Was Necropolis REALLY that bad? (2024)

"No it's nerfed. You're poor. Sry" - Pretty much summed up my entire league xD

"Was Necropolis REALLY that bad?"
"yes, and even worse than you think"

THE main problem was the T17
The feeling of farming T16 while people was farming T17 was A W F U L L

For me it was 2 bad things:
- nerfing everything when I discover it
- to much coffin needed to get something awesome.

Yes - Haven't watched the video, but - Yes

The trade gap pretty much destroyed my experience, like wasn't able to farm anything, and other guys were already rolling around with tonns of currency,
Lost my enjoyment, and made my experience worse.

In the first portion of the video, I thought Ziz had it wrong first because he is able to no-life the game. But later on in Endgame changes he does mention my biggest gripe with this league. This league ABSOLUTELY dumped power and items like they were a penny a pop onto people who no-lifed the game and got in early. I have a ton of hours in Path of Exile, well over 3000, but this league absolutely murdered me in the trade league because people with no job (or playing the game was their job) were able to discover and abuse various mechanics, which were patched by end of day when I got on.
There was a literal wall of power between me and them, and I couldn't afford 90% of the items I was looking at.
To add, this league mechanic was WAY worse than Ziz let on specifically because no-lifers can afford to poke and prod at the map monsters and reward / penalties. I spent literally less than half as much time as I did in any previous league actually playing the game because I had to make sure I didn't die the instant I spawned into a map. None of my characters leveled past 91 because dying was just there all the time. The mods were very inaccessible unless you specced into them, and you were FORCED to play with murder mobs if you didn't have stuff to offset their mechanics. It was a real feed bad time all around
I'd give this league a 4/10, only because the buffs to the Atlas tree (3 atlas trees will be AWESOME when I'm not league mechanic strangled), and the other new changes

I bailed out so early on this one... almost as early as Kalandra. So bad I hope we don't see a repeat of this.

Getting blasted in the campaign by modifiers I couldnt turn off was quite an experience...

Was the league bad? Yes. Was the base game still the best ARPG to play? Also yes.

one of the biggest nerfs to the casual player was the loss of veiled chaos. they were so useful to craft placeholder gear in your endgame build

As a casual player, I hated the forced map mechanic. It made everything harder with 0 real benefit. I quit the league about 1 week in because it was just not fun, but tedious.

The thing that struck me as an SSF player is that I was banking on it to really come through to help fill the gaps with gear I needed but the time to invest and not being a super power gamer meant that a lot of what I did make was pretty underwhelming especially when it came to filling the plots and storage space. Not sure why but whenever GGG makes a crafting league they seem to over think the complexity and under think the sustainability of their system design until they bring them back in a more accessible form at a later date to go core.
For me, Necropolis the league was easily one of the least interactive for me and T17 with some tweaks can be fun if treated as an actual stepping stone. The baseline game changes were fantastic though and it's great to see more being introduced in 3.25.
Quite frankly, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when the idea was pitched and the initial reaction for how many clicks are required in order to use the mechanic and it being unavoidable and how much push or resistance there was in regards to whether or not the league items would be voided due to how insane they are even when compared to pre-Necro mirror-tier items.
Every league I've played has their own ups and downs but Necropolis was way more like a Standard+ for me where I was more excited to have the Seer modifier than anything that was tied to the graveyard so I'd have to say it's definitely my least favourite and that's including Bestiary when you had to manually net beasts.

I remember thinking when the league was announced that the tedium of having to setup each map every time would get old really fast, and shocker, it was beyond tedious before even completing the campaign.

Personally, I think any league that completely obliterates your stash space and clogs up your screen in maps is no good. The crafting changes they made were okay, but it came too late without addressing the aforementioned issues. I'd rather have a list of requirements from the league mechanic to craft with a group of modifiers, with item level determining the weight of the tiers. That corpse sh*t sucked.

