Casual player thinks game is too easy.

Dear all,

I'm a new player since a few days. I am an extremely casual gamer (only play aoe2) and got sick from a journey and needed something to pass the time. I played diablo 2 when i was a kid and wanted something similar that runs on linux. PoE is perfect, very complex world with a lot of story, love it. The only problem i have is the difficulty level, it's way too easy. It's just walking around and see everything around you die.
I fiddle alot with my gear but i don't have too. I have flasks but i don't use them. I lvl up so fast i think it's a hassle to upgrade my skill tree and wait till i have a lot of points.
The boss fights are done so fast i only reallize afterwards that i killed the boss. Dominus was down in seconds and never got a good look at him.
I'm only lvl 36 or so and now in act IV but the walking is getting boring. There is no incentive to get good gear or level up or focus while you play.
I have read on the forums all sorts of exotic maps and parts of the world that are "very hard" but i worry that by the time i get there i'm a very high lvl or stumbled upon some gear that makes it easy or even worse, got bored walking and quit.
The "endgame" should not be the only fun part, getting to the endgame should be fun in itself.
Are other players experiencing the same frustrations?
I would really love to enjoy this game, everything else looks very fun and cool. Is it really getting better soon?

Kind regards,
Sick new player.

campaign is boring. the real game starts after campaign.

typically pros finish the acts in 3-5 hours.

how can you say the game is too easy when you're level 36? thats babymode,they make it easy early on so new players dont quit.

completely hidden account info, claims dominus died in a few seconds, and everything around him is just falling over...


either your character is twinked to the moon, or you've found one of the few (3-4?) skills that has it easy with no effort and no thinking.

AND have managed to find gear to complement it. because even minions/toxic rain require 'not screwing up' for them to feel that easy.


big doubt.

When you try and break your old time records the campaign is honestly pretty fun. I know you said it's your first time so I guess that can't apply yet.

Just enjoy the lore since it's your first go at the game, it's great and very overlooked.

Take that, people who said ggg buffing act 1 was unwarranted

level 36?

Come back to the forums after you're level 90 and have "easily" beaten end game content.

Also...why hide your account if you're new?

Got to agree that at times the game is too easy. Pick up a good weapon and melee combat can be too easy. Pick up an early 5L or 6L and the game can become too easy.

You can trade. The game becomes way too easy.

It's up to you to set the difficulty.

The difficulty in Acts is only how fast you can finish them.

The difficulty in midgame/maps is how much content you can get out of them (you can add features to maps) and how beefy of a map you can do (you can boost map rewards by making the maps harder).

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testingsick wrote:

The boss fights are done so fast i only reallize afterwards that i killed the boss. Dominus was down in seconds and never got a good look at him.

Oh, don’t worry, there are bosses later on in the game that are very, very hard. There’s this thing that collects different bosses, then releases them all at once so you have to fight them all at the same time. This can be really punishing depending on what bosses they are and what modifiers they have.

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testingsick wrote:

I'm only lvl 36 or so and now in act IV but the walking is getting boring. There is no incentive to get good gear or level up or focus while you play.

The first wall you’re gonna hit where you’ll probably get filtered and want to maybe start tweaking your gear a bit will be the Labyrinth. You have to get through the whole thing with out dying once. It’s full of traps and there are 3 bosses you need to kill, so there’s an incentive there to maybe even over level a bit. You’ll know where you stand gear and level wise when you get to this point and may even want to skip it if it’s too hard.

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testingsick wrote:

I have read on the forums all sorts of exotic maps and parts of the world that are "very hard" but i worry that by the time i get there i'm a very high lvl or stumbled upon some gear that makes it easy or even worse, got bored walking and quit.

You’re still in the campaign which means you’re stuck on the rails with little control over the difficulty. This changes when you get to maps because you can then start to scale up the difficulty for better rewards. You’re gonna get filtered by how hard it becomes and be unable to progress without better gear, since it’s possible to scale the difficulty up to absurd levels that can even be next to impossible for your build with certain mods. The moment you finish the campaign, you’ll be hit with a massive debuff that will need to be dealt with promptly or you’ll be constantly getting one shot.

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testingsick wrote:

The "endgame" should not be the only fun part, getting to the endgame should be fun in itself. Are other players experiencing the same frustrations?

Yes, this is a major grievance with many players and gets routinely complained about. I personally don’t really mind since once you get good at finishing the campaign it doesn’t take very long, especially if it’s your second build in the league and you can use a Tabula Rasa and something like Hollow Palm to finish the campaign quickly.

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testingsick wrote:

I would really love to enjoy this game, everything else looks very fun and cool. Is it really getting better soon?

It’s going to get much better and much, much harder, like Diablo 2 times a thousand on steroids. What I love most about POE is what I described above, and that is the ability to scale the difficulty as low or as high as you want, with the upper limit being pretty insanely high such that it’s going to be out of bounds for a majority of players. You will be met with many roadblocks that will need to be overcome, and it's gonna be hard and you're gonna be dying a lot as you learn all the different mechanics.