Most of the affliction enemies take 50x hits to die in act 1 and this isn't the first league

POV: You are a PoE veteran who never really got better than average and are too lazy and incompetent to learn to optimize every little aspect. You suffer just as badly as many new players do when faced with high survivability enemies.

You enter an affliction, find our first few packs, quickly stacking up a couple enemies of each rarity and now want to fight them. Some go down easily, but others for some weird reason take like 2-10% hp per hit from some basic gear... magic monsters mind you. The rares and some "bosses" are even worse.

Like, if I recorded a video and put it at 3x speed and put clown music over it, you would see how truly goofy this is. It's just a constant battle of trying not to die and kill nearly immortal enemies that aren't worth killing in the first place. Mind you, this is happening as soon as the beginning of act 1. So good luck with that one, new players. I feel your pain.

As much as I like affliction from first impressions, I think this philosophy of act 1 monsters needing to be super beefed up, is just plain unfair to any new players, semi veterans or ungifted players like myself, which I imagine makes up a majority of your player base. So if anyone were to ask the question of why people tend to skip new league content on their first characters, this is why. Because you overtuned everything to a point where the fun in killing them is gone. I can't imagine how it would feel if everything had this much survivability... and I pray that PoE 2 will keep the numbers reasonable.

Maybe I'm just salty, but this isn't the first time I've encountered unkillable magic and rare enemies in act 1 and I have a feeling it won't be the last.

Btw. Kills Brutus with 1 affliction, gets 3 rares, 5 magics, 1 orb of chance. Took far too long as well. My initial thought of the trailer told me that it's just a cool feature, but now I'm starting to regret this.
As Pal- mentioned below, a level 32 srs build dies multiple times to double wisp brutus and any hit will one shot the character you have at the same. This is worse than any dark souls.

Enemy energy shield doesn't make anything easier either and I dread the possibility of enemies who regenerate hp.

Yet another league mechanic that is good in theory, but 'destroyed' in the acts by making it overtuned. I struggle to see why they 'always' do this.

Honestly the wildwood isn’t that bad. Not having any real issues and it easier on day one than Kalandra, delirious, ultimatum, ritual, and sentinel were.

I think they did a pretty good job balancing risk reward, for unpolished builds.

And the extra rucksack has been awesome for leveling.

So far great fun to be had. Can’t wait to equip some charms or tinctures (on a later build)

yep, overtuned in acts like every single league is. I think they know and don't care at this point.

I does seem pretty rewarding for early game though if you just run about looting and don't bother fighting the immortal rares. until you inevitably die.

Idk me and a few friends having no issues with it in the acts.

Seems fine to me

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brushmonkey wrote:

yep, overtuned in acts like every single league is. I think they know and don't care at this point.

I does seem pretty rewarding for early game though if you just run about looting and don't bother fighting the immortal rares. until you inevitably die.

yesterday i started a new character and ended facing brutus with 2 wisp mods.

Brutus was literaly 1 shooting me with any hit so i ask for help in global and a lv 32 SRS character come along... he got killed couple times before being able to bring him down.

sure our equipment was far from good but there is something horribly wrong when a lv 9 boss is tanking a lv 32 SRS character while still being able to kill it in 2 hits.

it droped a handfull of rares and 5-6 armourer scraps / blacksmith stones

Act 3 Solaris temple, A RIBBON, 2 wisp mods as well as it had leech life. I tried for 10 minutes to kill it. I'm lvl 35. SRS and zombies atm. I ended up just running away. Its nemesis mods all over again, having a unkillable mob is bullcrap. They should always be killable. Resistant to dmg sure, but always killable. I watch 20 srs and 5 zombies wittle it down to have it just full life full life... i can see why now new players are just like nope, and stop playing this game. Its very frustrating to come across mobs like that that either you cant kill because you have a smattering of yellows, maybe a unique or something, or mobs that just straight delete you from existence. Its frankly unacceptable at this point They need to be tuned better, tested on absolute crap gear not the best min/max stuff their is. And for clarity, im talking low level mobs with a new league mechanic, not in maps. Ya know what we all have to trudge through for the 15th million time to get to maps.

Yes i am salty, yes im pissed, am i gonna hold my breath that its gets changed, nope, just gonna run past said mobs Like i normally do. But on the off chance someone see's this that matters. go test your crap on crap gear, get 2 wisp mods, leeches life mod and tell me if u can kill it. I doubt it.

affliction league is a serious trash. to much dead. i wonder how far hardcore affliction league can reach?

I've tried really hard to find a way to enjoy the Affliction mechanics, but there is absolutely zero fun in it. This game was a million times more fun before they started added all these mods, first Archnemesis & now Affliction.

I'm not asking for any advice--I just plain don't like running around blindfolded in a zone with no mini-map, followed by trying to fight supercharged mobs. Take out every single one of the bad combinations & I could live with it, I guess.