dannyslag: Agreed. I had a blast just making my own build last season. People kept telling me it wasn't meta, but i had fun running a leap slam warrior.

joshuafruth6420: Gaming community as a whole has a "meta brained" problem..

JerK72: I’ve never gotten higher than level 30 so I’m not sure why I worry about op builds. Got to fix that brain rot this season.

Koboldaholic: Honestly this is why I don't really care for doing what DarthMTX, Raxx, or Ghazzy say. I play what I want. Last league I was Hollow Palm Amazon because it sounded fun to me. This time I plan to do Pathfinder ice Werewolf

dogs-game-too: My bro rarely gives compliments but said he's impressed how I always figure out a cracked build in games we play without copying a guide. I told him the secret is to learn

barrywise7185: Most fun I’ve had is getting a concept for a build and exploring that build to its finality on my own.

New players overwhelmed by choice I can understand following a guide until they get the fundamentals down, but the game is extremely playable sticking to the main roads that GGG lays out.

uchnsn: as much as i agree with you, i play what i prefer and made some really bad ones but i had fun with them. is that the game doesn't teach you properly at certain points so you can't learn to adjust your "bad" build to still be playable.

once people HIT that wall. they usually go to the meta they don't want to meet that wall again.

that's more than anything the reason why people going for meta. they don't want to waste their time to get to maps and start getting one shotted by things offscreen and they can't tell what it was etc.

if you died and it said "died to physical by projectile" or what ever you could at least adjust to fix your bad none meta build and still push ahead.

the game design is what pushes people to meta not the meta it self. sure its good and broken and fast but sometimes you just want to make your own and that's where problems start. and unless the devs don't address this issue off-meta will never reach the potential it has.

(this applies both to defensive and offensive skills just easier to explain with defenses because we've all be dunked on by something we don't know what it was at one time.)

bojan2501: This kind of meta mentality is in all pores of our lives today.

New car.

New phone.

New clothing.

We are grinding to death.

Kaylx3: Honestly i like to check build on mobalytics to see which playstyle i find fun and then go along to this general direction. I'm not invested enough to play everything in the game and check every stat, i like to have a line to follow and branch out when i feel like it. Planning to play a huntress this season and check after a day what fun build are related to it and then go that way

Ionenkanone1: I am gonna try building a Legionare Build, Gemling Legionaire with spear an big shield. This probably sucks but damn I will try because I never play till end end game anyway, so having fun with a silly build for 50 - 70 level is all I need. Good video! To be honest the Meta thing is a overarcing problem with gameing to many people play things "competetive"

mathmusicstructure: People used to play games for fun it was crazy

crieye: I had fun building my own version of Mortar Totem last league. Solving how to make your own build was part of the fun for me for almost all games such as MH, BG3, Elden Ring and Rogue Trader.

sir_ladykiller1803: Haven’t seen an Italian Spartacus vid in forever I remember trying to win a bannerlord key on stream lol

knifemind: Every build is a meta build.

I've only ever played a bunch of witches and warriors, so I'm going Stormweaver this time, because it looks fun, and I think I've developed enough game knowledge to make something work.

bjorn-falkoandreas9472: Thanks, Sparty. I needed to hear that. I have been on a two month hiatus for POE2 because I was try-harding and stuck at lvl 85 or so. Followed a build for leveling and that stopped being ideal and I did not want to let it go. And so decided not to grind so I could trade because my self-found stuff was not enough. Play for fun and move on when it isn't fun anymore. And try stuff.

WhayIe: Wow after prada's video abt having fun im glad this is getting into my feed

Instant subscribe

micdy7104: the feature i'm most interested to in the new patch is to "Build Your Own Dungeon"

_MikeJon_: I'm a casual so I just goes for what sounds badass. A war bear? Hell yes.

stefannedevski6760: Going to be a Druid for sure. Want to make a tornado Druid for sure. But all three forms look awesome. So this time around I will play around more.

robertstryjak1973: Metas and tier lists only matter at the highest levels of play. The only exception is if the game is suffering from a bug that makes certain options completely broken or useless.

Dloin: Ah, finally someone validates my non meta ways :D

Honestly, I never understood why there is a skill tree that lets me be creative and than I am supposed to go by a guide... than i dont need a fuckin skilltree!

thebenc1537: I don't buy anything in F2P games. So I tend to cater my character towards items I find,, not items I hope to find or might pay for.

TwoFoxGibbon: I'm making a Black Flame Chaos Bear/Wyvern druid. Just curious to see what happens.

micdy7104: what is meta anyway.. idk, making my own build was always my meta fun

since release i have mostly play Titan and it was fun, but now i'm tempted to go druid wyvern

JKayde: I'm going to make a werewolf/crossbow witch hunter build to live out my Van Helsing fantasies. If it sucks it sucks.

Brutik5: I play SFF and game is not a race for me. I play as long as I enjoy it, not how many divines per hour I can hit. I still enjoyed 0.3 for 300h with this mindset. I don't think I will ever hit level 100 though, even if that ideally would be my goal.

fanshaw: I did see a quote somewhere, "whatever mechanics you build into a game, gamers will min-max the fun out of it." At least with POE once you get enough money you can respec. Maybe respecing should be free when you have under a certain amount of gold or if you are under a certain level.

The skill tree is scary because its slightly autistic in its precise language: "attack damage" and "physical damage" are not the same thing, which might be important if you are doing bleed damage. I think GGG should have bare weapon DPS, and "hit DPS and DOT DPS, based on your build". Things that should be helpful like DPS numbers turn out to be deceptive - the information is there, but it is buried in a non-obvious tab in a submenu. Is an AOE attack a "hit" or not? The information about how x

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