Path of Exile 2 is not fun - It is tedious at best and frustrating / annoying at worst.

Zero loot drops.

Insanely tanky bosses and rares. You fight them for 10 minutes and then they drop 1 mana flask and 35 gold.

I just realised they have added mobs with invulnerability aura.

OH. MY. GOD.

You come up with a game design with super tanky mobs, and ADD EFFING INVUL AURA ON TOP???

Why are you doing this? Seriously...

You are releasing a new game, you are looking for positive publicity, no?

Yet you release this crap with frustrating mechanics which is not fun to play at all.

Also all mobs respawn when you die, so good luck facing the same tanky mobs over and over and over.

Playing does not feel like fun at all.

You feel more annoyed and frustrated than excited.

GGG dropped the ball on this one - I will come back after 6 months or so, maybe they will have realized their mistake by then.

I don't mean to contradict or oppose on your opinion, but just want to share mine.

I very much like this gameplay. Slower, tactical, harder. When I find a rare item, I'm genuinely happy as it doesn't happen that often.
I totally despise PoE1 zoom zoom 30sec map dopamine rush where you don't even know what are you killing and tons of loot on the ground. That frustrates me.

I believe it is a good thing that these two games are different in their gameplay. Why would we have 2 same games, right? :)

Some players will like PoE1 better, some PoE2 and that's okay.

I love hard bosses. PoE 2 had to be different.
It's a great alternative to zooming.
Of course, we will need a lot of time to adapt, but it doesn't mean the game is bad.

However, I agree about loot, the boss loot doesn't quite match the difficulty of the fight, it's pretty disappointing.

I am not finding the game fun at all, feel punished for playing. I will keep at it hoping it gets better. Not how I hoped my weekend would go :(

Totally agree. Story is mediocre, voice acting cliche and uninspired, and huge maps that take way to long to complete. I'm not having much fun at all, which is the reason I play games. Needs a serious rework.

no loot
no gold to buy loot from vendors
no way to even get skills without rng and lots of farming
boss fights aka run in circle for 10 minutes and get one shot on minute 9 yay
no currency drops to craft white items
minions keep dying on white mobs... I mean instantly they get summoned get to do a 1-2 attacks and dead.
mobs body blocking
no tools to actually handle challenging content such as movement skills or some sort of block like immortal call or shell or something or dps to kill/push the mobs away.


in 10 hours 1 alchemy dropped and I've looted <10 rare items
this is ruthless with gold + prety graphics
devs already had feedback regarding ruthless yet here we are they are trying to shove ruthless down everyone throat. no wonder ppl are upset.

This is a SINGLE PLAYER GAME unless you want to up the difficulty - invite a friend.

Have to be honest, for playing an ARPG for the first time in many years... DIABLO 4 is a lot more fun with friends and exploring the map is just like any other open world game. Really confused at all the D4 bashing as at this point it's a far superior game for enjoyment level.

THIS IS NOT FUN. I'm bored and tired of Act 1 and ready to throw in the towel, no point asking people to help with the Wolf as it just gets more difficult ...

I kind of wish I had played POE 1 so I didn't waste my money on this.
Drops are really crap... I'm still using some level 6 gear at level 14 [edit I'm actually level 19]

Why can't you TP between check points on a map? why can't you roll out from mobs that trap you against a wall? Why am I always struggling to buy overpriced rubbish? Why can't I expand my inventory instead or using a portal to go back to camp every 5 minutes as I have to sell everything to make scraps of gold... and why don't you earn XP from killing mobs in boss fights... 10 boss fights later and your XP hasn't changed so no boost for you to maybe help get your stornger so you can beat it...

Balancing just seems way off.

Love the graphics, I actaully love the voices, levels are really nice just so annoying you have to kill mobs over again if you die... that should only occur on a reset... effects, characters are very cool... but it's day 3 for me and I'm tired.

[49.9 hours played]

yes, agree

Looking like time for you to head back to D4 brother!

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666gene666#4947 wrote:

Looking like time for you to head back to D4 brother!

When everybody goes back to other games because of the few Big Issue's PoE2 has atm, it will be just like PoE 1, a Niche game, with a small player base, which isn't what GGG was going for with PoE2 supposedly.

It's Early Access, GGG has lots of time to experiment, change, revert, refine the game before final release.

Here's to them balancing to make this game the best ARPG ever.