Leaving POE 2 League for now. Not Fun. Too Slow & Painful. Pity - wanted to play more.

POE 2 is OKish.

Good
New ascendancies, new campaign (some cool stuff), new skills.
Loot was ok.
Gambling Strongbox is fun - More stuff like this would be great.
Equipping Rogue Exiles with uniques is good and enjoyable mechanics but are there any chase items? IDK


Would have definitely liked to play longer to test out the new things but the fundamental core problems remain.

Let me point out I am not just a gamer. Have a job and other responsibilities I don't want POE 2 or any other game to be the only life. But it doesn't mean that I can't, don't or haven't gone crazy :). In many POE 1 leagues have spent no sleep days to play. Still do it. WHY? Because it is fun. After a certain time and resource investment it becomes fun. Chasing chase items, getting them and them becoming stronger + faster is fun. POE 1 doesn't feel like another job or task. POE 2 does

1. I feel the campaign is still too over-tuned in some places. First time is fine but repetition with new character at these over-tuned locations/bosses is just boring.

2. One of the main reasons is lack of speed and movement speed options. Campaign and early maps I can understand but once you have invested time and multiple divines, taken your character to 90, invested in gear and skill tree slow sluggish play is just boring. No MS Flasks, little movement speed tree options, absolutely pathetic movement speed skills ....

3. End game is boring. AND I DONT UNDERSTAND HOW IS THE END GAME DIFFERENT OR BETTER THAN POE 1. Let's keep aside better but how is it different.

Same old breach, delirium, essence, atlas tree, strongbox etc.... concept/mechanics from POE 1. Everything is same just more poorly designed.

Oh wait the unique strongboxes especially the one where you gamble with gold is absolutely fun. Need more such new ideas and things not poor imitations of POE 1.

4. Towers concept and the end game is still boring, sluggish. Uselessly circuitous map layouts feel boring and time wasting. Endless endgame concept is fine but execution is absolutely poor and needs a rework.

5. Lack of chase items. Can't comment on this. Dont have the energy and motivation to explore them in this slow sluggish painful boring POE 2.

6. Wanted to try Spectres. Might Sill Try. Any Minion experts please comment on the state of this new introduction. I havent found many people excited about this so it might bemeh at best. Why introduce such a popular minion and not even make strong enough to be explored by many. I might be wrong here; perhaps spectre expert can comment.

7. 43% of Ranger and 50% + lightning spear doesn't paint a very rosy picture from build diversity point of view. Nerfing overetuned stuff is ok but this is just again boring



Maybe POE 2 is for people who have a lot of time to invest in the game

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GGG need to upload new content as fast as they can
Only 2 weeks of the league, and on Twitch there are 4k viewers for this game, this has never happened in the entire history of poe1 and poe2

WoW....you needed 2 weeks to recognize it????!!!

After playing ARPG over 15 years with many different games I released it after 1h playing with patch 0.2.....
Game is unplayable (game is on state for fanatics only)

This *is* the vision.

Unless they abandon the vision, the game is destined to fail.

The best solution is to leave Jonathan and 1 intern working on PoE 2
Update the graphics and bring in WASD for PoE 1
Then give Mark lead dev of PoE 1 and move everyone else onto the PoE 1 team.

T H E ^^^^ V I S I O N !!!

Well..i really tried. And gave up. Playing since 13 years and the first iteration of EA was good, i had fun and played a good chunk of endgame.

Waited a bit before i jumped on the actual league and gave up today as i hit a wall and need to kite white Mobs.

No Loot, no currency to buy a new bowm gambling fails for all my gold and nothing drops..replaying areas makes no sense with Gold drops in low numbers. 3 Exalts during playtime (act 2 near ending).

Enjoy if you enjoy the actual state, i do not. Maybe next patch i will give it a try again..maybe not.

Dont want to repeat all the threads on reddit and here, we all know whats wrong i assume, but THE VISION...yeah...if you have visions, go visit a psychiatrist.

Till next league or year!

You arent stacking enough Light Radius

I dont understand why no one is stacking light radius. It has to be OP as heck. All my drops have it.

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Fartknnocker#7925 wrote:

You arent stacking enough Light Radius

I dont understand why no one is stacking light radius. It has to be OP as heck. All my drops have it.

Lol to that one.

Game feels quite empty of content.
Balance is not there yet.
There are not enough interactions or gems to really create different builds. Ascendancys have 2 many downgrades that force ur build 2 much to go in a certain direction, cutting of personalization.
Passive tree nodes doesent have enough mecanics. I find them much more boring than poe 1. Also create a brand new character is not even close to the same level of funny theorycrafting.
In poe 1, somehow, I were abble to make anything work at some level as long as it made sense. Here is imposible. U must play a super well designed build or a broken interaction and u still may dont do enough damage anyways.

I personally think getting to maps just by SSFing your own gear on league start shouldn't be as painful as it is if you're playing off meta.

Ideally you should be able to just lean into any main damage skill and build around that and it should "work". Sure some will be better than others but it shouldn't be like a 20 second boss fight vs. an 8 minute boss fight. Or blowing up normal packs in one hit vs a single white mob taking like 12 hits.

ARPG without loot and goals = boring desaster