Stop moaning and crying that "ThE gAmE iS tOo DiffICulT" - it's meant to be

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tr0#7063 wrote:

get it into your head - POE2 is NOT a game for casuals. It's not for people who want to play it 2-3 hours on average a day. This is a game that requires commitment, knowledge and skill. And it's by design.

The passive tree is supposed to be overwhelming. Skills and supports are meant to be complicated and require knowledge, research and thinking. The game is meant to be about hundreds of hours of grind to get that chance to shine and show your SKILL and commitment and the will be push further. And yes, it is meant to be "one mistake = you're out of luck, try again". That's what's challenging about it and that's what people love.

If you want an "ez game" - plenty of casual friendly, mindless clicking one button and pay to win games out there. Feel free to go there. This is Path of Souls, baby, we grind here and we welcome every death as a chance to improve ourselves.

it has nothing to do with the difficulty, but rather the unnecessary settings that make poe 2 so ultra slow and make it "work" instead of fun. such as no portals on maps, loot that disappears and much more

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Timbo Zero#8289 wrote:

And also, you the hardcore player that you imply pays for Poe have only one badge for 60$ from 4 years ago to show.
This doesn’t back your argument much

This lmfao. Guys claim he is supporting the game but casual don't spend money. He spent 60 on the game while you a selfclaimed (40/40 last league nice for a casual) casual have more decoration than a north korean general.

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tr0#7063 wrote:

get it into your head - POE2 is NOT a game for casuals. It's not for people who want to play it 2-3 hours on average a day. This is a game that requires commitment, knowledge and skill. And it's by design.

This guy. Yeah, we got it. Most of us that actually played 1 for a ridiculous amount of hours intended on that. Love to know what you define as "casual", in the increasing world of employed individuals that have to pay for food, clothing, and internet.

It's not the lack of difficulty that's bothering us, if you read through the countless posts. It's the lack of QoL and completely different direction the dev team took with features we've ranked (actually ranked, go check your wayback on your googler) as absolute garbage way before 2 even came out. Yet here we arem and the devs seemed to implement these into 2 with complete disregard to our feedback when it was "new" (circa 2017 for some of these gimmicky mechanics).

Tack on the lack of feedback and reporting in-game, crashed economy due to rampant bots, etc.

Get a history lesson, or maybe listen to some vets that know.

It's not about difficulty. PoE has always been difficult, to a point. It's about net gains vs. losses in our free time. Respect the time, and the player base increases - you know, the aforementioned individuals that will pay micro transactions and keep the game alive. Disrespect it and it'll end up on the roster and forums.

Your ego though.

There's literal builds for every ascendancy that insta gibs every boss so I don't get where the crying is coming from. Same as in POE1

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xpose#1651 wrote:

There's literal builds for every ascendancy that insta gibs every boss

It's only hard for people that have zero clue how anything interacts.



GGG did a good job of adding the descriptions of things into the game to better educate people but its still not enough. Holding shift over most passive doesn't actually tell you any information even though you know it benefits your gems. IE lightning damage nodes will increase the beam damage caused by galvonic shards but this doesn't tell you anywhere you just have to learn it either through testing or 3rd party information.

Holy crap!!!! Egobloat by a noob 1.1. This is everything wrong with poe2 in a post. Unskilled, uneducated players that haven't done 5% of what strong players have done yet. Pointing the obvious to them. What you just said is as simple as walking to us.

AND YES it does tell you that lighning damage beams of galvanic shards are increased by lightning damage. You have to open the tooltip with G, and go to the BEAM section of the gem. We're more than 2 weeks in the dude still don't know that and is still building "blindly" and try to give advice. I hate free speech so fking much.

This is insane you just did what you accuse others to do. It's always them, the special gitgud snowflakes.

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tr0#7063 wrote:

get it into your head - POE2 is NOT a game for casuals. It's not for people who want to play it 2-3 hours on average a day. This is a game that requires commitment, knowledge and skill. And it's by design.

The passive tree is supposed to be overwhelming. Skills and supports are meant to be complicated and require knowledge, research and thinking. The game is meant to be about hundreds of hours of grind to get that chance to shine and show your SKILL and commitment and the will be push further. And yes, it is meant to be "one mistake = you're out of luck, try again". That's what's challenging about it and that's what people love.

If you want an "ez game" - plenty of casual friendly, mindless clicking one button and pay to win games out there. Feel free to go there. This is Path of Souls, baby, we grind here and we welcome every death as a chance to improve ourselves.

I wonder where did you get that insight. Are you one of the devs? If not, you're deluded. Any game should feel rewarding. Right now POE2 just doesn't feel that rewarding to a majority of players, and the devs are already making steps to fix it.

Yes It's a game made to ruin people's lives... been addicted since 2020, trying to get off of it. streamers are addicted too but they make money off of it so... and probably use some of that to pay other people for gear, resources or rmt, easy mode. Normal consumers usually don't do that and just naturally spend more and more time to grind out the game. You cannot only play a few hours a week. It's designed to be a lifestyle

Poe 1 was the prototype. Poe 2 is the better version of the Nolife simulator. the nature of Poe 2 is ruthless compared to the first title and there's lots of stalling mechanics (even little things like added portaling animations) that are designed to consume your time, so that you're slowly but surely losing other hobbies, your real life, your family and social environment because you don't want to fall behind everyone else. The game measures how addicted you are to figure out how much is needed to keep you playing and the best and fastest/cheat methods to progress (ergo magicfind, juicing etc.) are also the ones that require you to be fully invested.

It is a gambling addiction simulator for people that don't have much money to gamble otherwise. And it works. In Poe 1 at least there where more knobs to be able to escape the matrix and a lot of build diversity. This is not the goal of Poe2. They want you to pick the best class to then nerf it and buff some other classes, creating an artificial meta rotation. they will occasionally lwave broken builds untouched for a time to give people some quick dopamine hits becausr that's when they buy a skin. I have friends that have spend over 1000 USD on cosmetics in these games. It's a diabolical machinery designed to ruin people's lives. I hope I can get out of it.

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_ZLoBny_#7128 wrote:

Is 6 portals for a trial too much of an ask?

for the 10th time - yes, as it will ruin the economy and how elite drops from ubers will be. Just because you "crawled under your bed" (hope you don't mind I'll use your projection) doesn't mean everyone will

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epiphase#4568 wrote:

Guys claim he is supporting the game but casual don't spend money.

show me exactly where I claim that. I'll wait.

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Goodwillah#3327 wrote:

Right now POE2 just doesn't feel that rewarding to a majority of players, and the devs are already making steps to fix it.

I wonder where did you get that insight. Are you an elected representative of "majority of players" or one of the devs? If not, you're deluded.