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

I got 3 times the jeweller orb to get another socket, so i have 3 skills with 3 supports and im using the recommented ones.
Still im simply unable to kill the act 2 endboss with lvl a 36 character.

I died so often just to get to the boss and there is almost no loot.
Even whe i get a better base i craft on it dont get the phys and the base is done. Im stuck on a lvl 16 level weapon at lvl 36.

I tried to farm but nothing drops and it takes ages to get 1 gamble to get another crap weapon. Just quit for today, no fun like this at all.

This game has a serious balancing issue, was zooming my way through act 1 and 2 with good damage and only a few deaths, suddenly at the end of act 2 my damage fell off hard, I was stuck for 2h trying to kill act 2 boss, with various revisions I managed just to scrape by. And now act 3 regular minions are tanky as hell.

The game is just really boring, having to roll 3 times to get to attack 1 time, doing a hair's width of damage.

Having 1 mistake at a regular boss attack cost you 80% of your life.

I think they went for a souls like with game design but they failed to learn why dark souls is fun. They learned all the wrong lessons with bullet sponge enemies, incessant rolling, and too little damage. Except in dark souls you have the tools you need to succeed, by deterministically finding better gear that counters the boss. Here you have to depend on luck to get decent gear (having to grind at act 2 when you are lv 20 something is bs) and at early game there is nothing that counters a boss resistant to a certain element, so if you specked into that element you are done for.

The armor breaking mechanic would be really cool if it lasted more then 2 f-ing seconds, it's useless to break boss armor as you won't have time to capitalize on it.

The only way to sort of enjoy the game right now is to look for one of a couple of broken overpowered skills and pray they won't nerf it.

I'm really disappointed, not because it's hard, I like dark souls, I like lost ark, but those games are fair, and enjoyable. POE2 has only 2 modes, boring or infuriating.

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flipmode949#6802 wrote:

I got 3 times the jeweller orb to get another socket, so i have 3 skills with 3 supports and im using the recommented ones.
Still im simply unable to kill the act 2 endboss with lvl a 36 character.

I died so often just to get to the boss and there is almost no loot.
Even whe i get a better base i craft on it dont get the phys and the base is done. Im stuck on a lvl 16 level weapon at lvl 36.

I tried to farm but nothing drops and it takes ages to get 1 gamble to get another crap weapon. Just quit for today, no fun like this at all.

You my friend made the same mistake many of us did : thinking you were allowed to play a phys build. Nope !

Sure---but dont argue at a game that isnt yet released. Let them know and they will improve stuff. I mean there are guys out there celebrating themselves for dying through the game. Lets play HC.

Everyone is complaining about how hard the game is and how shit minions are.

I just made it to act 3 most tries on a boss I had is about 5. just blowing shit up while my srs skulls body block minions

guwai just lucked out and stumbled into the right build ?

Agreed. I thought this was supposed to be appealing to a wide audience.

Calling the game "punishing" in it's current state is an understatement. It just seems like the game is tuned for the uber 1% of the top 1% of all players. I know several people who have rage quite POE2 after 20 or so hours of play.

Crafting drops are extremely scarce. So much for being able to upgrade gear as you play as they claimed.

Well, I'm giving up for now, I don't have enough time to repeat one thing for an hour. I'll come back when they sort something out.
Meanwhile, I'm going back to the first one, where the game is enjoyable.

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Kerkain#4640 wrote:

I feel like Act 1 itself is too much for starting a new character. It took a lot of effort just to get into Act 2 and now I'm starting to get a groove and flesh out a build. Like things are working out. But getting there was not fun.

Act 1 feels like you're supposed to already have a build going.

Its not "hard" but its extremely tedious and unnecessarily time consuming. Especially not having any crafting materials to make gear and no gold to buy any.

THIS! ALL OF THIS!

AND EVEN MORE! A LOT MORE!

+1

After all the hype and this is what we got ? I know its early access I really really hope things will change but if they don't, its not the game for me I can accept that. Also I don't know if I can go back to POE1 knowing that there is not really ever going to be successor that bring me the same joy from playing. Unless it changes poe is pretty much dead to me.

They make the game less complicated but made the game play 5x harder. The great thing about POE1 fore me was I could progress get stronger and not have to spend 2 hours farming to get thru one boss. Only to have to the the same thing 2 hours later. The player numbers are the only thing that matters, if GGG can make money with whatever the player count ends up being they will keep it hard. If they can't make money they will make it easier and hope they did not scare off new players and old poe players alike. But its been a big big disappointment for me after looking forward to it for years.

Edit yep just did 3 more boss attempts got them down under 10% life and got killed no longer fun at all just frustrating. (maybe let me gain flask charges in a boss fight if they are going to this difficult . To add fuel to this fire I learned to ascend I have to do sanctum my least favorite poe1 mechanic. Wonder if GGG does refunds this game is not for me.

Clown take. It's hard for non gamers. Victor Vran is harder than this.