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

I just feel exhausted playing it, not excited. Difficulty way too hard.

I expected something along the line of POE1 2.0 but to my surprise its not. Had trouble at the beginning but it got better while i getting more comfortable with the game. I died a lot but i felt exited every time the boss almost died but i messed it up. And it felt even better when the boss finally died.
Yeah sure its slower and a lot is overtuned or underwhelming like loot right now but that can be adjusted. GGG has 6-12 month time since its still early access and things are subjected to change.

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I agree with must of the people here. The game is WAY to difficult for the casual player. Ive been playing since 2013, and i am in no way a pro player, far from it. I was looking forward to poe 2 and the game looks amasing, but its not fun at all. The player dmg is way to low, monster dmg and health is way to high and the loot drop is not balanced at all. The part where you die and have to start over with killing all mobs and the boss resets with full health is not the way to go. This is POE and not souls like or D4. Im very dissapoited to say the least, after paying 100$ for a supporter pack to support GGG and then getting fucked and kill multiple times by the boss before you enter the first town. I hope that you (GGG) listens to your community and do something about the game so everyone can enjoy it and we dont have to be Ziz to play the game. :(.

Doing the campaign one time is fun, yeahe some stuff needs nerfs or buffs.

But a big but, doing it again and again with every new char doesnt sound fun at all.

There needs to be a solution so you only have to do the campaign with it sids quests one time per league, so you can start with a new char after the first char finsihed the campaign and can do maps from lvl 1 or somethign similar.

So short list of feedbacks after finishing the first 3 Acts

-Some way to skip campaign after the first char each league finished it. Getting all Sidequest done one char in the league had finished.
-Dodge roll has phasing for little enemies and not for big one.
-More loot, you can run around a whole act without a real update. I done use any new item i got from act 3.
-i like that bosses reset after death but the whole map? That does not feel fun.

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BlitZ1988#0279 wrote:

Iafter paying 100$ for a supporter pack to support GGG and then getting fucked and kill multiple times by the boss before you enter the first town.

I refuse to believe anyone died to PoE 2 Hillock multiple times

Take the endgame of PoE2, port it to PoE 1... and I am done for good with PoE 2... I actually like the longer fight, scarcer drops etc etc... but it*s axactly as I was afraid it would gonna be: Starting Boss Fights over and over after each single death is not for me.

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diego_garber#0088 wrote:

I've been playing PoE for years, and I have thousands of hours in the game.

Today I played PoE2 for ~5 hours and rage quit.

I failed to kill the act1 boss 10 times, i have 22 deaths, and honestly........ it's NOT FUN.

This made me laugh so hard.
If you don`t like this approach for the game, than get back to POE1 and spam the maps with 1 skill and be proud you're killing everything without any effort.

They stated from the beginning that this will not be another POE 1 and they delivered something spectacular.

Hope they will not change the difficulty because it challenges you (to observe, think and act) and this is the most important thing.

Technically I like the game and there are moments where it nearly clicked - where I could see, how this can work.

But I have to admit, barely managed it at the beginning to the first encampement. Well not because I was absolutly not able to kill the miller, but after the first succesless attempts a nagging feeling startet to creep up in me: Maybe I am finally to old to play this game? I will definitly try to continue my journey as far as I get and try to get better on the way. But no idea how far this will get me. The bosses seem to become a real roadblock.

The last time I had this little amount of enjoyment, I was passing a kidney stone.

Game is just stupidly tedious, takes far too much inspiration from Elden Ring/Dark Souls and tries to shove their mechanics and difficulty into the game, and is just... bad. There's no feeling of reward at any point of play, no gains from slogging through dying to the act boss over and over until you find the right approach, nothing.

And for the ones who are doing their typical elitist nonsense... I'm glad you're enjoying it, but quit talking down to others who aren't. You're just being pricks about it. An early access period shouldn't require trial and error on the same level as PoE postgame content to determine what is actually viable or not. New players should be able to at least have a decently good time in the first act of the game, not be shown frustration and disappointment because they didn't find the one way GGG wanted them to actually play a game whose predecessor become well known for playing however you wanted through the main portion of the game.