Dear ZIZARAN...

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

Hooooooo boy I guess you haven't visited maps and experienced the joy of fighting ethereal knights and those fire mages who laser you from two screens away. River hag is child's play compared to that. They do feel stronger than map bosses.

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SpaceFoxyFū#3839 wrote:

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Cpt_Katawa#5469 wrote:

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SpaceFoxyFū#3839 wrote:

In my opinion river hag is one of the most annoying mobs in the game. But since she's only really in the campaign in act 3, I don't mind that much.

Whenever I see her ability pop up on my screen I instantly look around to find and remove her from existence. She's a bit of a problem fr fr

River Hag is a unique mob that makes the players adapt and react, as soon as you see her you know you need to change your plans - THAT'S AMAZING. A unique mob that changes how the game plays. If not for the river had you could just hold one button until you win and this style of gameplay is a problem POE2 is supposed to solve.

I like everything about the river hag except for her blue orb that kills you way too fast. It reminds me of the purple chaos homing orbs that spawn non-stop constantly disrupting your actions. It is a nightmare for melee players

I think they can change the effect of her blue orb different rather than pretty much insta killing you (frustrating), and instead have it be thrilling to deal with. I'm sure there are many possibilities

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

Hooooooo boy I guess you haven't visited maps and experienced the joy of fighting ethereal knights and those fire mages who laser you from two screens away. River hag is child's play compared to that. They do feel stronger than map bosses.

They are builds that don't use projectiles and builds than can facetank the laser beam without any danger (life recoup makes the laser a joke)

But there is no way to build defense from a drowning orb

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Niszczyciel#1619 wrote:

I get it you're hardcore players, but that's the whole point of hc to feel the death around every corner. Why would the game be balanced around HC players, if most play SC?

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

Hooooooo boy I guess you haven't visited maps and experienced the joy of fighting ethereal knights and those fire mages who laser you from two screens away. River hag is child's play compared to that. They do feel stronger than map bosses.

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Cpt_Katawa#5469 wrote:

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Niszczyciel#1619 wrote:

I get it you're hardcore players, but that's the whole point of hc to feel the death around every corner. Why would the game be balanced around HC players, if most play SC?

Also true.
It's called hardcore, not easycore. The people who chose hardcore have no right to complain about the difficulty, you chose to play HARDcore mode. If Hardcore is too hard, that doesn't mean the entire game needs to be nerfed.

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Cpt_Katawa#5469 wrote:

The mechanic is the same as the Eater Orbs, you stand in place = you die and it was designed to counter the builds that could simply facetank the regular damage.

Currently the strenght builds are far too slow, literally every node comes with a slow penalty that really is a problem with the warrior design rather than River hag.
The quarterstaff melee combat feels great until it spirals out of control, playing Monk during the acts before you start casually shattering the entire screens was a perfect gameplay experience and I think they should aim to make their game feel like what Monk feels during Act 2 when you're fast and strong but still actually melee rather than a weapon spellcaster.

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SpaceFoxyFū#3839 wrote:

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Cpt_Katawa#5469 wrote:

The mechanic is the same as the Eater Orbs, you stand in place = you die and it was designed to counter the builds that could simply facetank the regular damage.

Currently the strenght builds are far too slow, literally every node comes with a slow penalty that really is a problem with the warrior design rather than River hag.
The quarterstaff melee combat feels great until it spirals out of control, playing Monk during the acts before you start casually shattering the entire screens was a perfect gameplay experience and I think they should aim to make their game feel like what Monk feels during Act 2 when you're fast and strong but still actually melee rather than a weapon spellcaster.

Honestly I agree with you that they should buff the player in this case. Attack speed of warrior is definitely unacceptable.

I'm not so sure I agree with your last part though. I think people should be able to screen clear fast when they've reached the height of endgame. Maybe monster buffs with waystones can mitigate that power level, but I think 0.1.0 wasn't too far off from accomplishing a good balance there. 0.2.0 feels like torture compared to that