Im not playing Poe2

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stkmro#2432 wrote:

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nagisanzeninzz#2697 wrote:

No matter how many nerfs to loot to make it feels depressing and low effort league content like Breach I will still never play PoE2.

I simply do not want to rolldodge in my RELAXING autistic excel sheet netflix watching simulator.

To me Poe2 is the new shiney kids money grabing game.

I hope in a decade or so some indie game dev gonna make "Spiritual successor of Path of Exile" and PoE2 becomes nowaday Diablo4 or whatever garbage Blizzard has gotten out. Its funny how this thing goes in a circle, eh?

it's better to play and get used to poe2 now.

poe2 is the better game and eventually, poe1 will be decommissioned and there will only be poe2 around.

Lot of people coping with this, but it's the truth. Better get used to poe2.

There are lots of idle games out there you don't have to look at if spending 5 seconds killing a boss is too much for you.

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b_ko#7756 wrote:

There are lots of idle games out there you don't have to look at if spending 5 seconds killing a boss is too much for you.

There is some misconception going around like mobs die longer in PoE2. Based on my last league every boss was dying in like 1,2 seconds. I have to make some low dps run to learn bosses from act4, because there was no mechanic at all.

I won't go as far as saying I won't play POE2; but right now it feels awful to play. I can't think of a single element of it that feels better to me outside of some graphical things that really mean little.

I would choose to do just about anything else including chores around the house before playing POE2 in the current state.

i liked the idea behind poe2. i liked the idea of things being more deliberate, slow/ grounded. i even like relying on dodge rolls. its actual active playstyle that requires skill.

in the campaign, you could melee basic attack most bosses if you had good gear. you could learn to avoid damage and sneak hits in.

but all that deliberation went to hell in the end game where everything went back to zoom zoom.

if i m going zoom zoom. i might as well play poe1.

its a real shame. i wanted poe2 to replace my passion for poe1 but all it did was push me back to poe1.

ggg doesnt have the vaals to make poe2 proper slow and deliberate and keep player power in check.

poe2 was supposed to fix melee.

now thats not happening, i would remind ggg to please make poe1 more melee friendly.

EDIT, when i mention melee. i m talking about trumelee. not some bitch ass melee skill that hits the entire screen

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

Muscle memory is my main issue. After playing PoE 2 for some time I press Space bar in PoE 1 instinctually sometimes.

i die like 20 time for this ! ^^

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eschandin#3638 wrote:

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Johny_Snow#4778 wrote:

Muscle memory is my main issue. After playing PoE 2 for some time I press Space bar in PoE 1 instinctually sometimes.

i die like 20 time for this ! ^^

I have been using my space bar for movement skills for years in PoE 1, so dodge roll in 2 was almost instinctive.

Your loss brother... both games are great IMO...

I'm not playing it either. I guess it might be soon time for another 4-8 month poe vacation with the current direction this dev's are taking and sending all the resources to 0.2/10 inestad of the game that actually made possible to create another game.

I played a little last league. First time reaching maps. Got bored and didn't return.

The big problem with PoE 2 is that it doesn't feel good. Right now I'm playing a EQ glad in the new Keepers league on hardcore it feels super smooth. Very defensively sound, big AoE damage, mobility is very good. Feels like you're playing a super hero.

It's the same feeling I get at end game playing Terraria. Like a serious accomplishment that you did something good.

Elden Ring is the antithesis of this. In that Elden Ring is designed to make you feel bad. You don't feel the same accomplishment. Your character feels like the same bag of trash that he was in the beginning. If anything I have an easier time starting Elden Ring than finishing it. It's one of the serious crimes of the game. DS, Bloodborne, Demons's Souls all felt way better by comparison at end game.

What could it be? It's developer crap. Gutting the value of armor, making it so you can't do X,Y,Z things anymore. Nobody asks why. Nobody asks if this is really a good thing.

I get the same vibe from PoE 2 design. Why for example we can't have PoE 1 EQ. It's because they want you to circumstantially use 5 different abilities. That's just not what we want.

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nagisanzeninzz#2697 wrote:

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

As someone who thought the dodge roll looked painful to use before I played it, I actual found it to be quite good to use. It's not much different to spamming a movement skill, but has a bit more utility.

No one is forcing you to play POE2. If you're concerned about the games becoming to alike, fair enough. I think its good if one has more active game style than the other. There are some things I've noticed this league that headed a bit towards POE2, which I hope they keep the games different as they are currently. There's no need for two similar games. Some aspects will work in both, others not as much.

The real problem with rolldodge design its that it's anti-thesis of one of PoE core pillar design where Chris have stated somewhere that it's were made to "play while watching TV"

It's the hands-off and relaxing nature of PoE that drew me and many other people in.

And the nature of rolldodging is FOCUS. It requires focus and bit of skill to dodge bosses and monsters attack. And no, I absolutely do not want to put more FOCUS in my PoE game. I play it relaxing while concocting in my head what's the next upgrade for my build, which unique would make sense, while having Archer 2009 TV show on my second monitor.

I am already tensed up and stressed out from my 10 hours work and do not want any more tension, hyping up to dodge or die on the next boss slam. It's stupid and silly and childish. And if I ever want that experience I'd play Dark Souls and Elden Ring and I am a Soulsfan, I have Dark souls 1,2,3 Sekiro Elden Ring on my Steam, with over 350 hours on Dark Souls 3 and 10s of runs on it. Trust me I can parry Champion Gundyr 100%, I can dodge your shitty knockoff Soulike wannabe ARPG Johnathan, so it's not about "skill".

The entire design, is anti-thesis to core pillar design in PoE 1 and what I find it good and unique and suits my playstyle.

Tension in game is childish you say. I say what you describe is the exact answer of a 90s housewife, when being asked why is she watching a mindless, slow and silly soap opera. "I am already tensed up and stressed out from my 10 hours work and do not want any more tension". Go do yoga, play one of 1000s mobile match 3, and let proper games be games, with challenge, failure and all the other things ancient housewives run from.

You watch a show, play PoE and make up builds in your head, sounds like no immersion in any of the activities. Also Archer and PoE, quite a mood and thematic mismatch, what a waste of designers/ musicians/ writers work. I enjoy PoE 1 just as much as 2, but if that quote from Chris Wilson is real (citation please), then I'm kind of happy he's gone. For a game as tonally and strategically serious as PoE, the mindless watch netflix die and continue no reset gameplay is an insult.

As for knockoffs, PoE 2 is much less a souls knockoff than PoE 1 was Diablo 2's.

Also you mention itt how "everybody" likes PoE 1 and this is what PoE 2 will become. Well the ceiling for "everybody" in this case is 250k, and the ceiling for the other one is Diablo 4 audience, whatever that number is, then all the Elden Ring and Bloodborne "children", and many more who got scared off 1. So yeah look out, and be happy PoE 1 is still on, send roses or sth just in case they succeed.