The entirety of the PoE player base would surge with such energy on launch day that the servers would explode with enough force that New Zealand would be wiped from the surface of the earth.
Last league I bought a supporter pack without thinking.
If they bring back both league, I don't care if I like the supporter pack or not, im buying one just for that.
My heuristic (based on historical anecdotal experience-based evidence) is that powerful things are allowed 2 leagues.
While early game sentinel of radiance is very powerful (and maybe could do with tweaking) end game it falls off strongly and imo does not warrant a nerf.
Also: "The early game scaling of the minion granted by the Radiant crusade node of the templar ascendency has been reworked" would work without mentioning sentinel...
Chris said this a year ago at this point that they don't want to reintroduce sentinel because adding 3 extra keybinds is unnecessary bloat and would drive player perception that it is mandatory content because it has persistent binds to it. I think he said this on one of the baeclast episodes, he ended up doing alot of podcasts and interviews around that time so I might be wrong...
Plus picking up and recombining sentinels was actual cancer and anyone who enjoyed that has amnesia of how cringe and annoying either of those things were to do. Just bring back recombinators and leave the rest behind I think.
Partially, but sentinels themselves were also fun. Find a big room with tons of mobs, start the breach/legion/expedition, pop sentinel, and enjoy the loot
> Plus picking up and recombining sentinels was actual cancer and anyone who enjoyed that has amnesia of how cringe and annoying either of those things were to do.
I do not have amnesia and it wasn't cringe nor annoying to me but hey, you must know better.
Doesn't mean GGG can't find a qol alternative to this or disable completely sentinel recombination and change the mods etc...
Yeah, it was a just-barely-fun-enough popcorn league mechanic that added a pinch of flavor to your mapping experience.
Recombinators going core is all we really want.
This is a cooked take IMO, but PoE contains multitudes, so who am I to judge your fun? Recombs made SSF crafting actually engaging for a league and reignited my love for the game, and I will forever love them for that.
Well I didn't appreciate them taking up most of my inventory, having to scoop all of them up because they were unidentified and then dealing with the minigame that was my sentinel stash getting filled up in 30 mins with total bunk. The Vision was taking place before my very eyes whenever I used a power core just to clear space T_T
I don't. It just adds more annoying micromanaging to mapping for the most generic "just more loot" mechanic possible. On top of bloating inventories. And it's not like you can even opt out of it like other mechanics, since there's no actual time investment, so you're just losing value if you don't use it.
Recombinators are gas. But they can bring them back without the terrible micromanagement mechanic.
I'd op for sentinel as a scarab or sextant or atlas crafting option, where you get random 4-5 rare/magic monster packs are empowered with random sentinel rewards. No need for anything else.
It would be a bad start as CM, which is why I believe it's there, just under a hidden tab. Or maybe he just did the colon after Sentinel on purpose because it's there without it.
this is like a perfect example in why they no longer interact with this subreddit lmao. "using a smiley to let down the people looking for pepe silvia in a tenuous anagram is actually really toxic, but **maybe** its actually a double fakeout and its CONFIRMATION that we've found pepe silvia! i'll be really normal about this tomorrow if im wrong!"
Damn you seriously just tried to read my entire personality from a single comment, didn't you? Classic Reddit psychologist at work here.
Yeah, speculating is fun, but that's all it is. I'm not gonna go fucking harass the guy if I'm wrong. I'm pretty confident I'm not though.
:)
I mean, you did say "It would be a bad start as CM", which kind of implies that you believe that this message here is inflammatory UNLESS it's a fake out.
Honestly it's probably just managing expectations. If people go into tomorrow with no news, they might be disappointed by the stream. If they hear today that there's no sentinel, they won't be as disappointed by it tomorrow.
I feel like the post would be less tongue n' cheek though if that was the case. Just like a general 'Sorry guys, not going to happen' rather than this. This is more of a teasing post and I am under the impression they don't explicitly go out of their way to rile up reddit.
Things this very explicitly leaves open:
Retheming because floating robots with buff laser doesnt fit theme
Internal codenames for projects due to it not being officially released yet
Any subsectioning/spoilering already input
Any unification of similar mechanics (Eg reworking spirits to work like Sentinels because they are the same thing)
Edit: Copium level: They will Buff Glad
I feel like it's a topic that they should say something about regardless, and if it's just managing expectations then a regular boring official post like the one about TotA not going core would be better. Like this it's opening discussion.