Forcing me to fill my stash tabs with coffins and allflames killed this league for me.

at first i thought that necropolis was bad purely because affliction was incredible but looking back made me realize that top to bottom it was f*cking awful.

i liked how much money i could earn that league but that made me play less this league, i hated the graveyard

Yes, yes it was
That said i disagree ziz - You mention "being able to get good gear easily" is why retention was low. I dont think so. I didnt quit because "graveyard was too strong". I quit because the league felt sh*t, and if you werent a streamer blasting T17s with OP build you were picking up scraps. It had nothing to do with "i got too strong and got bored".
Affliction was "I got good gear easily" - and it was one of the most popular leagues of all time.

How many of you went from Affliction being the best ever then thinking necropolis is F tier?

I'm still decently new and pretty bad at the game. the only reason I played for as long as I did this league is because I hadn't finished all of the invitations before and that was my goal for this league.
All of the fun crazy stuff getting nerfed/changed before I had the opportunity to even attempt them killed my desire to continue playing. Watching a good chunk of people take advantage of systems really early only to have them be not NEARLY as good (or even exist) by the time I got to them was unbelievably off-putting. My friend saw the nameless seer/the seer scarab 10+ times, and by the time I was actually moving through maps at a decent pace it was nerfed and I had only seen it once (and that would be the only seer I saw the entire league). Stuff like that destroyed my desire to play.

This was my first league. Randomly rippy mods are bad enough for people who have experience. As a new player not knowing what mods to even look out for, it was awful. Playing through the campaign for the first time and suddenly having overpowered mobs meant way too many things to learn about from the get go. I think I got adrenaline roas right off the bat.

The game seems to have an overall balance issue imo: you can't properly balance the game for both casual players AND professionals. It is fun to watch Ziz do his thing but I am enjoying last epochs accessibility more as a casual player.

When I was told that T17's were a bridge between Pinnacle and Uber Pinnacle, I was let down when I seen otherwise.

I'm just not a fan of crafting leagues. Looking back through all the leagues, there is not a single crafting focused one that I enjoyed. The content and changes that came along with Necropolis were great, but the league mechanic itself does have a huge factor in my overall enjoyment.

I love how Last Epoch released a very simple, mechanic that takes you a few tries to master it, and PoE is like.. hmmm

Newer Poe player here! While my opinion may not matter I do want to say a few things about the league. I probably have like a few hundred hours over the course of three leagues, I haven't done true endgame content or proper pinnacle bossing yet. I was hoping to do it in this league. I played extenuate mines. Alot of fun. Genuinely enjoyed the build and had a good time with it. The league was too much, it felt like it rewarded knowledge and a deep understanding of the game, which is fine but not for a new player when it's forced on every single thing that you do. My level of fun was enjoyable but I did not play for long. I got to do an experience things I've never done before in POE and actually participate in the mapping process which was new to me and super fun! I also learned how to trade and the do and don't of that. Let's hope next league is better!

I hated having to mess with the lantern every single map, ive literally never quit a league before at least getting all the voidstones. I didnt even make it out of yellow maps this league.

Tota and affliction were absolutely amazing for the average Joe. Two of my favorite leagues that kept me engaged for the longest.
When I saw how far ahead the top tier guys were and how ridiculous the league mech was, I bailed. This was my shortest league to date. Seems like that was the consensus.
Hopefully they learned from it and next league is a blaster

An atlas keystone at the top left of the tree that said "100% more allflame ember drops, monsters cannot have Unresolved Anguish" would have straight up doubled the amount I played the league. The lanturn was awesome, corpse management was miserable. That said, the t17 balance issues were a much bigger problem than anything about the league mechanic

Very well said and one of the most irking thing is only having limited amount of all flames shown when opening a map, while my bank was chuck full of them having to shift through them all the time was just tedious.

The thing is casual players WEREN'T running around with really cool stuff because no casual would EVER induldge in such a complicated mechanic.

