Skipping the Campaign - Please
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After spending countless hours finishing the campaign, I finally reached the endgame and realized I didn’t enjoy playing the Mercenary class. So, I thought about creating a new character.
The problem is that I gave up on the idea and didn’t even try because completing the campaign takes far too long. For someone who is a parent, has a family, a job, attends college, or anything similar, it becomes exhausting—especially with the extensive maps. Could you kindly add a feature to skip the campaign, allowing a secondary character to go straight to mapping in the endgame from the hideout? It doesn’t make sense to have to redo the entire campaign for every new character created. I think it’s fine to complete the campaign each time a new season arrives, but doing it again for every additional character is just a repetitive time investment that we’ve already made. Personally, I don’t see any reason to do it again for a secondary character. I know there will be comments like, “Go play D4,” or “POE isn’t for casuals,” but sometimes it would be nice if people could put themselves in someone else’s shoes. For those of us who only have a few hours a day to play, after having already invested so much time into the game, we’d like to enjoy 1 hour of fun and satisfaction—not frustration from redoing content we’ve already completed. A little empathy, please. Last bumped on Dec 20, 2024, 3:45:53 PM
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1 character per season is my rule of thumb that ive been applying to both poe and diablo for years and has worked out well. sometimes you have to reroll once if you want to switch to some newly discovered meta build or chose something that sucks. it is what it is.
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" Bro its literally the same as league starting in poe1, the first time you clear the campaign its going to be a bit harder and slower due to lack of gear and currency, as soon as you hit endgame on 1 char you should have accumulated enough currency and gear to pretty much cut in half the time it takes to finish campaign on your next char, while also making it substantially easier. Once you get some gear you just crush the entire campaign. Last edited by Nycgx#7306 on Dec 16, 2024, 2:07:43 PM
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Lol it's nothing like poe 1, that campaign is 5-8 hours into 3-6 hours, poe 2 is like 30-40 hours into 15-20 minimum.
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I truly hope and wish that something is done to make creating a second character more enjoyable. It really doesn’t make any sense to replay the campaign :/
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Having 2 high-level chars, doing the campaign on third one now. I use extra skill gem support slots, upgrading quality of main spell, tier-2 and tier-3 support gems, unique items, upgrading my weapons, going for full damage-only nodes - everything just melts and I just rush through maps mostly dodge-rolling and ignoring everything except main objectives and bosses/events with permanent bonuses. And 20% low-level boots, of course.
So just funnel some nasty op things to your alt and keep in mind that you no longer need to do the entire map, you get most exp from quests, and you only focus on bosses with permanent bonuses. |
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This honestly may not be the game for you if a brand new campaign is already making you sick of it.
Not to mention that its been well received. |
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" No, in Diablo it makes no sense to replay the campaign - ‘cause you’re just wandering around the same areas doing essentially nothing. PoE has a campaign that’s actually enjoyable. To make it able to be skipped, they would have to do a lot of adjusting to the other systems. I mean, what would we do if the campaign were skipped? How would we level? D4 made the leveling campaign intentionally short and put in a Helltide, dungeon, and Whisper mechanics specifically for leveling. PoE has nothing like that. We’d all be bored as hell doing Maps from level 1 onward. |
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I understand that replaying the campaign the second time is a bit faster. I know you don’t have to clear the entire map—just complete the quests, kill the bosses, and move on. I get that.
But this isn’t about how to do the campaign faster; it’s about the real need to redo it! Do you honestly think there’s a good reason to keep forcing players to replay the same campaign over and over for every new character they create? I’ve done the entire campaign. I’ve seen everything. I didn’t enjoy the Mercenary, and all I wanted was to start fresh with a new character and farm my items in the maps. Couldn’t they create something where, if the character is <60 and the waystone lvl == 1, the monsters in maps scale to the character’s level so we can level up by running maps instead? Once again, I ask for empathy for those who have limited time to enjoy themselves. This isn’t about figuring out how to optimize the campaign after already spending 80 hours on a main character. It’s about asking the real question: “Does replaying the campaign really need to be mandatory?” | |
" But you’d still be doing something over and over again. Even though we can skip the campaign in Diablo, for example, we’re just leveling in Helltides and using Whispers. Sure, it’s arguably faster than the campaign because we’re not running around the world as much - but PoE has a pretty streamlined and straightforward campaign. We aren’t spending a lot of times in cutscenes or fighting useless bosses. You could argue the maps are pretty large, and some of them need an adjustment, though. Overall I don’t see the problem. Would forcing you to run maps instead really make that much of a difference? I think that would be boring as hell. |
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