"If I'd Asked People What They Wanted, They Would've Said Faster Horses."

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1453R#7804 wrote:

How much 'honest and measured' feedback have you seen? because for every one piece of "honest and measured feedback" I've seen on this board, I've seen seven hundred whinging assholes demanding all kinds of crap that has no damn place in this game.

It's funny - my brother's deep into endgame (I am not because I have to work a full-time job and also play multiple characters), and he's consistently said his biggest complaints are that the game is too much like PoE1. His level 85+ Warrior slaughters packs with a single click, but despite having excellent defenses he gets obliterated by half the endgame effects out there. He wants the endgame to slow down - for players and monsters both to deal less damage, so the skill combo system Grinding Gear's created can come into play. He wants controlling effects to matter more and for attrition to be a bigger deal, with enemies wearing the player down rather than just dropping him with a volley of magical mystical chaos explosions or one dude with an exploding tank-cannon crossbow that pegged a lucky shot from offscreen.

He's blasting through the endgame the way all the screaming yaybos in this forum insist they want to be able to do and he hates it. He wants the feeling from running the campaign back, where he was actually fighting the demon hordes of Wraeclast. Trading blows, imposing control effects while denying enemies theirs, using tactics and positioning to set up heavy payoffs. Not just "click Sunder, see if my stun threshold lasts until the Sunder goes off and kills everything on the screen."

Is his feedback any less valid than all the PoE1 Supervets shrieking and shrieking and shrieking for their Faster Horse?

PoE2 is at its absolute best in campaign play when it's most differentiated from PoE1, and I'm honestly despairing for my other friends all trying and really enjoying the game in the early Acts. When they hit the endgame Atlas Delve, are they gonna bounce again the same way they bounced off PoE1? It's one thing to play the first game for an hour or two, say "this sucks" and bounce. it's entirely another to have an awesome time during the campaign, spend your twenty or thirty or whatever-ty hours getting to Endgame, only for the Endgame to be PoE1 and say "well...this sucks again. Fuck" and lose the awesome thing you were having fun with.