My biggest issue with POE at the moment is the major lottery element. I'd much rather a stable income/currency generation with an occasional peak here and there due to finding something good rather than hoping for that one perfect mod combination to get a loot explosion or that one drop that is worth by far more than everything you farmed throughout the entire league.

Love the rating system:
"Really unenjoyable league, 6/10" lmfao
or are the standards just that high? that above average (5/10) is bad?

summary of necropolis league for me:
1) katarina vs veiled orb: 13:0
2) 0 x t17 finished
3) sold over 450 div in essences!
4) essence farming on red white maps was my endgame.
5) 22 days play time with over 800 deaths

after skipping necropolis league.
the only real bad things about it seem to be T17 f*ckery and the crazy tedium/bloat of the league mechanic, streamers buying multiple quad tabs to keep up with it is insane.
but other than that it actually sounds pretty awesome, being able to create perfect items as a NON 12 hour a day player sounds amazing, especially since every league is a reset anyway, more realistic availability to things for more players is always a good thing.

@i2xr10 дней назад ⁺¹

-Coffins With Terrible Trade System
-Unbalance Scarab
-T17 Drop Uniques

video was pretty accurate and fair on all points, see you next league Ziz!

It was worth it to watch Steve hit delve cap at 65535. It was super hype lmao.

Thank you, I agree with everything you said. This is the fewest hours I've had in a league aside from Kalandra. The graveyard crafting mechanic felt awful and tedious, as did storing all the corpses, but it also felt mandatory if you wanted to have items. That being said, I still put in more hours this PoE league than I did in Last Epoch or D4.

I think the problem with the crafting was they didn't gate it with time engaging with fun mechanics or even difficulty, the gated it with tedium. But with the level of power you basically felt obligated to deal with that tedium, which isn't fun for anyone.

To me the biggest issue was just the constant cycle of new $ strat gets discovered, a small group of elite players exploit the hell out of it, general player base find out, nerf it before anyone not part of the first wave could benefit.

Necropolis league was great after the first week when I could actually SEE THE ITEMS BEHIND THE GRAVE that I couldnt collect.
Perma scaling modifiers added to everything in the game in every map by RNG was horrible. hated every part of that.
Allflames were fun, until nerfed. and fun, until nerfed. and fun......until nerfed. hands down worst part of the league was nerf interference timed so late that most of the playerbase was convinced it wouldnt be nerfed. Effectively rugpulling everybody late to the extremely rewarding stuff.
Gravecrafting. I love that this existed so I could print battered foils early league, make 6x T1 bows so common I could buy a mirror tier weapon of other leagues with 8div, and I never did use my 4 full quad tabs worth of corpses because even after knowing the mechanics it was still too complicated to want to try.
Not sure about other players, I had a great time enjoying the game as if T17 didnt exist. even looted my highest value item of all time from breach ring turnin.
Loved being able to buy headhunter for 20div. Honestly I want chase items to be realistic. none of this 3000 div original sin nonsense. Attainable chase items are FAR better at keeping me in the game. Screw farming a month to get a mageblood only to be so burned out i dont use it.

crafting leagues that are inventory-intensive, tedious, and spending undue amounts of time in not-maps are my kryptonite
hated the league, LOVE the changes to the base game though.. will be super pumped to play settlers

I liked the mechanic, hope that it get revamped in a way similar to harvest and put into the core game.
Can think of a few ways that would work in a nice way to keep the crafting in, while removing the things people didn't like about it.

I really liked cheap uniques because chasing double corrupts for my unique-heavy build was really fun. I ended up getting a near perfect Mageblood double corrupt that would have been nearly impossible for me any other league.
I didn't love the graveyard but I found a niche, crafting 2-3 fracture boots with chaos res / move speed / str / int / mana that would routinely sell for 25 div, and I could reliably hit 4 out of 6 sellable items per graveyard. They were simple enough to craft and kept me rich enough to double corrupt several Magebloods a day.
I also had a blast farming T17s, but not rolling them. I hope they're a bit more sane and toned down this league for everyone's sake.
Scarab rework felt really nice for me, but I think I'm in the minority there. Excited to play around with a sixth slot this league, will help me super juice a strategy I ran last league.