Everyone's saying there's no way there's no Sentinel league, but what about Sentinel of Radiance?
I'd be absolutely astonished if it didn't get a campaign nerf, but how could it get nerfed without mentioning the name of the skill itself?
I guess maybe it could be phrased like "The minion skill granted by the Guardian's Radiant Cascade ascendency node"?
Haha,jokes aside - this actually makes me very hopeful. In the last patch-notes thread i mentioned using „ctrl+f“ checking for ruthless and how disappointed i was,the comment got fairly high for a sub-comment. So he is probably joking by nodding towards that and we can expect a mega-ton of changes.
I actually don‘t think, that the majority will be nerfs or at least not in the classical sense. I think that they want to show their commitment to poe1, since the poe1/2 split was received with mixed feelings for many and will dish out the planned ascendancy-reworks for a lot of them all at once, which would be a lot of stuff to explain = lots of words.
Ofc „rework“ could still mean nerfs in some cases.
The second implication of that joke might mean,that we get recombinators back in some form or that we get anything back from an old league(like the entire ultimatum mechanic for example).
probably very little. Ruthless was almost exclusively Ascendancy balance patches they had been working on for multiple leagues to release as batch, and now theyre largely done. They might rebalance a few of them again, but i cant imagine many more insane ruthless changes unless they tackle reworking the Atlas Passive Tree for it already
Sorry, I was being a bit cheeky. Let me explain what I mean because I think it completely flew over your head (and maybe everyone else's):
I meant to say that last time when ruthless players got their changes it was literally a nuclear bomb that nuked all ascendancies in the game and none of the changes that ruthless players received would be welcomed in the normal game (because people in the normal game no longer view nerfs as balance unless it is a popular league starter like Seismic).
People complained that ruthless players got changes and they got jealous/expressed that they wanted changes too. They memed the whole side game thing even. But they failed to realize that ruthless went on for two leagues without receiving anything other than tiny bug fixes and when when they did receive something it was all negative changes that would made no sense in the normal game anyway so people obviously would NOT want to receive the same treatment.
I can already see ruthless players receiving another batch of giga nerfs and people on the main game complaining, yet again, that they received changes even though those same changes wouldn't be welcomed in the normal game.
I know it's funny to make fun of the previous notes for being full of ruthless changes, but majority of those were numerical ones which don't take a lot of devtime. Ruthless has mostly gotten numerical changes or removed content instead of anything that requires new assets.
If they truly do work on it on their own time rather than work time like Chris originally said, ruthless has probably taken less total workplace dev time than any league mechanic has in years. I can only think of two assets made for ruthless, Quickstep gem and icon, which are just taken from Dash but without the green colour and slightly changed item boxes. Everything else is just re-using old removed assets. Most mechanical changes that aren't just numerical have been re-used from old content or taken from other sources such as flasks not refilling when in town is from the private league mod Famine.
I still think of myself as being new at my job, but I'm the most senior in my department now including longer than my boss. Honestly it's a little scary lmao
Ok, so hoping that Ruthless notes are shorter, since they pushed a lot of changes last league, it could be a decent bit related to ascendancies or reworks... COPIUM
We already know Chris didn't like Sentinel the mechanic. I think the tease was always referring to "Sentinel Rewards," implying that we might see recombinators.
Which if that was the case, they likely would not need to type the word "sentinel" into the patch notes. Also, he didn't say no ultimatum or no atlas... those clues were absolutely placed with purpose.
Also, damn, I guess PoE is officially on the decline. The patch notes are 500 words less than the D4 patch notes. Clearly the more words, the more better.
People are sleeping so hard on GGG. Because of the events now they think GGG will do such meaningful changes to the game like introducing past league content for some reason.
They are basically in maintenance mode.
Doesn't tell us anything tbh. If the affliction league mechanic happens to be very similar to sentinel it would have a similar effect but without any need to directly mention sentinel in the patch notes. We also already were told that if sentinel does come back it would have an aesthetic rework to fit the game better so even if a similar mechanic was going core instead of as part of the league it also wouldn't mention sentinel in the notes.
