You have alienated your own playerbase

This is the worst gaming experience I have ever had in PoE. I love PoE even the bad leagues. This is ruthless and I dont want to play ruthless. If you want this to be standard thats fine. Just give me a game mode for old people that dont want to play ruthless. I have played since beta of poe 1 and loved the game even thought it has changed into alittle speed meta in my mind. In it i can build toons like RF to just face tank everything and just relax. I forced my self to get to maps in poe 2 and can't bring myself to try and spend 30 hrs to level a different class. I can live with only one life vrs bosses but having clear the zone again is awful. My whole guild has basically quit already. I do not understand how this is a better direction for the game.

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AmpegV4#2473 wrote:

The balance is good, meaningful gameplay within an hour, not 5-10 trivial and boring hours later like POE 1.

Majority of players do not complete 10 acts in PoE1. Also there is no guide to help you to not get body blocked contantly and die to inescapable detonate deads, it is just flawed game design

Is the game hard? Yes
Is the game fun? Yes, most of the times
Will I enjoy it going through the acts every league? NO!

My problem with the "difficulty" is that it forces me into certain builds. For Summoner which I chosed it was go SRS or have a really really realllllllllyyyyy bad time! Maybe it is just summoner witch having this problem but on her I did have problems getting something to work. Loot being waaaaay to stingy also makes it brutally hard to experiment and test things out. Like now I am Act "4" and still use the weapon I found in early act 2 because nothing better dropped and my spare crafting and gabling attempts failed.

Have you tried being aware to not get blocked? dodge rolling? there are also several skills that can leap you out of being blocked that don't require specific weapon types if all else fails.

To the other poster, sure you can play POE 1 it's not going anywhere? also guides will come you can follow to trivialise the game (I see your a RF player).

There is no drops that make the game progressive at all, this is forced Ruthless mode and its just annoying.

One person I know who is very casual, I had to help him kill the act 1 boss.

He got his first unique item in act 2, that boss spawn Massive amounts of dogs after he dies, this killed my friend and deleted his loot, he quit after that.

The dogs also killed and deleted all my friends and my loot, but we didnt get uniques so it wasnt as painful.

This kind of design is horrible.

Other than the regrettable ascension trials, the game is a massive step forward for the genre. The influence from games liked Elden Ring is exactly why it's so good. If you'd prefer to remain in the past you can just keep playing PoE1 forever like people did with Diablo 2.

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xwolf94#1488 wrote:

There is no drops that make the game progressive

Ok, I laughed. The game needs to be more progressive, yo!

But I get you, no worries, just joking.

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AmpegV4#2473 wrote:

Have you tried being aware to not get blocked? dodge rolling? there are also several skills that can leap you out of being blocked that don't require specific weapon types if all else fails.

To the other poster, sure you can play POE 1 it's not going anywhere? also guides will come you can follow to trivialise the game (I see your a RF player).

I am not an RF player you can check my profile and poe1 characters lmao. I have been playing this game for 10 years and i know the times when the game was not trivialized like today's poe. The game is flawed, you cannot dodge out of mobs if you are body blocked, and there is no escape skill. If you know any escape skill on witch please let me know

+1 the game is not fun and I wont go back to poe1 to live as a second rate gamer where none of my friends are anymore. if this game fails to get more fun real quick ill just stop playing arpgs. fucking souls games ruined poe1 and poe2 imo.

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xwolf94#1488 wrote:

There is no drops that make the game progressive at all, this is forced Ruthless mode and its just annoying.

One person I know who is very casual, I had to help him kill the act 1 boss.

He got his first unique item in act 2, that boss spawn Massive amounts of dogs after he dies, this killed my friend and deleted his loot, he quit after that.

The dogs also killed and deleted all my friends and my loot, but we didnt get uniques so it wasnt as painful.

This kind of design is horrible.

Maybe don't play hardcore if you want to be able to constantly respawn with your loot. This is not a game problem.