[[balancing] Cipher/Chanter too strong?]

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[[balancing] Cipher/Chanter too strong?]

This is probably too big a change to make post-release, but what about simply having ciphers start combat with zero focus?

 

Too me it makes more sense with lore anyway, since they're supposed to depend on draining soul energy to fuel their powers -- why would they walk around fully charged?

[Prisoners in Act 2?]

I built the prison at Caed Nua as soon as I could. But I've just finished Act 2, and I haven't yet been given a chance to imprison anybody.

 

Did I miss anyone in Act 2 you can put in the dungeon, or are they all later on?

[There are no words....]

.....can I get that sword?

 

No, I think Felicia's using it.

[No buffing outside of combat, why?]

Funny, buffing before combat is "bad for game balance" but having unlimited inventory/weapons/equipment/poitions/scrolls is totally OK and not unbalanced.

 

You have really strictly limited combat items.

 

You have an unlimited stash -- which affects nothing in game balance but convenience.

[There are no words....]

Only sighs and moans.

 

 

[PoE - Sales figures STEAM]

Well, they must be at least fairly happy with the sales, because according to Twitter, they're hiring.

[This game is so, so gorgeous]

I remember reading that there's a specific landscape painter the art director was inspired by in choosing the palette and quality of light for the game -- but I can't remember who it was and I can't find the link anymore.

 

Anyone have this info?

[Why not every mobs give XP ?]

You get XP for fighting new types of enemy -- until you completely unlock their entry in the bestiary, after which you've learned all they can teach you and you don't get any more XP.

 

The first several times you kill a new type of monster, your combat log will show what percent of the bestiary you've unlocked for them.

[Remember "with objective XP no one will do combat anymore, all enemies will be avoided"?]

The drop off from Act 1 to Act 2 is gigantic! Are there only two Acts in the game?

 

I've been playing steadily every night since release, and I haven't finished Act II. Some of us are durdlers.

[Remember "with objective XP no one will do combat anymore, all enemies will be avoided"?]

I did skip a couple of rooms on the way out of the Skaen temple, and was very happy to have the freedom to do so.

[Bronze Beneath the Lake: Must kill Vithrack?]

I let the Vithrack live in the Engwithan ruins under the lake. Did I give up my only chance for a "soul vessel" to complete the quest with the stone heads?

[I killed Harond in secret -- Why the Rep?]

I stealthily stabbed Lord Harond and then snuck away. How am I getting either positive rep with Dyrford or negative rep with Defiance Bay? The whole point is no one knows I did it.

 

Also, I'm super-irritated that I didn't get the opportunity to ruin him but let him live.

 

Also also, kind of distressed that Aelys didn't make it to the chapel of Berath like I told her. Did the beetles get her?

[The Intelligence attribute vs fun]

I pumped Int on my cipher, but all he ever casts is Mind Blades so it doesn't do me a bit of good.

[Multiclass]

I've never met a multiclass system I didn't try to break, but I don't think this game is really meant for it.

 

The class mechanics are too specific: keeping track of Focus, Wounds and Chant verses on the same guy would be just ridiculous -- even the icons are in the same place on the portrait.

 

It's something I can see happening with a more generally reworked class system in a sequel three years from now -- but not an expansion.

[Who would you remove in this group for Hiravias?]

First thing they should do is remove the debuff Ranger gets when a pet goes down. 

 

Here's an idea: pet death actually inspires the ranger to berserk rage -- for a brief time followed by a debuff period to avoid abuse of the effect.

[Am I the only one who doesn't like Monks at all ?]

PoE monks aren't supposed to be the "karate kids" usually associated with this class name in other games.

 

They're supposed to be more western-styled ascetic monks who gain power through sacrifice and mortification of the flesh.

[PoE - Sales figures STEAM]

God, this thread is trolling me so hard.

 

I'm actually curious to know what the sales figures are, so every time some twit bumps the thread to whine about the dirty quatrain (it's not a limerick!), I get suckered into clicking by the optimistic hope that there's some on-topic information being posted.

 

And I suppose I'm now doing the same thing to someone else with this content-free post!

[Betrayed by my hirelings?]

Oh ... is THIS why I always have to rehire hirelings after every time I defend the keep? They're turning hostile and getting killed?

 

I can't be expected to keep track of every blue circle!

[PoE - Sales figures STEAM]

Those sales are great, especially given how many people got a copy 'for free' by backing the game through Kickstarter. 

 

I don't know how scientific this is, but according to Steam 17.2% of players have the "Kickstarter Backer" achievement -- so we are a sizable minority of the game's Steam audience, but still a minority.

[Better without stronghold?]

I think they should make the Brighthollow resting bonuses stack. It wouldn't be that unbalancing -- the best you could end up with is a +1 to all stats which is good but not huge.

[Please, Please, Please, automate resting in the stronghold]

So I have to go to the second level of brighthollow then USE camping supplies to rest?!

 

No, just click the bed.

 

But yes, /signed. It's a long walk!

[Hidden Items and Stealth made me stop playing the game...]

There's no real reason to tie scouting to stealth. It should be a passive based on the Mechanics skill.

[Seems like XP balance is out of whack]

This shouldn't come as a surprise -- an entire new source of XP was added late in development. It's natural that they didn't have time to completely rebalance the game after bestiary XP was added.

[PoE - Sales figures STEAM]

the limerick

 

It's not a limerick!