Opinions

[Chackra]

Just a simple question: Last Epoch, Path Of Exile 2 or Diablo IV? No hate please, I played all except Last Epoch but I'm thinking about buying it for Season 2 release...

[Havok]

IMO...
D4 is great if you just want to casually play
POE2 is great if you like complex systems and can give it all your time
LE is great if you like both concepts and just want some good ol' quality fun with a lot of depth.

[Tamezz]

To be honest, from a casual pov, i like Last Epoch the most, i dislike Diablo 4 the most, i like Poe 1 and Poe 2 but they are way to complicated for a casual player like me (No hate on them, i just dont see myself in them, i even bought Poe2 and i dont rly like it), buti rly like something about Last Epoch the class design and the spell sistem, for me:

1. Last Epoch
2. Poe 1
3. Poe 2
4. Dia 4

There will be a lot of ppl who say "If you want to play the best game possible Poe is the way" but i dont like it, no hate on Poe just Last Epoch is more attractive to me

[Templar999]

LE if you do not want to waste money on DLC expansions or stash tabs.

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Last epoch takes the genre forward in many ways crafting, SSF buffs, trade and good loot progression with alot of QoL which the other games lack.
It's very easy to get into but alot to learn, build variety and pacing is very good.

Im personally not a fan of D4's open world and poe2 still needs alot of work.

[Chackra]

Diablo IV had, at least for me, a great campaign but Season 1 made me get boring. I've never played POE 1 (reason because I decided to played POE 2). At this moment I'm playing POE 2 and feel it incredible but I heard about Last Epoch and started to get curious. Do you guys recommend me to try it? Please, real opinions and not fanboy comments

[Verde]

Diablo 4 is too shallow, Path of Exile is exhausting, Last Epoch strikes just the perfect balance between depth and accessibility.

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Honestly they are different games, last epochs fast with alot of loot, poe2 slower with not alot of good loot lol. Away from the first purchase you won't need to give any money on stash tabs they can be purchased with gold and it has a built in loot filter.

[Chackra]

Originally posted by AFC_HIGHBURY:

Honestly they are different games, last epochs fast with alot of loot, poe2 slower with not alot of good loot lol. Away from the first purchase you won't need to give any money on stash tabs they can purchasd with gold and it has a built in loot filter.

What about seasonal content in Last Epoch? Any missable content? Any ways to farm real money just by playing like Drakensang Online (just an example)?

[tiamats4esgares]

This has been asked a thousand times. Learn to use a damn search function, or just quit trolling.

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Originally posted by Chackra:

Originally posted by AFC_HIGHBURY:

Honestly they are different games, last epochs fast with alot of loot, poe2 slower with not alot of good loot lol. Away from the first purchase you won't need to give any money on stash tabs they can purchasd with gold and it has a built in loot filter.

What about seasonal content in Last Epoch? Any missable content? Any ways to farm real money just by playing like Drakensang Online (just an example)?

I mean this will only be season 2, I purchased couple years ago and just returned and having fun. How do you mean farm real money?

[Chackra]

Originally posted by AFC_HIGHBURY:

Originally posted by Chackra:

What about seasonal content in Last Epoch? Any missable content? Any ways to farm real money just by playing like Drakensang Online (just an example)?

I mean this will only be season 2, I purchased couple years ago and just returned and having fun. How do you mean farm real money?

Nah, is just probably one stupid question... some games many years ago drop "real money" just by playing. The drop chance was very low but exist and let people keep playing to get cosmetics and skins without paying

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Originally posted by Chackra:

Originally posted by AFC_HIGHBURY:

I mean this will only be season 2, I purchased couple years ago and just returned and having fun. How do you mean farm real money?

Nah, is just probably one stupid question... some games many years ago drop "real money" just by playing. The drop chance was very low but exist and let people keep playing to get cosmetics and skins without paying

Ah so basically like Warframe? If so no, I should of been clear skins will be sold for real money but it doesn't sell any QoL improvements.

[MONOBLOCKS]

I played and enjoyed all three of them. D4 was only fun through the end of the campaign, the end game I didnt enjoy so I quit and probably wont ever touch it again. POE2 I enjoy as well, its different from both games where its a bit more complex and skill based. Last Epoch is great overall fun, personally my favorite of the three.

This is coming from someone who plays these types of games more casually. I dont min max and i build whatever I want to try, I dont folllow any build guides or go for meta stuff. As far as that goes I had the most success in Last Epoch, every build I theorcrafted as a casuall player felt powerful and rewarding, whereas in POE2 i struggled a bit more and in D4 there was so little build variety that it was kind of pathetic.

[Wild]

Campaign: poe 2 destroys all ARPGs but diablo 2, but you could say D4 is good because the campaign only exists once per account, but you still have to level up all the way to endgame. LE campaign is very monotonous but it's shorter than these others.

Crafting: LE easily, not as much RNG and completely flexible without ruining the game in 2 days. D4 is volatile and some seasons have good crafting and others pretty bad. Poe 2 worst crafting, just farm currency and buy all your gear.

Itemization: Poe 2 and LE are better but they're still not great, in poe 2 most uniques are useless and there's way too many useless affixes to make it retro but it doesn't work as well even comparing it to d2 that has powerful uniques and runewords that are guaranteed best in slot, poe 2 is too RNG in this aspect.
LE some uniques are locked behind killing the same boss 50-100+ times then it starts dropping, and it's still a low drop chance, some are essential for some builds to even get started, also set items are pretty much useless here but they're fixing it to be more like d4 that you destroy them to get the aspect to craft onto another items.

Endgame: Poe 2 has the most content but much of it can be buggy or very unbalanced, life and armor is still useless and even rangers/amazons often build for energy shield. LE has less endgame but it's a bit more polished than poe 2 but still with the same problems of unbalancing, but not as much because it's a finished game. D4 has like 1/5 or less content than these other 2.

[😎Astran😾]

A metric ton of time (teenager) = PoE2
Some free time (employed) = Lost Epoch
Barely any free time (employed dad) = Diablo 4