So I gave PoE 2 a shot and rate it pure garbage

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BadAssTom#2893 wrote:

TLDR: Game is extremely boring and tedious garbage. During playing 3 acts i had approx. 0.1% of time something what i could call entertating and enjoyable moments.

Full story:
So... I got through 3 acts and I am definitely done with this boring trash unless I see some dramatic changes. My initial intentions were to complete whole campaign, but i don't feel like this game deserves minute more of my time as this is what i would characterize as prime borefest and there is no way i wanna go again through same 3 acts.

I did basically no research before I started playing. I saw about 10 mins of some gameplay videos and few minutes of official presentation. And I admit it looked painfully slow and boring just visually to me. But ok, looks maybe deceiving. And because I pretty much finished my build in Phrecia and event is kind of close to over i decided to finally give a shot to Poe 2 and experience "The Vision" myself. Phrecia was blast btw after some initial struggles with idols setup.

I noticed though that people were saying LS amazon is absolutely OP so that is what i chose ofc... Let's have fun experience. Ok, first maybe hour i was kind of intrigued getting to know the game. But that quickly evaporated and left only boring chores. Let's name a few of my impressions - nothing new here, it is basically what everyone is complaining about over and over.

1. Pace - that game has no pace at all - i think this is main problem which leads to everything else feeling much worse than it would have to. I felt like walking against the stream in the river. Or like when crippled wannabe hero is constantly climbing up the mountain. Just walking in town from NPC to NPC takes ages. And progressing through pretty big in game areas is just damn chores. Some shitty checkpoint system is definitely not saving it although it does helps ofc as backtracking without it would be even more painful.

2. Fighting
Early game is ultra garbage. You are doing so little damage that every fight takes stupidly long. I was trying to use all available skills at some point and did not get better feeling for a long time. You need to repeat attacks way too many times to kill normal mobs which makes basically every fight repetitive, tedious and boring. Some combos do give bit more damage but i personally don't give a shit about setting up some combos over and over and over again. Most of the time i was using basic stab as main attack of choice plus some whirlwind, maybe twister. 1..2..3..4.. stabs and mob is dead... dodge roll and all over. Damn... rare in sight - 6 dodge rolls 20 stabs, whirlwind, twister, ligthning spear... finally killed it. Oh no... another one.

Bit later lightning spear cleared pretty well at least normal mobs so was using almost exclusively that. Despite clearing ok at that point game did not feel really much better. Just boring repetitive stuff with zero feeling of exctiment, rush and entertainment at all. My weapon was ofc trash which i did not upgrade for a long time as nothing better dropped, so damage output went down soon.

Late stages of my experience - act 3 at lava boss i got significant weapon upgrade and damage went up a lot. Which really did make LS usually clear everything easily. And yet I still felt zero entertainment while going forward. Just same, snail paced boring stuff, only with less struggles and hickups at this point. Pretty much still garbage, only not ultra garbage anymore.

3. Bosses - jeez, what an extreme garbage. I for sure had trash gear and possibly i was not building my huntress optimally although i don't think i did make some dramatic missteps. Anyway, my single target damage was absolute dogshit. Therefore boss fights were taking insanely long with chipping their healthbars by ridiculously low amounts. I was using lightning strike to shock and primal strikes i think it is called on shocked boss to release that power up version of it and that was my biggest boss damage dealing skill. Yet it was trash. So act 1 final boss was extreme "fun" doing it over and over. Boss is getting harder in later stages which leads to you dying later rather than sooner. Which means each attempt takes shitload of time before you fail and need to start over. I had zero satisfaction feeling after i beat it. Just felt probably relief that trash is over. Totally same garbage with act 2 boss. Doing trash damage leads to insanely long attempts till you finally can avoid all stuff enough times to beat it. Not what i would call enjoyable, good fight - just a time consuming garbage.