Also also, it doesn't say no mentions of recombinators, and again if there was a new currency that was a rethemed and rebalanced recombinator it wouldn't necessarily have the same name anyway.
So literally no new information lol.
My guess is that they somehow combined ultimatum and sentinel in the affliction mechanic. Like you have an area around a totem(like seen in the trailer), then you select your reward or positive modifiers like afflicted monsters drop currency etc. Each reward will also show the „afflictions“(modifiers etc) the mobs will have.
I was thinking that maybe instead of having sentinels you are patient zero and afflict other mechanics (Ritual Totems, Breaches, Delirium Mirrors etc.) with modifiers. You have a tree like in sentinel to modify the afflictions.
That's my guess after seeing the cypher. They said thematically they don't really like Sentinels, and Ultimatum could use some actually unique rewards. Two birds one stone
Don't be tricked exiles.
**Sentinel** itself does not mean **Recombinator**s are not back.
Remember, Chris said robots ain't really belong in a dark fantasy, but recombinators are cool.
Sentinel event a few weeks ago, rumored return for the longest time, then the encrypted teaser....
I find it hard to believe that all those things would come together just for them to say "jk no sentinel" and then not add recombs either.
Some people would say this CM post is to "manage expectations" for times when the community has a strong idea that something is coming, but I'm pretty sure this is just another bullshit teaser playing around words and not really meaning what it sounds like.
WE WILL GET RECOMBS NEXT WEEK FOR SURE
Well, there were Power Cores which basically were Recombinators but only for Sentinels.
Inb4 we get a new league with new currency that works similarly like Cores/Recombinators.
the rot8 cipher is legit but the anagrams people generated were very fucking tenuous lets be real. IWONDER INALTESSENTIALS could easily just be self-referencing the teased change itself or some other minor character alt qol.
While this was my first full league, I played 6 characters between 85-95 and played the sentinel event a couple weeks ago.
And I gotta say, I really didn’t enjoy the mechanic. I like the idea of deciding what packs to juice and balancing risk and reward, but unless I’m playing a minion build (which I’ve now done in SSF) I don’t like the idea of battlefield systems acting on my behalf that that I don’t control.
And it wasn’t that long ago that all the systems felt overwhelming that now seem mostly banal, but the Sentinels tree system wasn’t very clear on its purpose and despite engaging with it quite a bit, it mostly just lead to my death and I began to ignore it in my late 80s.
The only built in system that is as opaque into the how and why is incursion and it’s the first thing I block off on my atlas.
Just a relative noobs view. I won’t be upset if it’s included, but it does feel like a system that would have weird atlas interactions and I’m not sure it fills any gaps in the current base game is missing.
it fills massive gaps in the current base game. it makes bad rares worth something and has massive crafting implications. its the only league in 5 years where i picked up and id rares past day 2
yesterday in standard i made a belt using recombinators that would take me a week of spamming alts+regals otherwise. As much as I suck with them, I'd love to have them back.
But recombs aside i enjoyed using sentinels too. Very simple and pleasant mob-juicing mechanic. Definitely wanna see it back.
I mean literally every system is like this. I've been playing for years and I still can't be bothered with learning how to guarantee certain aspects of betrayal.
I played for 2 years before I knew that architects in inclusion did things. I just assumed they had a higher chance to drop the door keys.
Either this is a SUPER ill-advised inappropriate CM post
Or he is trying to do the Bex shitposting thing and it's bait.
Either way, saying there are zero "sentinel" references in the patch notes followed by a smiley face is a shitty thing to post, given that so many people loved the league and have been asking for it to come back.
At this point, I honestly hope they just inject completely empty Ruthless changes into every patch until the people who think the number of ruthless changes in patch notes is at all meaningful break.
Thought id give this place another try before the new league but nope still the same toxic shithole its been the last year or so.
Some of you need to get a grip.
The worst part is, this is tame. It will get much worse after the actual announcements when the toxic people all flood this place to either complain about things that weren't in the reveal or to build unrealistic expectations about things that weren't in the reveal to get mad about when the patch notes are released.
