Hate Puzzles.

[Ringo O'Rourke]

Came back to PoE after playing other ARPGS like TQ and GD. Really liked where the game is at. Enjoying the Labyrinth. So far so good. Then I get to a puzzle...

A puzzle in an ARPG. I do not play Hack n Slash games for puzzles. I barely could tolerate them in T2, and they were only tolerable because they are were so rare, were marginal side quests, and were simple.

But in PoE I get to a stupid switch puzzle that is gating the rewards for the map. Also, this is apparently the method by which you get your Ascendancy class and complete your build. Gated by a puzzle.

Anyways, that is the vent. Glad I encountered it relatively soon before I sunk more time into the game again. I've got to say the rest of the game looks great, but the puzzle gate on the Ascendancy Class is just a complete road block.

Thanks for reading. And best to GGG.

[Grumpy]

what a fcking BS you are talking about?

they are complete optional and its afaik the ONLY puzzle in the whole game. you can tolerate them in TL2 because they are rare but you cant tolerate one of its kind in PoE? o.Ô

Oh and in like every video games out there you can google the solutions if you really want to have the chest behind them https://www.poelab.com/puzzle-solutions/

[Antigiggy]

You don't have to do the puzzles to ascend and complete your build... did you get triggered so hard that you didn't even bother TRYING or a two minute google search to see if you HAD too?

[Awesome!]

lol

[DarkFaceGlow]

What puzzle?

[Demethrite]

Wait what?? There's puzzles in this game!?

You just zoom zoom through everything, I thought it was the only way to get eveything done in this game... Never been gated by anything requiring a brain in any of this.

[Lain]

You've played PoE for almost 650 hours, no way you've never done lab before?

[StreamWhenGuy]

There is 90% hate between puzzles and Docteur Thrumdeau

[Kamiyama]

The only problem with the puzzles in the lab is they are surrounded by traps. You need enough life regen to be able to ignore most of the traps. 10% per second is minimum, 15% or better is a good spot.

And by "ignore" I mean you will gain your life back after jetting past them. No one can live by just standing still in a trap. They kill you too fast.

Without good life regen you'll be chugging health pots, run out, and die.

A movement skill is absolutely required. There are switches that open doors on a timer that you will not get past without a movement skill.

[Aqualung]

That's life.

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by Fritzgerald:

This is legit one of the dumbest things I've ever read on steam.

Oh then you probably missed the guy who explained us how the shadows are calculated by the servers

[Nakos]

None of the puzzles in the Labyrinth are required. (In fact, the Labyrinth itself isn't required). The puzzles do offer a reward if you solve them though.

(mmm... always love "Twice Blessed").

Challenge vs reward. Is it worth it to you? Then figure it out. If not, move on.

[Zengrath]

lol, only puzzle is optional areas, unless your talking about few traps you sometimes have to bypass to get to boss. and puzzles are so easy that it takes only seconds to pass once you know how to beat them (referring to the floor plate puzzle ande the switches in circle puzzle). But i personally mainly only do Lab just to unlock my powers and go back to mapping, I don't enjoy running lab to farm over and over like others do, but then again i haven't made a "lab" farming build yet.

[Awesome!]

Originally posted by Nakos:

None of the puzzles in the Labyrinth are required. (In fact, the Labyrinth itself isn't required). The puzzles do offer a reward if you solve them though.

(mmm... always love "Twice Blessed").

Challenge vs reward. Is it worth it to you? Then figure it out. If not, move on.

twice blessed is a darkshrine reward not a puzzle.

[Detergent]

lol I just vigorously click on all the puzzle stones till the door opens. Thats if I even bother to do them at all.

[xTao]

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