Low level warrior feedback

Game itself

Performance is good, apart from loading the map. Is it loading from the server or something? It should be loading from my hard drive so should not take this long to load.

Hard crash/PC lock up. This has happened 4 times so far to me, had to hold the power button to turn the PC off.

General gameplay

WASD movement feels pretty good so far, though movement speed is honestly just too slow at the start. I know it will get faster but starting from this slow feels bad.

Body blocks and randomly being moved about feels terrible. I know there are supposed to be body blocking but its too much.

Being stunned in the middle of using an attack fells awful and I get stunned WAY too much

As a melee, the mobs do too much damage. For ranged its easy to avoid because, well, range, and can move when attacking. Melee cant do either.

I don't like how skill gems don't level up with us anymore. Might be ok if uncut gems drop frequently enough but right now having underlevelled gems just feels bad.

Quest markers on the map should show up from a bit further away. The zones are already huge and movement speed too slow, map markers only showing up when you are basically on top of them just makes it worse.

Could uncut skill gems stack?

For the ritual quest, could we get a ritual counter like in poe1 to show how many are in the zone and how many have been completed?

I like having our very own Deckard Cain.

Warrior skills

Absolute trash. They feel genuinely terrible to use. Far too slow to use with 2 handed weapons and just don't do enough damage if used with 1 hand weapon.
Rolling slam just doesn't hit. Most of the time it hits behind the enemy you targeted and might hit the second slam if you turn around. You also get stunned out of it most of the time. I thought it would be good for bosses being able to hit them while rolling around in a circle around them, but you cant do that, you either get body blocked by the boss, so don't move around it, or it doesn't hit the boss.

Earthquake. 4 second delay for damage. wow. worthless. And again even getting the initial hit to start the 4 second timer is too slow.

The other strike skills do basically no damage either and can only be used in very specific situations.

Got to the first spirit skill and they are all irrelevant for me. I would like some kind of defensive spirit skill to use early on. While I can't deal much damage because the skills are bad, at least I could outlast the boss a bit better.


Right now I would say warrior does not feel good or fun to play at the start. This might be fixed in end game or with twink gear, but that is irrelevant for starting the game/league. Current state, I would recommend playing a different class altogether and come back to warrior with some twink gear and currency to throw at it.

That's everything I can remember right now. Going to bed so hopefully the crash/pc lock up issue gets fixed. :)

Once I got in I started as warrior and played for like 10 minutes and wanted to straight up uninstall the game. Logged out and my enthusiasm is on cooldown so I haven't logged back in. The rolling slam skill has no weight whatsoever and does no damage and moves you like you're on wobbly ice skates. Earthquake is tiny and takes forever to go off.

Going to restart the game in a day or two as a mage class. Warrior gave a very bad first impression of PoE 2.

warrior feels great to me so far. try rolling slam with overcome support, into boneshatter with impact shockwave support. everything is stunned then explodes

the earthquake delay is so you can combo it with the totem that activates jagged ground i think, all skills are 100% better as combos

Warrior here, level 11.
It's hot garbage. Completely agree with the OP, skills feel terrible, it's almost impossible to attack without taking damage, etc...
Attack, run away, attack, run away, repeat.
That's not fun gameplay.

yes warrior is very disappointing , slow movement , slow hit , average damage , super boring , in comparison a mercenary fly by oneshot everything dropping gre
nade .....

Re-rolled to a level 1 Sorc, and she has faster move speed than my warrior with 10% movement speed boots!

+1