Too grindy and general feedback

I have gotten to almost the end of act 3 now and I love the game in general but I do have some feedback I want to give because I want to see it improved in the future.

Here´s a quick list;

- Doors/cave entrances are not visible when nearing them, very frustrating having to paint the whole map to find the entrance, would be nice if doors/entrances would have twice the clear radius that painting the map has. (I literally spent over 1 hour in one zone in act 3 and painted the whole map).

- Too grindy, enemies have too much health and clear doesnt feel satisfying because I have to constantly fall back while engaging. (I play frost sorc, have good staff +3 cold skills and lots of dmg on tree).

- Enemies respawn on death, extremely frustrating in the campaign.

- Too many enemies spawning from terrain in general, always end up being surrounded when moving forward because they spawn behind and from sides all the time.

- Not enough drops on both currency like exalted orbs to use them to upgrade gear, seeing we need atleast 2-3 per item to have a chance to gain an upgrade. So far in act 3 I have gotten 2 I think, maby 1. (I am at the end of act 3).

Very few items are dropping, I think I have gotten maby 6-8 rares here so chances of getting an upgrade are extremely low (bows when I need staff), feels like im playing on Ruthless mode.. I prefer the loot system in poe1.

- Ultimatum ascendency test is too difficult, cant ascend whilst +5 levels above zone. Problem I had there was being lucky enough to not get too nasty modifiers and a too nasty boss, but 4/5 times I got one of the birds that do the wing swipes and attack fast and he just quickly two shots me (without dmg modifiers). Compared to now level 40 zones I dont feel squishy at all and can tank multiple hits from bosses here, and the ultimatum is 38.

I ended up giving up on ascending after 2+ hours and grinding 3 levels in that test.

What kind of a gamer am I? I usually get to level 94-96 in poe 1 on seasons, I have finished Elden ring and I have 3000+ hours on poe 1.

I enjoy hard games, but grindy and slow isnt hard, the bosses are fucking PERFECT! just some tweaks like ultimatum bird swiper.


Love the game so far, cant wait for whats next!

Here´s a video of me finding an entrance after spending over 1 hour to full clear the area

Not one inch is "unpainted" on the map, but I still couldnt see the entrance until it was visilbe on my screen.

I am pretty sure POE 1 paints entrances further than what is visible on the screen.

VIDEO: https://streamable.com/4n6t0l