Grim Dawn vs Path of Exile
Which one should I buy in the sale /v/?
Love Diablo II hate Warcraft 3
Has anyone played either here?
>>343342359
Path of Exile
Because its free
>Path of Exile
>buy
>>343342359
Grim Dawn is fun for a run or two, but gets old fast.
Path of Exile is free. It's free.
Path of Exile is great and frree so go play it. Grim Dawn is Amazinginly great so go buy it.
>>343342359
>Grim Dawn
Early access Titan Quest clone that's not specially fun or interesting.
>Path of Exile
Logic evolution of the genre where Diablo 2 left it. With a ton of new content every 6 months or so.
If you just want casual fun I guess Grim Dawn and Diablo 3 are alright but if you want to test your autism check Path of Exile.
Grimdawn is a singleplayer game that is good for a playthrough or two. PoE is a game you can dump a ton of hours into and still learn new things.
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>>343344510
Really? I stopped following Path of Exile a while ago, what is the catch, microtransactions?
>>343344123
kek, what is this from?
>>343344704
the catch is how much time you need to put in. PoE isn't a game where you can just pick it up, play for a bit, have a good time, drop it and go on your merry way. I know people hate it when someone says "b-but it gets good x hours in" but PoE is really the shining example of that saying. basically what this guy said >>343344619
Grim dawn is good if you're up for a casual week or two of monster grinding and that's it. PoE is good if you're up for full-on autism and really want something to sink your teeth into for hundreds of hours.
>>343342359
I didn't like grim dawn's early game
PoE is fun from 1 to 50 and then from 65 onward.
>>343345280
But how can it be 100% free?
>>343345439
you can make mule (FREE) accounts or pay for extra bank tabs.
>>343345439
they make money off microtransactions. worst one would be extra stash tabs, but most people either buy those on sale or make mules. I make mules cause it's easy and fuck spending money. one of the better microtransaction systems out there.
>>343342359
grim dawn for awesome mods and replayability, a lot better balance than poe
poe for racing
I've played both games and to be honest, i thinkDiablo 3, deal with itis the best
>>343345439
I forgot that if you want to do any trading you ABSOLUTELY need to buy a single premium stash tab. It is mandatory
>>343344510
>Early Access
But that's wrong you fucking retard.
>>343346092
Literally false
>>343346050
Fuck off scrub with your le deal with it meme
>>343346408
why u mad tho?
>>343345439
Your bank space is pretty limited unless you buy more or make mules to store shit. It's not terribly annoying actually because there's 3rd party programs that keep track of your items and help you setup a shop on the forums. You have to do that or spam chat in game to trade items because there's no in game market.
Other than bank space it's all cosmetic stuff. At higher levels you get a hideout which is your own little space you can customize so there's stuff you can buy for there. Also helmet effects, footprint effects, stuff like that.
>>343346506
hhhoolleeeeeee shit
>>343346617
If you mean the pic, I just pulled that off Google images. I haven't played in a while, the passive tree is probably bigger now.
>>343346506
wait, those are just the passive skills?
>>343346617
Calm down you little faggot, it takes a less than a week to learn the tree
>>343346886
No, the "passives" are the larger ones near the end.
![poe_foxshade_6l[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/DQxMTFz.jpg "poe_foxshade_6l[1].jpg")
>>343346886
Yeah. Active skills and auras/buffs are items. They are skill gems that you slot in your armor/weapons and then level up as you kill shit.
>>343347062
>No, the "passives" are the larger ones near the end.
Well, depends what you mean by passives. Some are just + to base stats or things like attack/cast speed, while some are things like Blood Magic that completely change how your character works.
>>343347062
All of them are passive, dumbass
Well, one is free and the other one is a great game. So you could technically "buy" both.
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>>343346506
Do I have to catch Autism to play this game?
>>343342359
Path of Exile is really really bad.
Bad skill system, bad trading system, bad end game.
The only thing good are the tournaments
>>343347690
>Do I have to catch Autism to play this game?