In act 3 I just could not beat lava boss at all as i ran out of time - reached end of cannal or what it is and he had still 30% of health bar. So i had to boost my damage and get better weapon. I absolutely don't wanna be buying every shitty upgrade on trade site. I wanna be dropping useable stuff myself. That did not happen though so i looked on trade site for weapon upgrade - as i had i think 4 exalts. Pinged few people, got zero response. In the end I just gambled up my all exalts, used all my quality currency and got somewhat lucky in getting needed damage boost. If that would not happen i would be screwed. That moment was pretty big damage spike for me, so i did manage to kill doryani with one death. Therefore that fight was okish. My lightning spear was pretty much killing everything now except for rares, yet fighting still felt the same boring as before with zero satisfaction and excitement.

I would say 50% of bosses were okish, 50% trash unless you are doing big enough damage to take care of them in reasonable time. And considering you are dropping nothing chances are your gear and damage is not good.

4. Drops and crafting - absolute trash. You need to be dropping stuff to be able to constantly improve your gear and build. If you are dropping nothing useful for ages there is probably some major flaw in design. If you are not dropping anything make sure you can craft it then. Ofc you are not crafting much of useful stuff with couple regals and exalts - those should be far more common if intention was for people to craft. I am definitely not intending to be looking for every meaninful upgrade on trade site. In fact, during campaign i don't wanna visit trade site at all. Otherwise crafting is ofc garbage - rng transmute, rng augment - if you got twice lucky rng regal, if not terrible maybe rng exalt. If that was disaster throw it away and start over if you still have regals and exalts left. What a trash.

5. Trials of Sekhema and Chaos - garbage. As everything else in this game takes way too long. Unless you are coming in really well geared and overpowered in both cases shitty rng can make it way harder and be main cause of bunch of failed attempts. Definitely not fun going through it several times just to fail close to end and waste another lots of time in this snail paced tragedy.

6. Unnecessary actions on top of game being already 99% of the time chores - this is not a big deal, but i see no reason why to add just a bloat crap into game. Like salvage bench. So you have to run to some completely unnecessary bench to get some stupid shard? Why don't you just get rune socket shard when disenchanting item with socket? Why do we need well? Why you just don't fill up flasks automatically when entering camp? This is ofc small things, but just emphasizes how boring this game is.

I am most likely not gonna experience endgame of this so I just take word of others that are saying it is garbage as well. And my educated guess is i would feel it that way.

Conclusion: Game is as bad as it gets. I find it even offensive that this garbage was presented as potential successor of most entertaining arpg out there - Path of Exile. It is even offensive that this is called Path of Exile 2. I find it also offensive that this was marketed as "evolution" of genre. This has nothing in common with any evolution. This is just several games put together in a manner that doesn't make sense and don't work. This is in fact not even arpg. As there is very little action in this travesty.

As completely different game with completely different name i would not mind this at all - i would not play it ofc, but would also not feel the need to comment on it. As Path of Exile 2 i did have to try it and this is my honest feedback without any exaggaration.
I really can't find basically anything positive. Aside of very nice graphics, great sound and some bosses mechanics looks cool. Unfortunately it doesn't make playing it less tedious and boring.

I have no clue what some people are enjoying on this - but as obviously they are it just shows that people are really different and concept of fun can be viewed very differently by some. Yet I am absolutely convinced that many if not most of people still playing this "masterpiece" are not really enjoying it. Just have probably higher treshold for garbage then i have and don't wanna give up.

This is EA, but main concept is so wrong that any update except for complete change of direction just can't make it much better.

One of big takeaways from this for me is: You can be good programmer and at the same time completely incompetent and useless in everything else. Being delusional on top of that don't help at all too. And that completely incompetent and delusional people would do better if they kept their visions to themselves instead of sharing them with rest of the world.

Now give me good Poe 1 league. When that is gonna be?

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arome1#6905 wrote:

Some time ago in Poe1 there was a lake of kalandra league - where everything was nerfed to the ground and people hated it, later on they also implemented - ruthless mode, which everyone hated even more and it was meant to be "side project", then they started buffing up the campaign, and who like that - no one. TLDR: Current state of 0.2.0 is kalandra + ruthless + huge focus on hard campaign combined. No idea in what world this had to be a success.