Absolutely disapointed -- This game is hard, and not in a fun way.

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Dupavoxe#7055 wrote:

playing a minion witch, not sure why other struggling with this class either its fine, i kill the boss's mainly using my spells my minions die, and i dodge and continue to do dps until they respawn, means i have to be on my toes more when they gone and get to relax a bit on their return

No it means you spend time and efford into getting gear and gems for a skill that doesnt deal any damage 75%+ of the time because the skill effect in question is on cooldown. What you effectively do is play with your spell skills and getting a little push from the minions, thats a difference.

Well I didn't had any issues until act 1 main boss. (so if you are still in act 1, you don't know yet what you are talking about). Got killed twice. Takes the fun out of it for me. Will now grind some more to lvl up but without access to higher level mobs, that aint going so smooth.

Really not having an issue here. I am quite happy to have a challenge. Still on standard modes. I am improving and looking forward to hardcore stuff.

There are so many 'press button, get loot' games, we really don't need another one. It is a game I am actually needing to think about a bit, which is super nice.

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(coming for a player less than 1 week into POE1 before arriving here)

playing a minion witch, not sure why other struggling with this class either its fine, i kill the boss's mainly using my spells my minions die, and i dodge and continue to do dps until they respawn, means i have to be on my toes more when they gone and get to relax a bit on their return

please if anything devs, add a snowflake mode if anything for the people who struggle, but scale loot drops accordingly aka give less for less difficulty

do NOT water down the default difficulty

ive only played POE1 for 5 days, i come from a background where i find dark souls too difficult, ive been playing games since the 90's

you game is no where near as hard as a souls game, ive died maybe 6-8 time and im still on act one, each and every death has been because im too low level for the content im doing or i havent found the best way to use my build, each and evey death has made me think about why, go away breifly, make some changes come back and then not die to that current mob

the difficulty is perfect

i think old POE players just are too used to a run and press one button whole screen dies, and it shows, as a new player, your game is not too difficult at all!!

seriously please do not water this down, or if you choose to make it easier make it into the doom equivilent of "I'm to young to die!" for the people who require it, give reduced loot etc everyone is happy!"



You are right about the poe 1 players that want 1 button. I have 8 k hours in poe 1 and it was very apparent they want you using a wide range of abilities in this. Poe 1 is much harder from complexity and this game is harder in terms of paying attention to monsters which for a lot of us isn't hard. So it's very weird seeing so many people struggling with poe 2 so much. So far though POE 2 just makes me want to play poe 1. It feels very very shallow which is fair since it's early access but I hope they do flesh this game out since as of right now I'd rather play poe 1 which is heart breaking.

+1
I have a job already and I don't need another one.
I actually didn not expect it to be any good and I was right.
I don't know why people expected better from developer that overtuned every signle one season in POE.
There will be of course no lifers and streamers bored out of their minds that will tell you it's ok. It is not.
Will play some more but expect I'll be quitting soon until it's 'fixed'.
Let's be cool people there are other games out there including POE1.

I'm playing witch minion,
I really haven't gotten far but right now(Just got to the King in the mists boss fight) I'm questioning if I even want to continue.
My minions feel like they are made out of papermache. My main damage is coming from contagen when my archers are alive they do help for the few seconds they can survive.
Even with lvl 4 Skeleton Warrior from a Spectre with meat shield support.
If the maps didn't reset anytime you die I would likely make better progress that is one feature of POE1 I miss right now, I expect to die one reason I don't play HC. But that ability to just get back into it was nice especially at lower levels. Mapping in POE1 you had 6 chances but the map didn't reset.

Overall I think the difficulty is scaled way to high right now ESPECIALLY at the lower levels. This isn't fun it's frustrating at best.

I wouldn't say the game is hard, I'd say it's boring.

Tbh adding extra life to mobs and leaving characters with zero dps isn't "that" for my personal taste.

Gonna end the campaign and gtfo. That's too slow for me.

I knew all the streamers hype was BS but wanted to check anyways.

It does get easier. It takes a little bit to get a new game to fit in to muscle memory. I found shields helped me a lot, in addition to life regen. I am picky with gear, and if I am not happy, I will ctrl enter the instance again to get gear I want.

I agree that it is a new game and people are just not used to actually having a challenge. Things will settle down as we play more.

I hope you have statistics about all the Deaths of players & will make some balance changes for EA to decrease the average amount for every player. I don't like Souls-like games...

The game seems fine when I play as a minion build, but very hard as melee. With the minion build, I give the skeletons that come from the scepter meatshield and the the support that makes them cling to life once dead and the ones from the skill gem are offensively specked. That way, I usually have some minions all the time and even if I do lose all minions, they will be back very soon.

Playing melee so far feels like I'm supposed to dodge attacks that I would tank in PoE 1, but I don't have the mobility to do so. I'll see if I can solve melee.