The rewards during acts also just weren't helpful. If you're strong enough to get through it faster, than you're also strong enough that you can just waltz through the act itself without stopping. In acts it can take 15-30 minutes to go through a lake, as the higher difficulty ones take some time to fight. There are some rewards, at times, but in acts it's simply not worth the time. If they weren't called reflections there'd be no reason to think they're reflections of anything. The monsters don't seem like 'reflections of X', they're just 'instances of X'. It doesn't really feel very 'reflectiony'. Plot-wise it just feels, soulless and empty. But even in early maps I've kept using the shield because I've yet to find a shield with benefits greater than that lvl ?30? unique shield has. Especially since I got it act 4 or so from there until act 8-ish it really just massacres things, I didn't even bother linking my skill gems, just using ones without any support gems at all. That plus the counterattack ascension made the damage on vengeance brutally effective at wiping out mobs. I did get one unique which is perfect for my build the shield that gives +300 cold damage to counterattacks. Quite a few I can see that they'd be very good for some other build, they just don't fit the one I'm using. I've found maybe 20-30 uniques so far 6 or so made it into my build, at least for a time. The new unique systems seems to be working well or at least I've been pleased with it. It feels weird to just be running past stuff alot of the time. It's often not even worth stopping to kill that many of the monsters along the way as long as you get some of them you have enough levels. Whatever items you could get at the time just won't keep up with what you could get if you went to a later act as well as the effects of the additional levels you get from pushing onward. For the time it took to finish such a thing and look through the rewards it's more efficient to just run past, because higher levels yield better items. The lake itself, abysses, heists, expedition, whatever else. One thing I really noticed going through acts is how often the accessory content isn't worthwhile by which I mean it doesn't help much long term, it doesn't improve your gear that much, and it's often better to just skip it and keep running through the acts. I'm currently in very early maps not sure how far I'll go in maps the build i'm using is very weak, so as I expected it does not handle maps well, though it was fun going through acts with it (counter-attack gladiator). I wasn't expecting much, which means I'm easy to find it 'good enough'. I started playing this league a couple of weeks ago or so I'd waited some time to see if things got better and because too many leagues often have troubles at the start, so waiting a month tends to mean things are better.
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