Meet the new PoE, same as the old PoE (Destiny)

by slycrel , Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 12:50 (3240 days ago) @ electricpirate

Felt pretty well exactly the same as I remember. But I haven't played the taken variant yet. I was expecting more from the matchmade PoE I think, not sure why.

I'm concerned about the "keyless" chests. I've done it twice and got strange coins and 2-3 blue engrams each time as a reward. Rep seems to be about the same -- very slowly goes up. I did rank up with Variks and got a super sweet scout rifle towards the end of the night.

Challenge mode is disappointing in that you have to play it at least twice to fill out the score, probably three times until people start working the system. It's incrementally better than regular PoE in a lot of ways. The loot from challenge mode is great I guess, other than it's ~315 which is where I've gotten via the raid challenge mode fro all my characters. Good infusion fodder to bridge the gap up from 310 to 320 I suppose.

Overall I'm okay with the update, though it's a bit different than expected. I have yet to do the new winter's run strike, looking forward to that.