Things in Diablo 4 that are objectively better than POE 2

First, this is a genuine feedback, not a thread about hate, i genuinely think POE2 is far better than D4, but not in everything.

1- Map Clarity
My warrior constantly gets stuck in some space on the map that is not passable or elevated terrain etc, during the Rolling slam animation.
(This occurs more frequently in the flower map)
This does not occur in Diablo 4.

2- Character Customization, transmogs
Never understand mindset behind gender lock and no transmogs.

3- Class identity
My barbarian is not forced to use a shield to be viable/playable
Giant's blood forces warriors and marauders to use shield in endgame or you will die 5 times faster.
This doens't happen in D4.

4- Mounts
The fact that you need mount in POE2 a lot more than D4 is crazy lmao, i walk a lot more in POE 2 than D4.
POE2 maps are huge and you don't need to walk in D4 content, its all about helltide/hordes.

5- Uniques
I still don't understand philosophy behind uniques scaling, why they are made for "leveling"?


All these points are not opinions, they are objective facts, I would like GGG to correct these small flaws so the game is closer to perfect.

You forgot not crashing every 15 seconds.

Before anyone comes along and says that one game is in Early Access and the other has been out for years.
PoE2 has been in development for over 5 years, and the devs have over 10 years of experience with PoE1.

So no, EA does not justify the deplorable state that PoE2 is in right now. And of course, it does not justify the fact that the entire endgame of the game is anti-melee, and even more so anti-Warrior.

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Aesmeus#2828 wrote:

You forgot not crashing every 15 seconds.

None of these games never crashes for me.... rarely i got disconnect in POE2 but everything is fine cause i return in exactly same place before the DC happened.

I've also only crashed once. Likely hardware issues on your end.

I don't think you can call this list objectively better. If you ever played hc you would appreciate leveling uniques. The late game uniques come from bosses. They are target farmable for the most part. After the citadel changes there isn't really any good excuse for not being able to find arbitor. Maybe that he may be too difficult for slow/bad builds.

As frustrated and tired of playing I am right now. I still don't agree with this.
D4 has no challenge in it.

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Lonnie455Rich#2087 wrote:

I've also only crashed once. Likely hardware issues on your end.

I don't think you can call this list objectively better. If you ever played hc you would appreciate leveling uniques. The late game uniques come from bosses. They are target farmable for the most part. After the citadel changes there isn't really any good excuse for not being able to find arbitor. Maybe that he may be too difficult for slow/bad builds.

As frustrated and tired of playing I am right now. I still don't agree with this.
D4 has no challenge in it.

Yes, D4 has no challenge thats why i didn't mentioned this.

By uniques being objectively better i mean, 95% of the uniques that i drop i just sell to vendor or didn't pick at all...

9 of 10 times they are trash. Thats why uniques in POE2 are worse.

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avantasian#4928 wrote:

5- Uniques
I still don't understand philosophy behind uniques scaling, why they are made for "leveling"?

I think this one is an early access issue with how items are implemented due to some of the base items not being in the game yet. Because yeah, as it stands now when a unique drops I mostly sigh because so many of them are "well this would be really cool if it didn't have the stats of a level 10 item".

But I expect this will get resolved as the rest of the items are implemented.

Otherwise, I agree. Diablo 4 also does multiplayer far better. It actively wants you to play with your friends and encourages that (and even requires it in one case, though that's pretty controversial), rather than going "one of you died in a map so you get to sit in the timeout corner while the other one clears it solo".

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avantasian#4928 wrote:

First, this is a genuine feedback, not a thread about hate, i genuinely think POE2 is far better than D4, but not in everything.



2- Character Customization, transmogs
Never understand mindset behind gender lock and no transmogs.

1 character model less work.

Tramsmog is in the game, it's just cosmetics you buy, ei their only source of income.

There you are now enlightened.

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Karr285#4892 wrote:

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avantasian#4928 wrote:

First, this is a genuine feedback, not a thread about hate, i genuinely think POE2 is far better than D4, but not in everything.



2- Character Customization, transmogs
Never understand mindset behind gender lock and no transmogs.

1 character model less work.

Tramsmog is in the game, it's just cosmetics you buy, ei their only source of income.

There you are now enlightened.

You mean i can't transmog basic appearances because they want to make money with shop cosmetics?
They intentionally restrict my appearance so i would buy a good one on the shop?


It's not a good way to deal with customers, D4 has basic transmogs and even so I bought about 6 or 7 barbarian sets in the shop.

He is talking about gender lock.