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

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kazyv#6478 wrote:

you literally do not have to be zizaran to enjoy it. you just have to go kill some monsters to grind some levels and gear. it's not that hard.

Hundreds of people are telling you that it is. The monsters are too hard, and critically, too boring to kill.

Is it too early for

PoE2Bad?

Asking for a friend.

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KingAlamar#4071 wrote:

While I am one of the "complainers" I need to indicate that in early game at least it's not dodge or die for me [invested too much into defense??].

For me it's Avoid damage OR get chunked. The gotcha is that I get chunked more than I chunk the boss as I WILL absolutely get smacked even though I'm trying to avoid damage.

Does that make me bad at this game ... sure. Does this make PoE2 a bad game in isolation -- probably not.

You can't "chunk" a boss, there isn't enough damage. At best you can tickle a boss

The game is not fun if I wanted to play Dark Souls I would have Fucking played Dark Souls. I wanted to play a uptodate POE. This is Why we play POE. Glad this did not cost me any money.

Not hard, simply just tedious; in most of the worst ways possible.
Gave this a chance to prove me wrong, but I expected this nonesence since years.
Played it a few hours and felt the exact same what I felt on my PoE 1 ruthless lvl90 Ranger: boredom.

agree on the hardness.. died 3 hours worth on the Mad Wolf (lvl what, 15?). Gear should be good (summoner witch lvl 18). I love mechanics and challenges but this fight is just out there. As it seems some people have an easy(ier) time of it, it could be a class and/or skill/passive choice. The thing ive come across is once you get the skill gems the game "gives" you - getting more seems to be a test on its own. More time needed, just feels ramped up too quick for standard Act 1 boss.

I've seen peoples rushing to the boss without even crafting or farming a little and are like "It's so hard I don't understand"...

Others when playing pokemon "I'm lvl 8 now let's go kill the first boss!!"
Meleveling my first pokemon to lvl 16 for his first evolution before the first boss "now we are talking"

I absolutely agree. The concept of taking the best of the best players who enjoy hardcore (i.e taking out movement skills) and asking them to test for the majority of players was silly. I've put about 12 hours in already giving it a fighting chance, but all this early access has done for me is make me exciting for the POE 1 seasons which unfortunately will be set aside for this game. This was a huge step backwards in gameplay.

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Wongo360#1347 wrote:

This was a huge dodge roll backwards in gameplay.

The easiest way to fix the most of the Problems would be Way Less of a Sponge Fest, Way More Pack Sizes and a bit more loot, also dial back on the Damage Output in Act 1, early Act II. With the Added loot and non Sponge Enemys its way more reasonable to enjoy a farming session to get Resistance Gear for some Roadblocking Bosses afterwards. At Least thats my general Idea how i would go about this. Im at least lowly grinding down Roadblock after Roadblock.. Currently at the Last boss from ACT II and ffs im 75% on Cold but i need Elec for this one... and the magic to rare Currency like never drops.. i have the blues over 60 times and got a few chaos and exalted .. but this damn upgrade currency just for some reason shows up once in 7hours. So im more likely to ep Grind myself through the boss then to craft that gear.. Could get lucky but so far my luck is in the I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT zone. 25hours campain... im 21hours in no brake and couldnt made it past act 2 cause of Roadblock after Roadblock. And there are always people just saying your doing it wrong ... yeah.... sure thats true im not Theory crafting myself the Perfect Build, i play a game and make choices and suffer as long as there are no guides yet, thats suposed to be the fun part.