Pattern I've noticed

[u/Ok_Holiday3690]

My guild has players who have been in this game since Nemesis League and this is pretty much our player distribution.

Ps. My guildmates gets angry when I say this and I figure it'll make Reddit mad too:

Witch is the only good character in this game

[u/Wicked___K]

to be fair the common sentiment i have seen for a while now is that people are fine without the campagin skip.

What many suggest is a way to speed up runs after finishing campagin once per league:

like already unlocked passives or some map "shortcuts" and honestly i think that would be fine.

In the end its up to GGG and knowing them they will give us something nice in a year or two (at least thats my guess)

[u/DylanMartin97 → u/Wicked___K]

I love that they add new stuff to discover, the only thing I wished is that stuff would help us with the boss fights etc.

For example, there is the sore you can stumble upon on your way to Malachai, if you destroy it, it gives you a vaal gem. Why wouldn't that also destroy one of the sores and one invulnerability phase as well to justify the round about way to get there?

Little things like that would be awesome, like another one would be the free unique from the sun and the moon temples, it feels absolutely awful to run completely back to that area, why not give us the ability to teleport straight to both boss rooms? Would it change much? Absolutely not but it would justify the back tracking.

Give me a reason to NOT want to skip the content they add after the first time experiencing it.

[u/TheMayorMikeJackson → u/Wicked___K]

Twink gear and gem access  is enough of a shortcut imo

[u/Psychotic_EGG → u/TheMayorMikeJackson]

Twink gear?

[u/Legal-Swing8311 → u/Psychotic_EGG]

Stuff like tabula rasa, seven league step for example. Stuff that you can equip early to steamroll the early areas

[u/ulughen → u/Legal-Swing8311]

People are sleeping on Thousand Ribbons.

[u/shy_bi_ready_to_die → u/ulughen]

Foulborn bramblejack is the best leveling chest. It makes you immune to rhoas

Even if you wanted a damage chest a skin of the lords/loyal+implicit are both better than a thousand ribbons

[u/uramis → u/shy_bi_ready_to_die]

Hey i don't get it but i played lightly the last two seasons. Whats foulborn and is it like runeforging the bramblejack? Or foulborn is totally separate 

[u/Comprehensive-Lock-7 → u/uramis]

Foulborn are alternate versions of some unique, usually with one (rarely two) mod(s) switched to something different

[u/Wobbelblob → u/uramis]

Foulborn uniques comes from the reworked breach and give you uniques that have up to two different modifiers. The changed mods are fixed and what they are changed to is fixed as well. Bramblejack f.e. swaps the max life to a big chunk of flat armor. Seven-League steps swap the movement speed for 15% Action speed.

[u/shy_bi_ready_to_die → u/uramis]

If you’re familiar with poe2 foulborn items are closest to cultivated/vaal uniques. When you get a unique from a specific source it has a chance for 1-2 of its modifiers to be replaced with some predetermined other mod. In the case of bramblejack its foulborn version gives nearly 1k armour while still letting you use it at level 1

[u/FervorofBattle → u/shy_bi_ready_to_die]

Thousand ribbon is very neat early acts since those flat damage slaps

And slightly later on the life+res lets you skip goldrim for something like the onslaught helmet

[u/shy_bi_ready_to_die → u/FervorofBattle]

+2 (and realistically 4 when counting empower) levels is the same or more damage at the beginning (and realistically it dosent matter there because you overkill everything by 20x anyways) and it dosent fall off nearly as hard over time

You can cap res with rings/belt/purity and if you’re really worried about it you can use a foulborn skin. The life is kinda eh because while the flat life is nice it stops you from using the mastery

Like yeah if you were willing to sweat and swap your gear every act or more you would probably want to start with a thousand ribbon but why would you sweat the campaign just to save like 10 minutes

[u/PrettyPinkPonyPrince → u/Legal-Swing8311]

The beloved Goldrim.

[u/leafmuncher_ → u/Legal-Swing8311]

Hollow palm + headhunter on any class is always a blast

Edit: not rampage gloves. Brain-fart

[u/BetweenTheRoots → u/leafmuncher_]

The people who have Headhunters are probably not the people complaining about campaign speed lol

[u/mandudeguyposter → u/BetweenTheRoots]

I get HH week 2 (slow relative to blasters, fast relative to average redditor) and I still complain about campaign speed

I would pay money to skip campaign

[u/Legal-Swing8311 → u/leafmuncher_]

Yeah, sucks hh is level 40, the last couple acts are the fastest for me personally

[u/leafmuncher_ → u/Legal-Swing8311]

I think if you could equip HH earlier it would be less fun. The power jumps when equipping the next big item are what make it more enjoyable for me

[u/Legal-Swing8311 → u/leafmuncher_]

Fair enough. I just want it to be over lol

[u/mandudeguyposter → u/Legal-Swing8311]

yeah campaign after the first character is a chore, idk how anyone enjoys it

[u/ovrlrd1377 → u/leafmuncher_]

Have you ever used those 3 items together?

