2013-11-07, 09:02 PM
Endgame Wrote:I'm a D3 player looking for something to tide me over until RoS comes out and (hopefully) fixes D3's problems, and I have a few questions:
1. It is my understanding that the character customization is one of the main reasons why PoE is "what D3 should have been", but what other advantages does it have over D3? Does it have the actual Endgame content that D3 lacks?
2. The character customization, exactly how much do we get to experiment with it? Do we get to fix mistakes, or is it like pre-respec D2 where we have to start all over again to fix mistakes/swap things up because we found a legendary that would make another skill better than what we've been using?
3. Furthermore, since you can apparently use the Skill Tree to boost anything and from the sounds of things make Marauders with magic abilities, I'm wondering, are such hybrid builds viable?
4. How is the EXP curve?
5. Since there's an EXP penalty upon death in this game, I'm wondering, does the game have cheap deaths like D3 has when you fight, for example, Vortex Arcane Enchanted Fire Chains enemies in narrow spaces or anything of the sort?
Many people gave good answers to this already so I wanted to expand on this.
1. In Diablo 3, if your loot didn't have the trifecta stats then it was basically useless. It is true you are always looking for the main stats in PoE but there's an element of choice. Do you want evasion/armour/energy shield or maybe a hybrid on gear? Do you want to go physical or elemental or spell damage for wands? Even if an item is awful for you, it can be amazing for another player whereas every d3 barb will want to use the same legendary/2H weapon with the same kinds of stats. I find the amount of choices a bad thing too since this means people can't instantly jump in and have fun for PoE because it takes (a lot of) time to understand how everything works and once you do, you will appreciate the game much more.
2. You get a total of 18 respec points by finishing the quests. The regret orbs that everyone talked about aren't too expensive so you can actually use some if it was absolute necessary. It is much easier to reroll though if you messed up more than +20 points. However, you are not tied to any skills permanently so if you found a legendary you wanted to use and you must use a different skill, as long as your passive tree is similar to the other build, you can just swap out the skills.
3. You can travel to other parts of the passive tree so yeah, those builds are possible. Besides, you can scale strength(maruader side) to your spell/range damage through support gems or a certain passive keynode.
5. There are no cheap deaths where you're completely hopeless and just die(fear, vortex, jailer i'm looking at you). As you understand the mechanics, you will understand how and why you died. I find the only legitimate excuse to die is if you desync or lag.