Did some league practice.. holy wow first act is actually broken.

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Scarletsword wrote:

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Souchirou wrote:

How do you expect a new player to finish act 1?

I've brought mupltiple friends (7 by now) to PoE and even tho they had experience through other RPGs or even D2/D3/Grim Dawn/Torch Light, not a single one of them had the idea of entering mud flats at level 2 after skipping coast and tidal island entirely including gear from there like you did. Yet some of them have been playing games for 20+ years.

That's not something a new player does, not even new players with experience from other games do that.

The new player experience

A new player will be at level 4-6 and will have at least 2 active skills (3 if he completes tidal island, 12+ if he finds the gem vendor). He will also have a bunch of items equipped that will add up to bit of AR/ES/EV.

At that point the player has 80+ life as a witch without using any skillpoints (since he's new and the skilltree is scary obviously) while a rhoa does 15-25 damage (yes, I just made a witch to test this). He also found a chain belt and that's super noice because it 'heals' him without doing a thing even tho he doesn't understand it entirely.

What you guys need to do is go back and adjust your playstyle through the acts because not even speedrunners enter mud flats naked.