The Boss Fights in PoE2 Feel Exhausting

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1453R#7804 wrote:

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Xmangox4#5836 wrote:

I just don’t find learning boss mechanics fun or rewarding. If that’s going to be a core part of Path of Exile 2, then maybe it’s just not for me. And I guess that’s okay, as long as PoE1 continues to get updates. I’d love to get into PoE2, but I just can’t bring myself to care about or put effort into the boss fights.

Path of Exile 1 will absolutely continue to get updates. It's been hit harder than anyone, including Grinding Gear, thought by the needs of POE2, butthey have no intention of abandoning it despite shitty memes to the contrary from the community.

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Xmangox4#5836 wrote:

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Pereg#4871 wrote:

For me I feel powerful when I overcome a tough fight, not when mobs or bosses are loot pinatas.

And I think that's wonderful. But why cant we have both? It seems like GGG is splitting its player base. Why cant POE2 have a more "standard" mode?

In part, because of the community's terrible perception and treatment of Ruthless modes and Ruthless players. Ruthless players are basically soft-banned from these forums, any time anyone tries to talk about their Ruthless experience they get viciously screamed at until they leave.

The idea of cordoning off the intended game experience in a 'Ruthless' mode is basically telling everyone who bought into the bill of goods GGG sold us prior to the EA drop for PoE2 "you guys suck and aren't part of the community; here's a jail cell you can play in while we ignore you and cater to the Zoomer Boomer Blaster Masters and them alone for the second game in a row."

And in part because creating a game mode that's just PoE1 but wearing PoE2's shredded, mutilated skin - whether the original game is called Ruthless and PoE1-wearing-POE2's-skin is called "Standard" or whether the original game is called "Standard" and the zombie-skinwalker mode is called "Easy" or such - destroys any reason for them to've made Path of Exile 2 in the first place. They're trying to evolve the genre as a whole and seek a new audience of people who didn't even know this was their favorite kind of game, exactly the way Soulslikes did. Turning their new game into simply a butchered clone of their old one would render the entire effort utterly meaningless.

The folks for whom this is not the case and PoE1 is exactly the game they love? They have PoE1. It'll get a new league in February sometime, and it does suck that 2024 was such a thin year for PoE1 fans. It does. Here's hoping the next league for POE1 isn't some weird nonsensical stinker like Trial of the Ancestors.