Does anyone actually feel powerful in this game?

[AirSniffer]

I'm genuinely curious as to what people think about the power progression and general power fantasy.

I've completed cruel and started into mapping on 3 characters now and to be completely honest I didn't really "feel" my character getting stronger in meaningful ways. Be it through passives, gear or skillgems in general.

I think most of it comes down to the fact that the skill tree is kinda boring. Increases to stats are fine but I would have expected ascendancy passives to be way more interesting.

Additionally the skill system is, in my eyes, a bit too simple.

To me Lost Ark and Last Epoch both did a better job at giving me a feeling of power whenever I upgraded/changed a skill or picked passive nodes.

D3 has a VERY limited system for skill runes but most of them actually change how the skill works.

Let me know what you think

[Archangel]

Some streamers do, and maybe some people who play a lot and copied their builds.

[WereChicken]

When I see my character quite literally being pushed around by trash mobs... no, no I do not.

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

well my warrior completly selfskilled is just blasting trough the bosses. I just 6 shot the last boss in act 3 on cruel with around 24 hours played no farming just chill story im a bit squishy in maps but thats par for the course atm.....

[Bnn1]

Minions is very strong.
Stack Minion nodes, get some mana regen, EB and MoM and boom. Nearly indestructible and minions do all the work.

I tried all the other classes with all the skills available to them and i could not get a hang of it. Its not that Minions is OP.

It's just that GGG made every skill suck ass. Melee, spells, bow skills.

I dont know how people use arc or spark on sorc, for example.

When i use it i can barely kill the adds and the boss in Act 2, the hyena stuff.

With minions, I eat bosses raw and without seasoning.

Melee cant even begin to kill enemies.

There is a big issue with classes and abilities right now.

[Orb]

Yeah I do, i'm at level 50 atm and can zoom through most stuff and bosses. I really like the power progression so far

[b0nehead]

Around lvl 50ish it starts to feel like POE. If you notice the rolls on gear it's mostly low t1-t4 so min maxing for end game is definitely going to be POE'ish. In the campaign though you get a lot of gear checks, which is different to poe 1 for sure. The main difference is that bosses reset HP so you can't just die and progress easily like in POE softcore.

[Orb]

Originally posted by Bnn1:

Minions is very strong.
Stack Minion nodes, get some mana regen, EB and MoM and boom. Nearly indestructible and minions do all the work.

I tried all the other classes with all the skills available to them and i could not get a hang of it. Its not that Minions is OP.

It's just that GGG made every skill suck ass. Melee, spells, bow skills.

I dont know how people use arc or spark on sorc, for example.

When i use it i can barely kill the adds and the boss in Act 2, the hyena stuff.

With minions, I eat bosses raw and without seasoning.

Melee cant even begin to kill enemies.

There is a big issue with classes and abilities right now.

I'm melee and I have killed most bosses within 20 seconds

[Cairn.L]

Powerful? No.
But I can say my Titan is getting more and more stronger.

[donut32]

yes my wizard is and no i am not running a copypasta build. the only thing that seems to kill me is getting lit on fire by a candle stick in sanctum and then losing 4k honor in 2 seconds and "dying"

LOL

joke game

[AzureSatan]

I'm playing a flameblast Chronomancer and I feel quite powerful. I've accidently one shot a boss with a crit at max stage. Only happened once, but the potential is there!

[DirtyMick]

Play lightning ranger. Use your currency often. Try to stack flat damage bonuses. Go deadeye, get tailwind. You'll finally feel powerful. Its been a breeze so far with it. Especially after playing my flamewall/spark sorc, I didn't realize how weak she was lol.

[Archangel]

Originally posted by Bnn1:

Minions is very strong.
Stack Minion nodes, get some mana regen, EB and MoM and boom. Nearly indestructible and minions do all the work.

I tried all the other classes with all the skills available to them and i could not get a hang of it. Its not that Minions is OP.

It's just that GGG made every skill suck ass. Melee, spells, bow skills.

I dont know how people use arc or spark on sorc, for example.

When i use it i can barely kill the adds and the boss in Act 2, the hyena stuff.

With minions, I eat bosses raw and without seasoning.

Melee cant even begin to kill enemies.

There is a big issue with classes and abilities right now.

Are there minion builds that don’t depend on temporary summons? I hate those.

[Jinx]

Originally posted by Bnn1:

Minions is very strong.
Stack Minion nodes, get some mana regen, EB and MoM and boom. Nearly indestructible and minions do all the work.

I tried all the other classes with all the skills available to them and i could not get a hang of it. Its not that Minions is OP.

It's just that GGG made every skill suck ass. Melee, spells, bow skills.

I dont know how people use arc or spark on sorc, for example.

When i use it i can barely kill the adds and the boss in Act 2, the hyena stuff.

With minions, I eat bosses raw and without seasoning.

Melee cant even begin to kill enemies.

There is a big issue with classes and abilities right now.

I can say same thing about melee. Stack stun build up and destroy with bone shatter entire crowds. Auto attack deal insane damage at the beginning. Perfect strike melt bosses later. I grabed avatar of fire, got raging spirits with infernal legion, fire exposure and upgrade for exposure. Cast firewall and everything has -26% fire resist. With cast on ignite + flammable every second perfect strike adds -30% fire resist. Bone shatter has devastation and armor explosion. For defense I have leap slam with holy descent and lighting warp with regen on culling strike for ~300 regen all the time. Block 50% with life on block. I can face tank anything and deal insane damage. And it's suboptimal magic knight build. With pure physical it would be more powerful.

[MP]

Originally posted by WereChicken:

When I see my character quite literally being pushed around by trash mobs... no, no I do not.

You're simply too weak. Adapt.

[just.dont.do.it]

Yes.