Easily the best multiplayer aRPG on the market.

Have played since closed beta, the game has continually gotten better with every expansion. Every 3-4 months as clockwork it has new content, so there is always something to come back for.

Edit: Leaving old review for context.

Game is ♥♥♥♥ now.

They keep nerfing everything into oblivion except monsters they get buffed to instantly kill you randomly out of the blue no matter how many defenses you stack. This has been going on for a year now, but this past patch cycle takes the cake.

Now the game doesn't have loot either, at least outside of very spiky drops where suddenly all the loot drops from a single mob and then nothing again from everything else. They apparently decided that having loot in an aRPG is wrong and that we are best served by them randomly dolling out huge bunches of loot to you out of the blue. However there is a catch here, to get this random pile of loot you have to kill one of the new elite mobs which instantly kills you the moment it touches you and has stacked all defenses to the moon.

The game is for masochistic gambling addicts only now, any sane person should stay the ♥♥♥♥ away.

EDIT:

Changing back to recommend, most of the egregious problems are better, defenses are still badly designed, but I think its more workable now. It's far from perfect, but PoE has to be called the best aRPG on the market despite its deficiencies, especially if one wants complexity and depth.

I still want them to roll back on defensive layers, stop forcing us to stack so damn many for any kind of survivability. If that is changed it would be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ good game.

Easily the best multiplayer aRPG on the market. Have played since closed beta, the game has continually gotten better with every expansion. Every 3-4 months as clockwork it has new content, so there is always something to come back for. Edit: Leaving old review for context. Game is shit now. They keep nerfing everything into oblivion except monsters they get buffed to instantly kill you randomly out of the blue no matter how many defenses you stack. This has been going on for a year now, but this past patch cycle takes the cake. Now the game doesn't have loot either, at least outside of very spiky drops where suddenly all the loot drops from a single mob and then nothing again from everything else. They apparently decided that having loot in an aRPG is wrong and that we are best served by them randomly dolling out huge bunches of loot to you out of the blue. However there is a catch here, to get this random pile of loot you have to kill one of the new elite mobs which instantly kills you the moment it touches you and has stacked all defenses to the moon. The game is for masochistic gambling addicts only now, any sane person should stay the fuck away. EDIT: Changing back to recommend, most of the egregious problems are better, defenses are still badly designed, but I think its more workable now. It's far from perfect, but PoE has to be called the best aRPG on the market despite its deficiencies, especially if one wants complexity and depth. I still want them to roll back on defensive layers, stop forcing us to stack so damn many for any kind of survivability. If that is changed it would be a god damn good game.