Short update since i last minute decide to jump to poe affliction season last minute after i heard it have 4 months season length and casual friendly close to sentinel (which was my last and favourite league). So about 28 hours in, i finally cleared act 10 with all side quests done and now reaching map.
The thought process:
1. I went with SSF because i hate nolifer monitoring market or worrying about efficiency. I just use poe as main chill game while watching anime (hence you saw i got more anime review now)
2. Picking marauder as the only last class i never ascend before (last time it was necromancer + raider in sentinel), last time i played him, i got bored leveling 2nd character in same league or it was my first character back in poe beta (10 years ago)
3. Out of all 3, i was thinking more toward fire. No idea which playstyle i wanted to do, but i was thinking avatar of fire and im surprised it is closer to marauder tree now. So i picked chieftain, only to learn that apparently ppl use it as farmer build (aka RIP i wont have bossing capability).
4. Atm, i thinking melee + fire, so went with molten strike. Transfigure gem gave me zenith version, so i went with 2hand version during leveling. It wasnt bad per say, but holy crap the strike swinging animation is awful. I thought melee got total rework?
5. Out of all wildwood ascendancy, i thought i want to implement some sort warcry, since i never played one before. So i went with primalist and only to learn that charm required you to trade to get a good one and i just went with SSF.... maybe i shouldve went with tincture tree since it have more control for early game
I think out of the league i played (even the awful bestiary ppl said before), there is never league i played that felt this bad while leveling. You enter a side area, you fight a super tough monster and you get chance for better drops. My problem is, because of your specialization with specific wildwood, 2 out 3 of encounter feel "wasted". Not to mention you all those extra wisp you collect doesnt directly give you item you can control (lets say... ritual league). And i know that you can only do quest for 1 specialization at one time. I still havent meet the primalist special boss morrigan area / boss (but already met king of mist ritual event 3 times) what awful RNG.
I dunno what plan i want to do with atlas planning atm, im only want to do 3 stuff which is sanctum (which felt awful for melee / tank build), ultimatum (rip metamorph) and maybe those rework breach / scourge. My friend recommend to just try 38 challenge since it is easy, but i think because of newer reward tier that no longer give fancy aura or footprint but a full set (and upgraded version afterward), maybe i will quit earleir since i dont want to spend too long time in poe again ( i already spent hundreds of hours in monster hunter world last year) and the league mechanic gave very bad first impression for casual player.
i dunno who read through with my long rambly rant want until here
here my characters so you can laugh at my pitiful builds
https://www.pathofexile.com/account/vie ... characters