Leveling Alts is PAINFULL!!! heres a solution...

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Azimuthus#1135 wrote:

Campaign is the only interesting part of the game so far. Donno why all of you want to skip it.

It is only interesting the first time.

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Rafkin4#7914 wrote:

The campaign is the only thing worth doing so why would you want to speed to end-game?

Endgame is the only thing worth doing, so why would you want to replay the campaign to get to it?

If anything, they need to provide us with options. I know many people dislike modern Blizzard, but they did it right IMO with D3 and D4 where you can skip the campaign (if you completed it first?) and jump right through leveling through seasonal mechanics and map roaming (for D4 at least). They're not forcing us to repeat the same campaign over and over again for every character every season. You can do it, if you like it, but you're not forced to do so.

However, this is possible in D3 and D4 due to monster scaling to our player level. This is obviously not the way PoE or PoE2 are, so if we could skip the campaign in PoE2, GGG would have to come up with some mechanics to help us level up without repeating the campaign/story. It could be something as simple as unlocking every waypoint and giving us every "boss and quest permanent bonuses" while we level up. This way, we would kind of have to go through the campaign map, but wouldn't be forced to kill bosses or backtrack to get every notable quest item. It would also skip every dialogue and story event. We could simply roam and change maps when we hit the required level, but that could open the way to powerleveling or something like that, so it would have to be done in a way to prevent that.

However, I don't think that providing us with an item/rune that can help us bring a character to lvl 65 in 4-5 hours is a good idea.

Sounds like you don't like to play the game.

End game, campaign. You just kill mobs.

Having to do the campaign first on normal and then again on cruel is okay the first time around but doing it again, whether its a new league or an alt feels awful, boring and a slog.

Skip the second part of the campaign or skip to the second part immediately so you only have to complete it once and then go straight to mapping or have level 1 mapping as an option.

Scaling weapons or tokens to allow you to use weapons or other items at level 1 kind of defeats the one purpose of a lot of the low level uniques currently.

I can see myself doing the campaign once in leagues for a character or two but doing it twice per character is definitely going to limit me to one character per league.

Endgame is why I play. I actively didn't even enjoy the campaign the first time around, I'm going to enjoy it even less each repeat. I haven't made another character yet because I really dislike the campaign. Especially in the current state since campaign and engame are two completely separate identified and endgame feels like PoE1 which is what I want.

That said. OP is asking for something that essentially already exists. Just buy sets of leveling gear and blast through the campaign. I don't see how that's really functionally different than what OP imagined.