POE2 IS WAY TO DIFFICULT

At the first time i play poe 2, seems hard, but after 4 hours of playing, i feel poe 2 easy to play than poe 1 at all.

I have tried both. That's kind of the point though like I'm still in Act 1 - Act 2 depending on the character and im finding it impossibly difficult to progress. Even on my lvl 32 warrior now after changing my build I can kill normal enemies better but rares and bosses are impossible to fight and the animations of the melee characters early game skills are to long to matter you take way to much damage during the animation. Take away the fact that half my characters are in Act 2 doesn't anyone find it disturbing that in order to enjoy the game you have to look up multiple guides for builds and progress to even enjoy it? Even when I've had help during campaign missions or bosses I've had to look up guides on how to complete quests aa well. I just want to play a class and enjoy the game as I level up and learn the abilities, builds, and mechanics and I feel like everything I've experienced as well as some friends of mine has experienced is that poe2 softcore feels like I'm playing poe1 hardcore. Bosses in Act 1 having one shot abilities or having to use multiple hp pots against normal monsters due to tye quantity of them doesn't feel good to me. Maybe it gets better as I level up but if I don't enjoy the game during levels 1 - 20 why would i stay for levels 21 - 100? It's definitely the hardest content I've ever faced in a dungeon crawlers looter and I've mainly only experienced the first 2 acts.

I have a question...how many of you that respond to my forum have leveled up a melee character? If you are playing ranged then this forum isn't about that. Melee is horrible and that has been my experience for the last 20 hours trying to play my warrior or monk im sorry if that's not other people's experience but it's mine. I can't progress even with appropriate leveled gear nor do I have the currency to change affixes. Also I since I'm stuck in acts 1 and 2 on my characters I don't have access to the AH.

Do you know what is really difficult? Reading your posts.

Then you can choose not to read them if you don't like what I have to say don't engage in conversation but no matter how you feel im just expressing how this game has made me and close friends and family feel about it that has caused us to either quit or process refunds. I appreciate anyone who responds though so enjoy your day.

The reason I told you to go play something else wasn't me being snarky, but realistic.

If you're truly struggling to progress _at all_ in the campaign, even after following a build guide, then there is no helping you.

I would have to physically take the controls and do it for you, which is obviously not feasible.

There are games I'm bad at too and by extension don't find them enjoyable, guess what? I simply don't play them, instead of expecting the developers to cater to my wishes and possibly ruin the experience for everybody else.

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Azellium#7135 wrote:

I have a question...how many of you that respond to my forum have leveled up a melee character? If you are playing ranged then this forum isn't about that. Melee is horrible and that has been my experience for the last 20 hours trying to play my warrior or monk im sorry if that's not other people's experience but it's mine. I can't progress even with appropriate leveled gear nor do I have the currency to change affixes. Also I since I'm stuck in acts 1 and 2 on my characters I don't have access to the AH.

Sorry, I didn't answer because I was (and still am) to lazy to read that textwall. Anyway, I did all endgame bosses except Arbiter with my Titan and I think that it is easier than poe1 once you get used to it.

That is true that Mace gameplay (warrior) is really slow specially early in the game, so it is kinda tricky but it gets a lot easy when you get used to it. Not even mentioning that the top1 on those recent race events was a warrior.

Monk is totally fine. I see no problems early and it is too powerful on endgame.

POE and POE2 are incredibly complicated games, not based on mechanics but based on the knowledge required to do it on your own. If you have no experience playing the game and try to just jump in and make your own character its going to feel like shit cause you dont know what you are doing.

you have 2 options how i see it.

1. Follow a build guide for one of the most popular builds and see how to play the game and try to learn something from it, like stats you need or how skills interact. Do this for a couple seasons then try and make your own build with your newfound knowledge.

2. stop playing POE. this game isnt built for someone to just pick it up and reach endgame and pinnacle bosses.

They arent going to balance the game around a guy that has 0 hours played and wants to do whatever they want and be able to complete the game.