I remember Zizzaran saying "Big sh*t" during the early days of the league.
I agree with the description.

I absolutely despised not being able to ignore the mechanic. It was a straight-up difficulty increase across the entire game, and I'm not a great player, so it was the most painful levelling experience I've ever had, and I'm including Misery Gauntlet in that. The updates not related to the league were ok, but the mechanic itself just sucked.
The only core update I didn't like was the change to Veiled Orbs. I hate fighting Catarina already, I just can't seem to get the hang of it. I like being able to find Veiled Chaos Orbs, it's fun to craft with them. Now, that's just gone.
I really REALLY hope next league is actually good. Every single one of the builds I've fallen in love with have been nerfed to hell, and I expect DD is next on the docket, so if there's another difficulty mechanic, I'm just done.

The unique thing is what makes the new nemesis system in LE and the LP system so good you can still get that excitement for a rare drop while also not making cool uniques so rare that you can't enjoy using them. It is pretty lame when you have uniques you likely just will not see ever in a league.

Maybe one of the reasons we are getting a 6th slot in the map device is in the future we might be able to slot all flames in one of the slots as an alternative to a scarab....just a thought

I found nercoplis to be one of my favourite leagues. Not everyone enjoyed grinding for multiple coffins and then mix and matching them in a recipe but the results being very very powerful made it so much worth it for me. I had a blast crafting insane gear and also just having some fun with my own recipes for items i wanted to try craft. It was also my first league to reach a character to lv 100. Usually i quit at around lv 96-98. I tried coc dd, frostbolts and explosive arrow build all were very fun builds. T17 were hit or miss for me since you had roll the maps well with chaos and you really cant just alc it randomly and then just watch out for reflect or no regen. I had a couple maps with chance to drop divine and chaos and then juicing those for some crazy loot explosions which were fun. Barely interacted with other league mechanics besides breach,shrine and essence.

My only complaint about POE is that to get quality loot / currency you have juice maps and every season the loot drops gets smaller and smaller and the 99% grind and 1% gain sucks. They need to bring back crazy loot drops to take the focus off the grind.

in graveyard I made more than a full stash tab of items that in any other league would have been mirror-tier. My collector/hoarder brain was happy. however it is extremaly tedious process. I love crafting leagues, even if they are tiresome, though.

I hate the current state of scarabs sooooo much.
Having to do barrels only to get loot is horrible, and the scarab farm using Back to Basics, which is basicaly "don't do mechanics to enhance them later" is sh*t.
I liked however that you could block scarab drops by blocking mechs
It's actually the scarabs that made me drop the league

I also dropped my 1 and only Shav's (didn't play much in the past few leagues) and I remember it fondly, top right corner of a T10 or 12 tropical island, I was around level 80-82, playing Death Aura. Seeing the drop rate of these (previously) chased uniques does make me sad, especially as a pretty casual player with not much time to sink.

I enjoyed it, but the player count was so low on playstation that trade league was quickly SSF-lite.

