Absolutely disapointed -- This game is hard, and not in a fun way.

Learning mechaniics is the game man, If you dont want bossing and prefer zooming maps like POE1 then play POE1.
Your are basically saying you hate a game cos you arent good at it.

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Queeg_500#1363 wrote:

Learning mechaniics is the game man, If you dont want bossing and prefer zooming maps like POE1 then play POE1.
Your are basically saying you hate a game cos you arent good at it.

What are you even talking about ? OP is talking about starter acts, it's way too overtuned, if you cannot see that then you are the blind one.

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Queeg_500#1363 wrote:

Learning mechaniics is the game man, If you dont want bossing and prefer zooming maps like POE1 then play POE1.
Your are basically saying you hate a game cos you arent good at it.

what do you do as GGG is a lot of people are saying "dont like the difficulty of POE2, going back to POE1, or to another game if you are not supporting that anymore"

How do you think games like this stay operating?

Sounds like skill issue buddy

Early game is balanced like a drunk sailor and this forum is really a trash bin. It's early access and already people playing X class are telling people playing Y class if they can't do what they did it's because they're bad at the game...


I started with monk and I'm already fed up by the clunky-ness. I'll try that new ranged class, looks like it's a lot easier to play than pos monk.

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Urza_Mechwalker#7393 wrote:

How in hell you manage to do that? You just sit standign in front of it and try to outdps it? That is a PLAYER issue not a game issue. That witch I defeated on the first go with my Bulldog on my lap trying to lick the keyboard at same time!

1- The Boss seems to have _1 Million Times_ the health of regular enemies.
(What?, I have to spend 10 minutes to kill the first boss of the game?)
2- The Boss's attacks and minions seem to cover the entire Prison Cell area
you are trapped in, so they overwhelm you easily.
3- My health and mana potions are dried-up/finished way too quickly.
4- Everything my character does is slow as F***.

And this is the first F***ing boss of the game !!! What will happen in ACT2,
if GGG ever allows me to reach it?

PS: I'm happy for you that you have a friend/pet that keeps you company.
You don't have to boast about it to us that we don't. ;)

I enjoyed poe 2 up till geonor. The difficulty is over the top for an act 1 boss. The problem is the combination of the following two:
- Mechanics are partially to fast (mostly the fog thingy)
- The fight is to long
This leads to an unwinable attrition battle.
The other bosses were great up to now. There was a learning curve to some of them but Mechanics had clear counterplay and where very doable with a few tries of learning.
I really dont enjoy geonor. I will somehow bite through him but I really hope he is an exception.

Edit: After some optimization and overleveling I beat him. I would still argue that a first act boss could be a little bit lighter on the reflexes.

Edit 2: The second act boss was just great! So much fun! All abilities were fair and learnable. The overhead sword was fun. Getting the timing down was just the right challange!

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Voidtek1969#0798 wrote:

I can't seem to beat the Devourer on SSFHC, my minions are really brittle and I was even using the skill that makes the little minions to help kill it.

What's the secret? I was rolling all over the place. My minions die in like 5 secs, then I have to wait 7 sec for them to revive. This was even with 1 point into +health on minions + the damage nodes before it. Everytime I run or roll away from the Bosses' damage my minions run with me so they stop attacking. Makes it rather hard to minion this Boss. Why even have minions at all if their leash is so short?

I have yet to get to level 5. Died a bunch of times.

I got past that guy (mostly by running away a lot), but the Druid fungus boss later gave me the same problem on Witch. Minions decide to run through the middle of the room and suicide every time he teleports... and he teleports a lot. Losing your minions because they don't know not to run through things that kill them is incredibly annoying.

Then I'm casting a spell, he does that channel thing, dodge roll fails to stop the animation lock on the spell I'm casting... and I'm dead.

Minion builds are notoriously hard to tune right, but they are REALLY fragile right now on bosses. You've lost a ton of power because of that as they spend half the fight dead.

There is definitely difficulty related tuning work to do.

Poe 2 right now is absolutely perfect. Diablo 3 at release was amazing. Posts like this made them nerf it, because too many people couldn't beat inferno. The game was meticulously well balanced for inferno. Players needed to learn the game in order to beat it. It was perfect. And then they ruined it.And the game has been absolute garbage ever since.

I really can't handle people who think that they should just be granted a pass through a game, just because they bought it.

AA and AAA game releases for the most part of late have been terrible, and a lot of the reason why is because people feel like they are entitled to beating the game or doing well in the game while not putting in very much effort at all.

I think PoEII right now is the best ARPG i've ever played. small gear upgrades feel like a huge upgrade because of the balance. Feeling mild anxiety coming into a new fight or a boss fight is amazing, and it happens because the game is challenging.

Challenging games are a lost art. The cool thing is is that POE 1 exists for people that don't want to put in the effort. Keep playing that.

I also don't think that a lot of people realize that you can still get through it pretty easily.If you just spend a little more time leveling your character up, and not to mention what is going to happen to builds when you can take your high ranked alt and gear your low rank up; You'll slide right through the game.


I pray that if they do decide to do a meganerf on the game to make it stupid easy, like all the stupid games are nowadays, just to cater to people like you, they should just add a new difficulty level, story mode or something that lets you feel super powerful, but it nerfs your drops by like fifty percent.

You cant really argue with that either, because honestly, you don't deserve good gear if you can't commit to earning it.

I'm actually about to write a long email to GGG about this very thing, and how so many other games have been ruined in the past due to people crying on forums.

Again go play D4 or PoE 1 please. If it's too hard for you, this game isnt made for you.

The difficulty reminds me of when I started POE and died to Hillock time and again until I figured out whatever the magic is to avoid dying to him.

I think people who are uber in POE may just be expect to be instantly uber in POE2.

Answer to most things here is GG

Not bothered.