All due respect but you didn't read any of my posts. For you to sit here and say that I'm just some random person who's never played a dungeon looter game and havnt played poe is absolutely wrong. On top of that my points still havmt been addressed. Every single person who responded including yourself basically said "if you don't like it then leave". I know about following build guides and comboing abilities for max dps etc im not some new player that played for 10 minutes didn't like it then ran to the forums. Like I've said many times before and will repeat myself one last time. Melee combat feels like trash. Ability animations are to long, the enemies do to much damage, you have almost zero survivability as you level up due to poor loot drops and among other things that I've listed in other posts unlike with poe 1 or even with the diablo games I have to do so many guide searches, boss guides and leveling bathing before I even get to level 5 because of how hard it is for melee. Listen if you leveled up a melee characters congrats but were you able to kill the campaign enemies with any of your characters abilities? I mean that as if I am just building raw damage and not specializing anything why cant I kill white named enemies even moderately well with any Ability? I mean you say look up build guides but in my opinion it's the campaign right so why isn't the campaign easier for players to get through so they can have fun and experiment with builds themselves. Everything is locked behind story progression and the game doesn't give you enough resources as a solo player to overcome said challenges. That has been my experience so far on poe2. To give you an example I was playing with a friend of mine because he newly hoped on the game and we got stuck on a boss in Act 1 so I told him I would switch to my lvl 28 monk to burst it down so qe could progress. Now I know what your thinking "oh he had downscale on"...actually I turned it off for this one encounter. I have uniques and was fully geared in lvl 28 items and even with downscaling turned off due to the increased health the boss got with 2 players there on top of his already existing damage I as a level 28 monk could barely and I mean barely beat a lvl 10 boss in the cemetery. I went through all my potions and still nearly died. The point im trying to make is that if I am having that much difficulties despite being almost 20 levels higher how can GGG and the community expect new players who have zero experience with these games to feel. I even spent real life money to buy currencies so I could start crafting my items a bit with new stats. I have no issues with the game being harder than poe 1 as a matter of fact I wanted a more challenging version of poe 1 but this to me isn't poe it feels like I'm playing dark souls or elden ring and the animations are not good enough for that style of game play. I know it's early but first impressions matter and my main issue with the game is that the characters that I want to play feel like shit so until I see improvements in those areas and I mean massive improvements I won't be back. There's no reason for a witch or a sorcerer to be able to burst enemies down as fast as they do yet with melee its a different story. Go watch some act 1 play through and you will see that melee characters hit just as hard as 1 witch minion and it's absolutely sad. Like I said I won't be back unless they massively overhaul the game so until then you all enjoy!

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Azellium#7135 wrote:

Your both missing the point. I'm not saying id rather play diablo 4 because I like the game i am saying that as a point of reference to articulate how miserable it is playing poe2. Look at it from my point of view as a new player if your trying to expand your audience and get new players then why make such a massive barrier to entry with how difficult it is to play? Like you both even said "if it's to hard then don't play it" like that's not an answer. Hey if your sports team doesn't win don't watch the sport go watch a different sport. That's a terrible argument. I love these styles of games but the whole reason why I left poe 1 and came to poe 2 is because it was going to be more challenging but making every boss this difficult where your playing dark souls instead of poe is ridiculous. I don't want to dodge dodge dodge dodge hit dodge doge hit doge dodge....shit i got 1 shot time to restart. I have no issues with being more strategic but better gear hardly drops for me to use and early on you don't have a lot of gold to just be buying stuff constantly from the npcs. Every boss feels horrible for melee combat. As a new player I don't want to have to look up boss fight guides and builds at level 5 or level 10 just to be able to have a chance against a boss that I know will still take me 3 - 5 minutes to fight and that's if I'm being perfect and not being hit by anything. Your absolutely right catering your entire game to one group of people isn't the right way to go about it but why not make the story easier so new players and players in general get to experience your game and just have the end game combat really challenging? Like at least at that point i can experience the story and get my character to a decent level where I actually feel powerful fighting bosses and enemies and make the barrier to entry of the game the late game content like if I get through the campaign and don't put a build together I shouldn't be able to do the harder content right but the story shouldn't be so difficult where I have to start theory crafting in Act 1 that's crazy. If your bosses camt be killed by all classes using any/all abilities that you would have up until that point it's yo hard I shouldn't be funneled into ranged combat all the time as a melee character only using ranged attacks to fight a boss. Btw you basically summed up my post by saying "game to hard them leave" if that's the communities response and GGG's response to concerns and feedback from a new player that legitimately cant do the content then that's just an awful president to set. I have the same issue at level 10 as I do at lvl 31 and the game just feels awful to play because of it. It's great you don't feel the same way im happy for you but this isn't a new topic it has been around since the game lost and if I am having issues progressing through the game as someone who has played poe1 and has played other dungeon crawler games then what do you think a brand new player to the genre feels like?.

I mean... look at the wall of text you've written? I read a couple lines, with my ADD in affect and my mind wonders off, because there is less than no format in your walls of text. Maybe split it up into paragraphs? Bulletin points? Something to break it up and easier to read.