Personally, the biggest issue for me was that we were forced to interact with the league mechanic. Whether it makes the game easier or not, I should be able to choose whether or not I want to interact with it. This is why even though affliction was a tough league, I could still play it because it wasnt required to interact with it. I think the idea behind the entire league was amazing and could be an interesting mechanic overall with some tweaks, for instance acrual storage space for the corpses like beasts have, but the biggest issue which put me off the league early was not being able to take things at my own pace. 'Well you could use the mechanic to get better gear early' no I cant. Im not even a new player but I think people forget how complicated poe is in general, theres alot you need to know. This was my first arpg and I went through the entire campaign eith overall negative res, because I had no idea how important is. In my mind, I could just build a glass cannon and get by bug damage, but i wuickly found out that i wasnt actually doing alot of damage and I wasnt tanky either. I looked up a guide which then very quickly capped my res, increased my life by a crap ton and doubled my damage. My mind was blown. Then you get to maps and have no clue why its so much harder despite being over leveled and then you find out that spell suppression is broken, but only one class has easy access to it. Theres so mamy stages to this game to get to an endgame player and even then you barely scratch the surface because theres theres alot of insane interactions between in game mechanics and its not easy to find them eithout already knowing about them. This is what I like about poe though, theres alwasy something for me to learn but being forced to interact with a mechanic when youre not ready for it dramatically increases the difficulty of the game.

I really hope the devs take a hard look at scarab availability especially in early league. It makes alc & go super tedious when you have to go to the trade site for every map to buy a single useful scarab for your farming strategy because no-one has stock. I got the feeling that everyone was hoarding scarabs initially because they weren’t sure if they would be useful. Trying to self farm scarabs from the atlas tree was way too hit and miss and ate up a lot of points for other actual farming strategies.
It would be useful if they could reintroduce a tier listing for scarabs of say: T1 - maps contain Harvest; T2 - Harvest juice is doubled; T3 - Harvest contains bosses (cornucopia) etc. They must by now have data on drop rates and prices which they can use to adjust availability of scarabs. Tiering the scarabs would allow for deterministically upgrading scarabs much like oils and essences. Another useful deterministic means of getting the scarabs you actually need would be the reintroduction of tiered scarab chests in Betrayal with a much higher chance of dropping T2 and T3 scarabs.
The above would probably mess with the scarab economy but I would much rather have that than having my mapping strategy hampered by scarab available, especially considering the additional scarab slot which will be available on the map device. It would also make it possible to be able to run multiple farming strategies per atlas tree rather than having to focus on a single one.

I peaced out around white maps bc I saw the trade gap develop in real time and realized that as someone with only a few hours a day at *best* to play I wouldn’t be able to afford a single necessary item for my build

t17 maps ruined the endgame for SSF. Non-uber boss loot has been ruined (this is the worst part), and the maps are unnecessarily hard. They're supposed to be the gateway to uber bosses, not harder than the uber bosses.
Putting the league mechanic on the atlas tree also felt bad. Allocating to it felt required. I hope they don't do that again.

This league allowed me to have gear that I've never had any other league so for me it's a win. I do agree that the tier 17 maps pre nerf were absolutely insane... But I also crafted some of the most insane gear I've ever done since recombinator.

Stash pressure coupled with super janky UI made this one pretty rough but like you said the base game being good really saved this from sinking to Lake of Kalandra levels

The league mechanic was an arduous Sisyphean task that was too strong to be ignored, which made the player either very bored (from diagram reading) or very poor. And the constant nerfs didn’t help. Allflames were great for players that could afford cool ones but not enough for me to give the league more than a 2

I played over 600h this league. Had a f*cking blast! The necropolis mechanic was a pain. The patch as a whole was all over the place, but I had tons of fun. Ran like 200+ t17 in ssf and I dont want to roll a single more!!!

The only reason why I like the scarab changes: You target farm things better now.
The only reason why I hate the scarab changes: impossible to sustain the same mechanic without trading for those scarabs you need.
And some strategies straight up basically so not exist without certain scarabs. Ex: Essences.

One point you didn't really bring up, probably because noone played it was SSF. Not being able to trade for the right corpses for the crafts meant that getting even a chance at those perfect items were almost impossible.

I hate the Uber bosses being thematically disconnected from the T17 maps that drop their fragments. I would have liked to see T17 Elder/Shaper guardian maps, for example.

