Boring af?

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eternalJOURNEYofTHEloser#5873 wrote:

Its just this weird mixture of being too easy and suddenly getting oneshot by some white mobs without knowing what killed you and how much you got hit for.

Combat logs are in game for a reason and a good reason.

Yeah that's the poe1 parts spilling over. They should get rid of those.

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Hardstack#7684 wrote:

After all the hype on YouTube I was very excited to start POE2, only to be disappointed.

I started playing as a sorceress and all I do is kite monsters, spam spells, maybe get some loot and repeat. Bosses are pretty much this too except that you have to dodge roll every now and then. Overall it does not feel very challenging and kind of pointless?

Does the game become more fun at higher levels? Or perhaps I have to try hardcore to make the fights more exciting? What do you guys like about this game? Genuine question.

That's literally the ARPG genre that you just described. Finding loot through killing things is pretty much the game.

The gameplay is where games differ slightly but they're all basically the same. Itemization. Drop rates. Character building. Monster difficulty. Speed. These are the basic knobs developers turn.

GGG has leaned in hard on the low drops rates and slower gameplay in POE2. Some people will like this. Others wont.

Just find the game that hits as close to your sweet spot as possible. POE1 is the closest for me.

Overall the spell interactions, visuals and feel of combat are great in PoE2.

Build diversity is trash, Map layouts and campaign aren't made for live service.

Monolith endgame from PoE2 is probably the biggest trash I've encountered in any ARPG and it baffles me how this is possible when Atlas of Worlds was the best endgame system ever made.

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terby#7562 wrote:

I'm not having fun at all.
I really don't like POE 2.

same....the end game is so dull compared to poe1

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StrykerxS77x#8221 wrote:

I am curious what you were expecting?

Yeah! The game literally looks like it was shown on promo videos, from the devs and from the streamers. Nothings changed, people loved the game. But now they started to play and disappointed. These "hypers" don't like the game anymore. What happened with the army of cantwaiter, hypers, lolpogs? Ah... here is! The promo vids and the actual gameplay HAS NOTHING in common. People love the videos, not actual game.

early access is an excuse to make a slow boring game lol

D3 campaign blows away poe2.

The game is so boring, especially in compare to PoE1.

Path of exile 1 still exists.
Let POE2 be for different folks eh.
Some people find POE1 boring.
Different Games for Different Dames.

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ZaruenVoresu#5823 wrote:

Path of exile 1 still exists.
Let POE2 be for different folks eh.
Some people find POE1 boring.
Different Games for Different Dames.

The last POE league was released five months ago (Settlers started on July 26th), with a possible new league maybe up to two months from now if POE 2 development doesn't take priority and delays it even more.

A good portion of POE players don't go back to a league once they're done with it, nor do they play standard. They do however, play a lot when a new league with new content comes out.

We didn't get a new POE league because of POE 2, yet players who might prefer POE over POE 2 constantly get told to go back to POE 1. Sure, had there been a recent league release, that might be a reasonable suggestion, but as things stand at the moment, it's almost like adding insult to injury.

Some players who prefer POE 1 over POE 2 are only playing the latter because there hasn't been any new POE 1 content for five months now. Some of these players are obviously going to complain about what they don't enjoy in POE 2.

Having had a new POE league ready for release for late November or early December would have gone a long way in ensuring that a larger percentage of the overall POE player-base would be having fun right now, while also maintaining continued goodwill.

I understand there are logistical difficulties in developing two games simultaneously and unexpected problems and issues will arise, but from a purely financial perspective, wouldn't more happy players possibly mean more supporter pack sales? I'm guessing it was a calculated risk they were willing to take, but risking possibly alienating a portion of the player-base (that made the second game possible) seems a bit baffling to me.