the biggest weakness of POE is...?what stops you from playing POE!

What is the biggest weakness of POE what stops you from playing it?

Today I watched Quin69(he is streaming Lost Ark with many POE streamers) and I agreed how uninteractive and barren Path of Exile combat system feels.

I think it's going to be biggest hit to POE community when Lost ARK going live for EU and NA regions.

edit: wow, i don't know how but Xavathos delete his entire post!

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Damac0101 wrote:

what is the biggest weakness of POE what stops you to play it?

FPS performance issues.

Why other ARPGs, like Grim Dawn, run lagless even on 10-year-old PC, while PoE lags even on modern ones? And graphic picture in PoE isnt worth those absurd requirements, not even close!

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Damac0101 wrote:

okay, enjoy your perfect game and stop loosing your time on threads like these.

Thank you for confirming your intention with this thread.

Just to give you a heads-up, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome, "sky is falling" threads like these generally are not. But hey, it's your account.

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Xavathos wrote:

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Damac0101 wrote:

okay, enjoy your perfect game and stop loosing your time on threads like these.

Thank you for confirming your intention with this thread.

Just to give you a heads-up, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome, "sky is falling" threads like these generally are not. But hey, it's your account.

well, gentlemen, this my last reply to you:

I don't understand why you are making these strange pointless posts in each feedback thread. If you want to decide what is "welcome" or what is not, find a job for yourself as moderator. GL!

As I said many people stop playing POE, because of... . People I know don't like a new pace of the game with constant one-shots, stupid speeds where many mechanics designed in 2013 to make POE gameplay interesting doesn't work anymore! Anything can be facerolled with one button and DPS!
Many people don't play SC - the game was designed for HC and they don't like the idea to level their chars for 2 weeks and get one shot from nothing!

If it not useful for devs, then don't be surprised if Steam chart for POE goes TOP low after 4 months when real competition appears, but not D4!

Suggestion: I understand what POE's engine is old enough, and we won't see combo punches or beautiful animations, but VP is solved, make telegraphed attacks for dangerous attacks, make DPS top limit!

If many people experiencing problems in LAB make a 10/20/50/150 chaos recipe for them! Problem solved ! We have 20% more playerbase!

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Biggest weakness = Labyrinth

Absolutely agree, the only time I stopped playing PoE since Open Beta was because of Labyrinth. I came back in 3.0 when GGG reduced the loathsome Labyrinth content. Even with all the improvements made to PoE since Labyrinth was introduced, PoE is still not as good of a game as it was before that loathsome content was introduced.

I think the poor performance certainly contributes. D2 still suffers under similar things today, yet it´s still played.

A second issue would be the trade system. The game relies way too much on it, I almost always quit after weeks playing red maps, not finding the few I need to advance. At least in SSF, a vendor should offer us red maps, make it 10 chaos each.

For new players, the mechanics can be overwhelming, especially with 3.5. coming up, it seems that we are playing a very complex MMO, but no longer an ARPG. It just takes too long to understand everything and new players won´t invest months into a game they don´t understand.

Last but not least, the XP penalty is too harsh. Those one shot mechanics punish players in a way that kills all motivation in the long run. Why play a week or two, if one second can destroy all your progress?

Players should be able to get their XP back by picking up the corpse, or the overall XP rate must be higher. Even if you play red maps, you hardly move up after 92.

For me its that lots of interesting mechanics keep getting hidden in the Endgame.
This is a problem because I am usually bored with my character by the time I get to that point. Or I don't have time to get to the Endgame part of a League before it ends.

Why does that stop me playing PoE?
Because there are other games out there that don't have a time/grind-wall between me and the interesting content.

From biggest to lowest:

1. Fps issues. I could fix it, but cant really justify expenses.

2. This game lately feels like sonic running simulator.

3. Everything of interest is already tested.