I will also say as someone who has never been able to get past like 50d in a league before, getting the gg mirror items for affordable prices was nice. I understand the problem of no reasonably acquirable next item since that was my problem. "Okay, just spent 100 hours on getting to be crazy, what's the next goal to go for? *looks up top dps/ehp build using boneshatter* "Yea, that'll cost me multiple mirrors. no thanks." so I got to 40/40 for the first time and quit.
I wish they added points early on to allow you to turn off the mechanic for mapping. I lost so many maps T1-10 due to "accompanied by X" and not being powerful enough yet to handle 10 rouge exiles at once. I lost more maps to yellow mods compared to any blue mod early, and later on blue mods plus 100% deli or map affix combined would brick it. Then I got powerful enough that only T17s were an issue, but that never stopped being the case as a melee.
I really enjoyed the league, the graveyard was in a bad spot, and I think it's really bad that 3rd party tools were required to have any chance at getting decent gear. and it was 100% fill it up or don't bother. I can only think of two situations were I used one corpse for bases, leveling and getting rares was nice at league start, and needing a specific base to roll for some mod (people wanted quivers to alt spam +projectiles then regal and fracture)
Overall I really enjoyed the league, and I'm not looking forward to how hard it'll be to get geared in any following league, but I also expect some uniques to be cheaper going forward since even as time pressed on HHs kept lowering in price as did MBs which means that people were still acquiring them at a decent rate.

You guys wont believe me, I only had one T17 map drop from two months of playtime. That is insane bad luck.

The mandatory lanterns kinda killed it for me, I'd finally get an upgrade I was working towards, and it was kinda hard to feel the difference it made cause they would make the same map feel wildly different on difficulty for me

footage using the wow colored filter, love it :D my fav (idk if it's skryah maybe?)

I didn’t like the corpse mechanic, nor the graveyard crafting, or the map mod mechanic. However I liked my EK ignite build more than anything so I really liked the league for the wrong reasons.
Most of the time, it’s your build that determines whether you like the league or not.

The constant mid-league nerfs killed all the fun for me. Just as I was done getting a build and items ready to farm a new strat, it got nerfed and I lost all the investment overnight.
After it happened for a third time I just rushed the challenges and gave up. I didn't want to farm enough currency to buy more scarabs and maps only to risk it getting nerfed again.

Missed these kind of videos, well done! :)

As a SC trade player the only aspect of t17s I enjoyed was the chaos sink. Divines not being 200+ chaos all league was so freaking enjoyable.

I found a mageblood in like my 15th map or something like that (probably higher but I wasn't counting) so I was like "oh I just had an awesome league start"

I actually liked it a lot but it was the first league i got like past like 1 void stone and dove deep in what some of the end game mechanics are hehe. having 3 choices for atlas also was great too as I could have one for the league mechanic and just getting good maps to drop and another for some mechanics I like doing- yeah usally legion :)

legit, my favorite league was scourge, the mechanic that added the corruption tree wasnt waht i liked so much, it was the fact that it was a really cool theme and you could just flip the map and be swarmed by demon and sh*t, soo cool.

I played for some time and got three different builds to level 95 in SSF. The crafting was too complicated - I collected tons of coffins but in the end never used them. After a while I mostly ignored the league mechanic - so I used allflames randomly and didn't care about the modifiers or monster types. I really liked the higher chances on the Atlas nodes as it allowed my to get guaranteed mechanics in my maps. The scarab rework didn't feel good in SSF as I got mostly scarabs that weren't interesting - even 3:1 vendor trades didn't change this. If they would have left Harvest scarab rerolls in the game it could have been different. As scarabs felt so underwhelming, I think about ignoring them and keeping Unwavering Vision for extra points next league. As I didn't do all void stones I never found a T17 map in SSF, so can't say anything about them.

As a casual player, I felt extremely behind since I couldn't take advantage to the early blast divine orb modifiers. Basically I was broke and didn't feel like continuing in trade league. I did go to SSF and had a much better experience though.

