What is your #1 issue with PoE? (not joking edition)

As the title suggests this thread is for everyone to post their #1 issue or gripe with PoE right now, Try to keep it to the point without going into too many paragraphs so its easy to read through.

My personal #1 issue is:
Frustrations with trade mostly, Bots are everywhere yet its not allowed so i can't personally run a bot to compete with them without risking my account, Some of them can even hunt down and buy items for their owner while they are actually on another account mapping, And a legit player i'd like to see a serious blow struck to these individuals preferably in the form of economic power being given back to your actual players who cant afford to risk their accounts.

Maven and crafting.
Maven memory game or no void stone ruined my league also maven is awfully grindy.


Crafting way too complicated wayy to expensive way too big rng and kinda big mess that frustrate me

Thats all other than that had massive fun

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NoyAvargel wrote:

Crafting way too complicated wayy to expensive way too big rng and kinda big mess that frustrate me

Yup...

Off-screen one shots. Monster projectiles not being visible at all during the graphic mess that this game promotes. Specially arrows are not visible at all during explosions etc.

The fact that 99.9% of the monsters doesn't matter at all and the last 0.1% just outright one shot you offscreen with all flasks active and zero counterplay to it.

I also hate that the endgame prettt much is aimed for the few % that doesn't have jobs or the kids with parents that don't give a fuck if they are in school or sit by the computer for 16 hours a day.

That is just the things off the top of my head atm... other than that. Mapping is extremely fun.

Also... labyrinth must be the most boring content i have ever seen in a game

Trade is bad.
Waiting for PoE to have its Grand Exchange moment.

I have 2 things that are tied for #1.

Crafting. I get WHY GGG doesn't want it to be the deterministic way that it was not that long ago - but man it actually felt good being able to craft something from beginning to end. Can't do that these days.

Item balancing. I also understand why items need to be tweaked. But leave them alone in standard and let us keep our broken toys there i.e. give us more of those glorious broken legacy variants.

You'd think I'd have a laundry list but honestly I can trace all my issues with PoE back to one thing: it's free to play.

Happy to elaborate but it's more fun if you try to imagine PoE as a buy to play for yourself. I mean it'd probably be 'dead' in terms of population (which for a buy to play means very little: Grim Dawn keeps on truckin', after all) and Chris wouldn't be filthy fucking rich but dollars to doughnuts it'd be a much better ARPG. Most problems I've seen over the years with PoE can be traced back to the free to play model. Not all, but most.

Hey look, two paragraphs. Wait, three. Fuck.

Lack of QoL features and sub-optimal QoL features that need improvement.

Trade, and how the game is balanced around it yet at the same time it's made deliberately obnoxious.

I have a couple but if I have to pick 1 then it's the imbalance of melee in this game. Considering it's all I really play, it's hard to get into playing a whole lot at the moment.