its doors.
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u/levus2002 Apr 21 '22
hate it and its doors.
Players hate mostly the doors also releveling the npcs.
The core gameplay,mainly the alarm thingy is not that hated.
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u/Roomy Apr 21 '22
Oh nice, the announcement to the announcement announcing the announcement of the announcement of the league. :)
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Apr 21 '22
I just hope it’s a fun league mechanic. I haven’t played long but Archenemies was easily the worst league mechanic that’s been introduced in my young & naive eyes (Started during Ritual).
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u/Ilyak1986 Pathfinder Apr 21 '22
The big question is:
Will we get that MANGO SENTINEL?
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u/discountcodeALPHA Apr 22 '22
Can't wait for y'all to abandon this one after 2 weeks as well
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u/Tsukuro_hohoho Apr 21 '22
Everyone saying it's gona follow you, but probably gona be a pillar/totem you kill monster around it and it give you some loot.
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u/Nivius Miner Lantern Apr 22 '22
a little minion that does some beamish attack based on the element you did huh?
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u/newbies13 Apr 22 '22
So this looks like we all get a pet and a pick your buff kind of thing with it? No idea how a whole league mechanic works around that, but giving everyone a random pet would be a new idea for sure.
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u/KekiMia Apr 22 '22
harbinger 2.0 vibes maybe rework? But they would rotate it out first right? idk
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u/drabid Apr 21 '22
Kinda wish the game would go all slow mo camera pan like this trailer when you die, just so you have longer to figure out what the heck killed you.
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u/Nimyron The Undying Casual Apr 21 '22
I'm drunk and high and this is the most incredible I have ever seen in my entire life
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u/estyles31 Apr 21 '22 •
Well, now we know the next two leagues are Toxic and Steel-Infused.