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

Out of interest to those who think it's easy would you mind letting those of us who think it's too damn hard to progress. HAVE YOU GOT A DECENT WEAPON or something to make your build work???

I think I have played every arpg in the last 10-15 years and this is unrecommendable to most. Just a subset of dedicated poe masochists.

cast click, move click, cast click, move click is bad game play. So much kiting and stun lock

Casting a spell, then interrupting it with another spell feels broken/bad/not arpg.


I think the rare fights should not be as long, or one long one every other map or so.

Just rerolled to minion witch because cold sorc at 14 was getting rocked.


This feels catastrophic and should have been worked into poe.

Poe1 is now psychologically off putting

I think I have played every arpg in the last 10-15 years and this is unrecommendable to most. Just a subset of dedicated poe masochists.

cast click, move click, cast click, move click is bad game play. So much kiting and stun lock

Casting a spell, then interrupting it with another spell feels broken/bad/not arpg.


I think the rare fights should not be as long, or one long one every other map or so.

Just rerolled to minion witch because cold sorc at 14 was getting rocked.


This feels catastrophic and should have been worked into poe.

Poe1 is now psychologically off putting

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zwelf#5608 wrote:

I think I have played every arpg in the last 10-15 years and this is unrecommendable to most. Just a subset of dedicated poe masochists.

cast click, move click, cast click, move click is bad game play. So much kiting and stun lock

Casting a spell, then interrupting it with another spell feels broken/bad/not arpg.


I think the rare fights should not be as long, or one long one every other map or so.

Just rerolled to minion witch because cold sorc at 14 was getting rocked.


This feels catastrophic and should have been worked into poe.

Poe1 is now psychologically off putting

You're gonna have an awful time with minion witch. The minions are made out of paper. They will simply deal 0 damage on boss fights, because they die the literal milisecond they respawn again. On clearing they're "in the way" at best.

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Keewee#5451 wrote:

Out of interest to those who think it's easy would you mind letting those of us who think it's too damn hard to progress. HAVE YOU GOT A DECENT WEAPON or something to make your build work???

play minion act 1 and tell me which one DECENT WEAPON you got.

I still remember playing PoE for the first time in 2012, i also remember playing Diablo 2 online on release and i was magically captured both times. I just blasted through act one. I remember some difficulty in act 2 or 3 and of course with the end bosses but nothing that could not be solved within 3 or 4 deaths.

Now i'm a measly level 12 sorc and i can not even count how many times i have died so far. I guess i am simply too old to see this as some kind of challenge where i just have to try for the 30th time when there is absolutely no reward at the end of it. Drops are bad, the rewards for the quests seem to be nonexisting and once you've succeeded with in one hard spot you already know your char won't have improved in the 10 minutes until you run into the next overpowered boss or area. It should not be like that in act 1. Sorry, but for me that is not good game design. Watching the 4K gameplay videos where they presented the different fighting styles none of the fights took as long and were as frustrating as what i am facing at the start of the game.

I'm having fun but I think some of the bosses are pretty bullet-sponge for the current environment.

I have a few thoughts on how I can change my build to adapt & overcome in my next play session but, given I'm only early in act 2 and was doing a fairly standard PoE1 go-for-useful-keystones/gems approach, I think 7-10 minute boss fights is a bit questionable.

Merc armour break with support grenades build btw, so pretty conventional.

Zone combat is great.

I suspect boss combat will improve substantially once we have a meta & no one tries to experiment/build-their-own... but I'm not sure that's a good thing.

+1
I play poe1 for so long and this is absolutely ridiculous hard and boring to die and die again. The final bosses start always with all the live.
No fun
No fun
No fun
So so so disappointed

I can’t remember a single league in PoE 1 over many, many years where I went to sleep on release day.
In PoE 2, I went to sleep after just 2 hours of gameplay.

There are several reasons:
- The character doesn’t respond to controls properly and feels like it has a mind of its own.
- The game lacks any sense of dynamism; it’s incredibly dull and slow.
- Bosses are overly difficult. I don’t want to dodge endlessly; I just want to kill them and move on.
- It’s painfully boring to kill mobs when it takes more than one hit.
- There’s no loot and no rewards at all.

It’s sad to say this, but it’s a failure.

I absolutely hate this game and am so disappointed. End of act 2 boss is so incredibly unfun and has so much HP, it's a 10-15 minute affair to get to the end and die and repeat over and over. This game deliberately wastes so much of your time, the drops are shit, the gameplay isn't fun its just incredibly draining to be full focus for this long. I genuinely want my money back with how much I hate this game. Sorry GGG, this aint it and you really missed the mark.