Pretty much, yep.
>>343347062
dafuq? they're all passives, admittedly some change youre play style.
active skills get slotted in your equipment and are story rewards or drops. this is imo the key weakness of poe it's buiild entirely around spamming one or two skills with a bunch of auras and a mobility skill and thats it. so the actual gameplay is kinda boring but you can feed your autism if you're into math.
>>343344510 pretty much summed it up poe is by no means bad its just not something you pick up for a week or two because you will barely scratch the surface.
>>343347693
wut
>>343347996
Yeah you won't be managing cooldowns or rotations in PoE. Instead you are watching for rare/champ enemies that can wreck you and good item drops.
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>>343342967
I miss when 4chan used to be funny
>>343346092
Not true, you can use third party programs like Procurement just fine or even better.
>>343345439
the catch is that people buy skins for their gear, and more stash tabs (space for your stash). But you can make new free accounts and store stuff there if you really dont want to buy.
Path of Exile is an amazing game, 100% recommended. They push out new content ALL the time with updates and stuff. Game just gets better and better. I've spent close to 1600 hours and 200 bucks on it so far. Friends have spent even more on it. Incredible game.
>>343348487
Now its just shitty janitors ans their "lets have a vidya cosplay thread guys XD"
Did all the OC anons get party vanned?
>>343347062
All of them are passives, the "larger" ones you talk of are called Keystones.
I remember when Diablo III was first released, /v/ was flooded with threads saying don't bother and just play PoE.
There must have been a lot of shitty updates to sway opinion this much
grim fucking dawn, and listen to me since i didn't even know that i like these types of games until i played grim dawn and got hooked like a madman.
i also tried PoE and got bored pretty fucking quickly, no loot, everything is bought so no reward factor for anything, maps are utter empty pieces of shit, skill tree at first look looks amazing and complex but once you start leveling you'll realise that it's just tiny stat bonuses and no real skills to be used.
>>343349046
sounds like you don't know shit about path of exile
Grim Dawn's made by the Titan Quest guys, and while I have yet to play Grim Dawn, Titan Quest was a really intuitive ARPG. You could take two class masteries if you wanted, and any two could be made to be a viable class. There were so many diverse ways to build and play. I imagine Grim Dawn's the same.
>>343346092
Literally not. I use acquisition for trading. Setup took like 5 min.
>>343348671
OC posting anons are in their late 20s early 30s now. only a few people got vanned as far as I remember.
Last notable thing I remember was last year when a guy strangled his girlfriend and posted it on /b/ before going on a high speed chase and getting caught a few hours later
>>343346506
Damn the tree looks so much diffrent by now.
>>343349126
sounds like you play shitty games because they are free and need to tell yourself errytiem you log in that's your going to have fun.
it also sounds like you don't know shit about grim dawn.
>>343347693
Path of Exile is really really good.
Good skill system, meh trading system fixed by 3rd party programs, pretty good end game.
The only bad thing is that in end game you have to put quite alot into your defences.
>>343349159
It is. I think there are 6 masteries each with different playstyles within them. Also there's a huge extra layer of customization in the Devotion system which is a talent tree of sorts that gives you really powerful stat boosts and skills that you can bind onto your normal abilities, so each time you use that ability there's a chance the Devotion skill will activate.
grim dawn if you want to scratch your arpg itch and be done with it in a week or so.
poe if you really want to sink your teeth into it, like min maxing and arent afraid of a higher learning curve.
Grim Dawn would be better if they just made titan quest with quicker progression
The catch is gear progression is super slow. The only gameplay-affecting thing you can buy are stash tabs and they're neither expensive nor necessary until you've put a few hundred hours in, but you need a hundred hours minimum to amass decent wealth if you're not absurdly lucky. Also, you can't grind for specific pieces of gear which means you have to trade for it using third party services(poe.trade) and the character progression is super complicated to the point where pretty much all new players should follow a guide.
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>>343349498
Problem with grim dawn is just that the abilities and synergies the classes have are no where near as interesting as what you could do in Titan quest.
