PoE 2 is... not fun.

The game just fails to be either a good PoE 1 copy or a slow,difficult dark souls arpg. It's trying to be both(during campaign and during endgame) and failing miserably at it.

We just need the devs to actually put out a post saying their intention with the direction of the game, if they will continue to try and make the gameplay not like PoE 1 at all or what they wanna do with this mess. That way many people can just decide for themselves if they wanna keep playing or quit early and save some time. They also need to address all the death penalties and if there are plans to change them, a simple "yes/no". If the devs aren't clear about what they want this game to be, then people will just keep getting baited into it and quitting later when they find its not fun.

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yiorgos07#4313 wrote:

The one death issue makes the players too cautious and slow which is contrary to arpg nature. Furthermore it creates anxiety when it is combined with stupid explosions and unfair death situations, they created the game so many years and they failed to take into account the fun factor!

It's demoralizing when you die in maps and lose everything.
For me each death made me distance myself from the game little by little.
After 300 hours I found myself logging in less each day and I finally uninstalled.

When I think about the endgame systems being so bad.
And sometimes you don't even know what the hell killed you in one hit.
Those on death effects need a serious rework.
Leading people from frustration to hate towards the systems and game design.
It's not fun, and I hope for many positive changes. Be it with the one death per map to the way the maps drop where you get low level waystones in high tier maps...

Its holidays..

And..

..... early.. access.......

xhhhhhoooooooooooo

it's fun for me and 100x better than poe 1 already despite lacking more than half of the content

if you don't like it go back to poe 1

The Campaign Act 1 to 3 are pretty fun, challenging and engaging.

Cruel Mode Act 1 to 3 redux are just a place holder for Act 4 to 6... until then, is a slog just because has to patch a huge role.

The Endgame Atlas is boring, dauting and uninteresting AF. It was told by GGG it was rushed because "players want it in on EA"... well

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Ypkah#9026 wrote:

Its holidays..

And..

..... early.. access.......

xhhhhhoooooooooooo

And.. this is feedback to the devs for the early access.
When they come back they'll look at what the players are saying and make changes accordingly.
I mean you're in the feedback section of the forums.

Love me some endgame forums.

Every interaction in the game seem frustrating on normal or ssf more noticeable on SSF. Melee is crazy hard to start fresh even on monk. Pretty pissed that poe one has not had any love 2 leagues last year is not ok to give us this in return.

I've just started playing in endgame, and I know what you're talking about. I'm mainly playing a warrior, and using life/armor feels pretty bad so far. Also, I'm playing SSF and the progression feels too slow. New gear upgrades are difficult to come by, and usually small improvements.

My guess and hope is that a lot of the issues in endgame, will improve with tuning on GGG's part. Endgame has got to be the toughest thing to balance and tune, as they can't easily test fully developed characters. This forum is filled with people complaining about the feel of endgame, and I'm sure GGG is hearing this. In particular, I believe they need to adjust any enemy skill with high damage, to be very apparent.

But I think we need to contrast this with the campaign, which I do find fun(at least acts 1-3). I think the increased difficulty(compared to PoE1) and the fact that it's better balanced atm, makes it very enjoyable. Perhaps a better title for this post would be "PoE 2 endgame is...NOT FUN."

Tired of farming on and on for nothing. Cannot find Citadels, no one knows how to find them to be honest. Currency situation with rarity made upgrades harder as very few drops actually served me or.

The white items where we could craft are simply ridiculous as there is no target crafting. Just slam an exalt and lets see what you get. Essences...that is a joke.

Now I have one portal to farm a waystone that does not drop regularly and I still loose xp. If I die, after chasing a boss through a huuuuuge map and kill it he kills me on a cast on death effect? So exciting...

Anyway feels like I am playing for nothing, that dopamine rush of a divine orb drop never comes and we are searching for something that is completely random to spawn.

POE2 = R&G

I just have a disconnection in the middle of a breach. Logged in and turns out I died. After this, I'm out. Hope you fix. There is a hell of a game here with great mechanics from the previous one, yet, feels like there is nothing to do, like I am a dog chasing a car.