Quitting Poe & Why

So after spending well over 300 hours on this game in the course of 1 month ive had a lot of fun.

When i first started playing i was clueless and had no idea how this game worked.

There were points where i wanted to just give up, but playing with a friend kept me going.

I began learning new things every single day, for a solid week or two i was learning new things

every single day.

Then the end game happened... and replay-ability went away.

I found out that you couldnt train on monsters that were lower level then you, that if your

build wasnt 100% focused around the meta and health you would reach a "wall" where you can no

longer progress because you cant kill mob at your level and training at mob lower then you is too

time consuming.

Currency wasnt a problem because through trading and bartering and finding good loot i managed to turn a couple exalted into over 50 exalted.


Its the gameplay and feeling of not being able to build how you want. You are forced to follow certain parameters and are set to fail from the start.

Ive made over 10 characters using completely different builds and tactics.

In the end it looks like either you suffer through normal and play a very boring class and

after you get to equip certain items your class becomes strong, or you play a class that

starts strong and ends up falling off after reaching act 3 cruel.


I really really tried to stick around and i know i wont be missed, i joined a guild and i

tried to make friends. At the the end of the day its just repetitive and your unable to play

unless you follow the "meta".



TL;DR I loved this game at first, was learning every day, got alot of currency through trading, no replay-ability at a certain point and desire to play game vanishes regardless of friends or other factors.

The skill tree allows you to take any class in any direction and have a decent chance at making something work. That doesn't mean you can just slot points anywhere you want and hope to succeed end game. You have to plan your build and that is a major major part of the game. Discovering builds yourself or trying out someone else's. I'm sorry you have lost interest but maybe you will decide to give it another try in the future. Farewell.

I don't agree with most of what you posted.
At level 51 you should just be getting towards the end of Cruel difficulty.
If you are in Merciless at level 51 just go back to Cruel Docks and farm for a while.
You don't have to build 100% defensive, but you have to keep defense in mind when you build.
Once you get to maps you'll have a lot more replayability. You'll still burn out eventually, but you'll level and it's fun for quite a while.

(If you have another account with 2-3 level 80 characters then I apologize and you can ignore the above.)

You're burnt out... it's not the game. It happens to everyone. Take a few weeks off.

Your problem stems from the lack of short term goals to chase. When people feel like they're getting nothing accomplished, they need to look at what they're trying to do. Take some time and reflect on your play.

I'd personally look at your trading. That removes pretty much any short term goal from the game and turns it into a job. Come back and play a character fresh... no trading, no hand-me-downs. You might discover the fun again.

300 hours and only lvl 51..... your doing something wrong

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Alea wrote:

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1Z3R0 wrote:

300 hours and only lvl 51..... your doing something wrong

he was trading; he made 50 ex xD

well if thats what he was doing thats also sad..... that means it took him 6 hours per 1 exalted earned

I can only assume this is an alt account. Otherwise this is the most fishy account I've ever seen.

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Currency wasnt a problem because through trading and bartering and finding good loot i managed to turn a couple exalted into over 50 exalted.

What. 50 exalts with a level 50 character?.. Finding good loot?

Level 50 can take 8 hours with enough experience in the game, that's definitely not enough time to find 50 exas worth of loot or barter for anything.

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In the end it looks like either you suffer through normal and play a very boring class and

after you get to equip certain items your class becomes strong, or you play a class that

starts strong and ends up falling off after reaching act 3 cruel.

That's not true at all. Many builds can work at low levels and can be progressed with through all difficulties. Many people choose to play stronger leveling builds but other builds such as melee start great from level 1.

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kasub wrote:

What. 50 exalts with a level 50 character?.. Finding good loot?

Level 50 can take 8 hours with enough experience in the game, that's definitely not enough time to find 50 exas worth of loot or barter for anything.

It probably took him more than 8 hours, he started playing a month ago, and he was learning, as he said.

And he didn't find 50 exalts, he allotted couple of exalts through some nice loot drops which then he used for "bartering" and increasing his wealth.

And that's very much possible, to get ~2-3 ex loot by lvl 50-60. I got a nice IAS + WED + life Topaz ring from a quest in A1C, lvl requirement 24, sold for 3 ex.
Pretty much the only useful item I've got from quest rewards, ever, and it was a jackpot.

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And he didn't find 50 exalts, he allotted couple of exalts through some nice loot drops which then he used for "bartering" and increasing his wealth.

It's nice you have so much faith in the OP. As someone who has flipped at some point I don't believe for a moment he managed to get 50 exas with his pure bartering skills at level 50.