Ziz, your playtime never lies😅 You've dropped from the league 2 months ago, and that's not even half way through. Which means..? You know what I'm saying..

And somebody who left the league super early, it actually had nothing to do with the league.
I really enjoyed the mechanic but I got sent to a different state away from my computer for my job right after the season started.

3:11 This happens (at varying degrees) every single league.

I have many quad stash tabs full of coffins. I never crafted a single thing because even with all those full tabs, I still would have had to buy a bunch of coffins to do the crafts I wanted to do.

As an SSFR enjoyer I loved the scarabs we got. Massive graveyard crafts took days to gather so they felt good. T17s were practically out of the question so dont really know what I missed there. Overall a pretty good league.

The power wasn't too easy, an "average" endgame player would take 4 hours just to learn how to set up and run their first gravecraft and another 4 hours to actually trade for and set it up. I don't think that's unreasonable if the things that drop cost even more in time to farm, when you combine farming 50 divs (without bugs) and the time to learn and set it up, you're looking at like, 18 hours for a single good item.

6:00 - my no so casual ass running around with sh*tty gear: welp

I'm just the casual POE player who try's every league and just has fun. This is the first league i quit before finishing the campaign.

tbh if necropolis manifests Mark's vision for POE1, I'm scared for its future. This is coming from someone not too hyped about POE2 (mainly because of gold) and still very hopeful for POE1.

This was my first league, I just started like two and a half weeks ago but I had a blast

I had the most fun this league that I've had in forever, mostly because of Goratha's Ice Nova build. I saved all my corpses early, because I didn't know how it worked, finally watched a video and then crafted a perfect wand in SSF HC. I then proceeded to die like 2 maps later - but still rerolled and leveled to 96 before I finally got burnt out. So I'll say, the base game was in a really fun place, that Archmage build was like the perfect build for me on SSF, but the league mechanic itself ended up just being frustrating to deal with. Both from the standpoint of trying not to die in difficult maps and also just dealing with the corpses themselves. I didn't farm a single T17 map so I can't speak personally on that, but it just seems like poor design to have the "profit" be THAT much greater that people feel forced to invest into T17s.

i ignored the graveyard but loved the naturally juiced zones and maps. i made good money and got further than i ever have before. one map could double my chaos and immediately get me my next piece of gear. it was awesome. i feel like people wanted to hate it. the only real upset was the lacking coffin storage. everything else was business as usual IMO.

Regardless of anybody's retrospective opinion, I had very little fun during the league. Making currency was difficult. My (very) strong build couldn't do the new end game content. I quit after like two or three weeks. That is how I will remember Necropolis.

Forgot to mention how awful the random monster mods made levelling a character

For a first time player it was fun for me it was the only time I could even get to act 2 and I couldn't get off the game I cant wait for the new league

The way it felt it was that they focused on making core game changes this league and completely forgot about league mechanic and hashed up something in the last minute. I mostly play for the league mechanic or if there are certain new mechanics/uniques etc to make builds that i find fun viable or more fun (like borrowed power in Affliction).

League nodes should just be separate. Like wildwood ascendancies. Give some points and let us pick which "current mechanic" nodes to choose for those points. It shouldn't be in competition with non-current mechanic nodes.

I hated the fact that they really wanted to the corpses to physically show up in the morgue, that's why it was so limited. Stupid idea.

Are you on the mark? (your question): I really like your concise analysis. I am asking myself though if the MIRACLE that newbees, mid-tier players (like me) and no-lifer / content creators can enjoy the "same" game does not lead to interpretation problems at the same time. I strongly believe that there are at least these three 'marks' and they need to be analyzed accordingly. I spammed my stash tabs with corpses but gave up early on farming a single full cemetary. I am grateful for the broken econmoy that gave me my first 6 DIV headhunter. I totally get the fascination and frustration of any new player of PoE. There are so many 'marks'.

Yes. You're not gaslighting me!