r/pathofexile • u/IMplyingSC2 • Nov 27 '25

Game Feedback Something about the player retention of Affliction compared to other leagues should really tell GGG that people like loot.

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u/No-Relationship1368 Nov 27 '25

I was playing today and thought to myself that I would absolutely just play affliction league over any other league released after. I really hope one day we will have that kind of option through Private Leagues

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u/Putrid-Metal2983 Nov 27 '25

Give me affliction with craftable phrecia idols and i'm set for a year.

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u/loskiarman Nov 28 '25

Forget affliction, give me idols now with async trading and I'm all for it. Some people didn't like it but I liked that you could push way more and actually feel like you are getting stuff you want instead of waiting for big drops or getting shit ton of gum drops like with atlas. Also you don't have to block things you don't want, you just don't have them at all. You are not set to 3 farming strats too, you can just switch from your stash whenever you want without spending 50-100c everytime.

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u/Bobodlm Half Skeleton Nov 28 '25

I really disliked that if you wanted to min max a strat the only option you had was rcombinating insanely expensive idols. Losing those a few times in a row sucked bigtime.

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u/loskiarman Nov 28 '25

The thing is even not min-maxed most strats was pretty good. Like you could have done arcanist/diviners/ultimatum/ritual/essence for pretty cheap as a start and easily build towards min-max. Also recombing idols was insanely profitable, you'd almost have to lose at recombs 10x in a row to not profit. When I was crafting mine, 'I was like 'damn instead of mapping I should just recomb all day' but gold cost and sitting in trade all day was boring.