I genuinely hate this game.

Maybe its just me, but I had no idea this was going to be dark souls meets POE. I hate the punishing nature in this design. This medium-core experience is not POE. I get it...get good...sounds like a skill issue. Truth is, your probably right. However, I preferred the challenge to come in end-game...not in act I.

Rod Fergusson was right after all...

im loving the play style and game overall, but poe is usually any gem build viable. Im having to go pretty far out of my way and be very specific to beat the a1 boss

I understand you, this souls like mess is a betrayal that kills what we loved in Path of Exile

This game genuinely hates you back.

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aoughy#2846 wrote:

Maybe its just me, but I had no idea this was going to be dark souls meets POE. I hate the punishing nature in this design. This medium-core experience is not POE. I get it...get good...sounds like a skill issue. Truth is, your probably right. However, I preferred the challenge to come in end-game...not in act I.

You can make a feedback and send it to GGG; they really want to hear your thoughts about Early Access.

You can leave a feedback in here :
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/2213

Honestly, I think I'm a good player overall. At least not mediocre. I'm good enough at playing soul-like games and action/fighting games, but damn, PoE2 hits a little bit too hard for an ARPG and that's sure to turn a lot of people off who came to see the so-calles Diablo killer (I never called PoE like that, and I don't want franchises to die, but I digress.).

I'm having fun, don't get me wrong, but some fights are mildly frustrating because they're very long to kill unless you're always up to date with your gear.

First, many bosses are overtuned. They should slack down on the massive AoE, or you're mostly rolypolying the whole fight, or you're overgeared and roll over the boss. Endgame bosses should be hard, but every campaign map bosses (and there’s one in every map) can kill you easily in one or two hits. I'm playing alone, so I'm having all the agro on me all the time. The Act 2 bosses are insane so far.

Then, many bigger mobs hits too hard (one shot kill), and sometimes, visual effects prevent us from seeing anything so, death. The other mobs hit like wet nodules in comparison.

Then, the maps. They're too damn big, or our characters are way too slow. This makes me remember the old PoE beta on that end, at least, when it comes to slow speed. In some maps, you can waste 30-45 minutes walking around trying to find the boss/objective. It almost always end up being the last place I look at...

Oh, and minions. They're bad, at least, at low lvl. I had to give up against the graveyard boss. They kept dying to the massive AoE.

Otherwise, it's fine, but a lot of people had other expectations... at least a tad easier, and faster.

I've only died twice, both down to my mistakes, otherwise the game is easy. But I play other games and maybe my skill is sharper than some other people who are playing PoE2. Just a thought.

Considering it's the first day of early access, it's safe to assume they'll be finetuning the game quite a bit in the next 6 months.