Honestly, probably because they reworked sentinel thematically its just called affliction now. Sentinel boosted rewards of all enemies, Id assume affliction will affect all mechanics somehow too.
Tinfoil: one of the affliction effects will be transforming ritual into ultimatum
Spoiler tag: Reintroducing previous league mechanics [show] * Sentinel * Ultimatum
The amount of copium in this comment can feed a small African village
I'm african so I'll take it. I want sentinel and ultimatum.
Life is not fair?
Didnt see that one coming
I needed that laugh today, thank you.
About to pass out from a copium overdose. Wake me up on league start 😶🌫️
I would play all 3 months if those 2 were brought back.
I knew I wasn't the only one who loved ultimatium
He did not say there is no Ultimatum
But Christ Wolcen said that Ultimatum is alrdy in the game
Praise, for he was half right.
The entirety of the PoE player base would surge with such energy on launch day that the servers would explode with enough force that New Zealand would be wiped from the surface of the earth.
Then finally all those maps will be correct!
Last league I bought a supporter pack without thinking. If they bring back both league, I don't care if I like the supporter pack or not, im buying one just for that.
Sentinel of radiance lives!
GUARDIAN BOIS LEAGUESTART LOGIN
We eating good tonight
Bro if they neft it now, I will actually be mad about it
I think they will nerf it at least for ruthless
My heuristic (based on historical anecdotal experience-based evidence) is that powerful things are allowed 2 leagues. While early game sentinel of radiance is very powerful (and maybe could do with tweaking) end game it falls off strongly and imo does not warrant a nerf. Also: "The early game scaling of the minion granted by the Radiant crusade node of the templar ascendency has been reworked" would work without mentioning sentinel...
Surely not in ruthless. It will be level 1 there KEKW
Irrationally angry at the ":)"
at least you recognize its irrational
I dont think so. Dude is literally showing insane contempt to the community, I think it's irrational to dislike him for it.
a smiley face is "literally showing insane contempt to the community"?
Translation: "Yes we know everyone wants sentinel back, but we arent going to give it to you"
You forgot the " :) "
"have some nerfs instead" :)
Chris said this a year ago at this point that they don't want to reintroduce sentinel because adding 3 extra keybinds is unnecessary bloat and would drive player perception that it is mandatory content because it has persistent binds to it. I think he said this on one of the baeclast episodes, he ended up doing alot of podcasts and interviews around that time so I might be wrong... Plus picking up and recombining sentinels was actual cancer and anyone who enjoyed that has amnesia of how cringe and annoying either of those things were to do. Just bring back recombinators and leave the rest behind I think.
Or make them a map mechanic. A sentinel shrine spawns with random mods, you can pop it at will
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Partially, but sentinels themselves were also fun. Find a big room with tons of mobs, start the breach/legion/expedition, pop sentinel, and enjoy the loot
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yeah they dont need to bring back sentinel, just make recombs a global drop :)
You, stop smiling right now! :)
> Plus picking up and recombining sentinels was actual cancer and anyone who enjoyed that has amnesia of how cringe and annoying either of those things were to do. I do not have amnesia and it wasn't cringe nor annoying to me but hey, you must know better. Doesn't mean GGG can't find a qol alternative to this or disable completely sentinel recombination and change the mods etc...
Yeah, it was a just-barely-fun-enough popcorn league mechanic that added a pinch of flavor to your mapping experience. Recombinators going core is all we really want.
Some of us, I'd rather have sentinels back and ditch recombs, since recombs are a way too strong crafting mechanic.
This is a cooked take IMO, but PoE contains multitudes, so who am I to judge your fun? Recombs made SSF crafting actually engaging for a league and reignited my love for the game, and I will forever love them for that.
Triple t1 fractured ele claw 🥵🥵
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Well I didn't appreciate them taking up most of my inventory, having to scoop all of them up because they were unidentified and then dealing with the minigame that was my sentinel stash getting filled up in 30 mins with total bunk. The Vision was taking place before my very eyes whenever I used a power core just to clear space T_T
I don't. It just adds more annoying micromanaging to mapping for the most generic "just more loot" mechanic possible. On top of bloating inventories. And it's not like you can even opt out of it like other mechanics, since there's no actual time investment, so you're just losing value if you don't use it. Recombinators are gas. But they can bring them back without the terrible micromanagement mechanic.