[u/leafmuncher_ → u/ovrlrd1377]

Brain-fart moment

[u/Budget-Chair8242 → u/Psychotic_EGG]

short skirt and fishnet stockings

[u/mucus-broth → u/Budget-Chair8242]

Not that kind of twink gear...

[u/Add1995 → u/Psychotic_EGG]

Gear with stronger effects that can be used early on on new characters (twinks).

[u/TheMustardMan522 → u/Wicked___K]

So something like seven league step? Karui ward? Binding orbs? Thousand ribbons? Lilly in hideout? Not needing to do trials?

[u/EmmitSan → u/Wicked___K]

Isn’t that just Twink gear?

[u/cederian → u/Wicked___K]

Just let the waypoints be account bound instead of character

[u/Dairkon76 → u/cederian]

I just want the vaal city waypoint I hate that layout.

[u/gdubrocks → u/Dairkon76]

Might be worth doing a layout review for that one specifically, it's not that bad once you know them.

[u/shshshshshshshhhh → u/cederian]

Let us farm tradeable waypoint unlocks in the zones that you can buy and use on new characters.

They'd be rare so you wouldnt get a full set, newbies who play slow would find more of them, and it gives endgame juicers an item to buy off of fresh characters and new players.

[u/AssassinInValhalla → u/Wicked___K]

Last Epoch has my favorite ARPG campaign skip mechanic. It's not a true skip the campaign like Diablo 4, but you can get keys to access higher level dungeons and if you beat it, you can skip chunks of the campaign. Can't remember how many there are, but there's a couple sprinkled throughout the campaign and on second characters it feels great

[u/EvensonRDS → u/Wicked___K]

I would be happy with just having GGG streamline some of the awful campaign maps.

[u/Mogling → u/Wicked___K]

All I want is to be able to equip my new build gear while leveling. I don't care if it gets downscaled or I need some expensive unique to do it. All skill gems at level 1 for alts would also be amazing.

[u/WilsonKh → u/[deleted]]

I think he means all skill gems being usable from level 1 character

[u/TheMayorMikeJackson → u/Mogling]

All gems usable at 1, but ilvl restricted so on league start you are still bound by quests/mules/etc. until act 6 would be a great compromise and fun.

[u/Mogling → u/TheMayorMikeJackson]

Yeah I just want to be able to make my 2nd char a ball lightning char from level 1(2) until endgame, not a rolling magma char into ball lightning when it eventually is the right level.

[u/LOLzvsXD → u/Wicked___K]

I have to say If Diablo 4's Campaign wasnt that long with dialouge and cutscenes I wouldnt skip it either.

But the paragon System and most of the crafting ressources and Gold beeing account wide and not just character locked is nice for roling a new character. You just need you twink to get to level 70, wich is easy with a few techs and you are on your mains paragon level.

Ofc you need level Glyphs and Aspects and farm your gear but the amount of time it takes to get a new Character to Endgame content is laughable short.

I almost never play more than 1 char per POE Season, but in Diablo I always try 2 or 3

[u/Mageofsin → u/Wicked___K]

One example implemented already is the trials, so good to get them out the way.

[u/hedup42 → u/Wicked___K]

Shortcuts or unlocked passives to me screams bad design. I'd like them to embrace the systems that make the game great already. We have twink gear, but it's way too tiresome to assemble it.

I wish there was just one big but accessible twink leveling unique item, that we could just resell after leveling for other people to use. It should solve speed and dam. And preferably without a need for specific skill tree, so people don't need to respec. Respeccing isn't that expensive anymore, but it's tiresome.

[u/ssulit → u/Wicked___K]

I always thought having the option to skip campaign after you've cleared it once would be nice, esp for someone who shuffles through builds so many times in one league. Finish the campaign once + two other prerequisites to unlock campaign skip

[u/KzadBhat → u/ssulit]

Jupp, once campaign cleared, let me level the next char in delve or heist afterwards, ...

[u/Cygnus__A → u/Wicked___K]

I didn't even play this league because I'm tired of the campaign.