Feedback for POE2 from a noob player. It's to hard for me..
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I personally only find the game difficult when playing as the warrior and found the game overly easy as ranger/mercenary. The merc in particular can just run around spamming grenades and will eventually kill everything with almost no risk.
The warrior on the other hand is a real challenge, and the ascendancy trial is absolutely unfun and unfair. |
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" It's not fun when you hit damage, when you have been already moved over the attack hitbox, and also when you have been surrounded by wolves, which kill you at once with backhand strike. |
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" You do realize that you have ten years of experience he doesn't have? I also invite you to post a video of you killing act 1 boss naked. Go ahead. GGG dropped the ball on this -the acts should be a curve into the games difficulty, not stonewall it by making the first act boss the hardest, largely depended on drops before you get to him. I think we should all understand that as a new player it's damn near impossible. |
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" :D Excuse me, but my 10 years of gameplay in PoE has nothing to do with that whole as it is. First of all I play quite lame and casual. So trying to put that as an argument from your side, well, not the best idea of yours. It has nothing to do with me or anyone's TIME of gameplay. It's is about individual's willingness and ability to think, focus and be patient, keeping awareness, etc. I could say it way more straightforward, but that's against western polite behaviour. That's the problem with nowadays ppl, they all want everything but idealy with least effort. And then sh!t happens as the result, just look at D2 vs D3/D4, or basicaly any non-primitive game for adolescents vs games that require focus and brain usage, logic... If someone is looking for a simple game that's ABSOLUTELY FINE and they are welcome. And there is no problem with that at all. I don't dislike those players, I do play such games time from time as well. But then, PoE is not the right game for them if they struggle with learning curve it requires. btw. why should I post a video of me killing naked act 1 boss? Don't take my words out of context, the point I mentioned that particular video was not to brag, but to point out that it is not about ultra damage and ultra gear and what's not. it was about primitive basic awareness of what the boss is doing and adequately to that taking actions. but you just need to argue and beat your ego, right? Aside all that, I have far better things to do as to prove some bs to anyone. The same crap was in WoW back in the days when I played it, and we progressed raids, and wiped over and over again. but it was not because of shit gear or lack of skill, or experience, but indeed because some ppl were unable to pay attention to basic things as to move when it was needed to move, or do specific action when it was needed to do. That's it. btw. just FYI I tried to look up the video, but could not find it, cant remember the title, nor if it was part of a boss tutorial, or someone's showcase of what is possible to achieve when one does things correctly. I surely have it liked back then, so it is in my YT history somewhere, but it's not my interest do do the dig for it, I don't need it in the end and anyone who struggles or wants to see it, can put their time and effort to look it up themselves. Playing for joy ♥ If interested, check out my Hideout(s): /view-thread/2226019 Last edited by Moribundus#6790 on Dec 12, 2024, 5:20:18 PM
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The game difficulty sit somewhere between a PoE 1 and a Souls-like. It's not for everyone and that's okay. Sucks that you had to pay to learn that. Until full release, they may iron out kinks that make it artificially difficult. But ultimately, this will be a game about die-adapt-overcome.
Ascend with precision.
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If you're struggling with the bosses chunking you, you probably want to invest more into health and shields for the incidental hits. As far as patterns, I found the Act 1 boss very standard action game fare...attacks with half second telegraphs, audio that calls out what move it is (especially the monologuing during the ice cloud phase!), and markers for the direction / area of the attack animation.
I'm also a full-time working adult. Do you think maybe this is more a function of your own impatience and not that the game "requires pro play?" |
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I feel like for the people that say this game is hard, which it is. i don't think they want to leave the work that the have IRL and get on a game that becomes work again.
for my personal experience i played a lot of d2 back in the days and now PD2 became my thing for the past 5-6 seasons, decided on giving this game a try barely playing the first poe and having zero knowledge of POE as a whole, legit has left me lost in this game, the passive is nice with basic things you kind of get the idea of where you need to go and what not but with all the nerfs that the game has been getting it gets tricky to want to get here and play specially knowing it will cost you 30k+ to respec into something else. like my build can be good at 10pm but by 8am is no longer a thing anymore, i feel like this game lacks a bit of a learning curve/reward system that is well explained to new players, like there's no metas yet or anything but why should i pick this over that? all these orbs where do they drop?, what do they do? basic stuff like that(sometimes you need to resort to streamers and youtube guides), there are people that don't even know that they have a trade site. another thing would be making it a bit clearer the side missions on the map that have some type of benefit so people can see these things and have some idea on why its a must do thing vs a skip. the only thing i would say about the mechanic to the bosses is that they sometimes have too quick of a window on certain attacks and since the game is not done it does get tricky to learn and eventually dodge. but with that said it is almost like a uber boss fight on any other game. i think it should be a bit easier at least on the first pass of the 3 acts and how it is after. imagine reading a bunch of these posts where people are getting burned out on the very first week of the game and expecting this huge fanbase that POE has achieved to last without having most people finish at least the first bit of the game..... |
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I beat Act1 and checked out. The pretty graphics lost their novelty quick and what I am left with is a tedious slog that doesnt respect my time. This isnt even a top 10 arpg as it stands and goes out of its way to punish players with unfun design. Who on earth thought despawning loot and spawning mobs upon death was fun? Who still thinks tedious respecs are fun? Like WTF is going on @ GGG HQ.
May 15th 2012 - The day the king of ARPGs died. January 23rd 2013 - A new king takes the throne.
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" I mean that's a complete normal that things are hard if you're noob to a certain activity. Or do you think that other people are Pros from the first second in all activities? ^^ We humans have the cool ability called "learning"...And as more we learn as better we get and as easier the activity becomes. For my grandma f.e. it's very hard to use a smartphone but she's willing to learn and it becomes easier for her from day to day. Come back in around 2-300 hours, if the game is still to hard for you till than I'll give you an 1 hour crashcourse for free. :) Last edited by CroDanZ#1818 on Dec 12, 2024, 7:45:37 PM
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This is going to be hard for you to accept but the reality is not every game needs to be for you. There are plenty of games out there for you. Good luck in your journey.
Step 1 is to self reflect.
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