Endgame is just bad

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Gorethak#3771 wrote:

I mostly enjoyed playing act 1-3 the first time. Upon reaching the atlas, some huge problems become apparent. Currency and crafting is dumbed down to utter pointlessness. You claim you don't want alt and chaos spam because it's "boring" - guess what is even more boring? Identify spam on random trash loot, and then slamming exalts while just crossing your fingers and hoping the result isn't utter trash (which it will be). Items are mostly boring and have lost all their zing. It's a slog, unrewarding, and ascendency difficulty and respec costs are absolutely punitive. There are essentially zero interesting nodes on the passive tree, all are extremely generic. I have spent nearly $1500 on Path of Exile 1 over the years. I don't see that continuing with 2, given how simultaneously oversimplified and pointlessly punishing everything feels.