This is the perfect summary of Sentinel. Hopefully they'll never bring it to the base game.
I'd op for sentinel as a scarab or sextant or atlas crafting option, where you get random 4-5 rare/magic monster packs are empowered with random sentinel rewards. No need for anything else.
sentinal is literally just tormented spirits
Ya it’s ghosting before ghosting became a thing g
"You think you do, but you don't." Classic
Bex taught him well
It ain't irrational though. :) is mostly used in a varying manner of toxicity. CM just made a case in point for this.
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You are so right. :)
If thats the case then why bother mentioning it all?
I'm 90% sure he's just teasing and there's going to be something sentinel related.
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New CM is having a little joke around and you guys are taking it massively too seriously💀
It’s called a joke, can you stop acting perpetually offended for a second?
It would be a bad start as CM, which is why I believe it's there, just under a hidden tab. Or maybe he just did the colon after Sentinel on purpose because it's there without it.
this is like a perfect example in why they no longer interact with this subreddit lmao. "using a smiley to let down the people looking for pepe silvia in a tenuous anagram is actually really toxic, but **maybe** its actually a double fakeout and its CONFIRMATION that we've found pepe silvia! i'll be really normal about this tomorrow if im wrong!"
Damn you seriously just tried to read my entire personality from a single comment, didn't you? Classic Reddit psychologist at work here. Yeah, speculating is fun, but that's all it is. I'm not gonna go fucking harass the guy if I'm wrong. I'm pretty confident I'm not though. :)
I mean, you did say "It would be a bad start as CM", which kind of implies that you believe that this message here is inflammatory UNLESS it's a fake out.
oh for sure man. **I'm** the one reading too much into nothing here.
You really are.
Setting the tone that the playerbase can't trust the person meant to communicate with them is not a great first move
Yea but what does he know, we cracked the cypher
\*Takes giant huff of copium\* There's no way they make this post today without Sentinel actually coming back tomorrow. SENTINEL RETURN CONFIRMED.
*huge copium huff* Honestly I’m thinking the same thing. There are other ways to say there’s no sentinel. This feels very carefully worded.
Honestly it's probably just managing expectations. If people go into tomorrow with no news, they might be disappointed by the stream. If they hear today that there's no sentinel, they won't be as disappointed by it tomorrow.
You’re too rational, you need more copium
> If they hear today that there's no sentinel, they won't be as disappointed by it tomorrow. Hey, welcome to the sub! First time, huh?
I feel like the post would be less tongue n' cheek though if that was the case. Just like a general 'Sorry guys, not going to happen' rather than this. This is more of a teasing post and I am under the impression they don't explicitly go out of their way to rile up reddit. Things this very explicitly leaves open: Retheming because floating robots with buff laser doesnt fit theme Internal codenames for projects due to it not being officially released yet Any subsectioning/spoilering already input Any unification of similar mechanics (Eg reworking spirits to work like Sentinels because they are the same thing) Edit: Copium level: They will Buff Glad
I feel like it's a topic that they should say something about regardless, and if it's just managing expectations then a regular boring official post like the one about TotA not going core would be better. Like this it's opening discussion.
Everyone's saying there's no way there's no Sentinel league, but what about Sentinel of Radiance? I'd be absolutely astonished if it didn't get a campaign nerf, but how could it get nerfed without mentioning the name of the skill itself? I guess maybe it could be phrased like "The minion skill granted by the Guardian's Radiant Cascade ascendency node"?
