Why POE2 is dying

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eldheim#2436 wrote:

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TheWroth#7505 wrote:

Ascendancy:

I believe a lot of people like roguelike style mechanics, I find the Sanctum Trial real fun, hard but rewarding (I almost always drop something interesting). The 4th boss is a problem to me though, I can easily defeat it, but the "instakill" mechanic I can't do alone, as i'm not using MS boots and other things like that.

The Trial of Chaos is pure RNG, but it isn't thaaaaat hard, the unfair part of it is that you need to do, if you are lucky, at least 3 times to face the trialmaster and get the last ascendancy point.

Crafting:

Although craft should get some atention right now, I don't think that make something like "exalted to be more common" would be good, exalted is common already.. even alone or with 1 or 2 party members it's possible to drop a lot of it.

Armor:

A lot of friends of mine run warriors build and actually tank a lot of damage, they are not immortal gods but to say that "armor builds are dead" makes no sense.

Melee:

Same thing as before, to say "that melee is dead" is joke. i'm not wasting time in this point.

Passive tree and life nodes:

It would be good to see more life nodes in the passive tree, but the amount of ES nodes is not unfair. I agree that we need a buff by having more life nodes in the tree, but ES is doing fine rn

XP loss:

As frustrating as I know it is to lose 10% of XP every death, meaning a loss of good hours of farming in the endgame when you reach 90+, I really don't understand why people cry so much about it. lvl 100 is supposed to be a challenge and without the xp loss there is no challenge whatsoever. "uhhh but I need those points to finish my build"... I rarelly see a build that need to pass lvl 91 to be finished, those 9 last points should not be relevant for you to be able to "do your thing". the 1 portal is unfair though, I don't want the 6 portal to be usable again after deaths, but we should be able to refry the map at least 1 time, some forgiveness would be nice. We also could get the revive mechanic in maps active. if they do something like "every player can only revive an ally 1 time per map would be good, and if the player is revived before the end of the map he doesn't lose any XP. The game will still be punishing we have some options to work around.

Maps:

All maps with bosses and something like the checkpoints would be great, I agree. I really enjoy most of the boss fights in this game.. but the lack of maps with bosses in the endgame is sad.

And no, i'm not a pro player with meta builds. i'm a casual player that played for quite some time the 1st game. playing PoE 2 as Infernalist using a bunch of different minions and without srs because I dont like it.

Trust me bro, some friends says its fine, but you don't play it yourself?
See what Kripp said. See what the actual leaked numbers on armor says.

Or better: TRY IT.

Then lets discuss it. Because I did.

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TheWroth#7505 wrote:

I don't need to actually play with a class that I don't care or like to "discuss with you". the fact that you struggle with it don't make you more reliable than having casual friends also playing with the class.

I do prefer to trust my friends than a random guy that says "something is dead" because he tried and failed with it. I understand melee and armor needs a lot of improvements, mainly in the armor part as, like Kripp said in its video, a Cloak of Flame itself does pretty much the same job as a fully armored character.. but I can't see anyone taking the "melee and armor is dead" seriously.

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

When es is 3-4 times more effective defense then its obvious something is wrong, which is why every top build is using es. They need to do a big nerf to es, give us more life nodes and either buff armor or give us more mechanics to multiply armor mitigation with, like endurance charges or ways to convert damage

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Amorencinteroph#4321 wrote:

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

When es is 3-4 times more effective defense then its obvious something is wrong, which is why every top build is using es. They need to do a big nerf to es, give us more life nodes and either buff armor or give us more mechanics to multiply armor mitigation with, like endurance charges or ways to convert damage

You should not nerf a defensive mechanic one-third of the intended classes use just because of the top 1% of builds.

Any casual player would basically have to abandon using energy shield as a defensive mechanic and end up building Life. Which is what PoE 1 was after Energy Shield got nerfed to the ground so that it required massive farming for end game gear to make it competitive.

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Strickl3r#3809 wrote:

Armor needs a buff, not energy shield a nerf. It's not like average gamers are roflstomping ssfhc with energy shield.
Anyway games surely not dying it's not even out yet. You can try a demo.

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

So if they buff life and nerf es until their about equal. That would force every1 to go life.... what logic are you using?

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

Its irrelevant what the top builds are using. The problem is that you can litterally just get the most mediocre gear, put 6 points into your skill tree and your suddenly at 9k es ontop of ur 2-2.3k base hp.

While even with almost full t1 life rolls on all your gear you can barely reach 4k life. And against big hits your armor will mitigate what? 15-20% if your lucky?

So thats 11.5k effective hp vs 4.8k (if im generous)