Path of Souls....

I played POE1 for lot of hours for few years after release of the game stopping after

I always loved how chill it was after doing a full day job cleaning some map, knowing every point i put in my tree its gonna make a difference.

Hitting hard map and boss unprepared would result in death sentance, heavy end game boss were real dps check but everything was "right" since everything was clear, its mean to be hard at this point

How every bit of stuff help me more to survive more / deal more and things

Always loved the abundance of unique item/ gem / amulet / ring, but the most lovely thing for me was the freedom of doing 6L funny under the radar build and all the specific item build associate around some item.

I put 7 char through these year around 85 90, get few league, and stopped after reaching all my goal in the game, cleaning lab and shaper multiple time (also die multiple time too)

When i started the EA i was happy but it slowly but surely fell of at a speed i would never expected.

I think there is a huge issue with progression and difficulty of the game especially for the only melee class at moment but i will get back to it later

Few of the biggest issue FOR ME directly relate to difficulty and had just made me stop playing the game yesterday after 150h.

-There is somthing wrong with the xp, on POE1 i checked my map stash and there isnt any map over T8 meaning and as far i remember i grinded most of my xp to 91 92 with T8 and lab Somthing litteraly impossible in POE2.

At 84 i already need to buy T12 and more, any map around t8 or below wouldnt even grant me 1% of xp

-Most of the gem are linked to a weapon type, curently it's barely nothing but as soon as other melee class will be release its gonna be a huge mess and lack of diversity for sword / axe user that would prevent them to make non meta build or what was the CORE of POE1, the diversity and the freedom.

I want to use sunder with a two handed axe why not

-Speaking about gem, any broke ass in POE1 could have a 5 link or build one really easily allow anyone to enjoy a nice experience even at low level.

I dont know if some people realize but in 150 hours and reaching 87 on my main and 2 50ish on alt i had NEVER get any jeweler orb that would allow me to put more than 3 socket? 3 FUCKIN SOCKET IN ENDGAME exuce me? Why is it so rare? Why i have to feel like a subclass peon for not dropping single gem upgrade socket ?

-Gem also got big nerf all around, do i have to really speak about how sunder and how warrior spell feel ass? How most of the generic support got nerfed to the ground like slowing projectile speed? Before gaving nearly +30% damage of the spell used now didnt gave shit

-The TREMENDEOUS nerf of the hp and mana potion, and most important the disparition of all specific flask (move speed, increase elementary resist, increase armor and thing) why at least not let us one flask slot?

-The nerf in the amount recovered was so hard i didnt think it was possible to nerf somthing as hard as this.

In fact i dont even think in any game somthing was nerfed this hard. A random lvl 65 mana potion would gave me 3320 mana over 7 sec, when in POE2 i barely get 900 , they way they recharge also has changed.

The amount of mana i get from a lvl 65 pot is less than à lvl 25 pot in POE1
Ths is a 65 pot from poe1....

-The punishing system of 1 death per map, before losing xp wasnt really an issue cause you could enter the map again "clean your mistake" eventually and dont feel even as bad a now.

Its even more of an issue since at early stage of atlas all of your map will be shit level forcing you to buy basicaly way highter tier on the market.

-The absolute destruction of the warrior, losing the endurance charge that was making you tanky in past, rendering rage nearly useless, gave the warrior insane cast time and cooldown, armor even more useless that it was.

Its the only melee class available for the moment, and they have litteraly put a midle finger on it.

I never wanted path of exile to become as hard as this honestly, the game difficulty is nowhere near what it was, running with 5 potion / flask alone was somthing that helped tremendeously.

The game is way too hard / demanding (no im not gonna farm shit tons of map without gaining any xp, investing thousand ex in mf stuff for buying stuff that will barely help me out that I NEVER NEEDED IN POE1.


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