Capaign playthrough every league? Not even funny

I did it on 6 chars total so far and I am sick of it, do I really have to do it every league?

Can we just skip it next league?

Curently I am in one char in actu 5 and second is in act 6 and I had enough and already thinking to go play something else.

Yea POE 2 is brutal to play through every few months for a league reset. Fuuuuuck that.

ppl are sick of doing it on poe1 and it only takes 3-4 hrs when you know what you're doing
8-10 if you know what you're doing but still slow at it

meanwhile poe2 campaign on average takes what?? i don't even know. 20-30 hrs? and it isn't even completed yet.


the campaign is really fun. its super fun actually, the first time you do it. after that it gets tiresome pretty quick
and keep in mind we're repeating the first 3 acts so it makes the tedium even more apparent

Yeah... was watching one of Pohx's shorts, and he made probably what is the best comment about the campaign, but was using in explanation of why ascendancy-respec is 100% vital as an option.

He said that when people opt for just not playing, rather than starting over and having to play through the campaign again, means something needs to change.

The problem is, remove the ascendancy part, and replace with league starts.

The way GGG is doing things for POE2 campaign is to make the trash take longer to get past. But, see, here's the problem... we call it trash very much in the same sense as we have trash we gotta take to the curb on garbage days - it's a necessity, so we gotta do it. But, we don't want to take any longer than is absolutely necessary.

Taking the trash 50 feet? Ok, cool. Taking it a mile down the road and by foot? NAH, bro. We're gonna find another collection company, or we're gonna move elsewhere, or we're gonna just load it up and carry it ourselves.

Yeah, weird analogy, I get it... but point remains true: the insistence to make the trash fights 'weighty, more meaningful' isn't adding anything to the game, it's actually killing it.

I go through POE1's campaign no less than 4 times per league, and never have issues doing it again each time. If I have to do it 5+ times, I'll generally opt to Delve to get as far as I can (my record is level 91 before I fight Kitava the FIRST time, btw, with 3 Labs done too! lol)...

But, POE1's campaign is good in that respect. Plus, the build diversity helps greatly towards replayability.

POE2? They have greatly limited build diversity by trying to connect classes and weapons so much it's like playing D3 or D4 for build diversity... they've made the trash fights take way too long, they've greatly limited our movement speed to force us to deal with every combat, made zone maps MASSIVE so it takes forever to get across them, and so much more.

As a result, it's become a slog. It's tedious to the extreme. It's extra just to be extra, nothing actually added, just more for more's sake. It's no different than games like Starfield, where they added size and 'content' but none of it actually makes any difference, and actually causes the quality to decrease. POE2 has a 30 hour campaign they made take 60 hours for no reason at all.

That's going to kill their game in the long run, because after the first couple leagues, the majority of their playerbase will just stop coming back.

Yeah having to do the campaign over each league with the slower combat and bigger zones is just not the one. Paired with the bosses needing you to be leveled above them to easily kill them even with resists. It doesn't add anything for me but frustration which eventually kills my motivation and I log out.
I never felt annoyed or frustrated going through the POE 1 campaign, with the crafting bench helping to get missing stats or resists. POE 2 relies on rng crafting which feels bad and majority of the time produces a fat turd. We have mediocre drops for the most part and no reliable way of crafting to help alleviate this. Fix this dogsh*t ass game ggg.

its 15 hours im sure you'll manage