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SvennoJ 5 days ago
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JRPGfan said:

You say that now.... but give it time, and you too will be converted.

In POE seasons usually run 3-4 months.
And honestly thats fine.  In POE1, your "respec" points are hard to come by.... and expensive to buy as curency, so often times, its cheaper/faster (than farming for it) to just reroll the character.

Once you master the art of running through the campagne it takes like 6-7 hours (if your a godly speed runner type, you can go down to like 3hours).
At that point, your at maps and ready to start chaseing endgame and crafting upgrades, and collecting/completeing challenges for free skins and effects (every season has them, so its like a "to-do-list" to challenge yourself with). (if your a newbie, you might take like 13-15hours)

Anyways.... since its always right before the weekend, in those 2days, you typically go 12-16hour of gameplay pr day.
People prep meals, and plan sleep ect around new league launchs, and challenge themselves to see how they end up on the ladders rushing through it.
After a week or so, typically the upgrade paths are minor ones, and its just more fun to make a new character and do it all again.
(maybe you had differnt builds for differnt content options or farming strategies? ect ect)

Anyways 3-4 months is plently long, when most people usually only play their characters like a week or slightly longer before rerolling.
The league mechanics are typically added to the game, so POE is huge, theres so many differnt paths of endgame to enjoy that it appeals to many differnt types.

However I feel like most go for completeing the atlas, and doing enough challenges, for whatever skin they are trying to unlock that season.
Maybe do a few Ubers?


"So yeah, hopefully something carries over."

Your character doesn't die, but its moved from "whatever this league is" to standard league (graveyard of old characters).
Like 99% of POE players, don't care that seasons last 3-4 months, and thats it.
When your character is moved to standard, you go on to play the new season, with new mechanics and content.
You can recreate your "old" character if you wanted, in the new league.

Honestly I love running the champagne and trying differnt builds.
I get some crazy idea, and just go try it out.
its part of the charm and appeal of POE, and why it can last so long.
Plus every so often, theres new abilities (skill gems) (support gems), changes to acensions, balance changes ect ect.
So its often fresh..... and you watch some youtuber (like mathil : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnaP100kTBB_WGM9IiF73yw )
Do something silly, and your like "I gotta try that, it looks fun".

We did make alternate characters in Everquest and WoW, but only 1 or 2 and we always went back playing our main characters, 4 years for Everquest, 3 years in WoW. We briefly tried ranger / witch combo yet both of us weren't impressed by missing out on melee. Hack 'n slash play style without hack n' slash isn't much fun :p. Is the game going to add more melee classes?

But yes, once the campaign is doubled it's a good incentive to play through the story again.

We can't play 12-16 hour sessions anymore! It takes us 2 weeks to run through the 3 Acts. Plus multipayer is fine where it is now, invisible. (Doesn't work in couch co-op, we're always alone until one of us logs in alone) So the whole 'competition' and trade marketplace are moot to us. (We haven't signed up for the trade shop either, needs another account)

Anyway Poe2 lets you rebuild you character at any time (apart from the Ascendancy class I think) so why start over :p I've rerouted our passive trees plenty times, tried different skills from different classes but our play style preferences are pretty firm after 25 years!

One thing we both hate, watching You tubers. Guides are the most I'll look up, my wife isn't interested at all in the 'meta game'. But I assume there will be a lvl limit. We never reached the limit in Everquest since that kept adding more levels, skills, spells, alternate xp and new zones twice a year. That was ideal for longevity but we did have a $13 a month subscription (x2) and 2x new expansion to buy twice a year. Very much opposite to ftp!