My experience this far

There are a bunch of things that are making my experience weird playing poe2 at the moment.


I think my biggest issue is that every single buff comes with a downside. Specially in ascendency nodes.

So, instead of having a straight buff that comes with a "ou yeah. Now lets roll..."
Feels more like. "Ok, now I have some more damage but I have another problem I didnt had... Lets see how I manage this." And thats not a good feeling.

Also I miss the feeling of having an idea and build my character around it.
That pretty much what I were doing in POE 1 for years.

I see one unique item that interact with a passive node or certain skill and I make a build all around it.
Here that posibility feels completly off.
If u have certain character, there are maximum 2 or 3 avivable options for building it. And is even worse if u are going for certain ascendency, the amount of options narrows even more...

I dnt know. In poe 1 I´ve builded 4 different characters around molten strike.
One were all about maxing proyectiles and making them go back to you.
Other playing with auras.
Other were a strenght stacker with elemental leech.
Other were an armour stacker with dreamfeather...

Some were Templars other were juggernauts. Still all of them were playable. Some better some worse but all playable at the end.

Thats what I miss the most playing POE2.
I have a completly lack of meaningfull interactions that I feel interested about.

And even when I find a combo, seems that is not the way it were intended to interact or get somehow cutted off from the menu.
And I dnt mean nerfs. I dnt mind about nerfs. But there are many, "this only work with" "Doesent apply to" wich simply cut off the fun.
I feel the lack of freedom.


I wanted to make finally a minion build since I were necromancer in Diablo 2 and I havent been abble to play a propper necro since then.
So I though, ok this game finally seems to have a good IA for minions. Lets see what I can do.

So I Theorycrafted some sort of lets make the minion apply burning so I can cast on ignite something on top and also run SRS meanwhile that procs itself. So I went for that idea for the release...
Turns out that the interaction were simply 2 hard to pull off that I ended with the arsonist-flame wall-srs that everyone had.
In defenses I had some more luck and I could get the armour of damage taken as fire and build around it with the infernalist...

However,
Now Im playing the lich. Im about to get an ascendancy and I have to go for the mana 5% and build tons of regen.
Then I have to go for the mana regen using life as the resource for that...

I dnt know. All of this feels really weird.
Ascendancy nodes are like unique items from poe 1 with the difference that u were using those uniques only if u really wanted them in the endgame for building around it.

But ascendancy in POE1 were more like .. Ur minions have unholy might so now them deal chaos damage and aplly withered. A straight buff.
OR check bone barrier from poe 1. Come on....
Or your offerings now aplly on you.
Those were ascendancy... And those were exciting cause u could really build something around any of them.

In POE2 instead, u are forced to build your character in a certain way in order to compensate their downsides all the time.
I do not want that.

I want to get a buff with a chance to leave it like a simole buff for my character, or a buff to completly build my whole character around at my choice as player.

Having to go for mana regen now just cause I want the unholy might in POE2 is a pain in the arse.
And also there are only 3 options with witch,. go full curses. Go full chaos damage. Go minions dealing extra chaos damage.
And... Thats it.

Where are those melee characters as witch that were using offerings to heal? Is there any chance to go off meta here or create a build that noone really has?
Cos feels like I have to go for whatever really work wich will b probably around 2-3 different builds that everyone have once again.

I would not like going to Gazzy to copy his build. I like to get inspiration from streammers for certain things. But playing the same build...? I would better cut my veins instead.