I'm sure I'm just bad, but...

This is my first time playing POE anything. I have to say that at level 83 mage, the number of times I have been killed for no known reason is crazy. After the patch I thought it would get better. It's worse. Now I am being killed by non-boss mob creatures that do crazy damage compared to everything else of the kind on the map.

I have opened strongbox's only to be insta frozen and killed in a second. After the patch, I seem to get stunned in place with no real effect that I see, other than I cant move and I am dead in a second.

Is this a feature or a bug?

I know it really sucks, and as a new player, I cannot see people sticking around if you just drop dead for no known reason.

Signed,
NEWB

Just use a Scroll of Identification on the Strongbox, so you at least know whats waiting for you.

This is the kind of game where you get to a point in maps where you die all the time and you have a choice, either quit or go onto the internet to work out how to stay alive and then go on trade to buy the gear you need

Sucks for some but to a large degree is what gave the first game the longevity it has

Game has serious texture loading issues. Same issue as PoE 1. It isn't going anywhere. They chose to use the same buggy engine. It's not your fault. This game is an anger generator. PoE 1 is way more chill. Give it a try.

Show us your build. We will be able to tell if its you or the game.

For me it got much worse after the patch. Sudden deaths from maxed out and Buffed ES plus all resists capped to 0 - no clue what hit me. Happened on 2 or 3 maps in a row. Just before the patch I was barely ever dying at t15s and had at least some time to react on risky situations.

I think there is something wrong if players completely new to the game are being gated to T15 too early

I've raised this a few times in the map sustain threads but got lost in a sea of people who think racing to T15 is the only purpose of tiers 1-14

This game just has ass scaling, progression and balance. Simple as.

Is lvl 83 too early for t15 map though?

I get through 10-12 mostly fine, but one shot a lot. 12's are proving to be a challenge, as I have not followed the build guides to a "T". It just seems that I can do some 11's just fine, but an 8 will get me one shot sometimes.

So strange that it seems there is a monster or 3 in lower tiers that are like 10 times stronger than anything on that level.

I wish I was doing 15's, and I bet I could do some. But I am sure I would still suffer the same issues of running across the odd monster that just lays me out before I know what hit me.

Last 12 I did I finished. I went on to kill the rest of the mobs on the map and got jumped by a single regular dude that killed me in three rapid shots, like he was turbocharged just to kill me.