Path of Exile, the actual Diablo III

[Vibe]

So is there any point in grouping up with other players? Doesn't look like so far.

[Tibe]

Tougher monsters, more loot and also this il qoute "Being in an area with a party member grants you a 30% experience bonus". But yea, sofar ive avoided grouping up entirely, since I dont want anyone getting dibs on my magical pants.

PS I also found this in the homepage:

Ironman
In Ironman, players are unable to trade with vendors or refill their flasks in town. Mana regeneration is disabled by default. Players are encouraged to band together and manage their resources in order to survive.

Cut-throat
The cut-throat leagues appeal to the niche of players who demand the most hardcore gaming experience possible. In this mode, all world areas are public, with full PvP enabled by default. Slain characters drop all their items upon death. This game mode can also be combined with Hardcore to create an even more unforgiving world.

Attrition
An attrition league is a short duration league that starts with a fixed number of players and eliminates the player with the lowest amount of experience at periodic intervals. For example, a 24 hour attrition league might start with 100 players and eliminate one player per 12 minutes after a four hour initial leveling period. Players would be able to see how close to elimination they are on an on-screen ladder display.

I think this is all planned. Pretty sweet stuff imo. Also Act 3 is still in the making.

[Molly]

So is there any point in grouping up with other players? Doesn't look like so far.

Except for the raising fun-factor that comes with multiplayer?

Cut-throat sounds fun

[Vibe]

I thought that was already in. I've seen videos of people ganking others in Cutthroat. I just don't know where or how to enter it 

[Tibe]

Mybe its that closed beta part for now, for what you need to donate to get in the current version. =/

[Havoco]

Tougher monsters, more loot and also this il qoute "Being in an area with a party member grants you a 30% experience bonus". But yea, sofar ive avoided grouping up entirely, since I dont want anyone getting dibs on my magical pants.

PS I also found this in the homepage:

Ironman
In Ironman, players are unable to trade with vendors or refill their flasks in town. Mana regeneration is disabled by default. Players are encouraged to band together and manage their resources in order to survive.

Cut-throat
The cut-throat leagues appeal to the niche of players who demand the most hardcore gaming experience possible. In this mode, all world areas are public, with full PvP enabled by default. Slain characters drop all their items upon death. This game mode can also be combined with Hardcore to create an even more unforgiving world.

Attrition
An attrition league is a short duration league that starts with a fixed number of players and eliminates the player with the lowest amount of experience at periodic intervals. For example, a 24 hour attrition league might start with 100 players and eliminate one player per 12 minutes after a four hour initial leveling period. Players would be able to see how close to elimination they are on an on-screen ladder display.

I think this is all planned. Pretty sweet stuff imo. Also Act 3 is still in the making.

Are there any rewards from doing those?

[Vibe]

Read the forums a bit, Cutthroat was open for a set time period in CB, they're not in OB for anyone yet. They're thinking of making a permanent Cutthroat league.

[Tibe]

There really isnt any other rewards than having fun as I know of. And im down with that. Cut-throat could be one badass gamemode alright. Also I noticed you can make your own league(as in entirely your own gamemode) with your own set of rules,  if you pay some some cash for it. Can invite friends and stuff. Also as I understood a little, you can switch leagues or something with your chars without loosing your char or lvl progress or something like that(I really didnt feel like concentrating on reading that ).

[Weren]

Just started playing yesterday. Enjoying it pretty much so far. 

[Latvian]

i am almost done downloading it, i am so excited :3 i will most likely report my impressions after couple of nolifing hours

[Tibe]

Played it with 4 people today. Was fun as pie. You gain xp lots more faster with bigger crowd of people, since monsters gain 50% more hp per person in party. And tougher enemies means more XP per kill. Also we sorta progressed in such quick speed trough the game that quite often half of us got lost or so. Wouldnt recommend going over 4 people when parting up. Harder to organise and it was already hard to understand what was going with already 4 people spamming their powas.

[Latvian]

i played couple hours and i can say that this game is pretty nice, reminds me diablo II pretty much, i played with tiberius at start  and it was fun, you can coordinate prtty easy and such but as we got 2 more players in our party nightmares begin.Those bastards were moving so fast taht i barely could keep up with them, once i entered location i saw them leaving for next one and it was so much fun to try to cach up with them through all those bots who have just respawned. Terrible in one word ( playing by 4 not the game i mean).So best thing to do would be team up with 1 buddy and enjoy this great game

[Tibe]

Motherfuckers were on the other side of the map while we were still shopping for magical pants and stuff. Wanted to slap those bastards trough the internet for constantly loosing us in the wilderness.

[Gurnisson]

Motherfuckers were on the other side of the map while we were still shopping for magical pants and stuff. Wanted to slap those bastards trough the internet for constantly loosing us in the wilderness.

Well, playing with people you don't know... why would you? I mostly played 2P with Lezard, but had a really good time playing 4P with Schmacko and Chase in addition to me and Leznab. Wouldn't really consider playing with people I don't know and who I can't talk with on ts while playing.

[Tibe]

No they were basically people we did know. Chamu and some other cool finnish guy and Latvian. Their speed was just......well better than ours.