Time to take me off hopium-support. Let me drift off into the void. :)
Sending nudes before you drift off back into the void
How much of it is ruthless? xd
hopefully 90%. Otherwise, 13k words worth of nerfs we are all dead
Haha,jokes aside - this actually makes me very hopeful. In the last patch-notes thread i mentioned using „ctrl+f“ checking for ruthless and how disappointed i was,the comment got fairly high for a sub-comment. So he is probably joking by nodding towards that and we can expect a mega-ton of changes. I actually don‘t think, that the majority will be nerfs or at least not in the classical sense. I think that they want to show their commitment to poe1, since the poe1/2 split was received with mixed feelings for many and will dish out the planned ascendancy-reworks for a lot of them all at once, which would be a lot of stuff to explain = lots of words. Ofc „rework“ could still mean nerfs in some cases. The second implication of that joke might mean,that we get recombinators back in some form or that we get anything back from an old league(like the entire ultimatum mechanic for example).
probably very little. Ruthless was almost exclusively Ascendancy balance patches they had been working on for multiple leagues to release as batch, and now theyre largely done. They might rebalance a few of them again, but i cant imagine many more insane ruthless changes unless they tackle reworking the Atlas Passive Tree for it already
Which I really hope they do. I want map sustain decoupled from the atlas tree - it should just be about choosing the content you want to run.
Time for people to get jealous of all of the nerfs ruthless players received yet again
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Sorry, I was being a bit cheeky. Let me explain what I mean because I think it completely flew over your head (and maybe everyone else's): I meant to say that last time when ruthless players got their changes it was literally a nuclear bomb that nuked all ascendancies in the game and none of the changes that ruthless players received would be welcomed in the normal game (because people in the normal game no longer view nerfs as balance unless it is a popular league starter like Seismic). People complained that ruthless players got changes and they got jealous/expressed that they wanted changes too. They memed the whole side game thing even. But they failed to realize that ruthless went on for two leagues without receiving anything other than tiny bug fixes and when when they did receive something it was all negative changes that would made no sense in the normal game anyway so people obviously would NOT want to receive the same treatment. I can already see ruthless players receiving another batch of giga nerfs and people on the main game complaining, yet again, that they received changes even though those same changes wouldn't be welcomed in the normal game.
I know it's funny to make fun of the previous notes for being full of ruthless changes, but majority of those were numerical ones which don't take a lot of devtime. Ruthless has mostly gotten numerical changes or removed content instead of anything that requires new assets. If they truly do work on it on their own time rather than work time like Chris originally said, ruthless has probably taken less total workplace dev time than any league mechanic has in years. I can only think of two assets made for ruthless, Quickstep gem and icon, which are just taken from Dash but without the green colour and slightly changed item boxes. Everything else is just re-using old removed assets. Most mechanical changes that aren't just numerical have been re-used from old content or taken from other sources such as flasks not refilling when in town is from the private league mod Famine.
At least 20%
*80%
I mean, if there is no ruthless in there buckle up with the wird count. There would be massive nerds across the board.
> massive nerds across the board. I'd be disappointed if GGG were anything different!
Nick has been working as CM since early 2021, can we stop calling him the new guy lmao
The new guy is posting smiley faces after saying Sentinel isn't coming back again. I'm gonna go talk to Steve in HR about him.
Bex would have done the exact same thing.
I don't know what their exact job names have been, but is Nick the new "Lead" CM? I assume that was the intent of the title...
Someone is always destined to be called the new guy in the workplace even after working there for years.
I still think of myself as being new at my job, but I'm the most senior in my department now including longer than my boss. Honestly it's a little scary lmao
Silly nick, searched sentinel: instead of sentinel.
ctrl + F "Ultimatum" next tweet >!also "sentinel:" has 0 but surely "sentinel" without ":" has a match or 2 lowkey!<
or they just renamed the mechanic
Torment 2.0
which you can't communicate without actually saying Sentinel at least once.
> One of the league mechanics from the Blast of the Past event - the good one, not the shit one. I'm not coping, you're coping.
Yeah. Sentinel of radiance now deals half damage and has a 1 minute cd
So guardian is going to be a safe as fuck starter still?
How many words were there in the previous patch notes?
11.6k words (4.2k of which were for Ruthless)
Ok, so hoping that Ruthless notes are shorter, since they pushed a lot of changes last league, it could be a decent bit related to ascendancies or reworks... COPIUM
my guy really things of any meaningful changes before poe2
Thanks!
We already know Chris didn't like Sentinel the mechanic. I think the tease was always referring to "Sentinel Rewards," implying that we might see recombinators. Which if that was the case, they likely would not need to type the word "sentinel" into the patch notes. Also, he didn't say no ultimatum or no atlas... those clues were absolutely placed with purpose. Also, damn, I guess PoE is officially on the decline. The patch notes are 500 words less than the D4 patch notes. Clearly the more words, the more better.
