Early Access Feedback - Combat is now optional. Jonathan was right. - Forum

" I think the fight needs to be sometimes taken to me. If its me in 100% who engages in combat because it suits me, I feel no danger at all, because I can just run away from any possible threat. Jonathan was very much against slowing monsters down and he was right. Combat shouldn't be optional. And the LAST thing that PoE2 needs are movement skills. Even blink is absolutely OP and should be removed from the game, along with shield charge and leap, which are used for traversing more than for the combat. Combat shouldn't be optional in campaign. Endgame is different, there we have more reasons to kill monsters, but we can still run away pretty much at any time. A basic principle of good mob design is to limit wether they are 1.fast 2.tanky 3.hard hitting trying to adhere to only two per monster type when it's a commonly fought enemy. The issue is not that mobs are quick, but that some enemy types are clearly fast, tanky and strong, making it disproportionate wether you die or survive mob packs, given the randomization of mob pools on a per-map basis. Last edited by GabrielCorso#5386 on May 18, 2025, 1:18:01 PM	Posted by GabrielCorso#5386 on May 18, 2025, 1:16:53 PM Quote this Post
calling combat optional is pure BS. go ahead and bypass all mobs, kill only the quest objectives. literally skip everything else and see how far you get in the long run. youll fall behind in gear, youll fall behind in EXP. people on this forum love to condense complex issues down to one liners with black and white outcomes. heres a more reasonable take. if a player is well geared, has move speed, and is experienced they have earned EVERY RIGHT to bypass mobs to rush the campaign they have already run a bunch of times.	Posted by dmc9014#4875 on May 18, 2025, 2:27:28 PM Quote this Post
POE is about the endgame that comes after the campaign. Nobody wants to struggle creating multiple characters to play multiple builds every league. My god people really complain about everything, can't make everyone happy.	Posted by FinalLight#8171 on May 18, 2025, 2:29:24 PM Quote this Post
For sure someone said that before me but poe is not about campaign. Do it each league 1-4 times (depends on builds you want to play) and you will never want it to take 20hr ever again. Why is it so hard for some people to understand? "We've just spent six years making expansions for path of exile, so imagine if we released path of exile 2 and it was just a bare campaign with none of that extra content. This would be a sad shell of an action RPG compared to the current state of path of exile."	Posted by Aim_High#3562 on May 18, 2025, 3:12:28 PM Quote this Post
" Sargoth_CZ#3391 wrote: You've made the monsters too slow, too weak. I've just finished Act 1-3 with both warrior and witch, 10% mov speed boots maximum. I can EASILY avoid any monsters and pick my fights. I feel no sense of danger, because mobs has been made so stupidly slow that there is no reason to fight them to protect myself, I only fight them when I want to. I avoid all whites and only farm rare/packs. This is no longer action RPG, its like a farming simulator harvesting wheat field. No danger. Please stop listening to whiny streamers who just want to rush through the game, they are not making you game better. Jonathan was absolutely right on this one. Combat in campaign is now optional. AND ITS BORING What am i reading? The same thing was literally also possible in 0.1 Even if you do that its useless. Unless you speedrun, because of exp issues later on.	Posted by Alzucard#2422 on May 18, 2025, 3:39:04 PM Quote this Post