Make Sorceress playable again, Thank you.

Hi, I'll try to keep this short.

I play RPGs solely with damage dealing casters because that's what I enjoy. Last patch was the 1st time I played PoE 2 and I thoroughly enjoyed playing with Arc Sorceress, had finally gotten through the campaign and after spending 100+ Divs on gear was starting to feel pretty powerful on Lvl 73. Mapping was fun, I can say I loved the game. So tells my playtime, 387 hours since early Feb.

Then the 0.2 patch came. Sorceress and the gear/skills it was using previously were totally killed. Also many of my Precursor tablets and Jewels placed on the passive tree in sockets that were removed, were simply gone, deleted. I had really worked hard to get to the point where my character was, the skills, gear, passives, all for nothing it seemed. Still I was determined to give it all a go and spent literally hours re-speccing passives to make most out of the build. And I tried.. and it was horrible, only word I have to describe the experience. 1st the performance was so messed that even when I managed to stay alive in maps, I constantly got random disconnections and the maps I used resources for, and portals were gone, map was done. Then trying to play as lightning Sorceress, even I literally have some of the best gear available in the previous league for Arc lightning Sorc, I was just constantly out of mana even my regen rate is over 1200 mana/sec, could not really use Mana Tempest at all, every skill just felt pretty useless or instantly made me use all my resources. Trying to play was simply an absolute pain.

I get this is early access, and don't talk to me about patience, I've been part of exclusive testing group players under NDA in Star Citizen since 2017, I know what early access game development is (even at it's worst lol). But I don't understand the point of TOTALLY nerfing the Sorc to the ground, why? I'm not going to play this game as a Warrior, or Huntress, or Witch, or even cold Sorceress. Why? Because I don't like it, I don't want to. So until Lightning Sorceress is somewhat brought back to a playable state, and the disconnections & performance issues are fixed, I'm not going to play this game. And if the Sorceress remains totally unplayable, then this was it for me in PoE 2.
I'm not trying to be mean, just telling my honest experience, I respect and appreciate the efforts of the devs involved, and for all I can see GGG is really putting a great effort into making PoE 2 a top level game.
Now you got my 2 cents, and will do with 'em what ever you will.
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