After players have been waiting for a new league in Path of Exile for a long time and have been repeatedly put off, they have now taken matters into their own hands.

Why have players been waiting so long? For almost seven months, players of Path of Exile have not received any new updates. The reason for this is the release of the successor, which forced the developers to put all resources into the development of PoE2.

Recently, the head of Path of Exile admitted that he has broken his promise, but this was the only way to ensure the release of Path of Exile 2. For fans, this statement was a breach of trust and a severe disappointment, as they were supposed to wait until after the release of the major 0.2.0 update of Path of Exile 2 for a new league.

This took too long for many, so they took matters into their own hands.

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Community starts its own league

How did the community address the problem? Players of Path of Exile have waited long enough for a new league and have quickly created their own. Under the leadership of PoE content creator Pohx (via YouTube), more than 28,000 players have come together to start their own league.

In Path of Exile, players have the possibility to create their own league according to their rules. However, this is not free, and in the case of 30,000 player slots for the content creator’s own league, it has cost about €18,000.

The league offers all adventurers a fresh start in the settlers mechanics from the current season. With the new league, all gamers can experience Path of Exile from the beginning, without the inflated economy and the other problems that the advanced league currently brings with it.

What rules are there to observe? The league runs with the current settings without major changes. Only the time until when you can play is limited. The league only runs until April 1, 2025, and the slots are arranged so that you can only join by invitation.

The content creator’s league is, however, not the only private league starting now. In the forum at pathofexile.com, you can find many new leagues with which you can start now or in a few days. So if you have had enough of standard Path of Exile or its successor, you can start the game anew here.

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Path of Exile 2 wanted to provide players with a tougher experience, but gamers are not very enthusiastic about the current game mechanics.

How is death punished? In Path of Exile 2, the death of a character is not without consequences. Each time your character is killed in the endgame of Path of Exile 2, it loses 10% of the experience points of the current level. Depending on the character’s level, this can result in several hours of grinding.

Additionally, players also lose all items that were dropped but not picked up yet, as well as all items that could have potentially dropped. This is because after the character’s death, you are no longer allowed to enter the map, except for boss fights against the toughest boss in the game, Arbiter of Ash.

This system does not create excitement among players, as a new post in the community shows.

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Just Grinding

What bothers gamers? Players of Path of Exile 2 apparently just want to grind and are not interested in the challenging obstacles. This is shown in a new post on Reddit by user Dawgin420.

He criticizes the endgame of PoE2, which with its penalties for the death of your character prevents anyone from daring to face challenges. Instead, players would prefer to run risk-free maps where they can just slay monsters without the danger of getting killed.

This is further fueled by the fact that players can sell maps like Breachstones for good money, instead of risking being killed on the map and losing the content in the form of items and currency.

In practice, this means that adventurers often set aside content with higher difficulty and gamers just opt for mindless and safe grinding. Thus, the developers’ goal to make Path of Exile 2 more difficult seems to not be achieved, as players apparently do not like to play these contents.

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Is this just a single opinion? No, under the post on Reddit, many other players also share similar views. User lazypanda1 adds to the post on Reddit with his experience:

That’s true. The current system creates a conflict between challenge and risk/reward.
Regarding the challenge, it is most enjoyable when your build is just strong enough to take on the content. Not too weak that you get killed right away, but not too strong that you trivialize the content. […]

The loss of the reward almost always leads to a negative experience. The lower the risk, the more fun is expected, leading to a linear curve that progresses from negative to positive. […] This means that if you want to maximize the fun of the reward, you have to minimize the risk, which means you trivialize the content and thereby eliminate any semblance of challenge.

lazypanda1 on Reddit

User Flying_Mage also does not find this good on Reddit: “That is pretty much the main reason why the punishment for death is bad. It encourages you to create easy and diluted content instead of juicy and dangerous. And that is boring. And the absolutely last thing a developer wants to do is make their game boring. […]”

User BigSmols, however, sees it differently on Reddit: “I honestly feel like there isn’t much ‘challenging’ endgame content. I either get randomly one-shotted or nuke the enemies. Don’t get me wrong, this game is technically much more challenging than most other ARPGs, but the endgame and the campaign feel like two different games.”

In the campaign, there are fewer penalties for death because you can simply re-enter the map. Path of Exile 2 is still in Early Access, so the developers can adjust and improve the mechanics at this point. Another mechanic also needs to change according to the players: If a mechanic stays in Path of Exile 2, there will be a big problem at release, the community believes

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