Mob speed and swarming.

I've been playing Sorc, and it's been a lot of fun, but my main source of grief is mob speed and swarming. A lot of the small mobs move too fast to properly kite, and when there's a lot of mobs, they swarm me and lock me in so I can't dodge out of them, and I just insta die.

Speaking of which, when I was running through Freythorn, doing the alters for Finn, I died a couple times and spawned at a checkpoint by one of the alters, which happened to be full of mobs, who swarmed and murdered me unless I started dodging the second I spawned in. This seems like a bug to me, unless POE PvE spawn camping is a thing. I think it was only really happening during the quest (I haven't run into this anywhere else), but either way, checkpoints should be safe spots w/o mobs around.

I can already hear all the get gooders raging, but I don't really care. I'm sure this really isn't a thing with melee builds (haven't tried one yet), so it just seams like a squishy/ranged punishment. Boss mechanics are fun and challenging, weirdly aggressive AI is not.

just wait till u get to a certain desert area and a bunch of beetles nibble on u constantly, they quite literally spawn in a circle around u when u walk into certain rooms.