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

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xssarinx#0364 wrote:
Is it too early for

PoE2Bad?

Asking for a friend.



PoE2Mid
Agree with author ;[
this game is WAY easier than poe 1
"buff grenades"

- Buff Grenades (Buff-Grenades)
I could put up with boss one shot mechanics I need to learn to avoid if playing a Necromancer was actually any fun.
POE 2 is fun.

Hasn't been hard at all act 1 cleared ez pz
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It's totally fine, but it's not the gaming i like. PoE2 feels a LOT more like "souls" than PoE1 IMHO.


Then go play PoE1. You don't like this game, but that's no reason to cater to you lol
So many people here missing the entire point. Discuss all you will about difficulty. None of that matters if IT IS NOT FUN OR ENJOYABLE. If you are grunting and frustrated the entire time, it is not goods design. I would be fine with the difficulty ramping up in Act 2 or 3 once you have some good gems and good gear, but the difficulty right out the gate is too much for a lot of people. Maybe not the sweats, but for a lot of people who enjoy for the first game who don't 10k hours.
True. I also keep dying trying a bunch of change skills etc but the Act 1 boss is still there. Sad times.
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MinD128#6494 wrote:
No! don't lower the difficulty !

You forget that this is a game ! you don't realy die ! one of the purpose of a game is to make you become better ! don't accept the idea that you are not good enough ! keep trying and learning. And i'm not an elitist! far from that! but I do like challenges and I do like evolving!

I was there at Diablo 3 launch! Diablo 3 introduced the Inferno difficulty and it was really hard! I remember the fight against Mephisto! it was so hard everyone was rage quitting but I persevered with a German friend and after 6 hours of tries we finally got him it was so satisfying!
But this high difficulty made a lot of people start complaining and unfortunatly after a short time we got the unfamous .03 patch ! it killed the game! the difficulty was dumped down, items rolls were changed (dumped down too) and slowly people started quitting I was among them. this started the downfall of Diablo 3.
2 years later out of curiosity I tried Diablo 3 again and what a surprise! there was no more difficulty! everything was dying so fast! you just needed to spam an aoe skill and roll on the map ! and this didn't make the game more attractive quite the opposite actually. there was no longer a lot of players not because the game was too hard but because it was now too easy !

I don't want this to happen to POE2 !

Challenges are fun if you take them for what they are: challenges ! and with time you will evercome them not because your character has become stronger but because you have become stronger!


The purpose of a game is entertainment. There's a reason ruthless isn't popular.
The entire game just feels like a slog for most playstyles. Some are way stronger and they're blasting through the game, while others are just hilariously underpowered.
I don't wanna dodge 10 times to get 1 attack off.
I don't wanna feel like i'm playing Dark Souls.
I don't wanna get constantly swarmed, pushed around and bodyblocked by white mobs. I don't wanna clear a whole zone and get 1 blue item out of it that i can't even use.

It's good that people are enjoying it, but the game simply isn't for me. After 13 years of PoE1 i was expecting something better.

Really hope they're diverting some of the staff back to PoE1 now.

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