Tip 10 is a good one. I've definitely had to walk away after getting frustrated with crafts, or bad deaths from the 99-100 push. By the time I come back I've forgotten why I've gotten up, but i know I'm better for having left. Great video, and welcome to any new players!
10 minutes in and I completely agree with everything you've mentioned so far. I can see this being incredibly useful to new players without being terribly intimidating (I hope). Also thanks for the shoutout!
Can’t thank you enough for the new player friendly content. This is my first league following a guide and went with RF like you suggested. I still can’t believe I am in red maps. Cheers man keep it up. ❤️
My progression to knowledge thus far plus future plans: 1. Make it through the campaign (barely) with my own character. 2. Follow a build guide and realize there is a tone of quality life built-in to following a plan made by somebody with knowledge. 3. Because I prefer to invest more in a few characters than in a lot of multiple characters, as leagues progress and mechanics and skill tree change, figure out how to modify the build in Path of Building to keep it relevant in the present-tense, and take advantage of the free respecs in standard each league change. This is a way to gradually figure out how to make things work without having to start over with a new character. 4 (Eventually -- not there yet) When I'm confident enough, make my own build and participate more in leagues rather than the main character in standard.
Building a character is such a large part of PoE that I would argue it's the main content. That's why I would never recommend anyone to follow a build guide. If you do that, especially if you do it as a newer player, you completely miss out on what makes PoE special. Because the moment to moment gameplay is certainly not what's special. That just involves pressing a few buttons and watching stuff die, and then repeating that 100,000 times, like in any ARPG. However, as you say, build guides are a great source of information and can be used to learn a lot of stuff without actually following them. So they're not without value. To someone who's struggling and doesn't understand why, reading a guide could make them understand what they're missing or doing wrong, or give them an idea of something they could easily fit into their own build.
Tip 10 is a good one. I've definitely had to walk away after getting frustrated with crafts, or bad deaths from the 99-100 push. By the time I come back I've forgotten why I've gotten up, but i know I'm better for having left. Great video, and welcome to any new players!
10 minutes in and I completely agree with everything you've mentioned so far. I can see this being incredibly useful to new players without being terribly intimidating (I hope).
Also thanks for the shoutout!
I hope the video can be helpful! and thanks for helping me set up a loot filter!
Can’t thank you enough for the new player friendly content. This is my first league following a guide and went with RF like you suggested. I still can’t believe I am in red maps. Cheers man keep it up. ❤️
Glad to hear it! And hope you are enjoying the process of climbing the POE mountain!
I see a new ATJ video, I click. PoE as well, SWEET!
Why thank you! Hope you enjoyed it!
My progression to knowledge thus far plus future plans:
1. Make it through the campaign (barely) with my own character.
2. Follow a build guide and realize there is a tone of quality life built-in to following a plan made by somebody with knowledge.
3. Because I prefer to invest more in a few characters than in a lot of multiple characters, as leagues progress and mechanics and skill tree change, figure out how to modify the build in Path of Building to keep it relevant in the present-tense, and take advantage of the free respecs in standard each league change. This is a way to gradually figure out how to make things work without having to start over with a new character.
4 (Eventually -- not there yet) When I'm confident enough, make my own build and participate more in leagues rather than the main character in standard.
Well said! I also found that playing around in standard with the passive respecs is a great way to keep moving forward without starting over.
Building a character is such a large part of PoE that I would argue it's the main content. That's why I would never recommend anyone to follow a build guide. If you do that, especially if you do it as a newer player, you completely miss out on what makes PoE special. Because the moment to moment gameplay is certainly not what's special. That just involves pressing a few buttons and watching stuff die, and then repeating that 100,000 times, like in any ARPG.
However, as you say, build guides are a great source of information and can be used to learn a lot of stuff without actually following them. So they're not without value. To someone who's struggling and doesn't understand why, reading a guide could make them understand what they're missing or doing wrong, or give them an idea of something they could easily fit into their own build.