done with POE 1 until some sort of revert or legacy 3.13 server. Tired of non stop dying in maps

Ever since 3.14 when they made stealth buffs to mobs that they eventually had to admit to early and, well all, mapping has been much too stressful. The monster buffs were too much, ESPECIALLY early in mapping and the map modifiers, which they even doubled down on, were too harsh. Then they go and change the game for the vision in 3.15 and 3.21. They ruin crafting, especially early crafting with harvest rework, where we used to be able to make some sort of viable gear set for early mapping. Now it's just id scrolling your way to success and if you're not on a streamer client you're dying 50 times to red maps. if you even get to them because every map you vaal turns into another map or adds 10 mods that brick your builds. just get rid of map BONUS completion and let just completing the map work. doing it for the 7th year is why I usually only make half a character and stop playing now. That and the dying.

I've made more characters in 3.25 but only in the pohx and phrecia leagues because i played poe 2 and even current poe 1 feels like heaven compared to that garbage. but now i'm done and i'm not going to play 3.26 if it even happens because I'm just tired of dying so much.

Poe used to be a fun game I could spend 500 hours a league in if I wanted to because I could make a build and play it. Now I make a new build and try to level it and I die. with all the end game gear i'll get and this is every character. I'll get 1 shot by nothing or have a rare with 1000000 soul eater stacks. or 1000 mobs that resist my damage or 1 shot me with everything i build to resist.

I'm just rambling and being incoherent.... the game just feels so bad to play and it only gets harder over my 7 years of playing because you keep making it harder for me but easier for ben

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Double lol to the expectation of a "revert", and term of skill issue along with the weird post to advertise a build worse than rf.

I dont look at peoples builds or anything before posting.
Im not sure what you play.

But you are right.
The game is less fun, and has a stench of B.O about it.
Like it's too sweaty and wont rinse.

Peak fun was around harvest league.
For me it was Incursion, the best most fun league i ever had.
The memory of it is what allows be to slog through much of what has come after.

The design philosophy has changed for the worse.
AN mobs were are and always will be a huge mistake.
The random BS nature of it with combinations that defy common sense make
hardcore just another slot machine handle.

The crafting direction of PoE2, terrible just tone deaf terrible.
The unappealing reward system.. have a sword +10 and lose 2 fingers.
You get +3 gold per map and hemorrhoids.

GGG better remember what fun is soon.
Nobody is invested in this ...

Idols to control end game .... more random time wasting BS
Might as well be idols in PoE2 towers ... more random time wasting BS
PoE2 cant craft anything ... random time wasting BS.
Grind crap maps for hours so perhaps with luck you can get idols to make grinding maps NOT suck. (they shoulda been fun from the start)
I have honestly stopped playing to vacuum the floor cause it grants a greater sense of accomplishment .

Yeah, I just posted earlier about similar experience. Of course the first and only response even when I had mentioned it was only a t3 magic map and a build with 1.5M dps could not touch it, was hur dur must be a build issue. It was a soul eater mob with extra life. Could not even make it's shield bar move, on A FN blue T3 map!

You gotta train, man

You know what really reduced my death count? Paying attention to the mods on maps and content. Like picking remnants for expedition without considering the consequence, was so focused on the bonus reward I wasn't thinking how unlikely I would be able to survive the mods, especially when combined.

However, I will say that even on my dated tanky RF character, I still have to fear death, and using it for so long means everything else feels that much more fragile.

just play content at the level you feel save with your build.

if your investment into poe is low, why should the game give you huge endgame rewards?

The OPs name feels a little ironic.