Do you have to play through the campaign again?

[Viadric]

For this league do I have to go through the campaign again?

[Aurelia]

again and again and again and again and again

[Scarsick]

For this league, for the next league and all upcoming leagues till the end of time. They are very stubborn about that.

Same goes for POE 2 once that's out btw.

[LordOfTheBread]

You have to play throughh teh campaign again for each new character.

[Paroe]

Ill never understand why people whinge and moan about the campaign.
Its literally maps.
LITERALLY maps.
You just start at level 1 and have to race your way to level 70.

[insectbrain]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Ill never understand why people whinge and moan about the campaign.
Its literally maps.
LITERALLY maps.
You just start at level 1 and have to race your way to level 70.

If you're ok with that, good for you, but not everyone has the same outlook.

For me, I like mapping because I can choose which maps to run and modify and customise my experience to my liking. I can change things up whenever I feel like it. I can also choose to not run some maps that have layouts or bosses i don't like after running them once for the unlock.

The campaign offers no such choices. It's always the same zones and bosses every single time. While I do agree that it is similar to maps to a degree, the experience is vastly different as far as I'm concerned, mostly owing to the lack of choices and variety.

After running the same exact campaign dozens and dozens of times, I'm rather tired of it. However I do still enjoy mapping and the rest of the game, so I'll still run it even though it's become nothing more than a boring chore for me.

[Scarsick]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Ill never understand why people whinge and moan about the campaign.
Its literally maps.
LITERALLY maps.
You just start at level 1 and have to race your way to level 70.

Not it's not

[Paroe]

Originally posted by Scarsick:

Originally posted by Paroe:

Ill never understand why people whinge and moan about the campaign.
Its literally maps.
LITERALLY maps.
You just start at level 1 and have to race your way to level 70.

Not it's not

Prove it.
What do maps have that campaign doesnt, besides sextants and scarabs?

Especially now that GGG has put other league mechanics into the campaign, like legion.

[Paroe]

Originally posted by insectbrain:

Originally posted by Paroe:

Ill never understand why people whinge and moan about the campaign.
Its literally maps.
LITERALLY maps.
You just start at level 1 and have to race your way to level 70.

If you're ok with that, good for you, but not everyone has the same outlook.

For me, I like mapping because I can choose which maps to run and modify and customise my experience to my liking. I can change things up whenever I feel like it. I can also choose to not run some maps that have layouts or bosses i don't like after running them once for the unlock.

The campaign offers no such choices. It's always the same zones and bosses every single time. While I do agree that it is similar to maps to a degree, the experience is vastly different as far as I'm concerned, mostly owing to the lack of choices and variety.

After running the same exact campaign dozens and dozens of times, I'm rather tired of it. However I do still enjoy mapping and the rest of the game, so I'll still run it even though it's become nothing more than a boring chore for me.

"Customize my experience"? So youre mad you cant have your power trip fantasy from level 1?

My guy you dont even start maps with those. Stop romanticizing endgame and learn to enjoy the game outside of tryhard hours.

[insectbrain]

Originally posted by Paroe:

"Customize my experience"? So youre mad you cant have your power trip fantasy from level 1?

My guy you dont even start maps with those. Stop romanticizing endgame and learn to enjoy the game outside of tryhard hours.

Not mad. Just giving you my perspective since you stated that you can't understand why people might have issues with the campaign. Just trying to help you see why others might think differently than you about the same thing.

Since you seem to have missed it, my main issue with the campaign is that it's always the same. Almost no choices and no variety. Same zones and bosses in the same order every time. While that seems to be fine for you, it might not be for everyone.

Maps and other post-campaign activities offer choices and variety, something I find important and consequently it doesn't make the campaign just maps, at least for me.

It's nice that they've added a few extra events in the early campaign, but they don't seem to be random and won't change much for me in subsequent playthroughs if it ends up always being the same events in the same zones.

[Livy]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Ill never understand why people whinge and moan about the campaign.
Its literally maps.
LITERALLY maps.
You just start at level 1 and have to race your way to level 70.

It's literally maps in the same fixed order we have had for years.

Least maps shuffle their order about a bit, and are customizable.

[All_In]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Originally posted by Scarsick:

Not it's not

Prove it.
What do maps have that campaign doesnt, besides sextants and scarabs?

Especially now that GGG has put other league mechanics into the campaign, like legion.

Repeated Mechanic. Repeated map. I am used to buy 1D value of City Square map juz to farm value item to improve my characters. And Mapping do not hv to clear mission, wipe the map, get out, and repeat.

[Lord Headbeep]

Every character goes through the campaign. It's just a staple of this kind of arpg, because there's no real way to have any kind of balanced skip-to-endgame option. Just gotta buckle down and do it. A decently experienced player could easily speedrun the campaign in 10-ish hours with a leveling-friendly build.

[🍀]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Originally posted by Scarsick:

Not it's not

Prove it.
What do maps have that campaign doesnt, besides sextants and scarabs?

Especially now that GGG has put other league mechanics into the campaign, like legion.

There some leagues like crucible or harvest that i would like to experiment more, than to go through campaign again and again and again, at this point it takes me 2 weeks to complete the campaign, i really hate it now, first runs are so lovely and enjoy the story and all but every league ... nowadays i take my dose of poe from watching 10 min of some group play that can do everything in a week and that's it, ggwp next league

[Ellye]

Most boring part thing about POE is the campaign and the level-required-skill-gems.

Having to wait until Act 3 or 5 to finally get the skills that you actually want to use in your character is such a waste of time.

[CyberDown]

im just glad its not three acts three times over on three different difficulties. Would absolutely love some form of an "adventure mode" for the account once clearing the campaign