Please don't watter down the difficulty.

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CroDanZ#1818 wrote:

After few more hours I still stick to my oppinion that the difficulty is perfectly fine.

+1

I don't even mind the scarce drops - in fact I like it - it brings me back to Diablo 2 times. The whole game has a D2 'aura' to it. Love it.

People got their brains fried with PoE 1 speed & loot. They need to detox from it. It's perfectly fine, in fact preferable, that PoE 2 is different, since GGG plans to maintain both games anyway and those who don't like PoE 2 pace, can always go back to Poe 1 for the dopamine fix.

I'd say I wouldn't mind harder bosses. Basic mobs difficulty is very largely fine, bosses could be made even more difficult, currently they're somewhat on the easier side of things.

Although naturally I concede to the point other people are making; bosses should at least give some reasonable reward, currently drops are pretty much on the "unrewarding" side of things.

Just dropped by to say I agree with the OP. Loving it how it is right now. Thanks for a great game GGG.

EDIT: Playing Monk and Sorceress so far. Haven't really tried the other classes yet. Monk I play as a duo with my son playing Witch and the Sorceress I am playing solo.

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just_dont#6539 wrote:

I'd say I wouldn't mind harder bosses. Basic mobs difficulty is very largely fine, bosses could be made even more difficult, currently they're somewhat on the easier side of things.

Although naturally I concede to the point other people are making; bosses should at least give some reasonable reward, currently drops are pretty much on the "unrewarding" side of things.

I think making them even more harder in the early levels would scare away to many people....difficult vise they're perfect as they are for early game.

And I'm not in endgame yet but I think they'll become way harder in maps, esp if you juice them and the fact that you have only 1 try to beat them.

The good thing in POE is that in endgame everyone can juice the content to his needs....so you can decide how hard a boss should be for you. :)

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Ironhide75#7617 wrote:

I am baffled why so many of you want others to have a bad time.

Current game feels like you took Ruthless from POE1 and made it the normal mode for POE2.

If that is the intent, great, add an easier mode for people who are not interested in that amount of difficulty, who have enough "difficulty" during the week, during work etc. I just want to play and have fun.

Game is not fun right now.

Remember, people who are not having fun, are not in your game and spend nothing in your MTX store.

You hard difficulty players should be embracing making the game accessible for more people, so that it continues to be profitable.

I'm just one person, but one person who tends to spend more than the average player in online games and I am not enjoying the current experience.

They want you to have a bad time because what makes their ding dong hard is thinking they're "BETTER THAN YOU"...

They love games that have no difficulty settings because they want to be the ones that play them and separate themselves from "the plebs"...

They want to be the ones that spam "git gud" in chat and they want to be the ones that take over all the mainstream franchises because they need the spotlight...

PoE2 is an abomination... because it's NOT an ARPG... it's a Dark Souls Wannabe and has less build diversity than Elden Ring which is ridiculous...

In PoE2 there is only one build that is viable... full ranged damage... pick a theme (Lightning, Ice, Fire, Physical damage, whatever) and scale your damage as much as possible because even with full defenses bosses still one shot you cause this is not an ARPG, it's a Dark Souls wannabe... so just build as much damage as possible to take down the boss faster and minimize the number of times you need to dodge roll away from the one shot mechanic to minimize your chance of dying...


The game is ABYSMAL as it is right now... it's a "dodge roll skill check" but it has zero "PoE Skill" since it's not made for people that want to theory craft and make different interesting builds... nope... just cookie cutter damage glass cannon build and full Dark Souls wannabe gameplay...


PoE2 is BY FAR the worst ARPG on the market right now... even D4 has more build diversity at the moment for fuck's sake!!!

I am also playing Last Epoch and holy shit it's more interesting cause I can do way more things in it... in PoE2 I have to just max my damage to be able to minimize the tediousness and NOTHING ELSE!!!

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Arcticred#5215 wrote:

I'm playing a sorc and was finding the game hard'ish but manageable. I just got to the mansion and have had over 30 deaths to the werewolf boss. Just seems impossible, up until this boss I have only died twice.

Had to take an hour off to get rid of the frustration, came back and i'm now on my sixth death :(
Playing WASD btw

That seems "manageable" for you???? This is the Act 1 boss of a 60 hour campaign that you're supposed to replay every 3 months with every new season!!!


This is NOT manageable... this is psychotic made by moronic devs that decided to only cater to the 1% of the most no-life players that want to play on Ruthless difficulty (yes, only 1% ever played Ruthless in PoE1) and alienate everyone else... but after lying to them about what the game would be of course cause they also needed long time fans to fork out those 100$ for the support packs, right?

Gotta scam your fanbase before you send them away in favor of the "hype army" of Asmongold fans and streamer ball suckers!!!

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CroDanZ#1818 wrote:

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Essem#3340 wrote:

From a business perspective the game being this hard is obviously bad

Ye that's the reason why games like Elden Ring were a complete failure from a business perspective. ^^

The market is flooded with games that are so easy and trivial, that even a ape can beat it (lookin at u D4)...People are starving for challanges and POE2 is the perfect game for that.

And you guys act like the game is unbeatable instead of just going 1 step back , farm a bit gear and maybe 1-2 levels to try the boss again.

Yes the game is a bit challanging but far away from "to hard". ;)

How many players will keep re-playing Elden Ring until 2032???


Just a question... because PoE2 needs players to keep replaying this slow and tedious campaign for a fucking DECADE!!!

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It's perfect as it is.

Yes some skills/classs need just a little bit balance to perform better but overall it's a loveletter to us oldschool gamer and ARPG player who can handle a little bit of a challange.

Coming from a time where you were able to fall down a rope in Tomb Raider f.e. having challanging fights in a game is so refreshing in the middle of all the trivial games where you can beat all content simply by rolling your head over the keyboard.

I get it that the TikTok generation has no patience and want to faceroll all content 1 hour into the new league, but we already have enough games out there to fullfill theyr desires to beat everyting with 0 effort.

Thanks GGG for the amazing game, this one has the potential to become the best ARPG of all time.

Only a POE3 with all the features of POE2 + the graphics & fight system of a god of war could beat it, but thats it. ^^

This

I'm on the too hard side of the fence... some people may dig this challenging stuff but I get plenty of that in my life and when I play a game I want it to be fun.

I was never good at PoE but the game was still fun and I could alt to yellow maps all I wanted without feeling like the game was punishing me for being at most an average player.

Not PoE 2 though, this games just kicks my ass from the very beginning. I don't need random mobs to kill me to get to a boss that will then kill me repeatedly until I master its usually very boring 'trick'. I don't see why they felt like adding dodge and having it be used for every boss was creative... it's really not.

My opinion, some will agree, some won't- welcome to life.

The difficulty is fun and entertaining right now, playing HC is amazing experience. Feels like how the genre was always supposed to be like. Too bad we have way too many people from D3 - D4 and other games that cater to hyper casuals where everything can be completed by fingerless toddlers.

Anyone who comes here telling how they can do deathless Souls playthroughs but struggle here... what a bunch of liars. No competent souls vet would ever struggle here lmao. Or maybe selecting skill points is too difficult for them?

People also are missing the easy mode built in by inserting respawn points all around so they can int and still progress. GGG don't cave in, please. I know you will but one can always hope, right?