Note that I only ever played PoE before deciding to try out LE due to GGG taking a year to release a league, so no idea if I would enjoy a different ARPG more, but damn, LE is amazing.
- I didn’t need to refer to any sort of guide. I just dived in, selected stuff that I felt would be the best for my character and played. I am currently in Chapter 4 of the campaign. Compare this to PoE where me going in blind resulted in a bricked character before Act 2.
- LE’s forge crafting is straightforward and deterministic enough to make it easier to get the affixes you want, however the FP system makes sure that it doesn’t end up too boring. Meanwhile, PoE’s orb system is just too much RNG-based for my taste.
- LE’s skill trees are somewhat complex, but not in a way where you have 50 different choices at once.
- LE has no Skill Gem system, so you can just use gear without worrying about which sockets it has and whether they’re linked.
This thread isn’t to diss PoE, there are much more mechanics and over a decade of development in there and there’s a reason why people treat it as the best ARPG, but LE is much much more friendly towards beginners like me and I just want to say “thank you” to EHG for not making you essentially become glued to a guide in order to figure stuff out or progress meaningfully.