matt's diary of arpgs

Week of June 23-29

Continued with POE1, alternating between RF man and VFOS man, both very fun
Exhausted after a long work week, so decided to play around with Grim Dawn on the weekend. Not very far but playing a Purifier with dual pistols and its very enjoyable.
Playing some VS-likes in addition.
Also bought more items from my list in the steam sale so I am well prepared. Most happy to have picked up Wolcen for $3 to finally try it out.
Will probably swap to D4 this week for the new season, but still stuff I want to do with my seasons in POE and even D3. And probably some Slormancer.

Week of June 16-22

For the first time, at least since I started this important website, I played only a single game through the week: POE1
Having a great time playing in a private league, the experience is more fun without the constant nagging in my mind about economy and hoarding wealth
Made my goal of "further than the previous POE league" by getting an RF guy to Level 94 so far, and then also played with a VFOS alt
My campaign times are still terrible in this game though so I am considering trying some practice runs to get it to more like 6-8 hours instead of 10+
New D2R league started, but opting to wait on that for now.

Week of June 9-15

Prepared for the new POE1 season by wrapping up everything I wanted to do in D3 and D4.
As usual I was surprised by the legs D3 had, I always enjoy the season more than I think I will but I still have builds to try out. I might still grind a bit of paragon on that account beore season end.
Had a lot more fun with D4 than I had anticipated. I landed in T4 and got a decent Cataclysm Druid build going, though I did not finish the full Ubers run. Probably won't go back to it but possibly load it up just once before season end, I did at least finish the battlepass.
Thinking about changing my goal from "Always have ongoing characters" to more like "play through every ARPG I can" and treat some of the new seasons as new releases. It's becoming more clear that I value novelty over mastery and I'm going to prioritize trying some of the weird random things I stumbled across, like this strange King David game.
- Ongoing goal is kinda just "Further than my last seasonal character" which I've done with D3, D4, and POE1. Im also enjoying playing Hardcore so maybe I'll just play HC in each game until I die, and then move to a new one.
Started the new POE1 season, took my time in campaign as usual by enjoying the RF start.
I also gotta update this website but I'm doing it in a google sheet and also no one reads this so whatever.

Week of June 1-8

Played a lot of Slormancer, Conquest Dark, and Halls of Torment.
Having spent time digging into the Vampire Survivor clones I wanted to go back and do more D4 and D3 before the next POE season starts.
Really enjoyed my D3 season start, did Whirlwind Barb for the first time and it turns out it is super fun. And easy.
Also had a surprising amount of fun in D4. Almost finished my Season Journey but I'm going to stop in favor of playing POE so I won't quite finish it.
After all this, I want to play POE1 for a lot and then dig into like the 50 weird ARPGs on my list I haven't checked out. Like the WH40k games.
Played a lot more Undecember and finished my season much faster than last time. That OP Lightning Slash skill is very fun.
Games I want to add pages for lol:
- Slormancer
- Conquest Dark (Counting this)
- Project Diablo 2
- Diablo 3!

Week of May 25-31

Liked Slormancer so tried Chronicon. Not really similar but they give an aesthetic vibe that reminds.
Got DEEP into Conquest Dark. This isn't realy an ARPG, it's clearly A Roguelite but it shares enough in common that it's fun to count.
Tried pure Roguelites, Tower of Babel and Rogue Genesia
Still plugging away at Undecember, however slow.
Re-starting my UE5 tutorial.

Week of May 18-24

Project Diablo 2. Lots. Lots of it.
ALSO LOTS OF SLORMANCER. I got a lot of hours in this even though its so simple.

Week of May 11-17

UNDECEMBER MORE MORE MORE
POE1. Some. Abandoned before week end, probably not until next league.
PD2 league start!!! Finally trying PD2 and it's great!
Also got REALLY sucked into Slormancer. REALLY SUCKED INTO IT.

Week of May 4-10

More more more more TLI, made it over level 90. Still not in the real end-endgame but marching through.
Playing some Undecember in the new season. Campaign is pretty fun here because there is a new OP skill, but again its just so fucking long.
Tinkering around in 2 separate POE1 private leagues (Pohx and FarT League)

Week of April 27 - May 3

Only TLI in the ICU while visiting my family there.
Played a bit of Anima again too. I want to like thsi game but it's always like priority 5.
D4 season on Steam Deck. Only things I can play on the go.

Week of April 20-26

Almost entirely D2R. Got a HC Hammerdin to Level 75 before he finally died in Hell, during what should have been an easy Countess run.
Got back into LE
Also quickly made a new TLI character for the new season because someone showed me a funny autobomber build.
- Also loling that this season just has Kings March. And it rules.

Week of April 13-19

Some POE2, in endgame but also not going very far in it. Don't even have all ascendancies yet.
Mostly Titan Quest on phone cuz i fucked up my back. Which it turns out is almost certainly the best phone ARPG since its just TQ, but on mobile and the port is fine.
Started a HC D2R run lol. died @ level 25, started a new one immediately.

Week of April 6-12

Mostly POE2 trying out a Smith of Kitava. I played a lot of this because it looked fun and it turns out, on accident, its kinda imba.
Played a lot of snowblind games, Dark Alliance & Champions of Norrath. Phone emulation on these rules.
Also tried out a bit of Grim Dawn, seems really good but I didn't get very far yet.
Constantly finding more weird ARPGs I want to play through, thinking of changing goal to just playing every game and then treating new seasons as a new release when i want to have fun in POE/LE/D4. idk
Started digging into unreal tutorials so i can make my own arpg playground

Week of March 30 - April 5

Finished the goddamn forever taking Undecember campaign.
- Ended up not realy playing any endgame. Waiting for next season I guess.
Still keeping up a little bit on Diablo Immortal lol
Loaded up POE1 again to tinker around with my man but also didn't do very much. Died a lot because I forgot how maps work.
Hopeful plan is to play POE1 and some LE endgame to prepare for the next POE2 season
Having spent the last month palying a lot of random crap I want to get back into D4/POE/POE2/LE as the main things

Week of March 23-29

Spent most of the week trying to finish Undecember WHICH HAS A NEVERENDING CAMPAIGN.
- I later learned they sell campaign skips each season which is very funny and I guess well played
Still playing some dailies in Diablo Immortal. Slowing down on it, the endgame isn't very compelling here.
Probably finished my D4 season, ending with the last Lilith Boost or whatever that shit was.
Close to catchign up to paragon level on my Diablo Immortal man (650 of 740)
- Actually had a lot of fun. Takes like 20 hours but I like the endgame now.
Tinkered with a few random games yet.
- AnimA ARPG, fun but quietly abandoned phone game
- Tower of Kalemonvo, game a nice guy from the ARPG discord made.
- Got Diablo 1 running on my phone and messed with making a new online character
- Spent some time trying to get this Marvel Heroes Project TAHITI thing working, made progress but not there yet.
Thinking I'll spend the next week diving back into POE1 endgame to prepare for POE2 patch.

Week of March 16-22

I am preparing for ARPG April by dipping my toes into endgame for the many games that have new seasons.
- POE2, Last Epoch, Diablo 4, speculating TLI
Finished the Last Epoch campaign and starting Monolith...ing. The game is good.
- Please applaud my brave opinion.
Finished D2R hammerdin campaign. I stopped at Act 5 and finishing it was very fast.
Close to catchign up to paragon level on my Diablo Immortal man (650 of 740)
Got Diablo 4 Barbarian to paragons.
- I am not sure if I am done with the expansion campaign or not.
- Have not finished the seasonal quest. Maybe I will.
Continuing my playthrough of Undecember campaign. No one likes this game but me.

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