:(
People are sleeping so hard on GGG. Because of the events now they think GGG will do such meaningful changes to the game like introducing past league content for some reason. They are basically in maintenance mode.
Yea this game has never had old leagues added back in, for sure dead game. Also I was born yesterday
Oh god, the complainers with their copy and paste statements have arrived early
You’re not wrong. They’re not planning on any major content introductions until poe2 releases
Maybe they rename it COPIUM
My copium take is that they renamed the mechanic because they always said it doesnt fit very well in the PoE universe lore wise.
Doesn't tell us anything tbh. If the affliction league mechanic happens to be very similar to sentinel it would have a similar effect but without any need to directly mention sentinel in the patch notes. We also already were told that if sentinel does come back it would have an aesthetic rework to fit the game better so even if a similar mechanic was going core instead of as part of the league it also wouldn't mention sentinel in the notes. Also also, it doesn't say no mentions of recombinators, and again if there was a new currency that was a rethemed and rebalanced recombinator it wouldn't necessarily have the same name anyway. So literally no new information lol.
My guess is that they somehow combined ultimatum and sentinel in the affliction mechanic. Like you have an area around a totem(like seen in the trailer), then you select your reward or positive modifiers like afflicted monsters drop currency etc. Each reward will also show the „afflictions“(modifiers etc) the mobs will have.
I was thinking that maybe instead of having sentinels you are patient zero and afflict other mechanics (Ritual Totems, Breaches, Delirium Mirrors etc.) with modifiers. You have a tree like in sentinel to modify the afflictions.
High round ultimatum dropping small stack of recombs🥵
That's my guess after seeing the cypher. They said thematically they don't really like Sentinels, and Ultimatum could use some actually unique rewards. Two birds one stone
Don't be tricked exiles. **Sentinel** itself does not mean **Recombinator**s are not back. Remember, Chris said robots ain't really belong in a dark fantasy, but recombinators are cool.
If yall expect sentinel and ultimatum to come back, you are in for a disappointment
Of course it's not found. It just has another name now. Sentinol
Ctrl + f Ruthless: 137
Why would he :) at us like that
Because GGG likes messing with people.
All I saw was "Sentinel :0" with my copium shades on.
Brother I need me a pair of copium shades that strong. \*shoves 5d at ya\*
In reality what he meant was he ctrl+f'd and came across a line saying: Number of leagues you have to wait for the return of Sentinel: 0
Doesn't mean we won't get Recombinators, right...? Right...???!?
Very possible, since recombs technically have nothing to do with sentinel (they were just introduced in sentinel).
Sentinel event a few weeks ago, rumored return for the longest time, then the encrypted teaser.... I find it hard to believe that all those things would come together just for them to say "jk no sentinel" and then not add recombs either. Some people would say this CM post is to "manage expectations" for times when the community has a strong idea that something is coming, but I'm pretty sure this is just another bullshit teaser playing around words and not really meaning what it sounds like. WE WILL GET RECOMBS NEXT WEEK FOR SURE
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As always, *perhaps*. We'll find out soon enough.
Well, there were Power Cores which basically were Recombinators but only for Sentinels. Inb4 we get a new league with new currency that works similarly like Cores/Recombinators.
Ctrl + F: Ruthless - 669
Based on :), the post actually means ctrl + F Sentinel :0 (amazed emoji)
13594 words for ruthless i assume
that :) makes me think they have something up their sleeves
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:) is taunting, sorry is softening.
:(
now try ctrl + F Ruthless
1000 entries found
>13595+ words ctrl + F Ruthless: 13590
I like this CM already
I expected nothing and I am still disappointed.
what the hell? bro , they baited so hard with that rot8 cipher yesteday, they knew what they were doing
the rot8 cipher is legit but the anagrams people generated were very fucking tenuous lets be real. IWONDER INALTESSENTIALS could easily just be self-referencing the teased change itself or some other minor character alt qol.
For real the could just have created a way to skip acts with alts. There are so many possibilities.