Holy shit, this thread really made me want to finally finish Titan Quest after all those years (I love it, but for some reason never play more than a few hours at a time), and get Grim Dawn
>>343349159
>shilling a game he admits to knowing literally nothing about
>Titan quest is a good game
my fucking sides, thanks anon
>>343350304
I think you'll find that most people that care at all about the ARPG genre think Titan Quest is a good game and addition to the genre, but okay dude. You do your shitposting you.
>>343350415
3 years of /v/ shitting all over titan quest tells you otherwise kid, aren't business hours over for Grim Dawn customer support?
>>343350415
Titan Quest was terrible for me. Grindy bullshit with little to no progression. I tried to improve my gear and spent hours killing the same monsters because the next area was too difficult with my current gear.
Then I gave up.
prefer grim dawn just cause theres no economy or meta or anything, everythings just there in the game and i dont have to give a shit.
>>343350020
You can grind for specific divination cards that grant items, although it is not very reliable.
Path of Exile is made with trading in mind, you have to realize that.
Once you get down to trading the game is a breeze and progression feels great. You shouldn't have to upgrade a lot anyway until you reach higher levels or progress to a new difficulty
>>343350572
I wouldn't know. I don't know where Crate Entertainment is based, nor what their business hours are in their respective time zone. And I took a long break from /v/, so there might have been hate for Titan Quest on here, but I just canot take your word for it. The limited threads I have seen asking about ARPGs since the release of Grim Dawn and PoE most people have been positive about Titan Quest, thought not necessarily Grim Dawn.
Most people that have played it actually like it though, but since it does what it says on the tin, nobody is really on the fence and thus would not give the game the time of day to confirm whether or not the game is bad.
Does GD have any good mods yet?
I really liked Titan Quest but don't like Grim Dawn, maybe it's just nostalgia or more likely the setting.
>>343351113
Well the setting is prettygrim
Titan Quest is just so full of colour and during the game's time it was always nice to see multiple mythologies in the same game, though Greek may have been overdone due to GoW at this point.
Grim Dawn.
>>343350572
Oh, I see. You get your game opinions from /v/'s anonymous angsty neckbeards switchboard.
play grim dawn if you want a more simple arpg
play poe if you have thousands of hours to grind at end game till your eyes bleed, and still get jack shit at the end of all that
>>343351113
Titan quest had better passives, abilities, synergies, and more classes in general.
Also higher difficulties of TQ would get crazy with the kind of shit that could appear at anytime and also had retooled boss fights
also while generic, i liekd TQs settings more. I also feel the graphics and animations aren't quite up to TQs either.
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>>343351323
Fuck off to reddit, you piece of shit literal cuck
>>343352179
Take your pills, anon.
>>343352179
You okay anon? Like there is no reason to be that rude.
Grim Dawn doesn't have closed online servers.
Path of Exile does.
Therefor Path of Exile.
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>>343347354
Thanks everybody for the input, looks like Path of Exile it is. Look forward to playing with you all online
Is PoE worth playing if you just play casually? Or is it a lifestyle game that requires a large chunk of your time?
>>343353013
you certainly can play it casually
the problem is the reason you play PoE is because you want to make a character that does crazy shit and you need to invest a considerable amount of time in that character to make one
>>343353013
You can get by casually if you just look up builds, but get ready to suffer the skill tree shuffles and reworks
>>343353013
In my opinion the most FUN parts of path of exile come when you commit decent amount of time and thought to it. You probably could give it a go still, it's free afterall but it's definitely one of those games that gets better the more commited you are.
>>343353013
yeah, you can have a lot of fun playing it casually in standard league.
>>343353013
ehh, if you're just gonna play it casually I'd avoid it
doing anything fun takes a lot of time investment
Grim Dawn. Character building is insanely good and incredibly replayable
PoE was legitimately made with autism in mind
Perfect game if you like committing countless hours to theorycrafting and grinding the same areas over and over
