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

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shammma#4977 wrote:

i bet 90% of people making these post have all passives invested in offense.

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shammma#4977 wrote:

i bet 90% of people making these post have all passives invested in offense.

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TheGuch#4383 wrote:

I have a couple of thoughts on why its bad.

Its not sustainable, people are enjoying it cause the content is new so the challenge is reasonable to get to the next new thing and discovering what comes next. But be hoenst with yourself, how eager are you to do this challenge for the 20th time? When its not new and you just want to get to the next thing as fast as possible.

Dodge is pointless, in that it only dodges some attacks and it doesnt move any faster than just walking. I have no escape from danger with my dodge and I dont have something like frost blink to help so getting cornered is a death sentence. There is the idea in a game you are allowed to make X number of mistakes befor eyou die, thats why escape mechanics have cooldowns. But Dodge is just movement with another button, if it could phase attacks, or even allowed to interrupt my actions that would be useful. Example I had started an attack, the telegraph and attack of the boss happened during my animation, I just died and had no way out of it. Thats bad design. Dodge could be removed from the game and I think most people would not really notice a difference in the game.

They didnt learn from PoE1 or any other ARPG. Every single time an ARPG comes out with the "WE ARE GOING TO BE HARD TO PLAY!" idea they reverse course. Cause its not fun, people play games for enjoyment, adding a "dark souls" element of challenge to an ARPG is not fun, It works in dark souls cause beating the boss IS the challenge. ARPG is about powering up, feeling strong, finding fun combinations to work with, right now it feels like all ability combinations just suck, it's not fun, I dont want to use a basic attack as a melee, im spending gems on special attacks to just look at them, thats not fun. Sadly GGG knows this, they did this early with PoE1, and they reversed course cause no one wants to play that. I think they are hoping that PoE1 will still run and people will play that, BUT as a fan of PoE2 that should bother you cause where are the resources going to go? PoE1 cause thats were players are and thats where money is. If you want to gatekeep endgame content cause bosses are punishing, thats great, Im for it, gatekeeping early acts as you are still unlocking functionality of the game just feels like getting dick punched while in a queue for a dick punching.

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AxiomOfAnarchy#7408 wrote:

+1

Though act 1 was a lot slower and tougher than I would prefer, and would probably have been overly slow and difficult for a good portion of it had I not gotten lucky crafting my weapon, I was having fun with it until Geanor.

The first half of Geanor was fine, while the second half just seems to be bullshit piled on top of bullshit. The mist phase has him doing untelegraphed bullshit that eats away large chunks of your life while he's invulnerable and you're just trying not to get bodyblocked or otherwise killed by the minion spam, and if you happen to luck your way through that part, he pretty much continuously spams massive area effects which, most of the time, there's nowhere near enough time to avoid.

If I wanted to play dark souls, I'd fucking play dark souls. Though frankly dark souls, which telegraphs consistently and doesn't spam shit so fast it can't be dodged, would be an improvement over some of this gameplay.

hcssf here, got through this boss and only 1 phase of the mist got hairy for me as I couldn't do enough damage to keep the temp monsters down (its quite easy if you can kill those monsters as they spawn). FYI the audio is the telegraph for his attacks btw, around 2 second after he says whatever you should dodge roll and you won't get hit.

ya I didn't have much trouble with A1 overall using monk with essentially his default skills. I find monk plays really nice with C2M, qwert skills and remap dodge roll to right click.

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Bentic#7016 wrote:

Hope poe1 gets full love, because i wont play poe2. Just not made for me.

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NumNumer#3935 wrote:

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AmpegV4#2473 wrote:

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AxiomOfAnarchy#7408 wrote:

+1

Though act 1 was a lot slower and tougher than I would prefer, and would probably have been overly slow and difficult for a good portion of it had I not gotten lucky crafting my weapon, I was having fun with it until Geanor.

The first half of Geanor was fine, while the second half just seems to be bullshit piled on top of bullshit. The mist phase has him doing untelegraphed bullshit that eats away large chunks of your life while he's invulnerable and you're just trying not to get bodyblocked or otherwise killed by the minion spam, and if you happen to luck your way through that part, he pretty much continuously spams massive area effects which, most of the time, there's nowhere near enough time to avoid.

If I wanted to play dark souls, I'd fucking play dark souls. Though frankly dark souls, which telegraphs consistently and doesn't spam shit so fast it can't be dodged, would be an improvement over some of this gameplay.

hcssf here, got through this boss and only 1 phase of the mist got hairy for me as I couldn't do enough damage to keep the temp monsters down (its quite easy if you can kill those monsters as they spawn). FYI the audio is the telegraph for his attacks btw, around 2 second after he says whatever you should dodge roll and you won't get hit.

ya I didn't have much trouble with A1 overall using monk with essentially his default skills. I find monk plays really nice with C2M, qwert skills and remap dodge roll to right click.

I am a summoner as well, it seems the devs didn't take into account that minions die very quickly and do very low individual damage. so all I can't really kill the ads from the boss as they appear.

it's a balancing issue.