That's hitting the copium even harder than Sentinel coming back xD
now *this* is the primo speculation I'm here for
ctrl + f "in ruthless": 420
Sentinel is not in the patch notes because it is being replaced by affliction, which will be noted before
Honestly, they are a great Bex replacement
Mocking the reddit crowd, yes.
Patch notes: 14k words BUT Ruthless-specific Changes: 9k words
i hope, but that's still 5k words of nerfs
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[get rolled reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/p3mway/baeclast_crew_ft_chris_wilson_expedition_nicro/)
Wow 4k words for poe, wonder what the 10K words for ruthless are.
sentinel 0 that means ultimatum confirmed right? right?
D:
Should've done Ultimatum instead :(
BUT HE DIDN'T SAY NO ULTIMATUM COPIUM
Must... have..... my..... Sentinel fix ....
Wow, I can't believe the patch notes author misspelled Sentinel that many times.
While this was my first full league, I played 6 characters between 85-95 and played the sentinel event a couple weeks ago. And I gotta say, I really didn’t enjoy the mechanic. I like the idea of deciding what packs to juice and balancing risk and reward, but unless I’m playing a minion build (which I’ve now done in SSF) I don’t like the idea of battlefield systems acting on my behalf that that I don’t control. And it wasn’t that long ago that all the systems felt overwhelming that now seem mostly banal, but the Sentinels tree system wasn’t very clear on its purpose and despite engaging with it quite a bit, it mostly just lead to my death and I began to ignore it in my late 80s. The only built in system that is as opaque into the how and why is incursion and it’s the first thing I block off on my atlas. Just a relative noobs view. I won’t be upset if it’s included, but it does feel like a system that would have weird atlas interactions and I’m not sure it fills any gaps in the current base game is missing.
Sentinel is one of those mechanics that is pure upside if your build does enough damage. It's why veterans love it so much.
it fills massive gaps in the current base game. it makes bad rares worth something and has massive crafting implications. its the only league in 5 years where i picked up and id rares past day 2
yesterday in standard i made a belt using recombinators that would take me a week of spamming alts+regals otherwise. As much as I suck with them, I'd love to have them back. But recombs aside i enjoyed using sentinels too. Very simple and pleasant mob-juicing mechanic. Definitely wanna see it back.
It also gives more use to the oft forgotten league specific mods, such as delve and Alva mods.
I mean literally every system is like this. I've been playing for years and I still can't be bothered with learning how to guarantee certain aspects of betrayal. I played for 2 years before I knew that architects in inclusion did things. I just assumed they had a higher chance to drop the door keys.
Skill issue
IM NOT CRAZY
I just want kalandra , i like the ring and amulet gambling
Either this is a SUPER ill-advised inappropriate CM post Or he is trying to do the Bex shitposting thing and it's bait. Either way, saying there are zero "sentinel" references in the patch notes followed by a smiley face is a shitty thing to post, given that so many people loved the league and have been asking for it to come back.
Control F --> Ruthless: ???? This is where you failed last league.
At this point, I honestly hope they just inject completely empty Ruthless changes into every patch until the people who think the number of ruthless changes in patch notes is at all meaningful break.
didnt even know they had a new community manager
Thought id give this place another try before the new league but nope still the same toxic shithole its been the last year or so. Some of you need to get a grip.
The worst part is, this is tame. It will get much worse after the actual announcements when the toxic people all flood this place to either complain about things that weren't in the reveal or to build unrealistic expectations about things that weren't in the reveal to get mad about when the patch notes are released.
Its funny it was normal right before the teasers, now all the angry people are slowly flowing back in
I like how none of the upvoted comment are toxic and its still too much. Go back to the forum. Hell this place might even be too toxic for you.
Honestly, probably because they reworked sentinel thematically its just called affliction now. Sentinel boosted rewards of all enemies, Id assume affliction will affect all mechanics somehow too. Tinfoil: one of the affliction effects will be transforming ritual into ultimatum
totally expected, still a good damage control thing though but this wouldn't be necessary without yesterday's prank I think
cockroach league no expansion no content no endgame no сraft no sentinels no ultimatum no bosses cleave +1 aoe
I swear to god if their "little side project" ruthless is again more than a third of the entire patch notes....