Or should I say Innocence?
It's probably the worst idea ever, but I have never played the Standard mode or the Standard leagues in Path of Exile. I am getting bored by even thinking of playing Standard mode. There is no challenge and nothing is at stake.
When you die in the Standard mode you can just respawn and try again, even if your build doesn't work or if you are not 100% focused on the game. You can actually just keep dying and soon you will kill whatever monster you are trying to beat - that's not fun, at least not for me.
I also don't read guides. That probably is slowing me a lot, but if you don't experience everything by yourself, what's the point of even playing the game? You are missing all the fun of this very complex game. Also because I have always played the Hardcore mode and the Hardcore leagues I have never seen the endgame yet. I have played PoE for hundred of hours, but there are still things new to me.
Watching a couple of videos from your favorite speed runners and see them defeating this game really quickly is completely fine though. How do they do it this fast? I don't know.
So why did I want to talk about the High Templar Avarius and Innocence? Act 5 is a little bit different than the first acts of this game. It's harder and there is a chance that even capped resistances and a lot of health can't save you. The boss fights are different, you actually want to kill them as fast as possible before they kill you. They can do just too much damage.
Fight with Avarius/Innocence can really tell you if you will be able to progress further in the game. I died so many times in this fight, sometimes because I was not careful enough, but sometimes because the build was just too slow or didn't work very well.
The thing is that everytime I die I create a new account. I am getting better and the fight is getting easier because of that too. It's not even that long ago that I killed Kitawa, the final boss, for the first time. Funny thing is that after this I tried the end-game content (maps) and died almost at the start of the map by some very strong rogue exile.
I didn't even know that I still have my Hierophant character from the times of #poecomp. This character used totems that cast divine ire. He's really strong and survivability is really good for now. As #poecomp is long over and nothing is stopping me anymore, maybe this is really a character of mine that will destroy the maps and will finally progress much further into the game.
I forgot about him so I created a new character. It's a Witch and I killed Avarius/Innocence with ease with her. I think both characters have a chance to kill Kitawa and beat the end-game. Beta of Path of Exile 2 is coming in 2021 so it would be nice to completely "finish" the game before that happens.
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