Completed campaign in ~20 hrs as SSF: Awful Experience

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Kerchunk#7797 wrote:

GGG: The game is not balanced around SSF.

You: I think I'll play SSF.

GGG: If you play SSF, you are not playing the game as it was intended. You should only play SSF if you genuinely want to experience the game in an imbalanced, needlessly-punishing state.

You: That sounds good to me! I'm ready to experience SSF despite your very clear and concise explanation about the consequences of my own personal choice.

You: Well that was an awful experience! It was all imbalanced and felt needlessly-punishing. How dare you GGG? This is an outrage!

endgame is not balanced about SSF, because some unique/rare build defining items have 0.001% chance to drop and literally do not drop to everyone period

that said until campaign is over / in later stages you do not even have access to trade, campaign is naturally an SSF zone

In campaign you should be able to find and craft gear yourself, unfortunately the only gear upgrades I got were bought from alvas, and bosses kept dropping useless items for other classes than mine, all the time.

You know what funny is by the time you finish the campaign, those no life player already get to T15 map and have enough currency to buy all those build defining uniques/items and sell for even more currency or vaal it. How causal player suppose to play this game when the unique need divine orb to buy at the first day and we don't even have currency to 4 link our gem not even talking about 5 link.

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HwtChirino#2462 wrote:

I decided not to look up any builds and managed to get to maps in 20 hrs with Lightning Spear and Lightning Lance or w/e the fk they're called.

GGG, you really destroyed the SSF experience in PoE2.

FIX THE LOOT, YOU FOOLS!

Pic of my progress in maps.
https://imgur.com/a/VVPSNpw

20h ? lvl 68 Jesus!
Did you dogged all enemies except bosses? How? When? Cheating? Trade with third part web pages?

Besides....calling bad words GGG is like walking the line.....how is possible you wasn't banned with this post???!!!!

I post much less severe posts/topic and I am immediately banned/removed post...

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YimWee#3861 wrote:

I recall Sirgog making a video a day or 2 ago talking about how ~90% of leaderboard ssf players transfered over to trade within the first day of 0.2.0 launch. That should tell ggg more than enough that loot NEEDS work.

Possibly because top leaderboard players feel the need to have it all NOW NOW NOW and will chase whatever the popular streamer told them to, going to trade to get what they "need" for "their build".

Meanwhile I'm over here in SSF doing my own thing, absolutely not going to trade because I don't feel like playing shopping simulator. HOWEVER, I am playing vendor shopping simulator because no good gear will drop and not enough crafting mats will drop, blah blah I've said it over and over.

I'm not looking to play a game where I follow someone else's plan, shopping to get what I need before the game somehow becomes fun. What I am looking for is some gear to actually come from mobs that could be an upgrade, or crafting that's actually not just fully an RNG clusterfk.

Yeah so, in before GGG just nerfs vendors and leaves drop how they are. Loot in this game is the worst, in a genre that's supposed to be all about killing stuff and finding cool items from that stuff so it feels like you're making progression.

I hate trade so much and how necessary it is. Aside from opening up tons of vulnerabilities for hacking it completely ruins any progression and crafting in an arpg because any useful currency, in PoE2 crafting currency, is always better of spent on trades for chinese botfarms rather than engaging with crafting since you likely end up with nothing.
I wish trading was deleted for good or some form of gold auction house.