Please don't watter down the difficulty.

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Xebov#4972 wrote:


Difficulty heavily varies between players based on luck, class and skills used. I play a summoner witch. My skeletons have no base defence and seem to get 100% AoE damage so they die on half of the packs and bosses simply wipe them out in single hits. Most of my army are temporary minions that have such short durations that they require recasting after every 1-2 packs. Boss fights are 75% rolling around either to evade the bosses insane attack spam or to wait for my permanent minions to respawn. The temporary ones require corpses and most boss fights dont have any corpses at all. So i even have skills that dont work in boss fights. Thats more than a "little" balancing. i would also hardly call it a loveletter. Its just tedious.



But that is balance.. and the reason EA exists. Obviously there is space for lots of balancing.
Massive +1

Finally the game offers a challenge instead of "oh, when you hit red maps, you might start struggling"
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KuroSF#6521 wrote:
+1 I'm with the OP.. I'm only at the Manor so far, but the difficulty seems spot on... engaging, things to cause us to learn and grow, but tackable the first time without undue stress.


Can I request that if people think its fine, they tell what class they are playing. I think there are some classes that make the game significantly easier than others.

WASD vs Mouse would be nice too as I suspect that some combinations of WASD + Certain classes are having a much easier time.


For sure
I started on Monk and got destroyed on first boss
Switched to ranger and it was much easier
I'm mostly ok with the high difficulty, couldnt kill couldron witch in grenfell, then killed rustlord boss over about 15 minutes with level 1 gem. Didn't know how to get higher gems until then. Only tweak I'd like is movement speed to be a bit higher, as the game is SLOW. playing sorcerous with firewall and ice nova, plus wand projectile spells. its manageable, tho barely.
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KuroSF#6521 wrote:
+1 I'm with the OP.. I'm only at the Manor so far, but the difficulty seems spot on... engaging, things to cause us to learn and grow, but tackable the first time without undue stress.


Can I request that if people think its fine, they tell what class they are playing. I think there are some classes that make the game significantly easier than others.

WASD vs Mouse would be nice too as I suspect that some combinations of WASD + Certain classes are having a much easier time.


I think this is an excellent point. I started with Warrior no WASD and I had and I did not enjoy the experience, thought it was too hard. Then I went witch with WASD and some minions and ed contagion and shit seems way too easy. First death with the witch was on Asinia, but that also because I am deaf and didn't notice the "stand still" while in the bone cage. Admittedly I was almost getting frustrated after being one-shot ten tries in a row in that cage without being able to escape. Other than that it was POE1 style run in circles around boss so far till Ogham Village at level 11.

Variability seems huge.

Also, not yet sure if I like the game. Too early to tell, but so far I still prefer POE1. Hope that changes, because I see much potential.
Last edited by Cordexxx#4210 on Dec 7, 2024, 7:58:50 AM
No, the difficulty is totally over average. Act 1 Boss death count 50+ and still going... Can someone nerf this guy? If i want to play Dark Souls, I would go and play Dark Souls, and i think, this is PoE?
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No, the difficulty is totally over average. Act 1 Boss death count 50+ and still going... Can someone nerf this guy? If i want to play Dark Souls, I would go and play Dark Souls, and i think, this is PoE?


Are you aware that skill gems can be upgraded?
+1

I guess it’s already lost, winners always break dev’s vision of a game in a breath, but please don’t.

I wanted to have fun for month, not steamroll the game because it’s too freakin easy and a one button ultra speed smash screen fest.

Please do the game you want, you want it difficult ? Do it. There is Poe 1 to one button smesh your way.
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What class are you playing?


Witch but no specific buiild rn....I experiment with all skills, so far had gread success with Firewall + SRS.

If u get stuck, simply try other skill combinations....this way I managed to beat Act1.

I mean it's a brandnew game, ofc some skills are underwhelming or are going online with specific uniques....we all can just test around and find the skill that does the job in the current situation. :)

Plus don't forget to upgrade your skills/items, this is a huge boost for DMG and DEF.
Last edited by CroDanZ#1818 on Dec 7, 2024, 8:00:10 AM
+1

I feel like the difficulty doesn't need to come down. I feel if the game played just a bit faster it could balance out. Its day 1 of EA.

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