The game is too hard and not fun anymore.

Level 71 Seismic Trap
Made it to white maps.
This is not a game anymore, it's a pure pain. I'm out.

Campaign was suffering with 11 hours and 55 deaths to finish acts. Worst league start experience ever.
Maps are even worse.

- Ritual encounter, got a Mana-Siphoner with Permafrost and Toxic shitting on the ground everywhere. Dead.
- Blight, Invulnerable or even a Hasted or Steel-Infused mob. Failed every encounter.
- Essence, I am not even clicking them anymore.
- Betrayal, tried 3 lab encounters where you need to kill RARE mobs before they destroy the caches.. you roll any defensive mod, you are done.

I can't even imagine how worse this would be if I wouldn't pick high damage skill (seismic) and wouldn't follow a streamer's guide. There is no room for error. No room to possibly make my own build that is logically weaker than from someone playing this 12/7 for years.

Archnemesis league was good. You could pick which mods you want to fight, you fought them when you wanted, separately and you got a clear reward for killing them.
Now you can't pick the mods, they interfere with every league mechanic and on top of that you get no reward which you were used to get. Bunch of crap rare items isn't a reward for killing this.

I am not a Dark Souls player with a fetish in suffering and thus this experience is not for me.

Bad decision.
Archmods should be reverted from rare mobs completely.

they cant revert it now without 3 months of work , or more, so basically they bricked their own game.
I was unde the impression that HaRdMoDe was a side project of certain devs, and meant to be implemented as a side project, not pushed into standard and league game play.
anyway this is very very very bad

I guess the hidden goal here is to make us quit game so they dont have to actually release poe2 anytime in future. xD
Now a bit more serious: there is NO risk=reward in the game. Maybe something close to it in uber uber uber boss fight.
I got deleted in couple secs from some ice-spear goats with sticks while in a9 and 76%cold res, later some untargetable crystals got me with 3-4 hits while no mobs around were alive, not to talk about the complicated mechanics or mixing 2+ mechanics at once -> pc lags try hard af to kill me and thats only in poe. Plus still vendor trash as reward.
In general, after the sh1t fiesta last year, things are going bad and worse, even tho it somethings looks better /like this league patch notes with "no nerfs" for us/. Friends leaving game or playing for few weeks only speaks enough that its not just me disliking the game after a decade.
Unfun game, made for 10-20k guys...label it "private game: poe" at least. Shame, GGGlizzards.

Feel the same way, i am not that much into the "cock and ball torture" games.

They should just remove the top10 silly mods from the core game and instead have a chance to drop badges like previous league. Then players can use said badges in the map device as additional juice.
Suddenly players are free to chose and are not facing with build breaking crap every 5 meters.

3.13 make PoE great again!