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Now we're even getting colour-coded for stupid? What does that have to do with 'stupid'? It's just convenience. Usually I had to mouse-over 3+ pages of items in my stash while selling after a big dungeon/longer time, because I didn't want to sell any unique items. Now this whole process is sped up a lot. But how is Draining Whip now working as intended? Doesn't it apply on Blunderbuss projectiles anymore? Or what happened? Great overall fixes/balance changes "It's just convenience" has been the argument for many of the baby-steps to mediocrity. Dividing things into sharp lines of "uniques" and "magicals" and "rares" is the tradition of immersionless games centred on lootwhoring, not RPG:s. PoE already suffers from itemization issues of gear not feeling special, and now the "uniques" gets lumped into a shared subgroup, that is colour-coded for stupid. What a load of hogwash. It's convenient and that's the end of it. If you really think being smart has anything to do with playing video games you're sorely mistaken.

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I've just started the game but feel a bit overwhelmed with the options available, mainly what race and character class to choose. I would like a fun build, rather than the most powerful build. I did some light reading and it seems that Fighters are strong but one of the best (or rather, interesting to have in your party) recruitable NPCs is a fighter and I don't want a "fighter redundancy". Wizards also seem underpowered, and whilst I want a fun build, I don't want someone who feels worthless. I'm not new to these types of games at all but it has been years since I've played them, hence me feeling overwhelmed. Thanks for any advice, much appreciated.