i don't think switching is going to work as well as the trailer makes it sound. definitely not on your first character of that cycle
Switching is only there as a fail safe in case you picked the wrong one so you don't brick the character. It's not a mechanic to me engaged with.
Maybe this will clear things up. The currency they were talking about is in game currency, not real world money.
PoE currency items each have a crafting function which puts a relative value of the currency compared to the value it can generate by using it.
We really wanted to avoid this situation. We think it works great for PoE but with our different trade system, it wouldn’t go as well.
As a POE Player what I'm worried about is buying the game and not enjoying it. With POE it was free and I could decide if I liked the game before I paid for any of the stash tabs etc. Have yall considered free weekends or some other way to try before you buy?
Yup, we've actually done that before.
If you go circle, you still drop non circle items at the base rate that trade has, right? And those items won’t be tagged as CoF. So you could swap over to trade just to trade those base items and swap back. Then the gold you just use on dungeon or tabs. Definitely doesn’t break the game and actually probably helps economy by having more items listed. Need to also have trade faction leveled too
When you swap to trade, you are missing a step of farming the favor to trade it while you are representing MG.
Oh and even if you did that, the only items that are eligible to be traded are those found while not representing CoF. This means that this plan doesn't work at all.
If you like the 1 single minion style, the Falconer will be coming with 1.0 that is a new style of minion build for LE.
Forge guard can also be 1 minion playstyle, sort of.
Big time! That's actually what I'm playing right now. Doing shield throw manifest armor. Cap and Iron Man
This is great to hear. As a lurker it is a bit disheartening seeing all the negativity regarding rubber banding. Good luck on fixing it :)
It's frustrating to me too. Especially when I haven't experienced it myself since it went live. I do the dev streams and every once in a while I'll get someone comment on how smooth it is for me and asking what my settings are to make it not do it.
Is rubberbanding on movement skills when playing online gonna be resolved? I'd love to play with my friends on release
Improving the multiplayer experience and server performance is our primary focus.
The big game philosophy difference is that the BM is designed to get in the trenches with your minions. You get buffs for both of you by attacking and your companions will often buff you too. By contrast, the Necromancer is much more interested in using her minions as a resource. She has several active summoning skills that will have you standing back a lot more.
The big BM build right now is squirrels (it's wolves but converted with the helmet Ziz made). You get a sizable squirrel army and go to town. My favorite way to do BM is to get Raptor, Bear and Sabertooth but it isn't very good right now.
My favorite Necro build right now is zombies. I like taking the jump node and it's like having a bunch of leaping banelings.
If I had to pick between the two, I'd probably go with Necro myself.
If you like the 1 single minion style, the Falconer will be coming with 1.0 that is a new style of minion build for LE.
Figured better to ask on a related thread than make a new one.
I fully understand that "things can change" but if a console port is going to happen, what are the odds that it'd have cross-progression built into it (not as concerned about cross-play tbh)?
Thanks =)
We have much much smarter people than me working on those elements so I can't give you a first hand answer there.
However, I do spend a little time dealing with data storage and regardless of where the game is being played, we would still store all those saves in the same place. So from a technical point, I think cross-progression would be much easier to do than cross-play.
That doesn't mean it will happen, just that it's easier. I feel like that's kind of a nothing answer though.
I think the decision to have cross-progression or not will probably come down to a design decision. If the hypothetical console port doesn't have some sort of gameplay difference from the PC version, I think I'd be cautiously optimistic for it. Just like if you look at D3, the console version has a combat roll and PC doesn't.
Now, we already have controller support so the PC to console difference likely won't be that much if anything for us.
So I think it's going to...
Read moreAh, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification.
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Gamers always find a way to game the system, its just what they do. For some of them, its the most important part of the game.
I definitely expect some shenanigans with this system, it will be interesting to see the response.
Oh for sure. We've had the CTs breaking it apart for a few months now. It's still possible to find a way to game the system but I will be surprised if it happens any time soon.
Here is the really straight forward way to think about it.
Do you want trade? Pick MG.
Do you not want trade? Pick CoF.
Do you regret your decision? Switch.
That's all you really need to know. There isn't an efficient way to use both. Don't plan to use switching as a tactic to get ahead. The most efficient path is to pick one and stick to it.
Read moreIf I join the circle faction, I would get better drops but I cannot sell those drops on the auction house?
Correct. Items dropped as a result of benefits from the Circle of Fortune will have a Rank Requirement on them and thus cannot be traded. In fact, all items dropped while in Circle of Fortune cannot be traded and this is indicated on the items.
If I join the merchants faction, I can still farm for gear but the chance for great gear is a lot lower than the circle folks?
Yes, MG players will have a lower drop chance compared to CoF players that have ranked up to at least Rank 3 or higher.
Can circle faction folks BUY from the Auction house?
No, CoF players cannot interact with the Bazaar or initiate player-to-player trades. However, CoF players, MG players or factionless players can still Gift items to other players in their party provided they were in the sam...
Yes, MG players will have a lower drop chance compared to CoF players that have ranked up to at least Rank 3 or higher.
I think this might come from a slight miscommunication from me.
Rank 1 CoF players will have higher drop rates over MG.
Rank 3 CoF will be above the current gear upgrade rate that you have currently on live.
We want to try gold because we want people to feel they can and actually should use their crafting resources. We’ll be keeping a close eye on feedback and like all things we’ll be ready to iterate if we and the community feel it’s the right move.
Oh my gosh I love you guys. Means a lot to have someone from the team answer questions from the community like this! You guys absolutely rock
We aren't always quite so responsive but I try and find some time every day to answer questions like this. We're just on "high alert" right now because of the big news that just went out. Anyways, thanks :)
We have polish changes coming to most of the end game but no new systems at 1.0.
We do have plans for new end game systems in the not too distant future.
Well I did just get a better mic…
Just have to buy! I think you probably just need to make an account in game
It auto does it by using your Steam account.
It’s not going to be on the same innovation scale as things like the item factions but we do have a very slightly different way of doing this planned. I don’t think it needs to be quite as much to be successful though.
Your characters now will go to legacy league. We don't know if you will be able to give them factions, but if it's anything like Poe it won't really matter because only a tiny portion of the population will bother playing it.
You can select factions in legacy immediately when the patch drops.
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