An Open Letter to GGG RE: One Portal

Agreed with OP, please restore the 6 portal for all those reasons mentioned.

Agreed, so deeply agreed. I like death having consequences. But when I get one-shot by offscreen mobs dealing quad damage from offscreen shrine buffs, let me try again. Hell give me only 3 portals.

But please please please don't make me lose XP + Loot + Waystone + Currency + Map Events + Time spent running a now-blank map. Again, I like challenge, I like consequences, and I wouldn't mind losing XP and the Waystone and the Currency, but ALL of this is too much, in a game with so many one shot deaths. There's always hardcore for higher risk.

If I didn't love the rest of the game so much I probably would have stopped playing by now, over this one thing.

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Sirbeaverous#2893 wrote:

Agreed, so deeply agreed. I like death having consequences. But when I get one-shot by offscreen mobs dealing quad damage from offscreen shrine buffs, let me try again. Hell give me only 3 portals.

But please please please don't make me lose XP + Loot + Waystone + Currency + Map Events + Time spent running a now-blank map. Again, I like challenge, I like consequences, and I wouldn't mind losing XP and the Waystone and the Currency, but ALL of this is too much, in a game with so many one shot deaths. There's always hardcore for higher risk.

If I didn't love the rest of the game so much I probably would have stopped playing by now, over this one thing.

Amen brother.

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Ankh_13#4218 wrote:

It's a skill issue or a gear issue. Git gud or git better gear.

The mechanic is fine but needs balancing and DarthMicro talked about it.

They're already improving things like resistance penalties and chaos damage making maps too rippy. Eventually, they'll hit the balance where map sustain will not be a problem if you play the game properly.

So here's the rub, GGG had over a decade to fix these things from PoE1 and it never happened. You, and your favorite streamer, or whomever is waiting for this magical fairyland of balance that has never existed before is delusional.

+1

I returned to the campaign after getting frustrated by the one-portal-politics. You can't say, "the game isn't for you then", when alot of people just start leveling again than playing endgame. It just shows, how much ppl like PoE2 and how much work the endgame still needs (or just more portals).

I hope, the numbers will speak for themselves: not the player-count, but the number of characters that were left behind for a new level-experience.
GGG has the data, and if there are really more ppl like me (who stop at endgame and just start all over again) with abandoned characters between lvl65-75, I think they gonna change it.

So, I don't like the argument, the game wouldn't be for the ones who disagree with the one-portal-decision. The opposite is the case imo.

make it 1 in map and 3 for bossfight...arena...

Totally agree. 1 portal is horrible. Now all I do is to avoid the fun content / Leauge mechanics. Its getting boring just doing safe things and not try new stuff for fear of death and the following depression and logout. Maybe 3 portals would be fair?

As a new player, if they change it into 6 portals I'm not staying.

The one portal thing goes further than being just a bad design... PoE 2 isn't built for casual players. Only people that can thrive and access high end gear and builds are those who literally just eat/sleep/play. Someone who has a real life job and actually needs to be a functional adult can't risk losing a 1 divine breachstone trying the end game bosses, because it takes a long time to farm it. Meanwhile, those defending one portal bosses are either abusing magic find or playing something that can one tap all game content.


tl;dr: PoE 2 = PoE 1 with better graphics and worse economy

agreed.