Feedback by a casual gamer
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So i played PoE 2 for a while now and here is my feedback
Good: - I love the challenge. Bosses give me the excitement when I kill one. That's nice! - Pace is ok. I was afraid it was to slow (coming from diablo franchise), but it is ok-ish. Sometimes maps are a little big, but I don't have to rush through. So this is fine for me. - Passives do matter, so it's nice to go after passives and see them in action - Graphics are really cool, and all the small details are fantastic! Need improvements: - Loot. There is just not enough to do with loot. I now see myself running around with old gear, and rarely upgrading stuff. There are two things you can do to fix this. Drop better and more loot (based on your level), maybe even specific for a characters (like diablo), or even make it some sort of spec or lucky charms to obtain, so that you can have better loot that fits where you are with your character. Second thing you can do is make the orbs drop Way more often, so you can craft way more and better loot to try to get upgrades. It is also very hard to respec with different loot types (from normal gear to hybrid gear for example) because of the way loot drops or crafting works now. It is fun, if you can upgrade your loot more often. - Ascendency's. Man I hate (not fun) to do these trials. I hate traps, I hate timed events, I hate dying of strange mechanics, and have to start over after spending 20 minutes of gameplay. Please make this more fun, and more rewarding to do. Stop with letting me spend a lot of time in something, and then at the end if you fail, you have to start over from the beginning. Let us kill stuff, and focus on time invested instead of some sort of weird mechanic or timed events. - Requirements of gear and skills. Ok, you can have requirements, but you make these requirements to hard. I see myself picking crap gear because i need more dex or int, and together with my first point of improvement, it is not fun to equip crap gear just to reach some sort of hard requirement for a skill. My two cents Last bumped on Jan 8, 2025, 4:25:15 AM
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Don't use gear that you don't want to use just for attributes. Respec your passive tree's attribute nodes. They didn't create the attribute highways for nothing.
I agree on most of the rest. Especially loot drops for your class could get a good buff vs "useless" gear. |
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" I play only HC and there keeping up with gear upgrades is kind of mandatory; which in a trade league means trading for better gear. But I totally see where you are coming from. Having good replacement gear drop or being able to craft it is not common. When my chars have gotten to level 50 or so - well, only two have so far for me - I might have like 1 or 2 pieces of gear I crafted/vendor bought/looted, everything else is traded for. One small tip; check NPC vendors after level ups (when they reset), you can often find great bases for crafting and sometimes they sell rares that are excellent on their own. Still. It's not ideal. One thing I've often pondered about for ARPGs, looter-shooters and MMOs is that it would be kind of cool if you could somehow souldbound 1 or 2 items to your character and they would keep upgrading as you level up. It would be cool to have an item at level 60 that you got when you were level 20 and that item has lived its life with you and slowly gained some stats. I'm not sure how that would be implemented in PoE, but it's something I'd really like to see some game experiment a bit with (and I am sure some game I haven't played already has!) I think it would be nice to also have very small tilt in drop odds towards your build. Not a big one, since it is also cool to find gear that fits your alt, or to find gear that inspires you to make a new char just for that piece; and there's trade. But like.. if you play with melee skills, would be nice if the loot system had say, 20% increased chance of dropping melee weapons over staffs, or if it notices you have a lot of armor, 20% higher chance to drop armor gear than EV gear. Last edited by tzaeru#0912 on Jan 7, 2025, 10:28:49 AM
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" True :-) Even if I respec the "highway" nodes, I sometimes find myself replacing good gear for bad gear espcailly if there is a requirement like 45 dex and 61 int. It's just not enough (the highwaynodes). if you switch them around, i find myself trying to get one requirement but i loose the other. The requirments are ok, they just need to bring it down a bit, so the type of gear is important not the requirements themself. So if you have a melee warrior with mainstat strength it is hard to equip gear with intellect/dex requirments. But if you want to go for evasion and ES, you always should easily meet the requirments of intel and dex. you can lower the requirments, or give evasion/ES gear implicit int and dex on it or something like that. |
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" Offcourse. Good point. I think If i had a gear upgrade it whould probaly come from the vendors. Thats one of the best sources where the upgrades are coming from. It's not ideal indeed. I wish i saved up all my orbs to try to craft good loot during leveling. I spend all of them without the feeling of a realy nice upgrade. And after spending all my regal, exalted and alchemy orbs, I end up with a vendor replacement... Last edited by poevigaxe42#8044 on Jan 8, 2025, 3:44:22 AM
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" Well yeah, those gears are geared towards other classes. If you want to cross over you can, but it's costly. With a specific build in mind that can be useful, but you have to have a plan. Otherwise looks up the bases for your class, there's a list somewhere and youtubers covered this (search for "what items to loot in POE2") so you can identify them just by name. For me I run a ice sorceress so I'm on the lookout for Gelid Staffs, Tiaras, etc because I know those have Int base. While leveling it's okay to have to switch to other gear in a pinch but in the endgame you can't afford to have mods that don't apply to your build. But I threw away or ignored a lot of gear because I didn't know what I should be looking for. |
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