I gave this league 12 h but POE2 is Just Anti-Fun

I have tried several characters now through the first few areas of acts. I got varying different distances with each and the commonality is that I quit all of them. The game is unfun. Its like a chore. Yes, I am sure it appeals to a SMALL amount of players. But the majority don't have something to prove Dark Souls style and don't think this is fun. Here is a summary of the unfun.

1. Sprint is badly made. You dodge roll into a run ... ok ... but it takes time and is useless for avoiding any AOE attacks. It also is very prone to getting rolled by a random enemy. Maybe you should make a new skill ... call it ... uh ... maybe "Dash" or "Frost Blink" or even "Flame Dash" to add variety? No? Sigh.

2. The game is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW in acts in the beginning and it never speeds up. Someone thought it would be fun to be in a constant tactical battle with 40 mobs running at you all pounding you and you constantly scrambling too survive. I would really love to know who thinks this is fun on the dev team.

3. Melee is still a mess. Warriors were nerfed ... actually ANY melee was nefed, Huntress, Monk, any melee. The only way to play any of them is ranged and kite the flood of enemies.

4. Despite the devs thinking we should fight some kind of "visceral combat game that requires tactics to defeat each enemy" the enemies come at you in a flood. If you dont AOE you just die. There is no variety here. AOE or die.

5. Because of 4, the caster classes are playable and any non caster isnt. I got the caster chars the furthest before I bailed on them. Every melee class got rolled. When GGG says they buffed melee, dont believe them. The BEST skill gem to use in melee is your weapon's default attack.

6. Players are still imprisoned in the build GGG wants them in. Variety is neither possible nor, it appears, desired. You cant have Chayula monk with chaos minions. They made Chayula monk skills freeze and shock? Really? Weak. Lazy, no creativity. "YOU WILL PLAY ONLY THE BUILDS WE ALLOW," Someone is probably screeching at GGG. The tree still makes it hard for a monk to get to spell damage and attack damage at the same time. Were Righteous Fire in this game it would be built in such a way that ONLY an infernalist can use it. We cant have any variety here.

Meh thats all I can think of at this time. I was so excited for the league because I thought they listened to the players. I even posted a positive thread but as I played deeper and deeper in the game it became apparent that "the Vision" hasn't changed.

This game is not Path of Exile 2. Its some other title. And it is, IMHO, doomed.

12h and I am done playing.

same uinstalled the game got stuck at torvian. gonna play poe 1 instead this has nothing to do with arpg its just arpg elements with souls like game

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jordi1991#0899 написал:

same uinstalled the game got stuck at torvian. gonna play poe 1 instead this has nothing to do with arpg its just arpg elements with souls like game

100%

Same here, deleted the game from my Xbox, my minion build level 95 had 25 skeletal snipers dealing each 18.900 damage. Now i have 14 skeletal snipers dealing 14.000 damage each. This is ridiculous.

Yes, I feel the same. I played back in December and gave it a good try with about 40 hours, but I just couldn’t force myself to keep playing it was very boring. The combat felt really slow, and having to dodge roll all the time was annoying. I tried it again this morning and almost instantly got the same feeling. Also, the Dark Souls–style boss fights just aren’t for me, and since this game is like 80% boss fights, I just can’t do it. I’ve come to the understanding that this game just isn’t for me. I’m just glad PoE1 is getting updates again.

The problem POE2 has is that they keep making massive, sweeping balance changes and basically nerfing everything before each new "league" (if you can even call it that).

So there aren't any reliable league starters, leading to people being forced to play the lottery on whether the build they pick will be good. That in turn leads to a lot of bricked builds getting progression blocked, which is simply bad game design.

Players want their league starters. Something they know can do the content. Not every player should have to homebrew builds and find something that works. The people advocating for this just want to see other people suffer, and their opinions should be ignored.

It's a complete slog now.

I was excited to get in ASAP even tho I'm in EU and the season started basically around midnight my time so I played until sunrise. Now I'm just exhausted from the slow paced unfun crawl through the campaign. The first few days of EA in v0.1 were perfect then they just gradually kept making it worse because GGG is so insistent on making the game painfully slow and punishing instead of fun. I feel like I'm shackled and GGG keeps tightening the shackles every patch.

I have a collection on Steam client called 'trash'. It's there since 0.2. It seems it will never leave that collection.

I'm 100% experiencing this too.

I have no idea WHO exactly asked for "Ruthless" in POE and yet there it was... and now this individual seemed to have been involved in POE2. It's a slog. It's not fun. It's so damn slow. It's overly difficult. It's resetting zones and bosses on any death.

It's darksouls. Full stop.

All I can ask for of GGG is that they branch off an entire dev team for POE1 and continue to develop POE1.

By all means: make this POE2 game for like 10% of the masses... if you have an audience for it: congrats! But this game is so night and day to POE1. It's comparable only to POE1 Ruthless (which coincidentally NO ONE plays).

PLEASE give us a new POE1 league every 3 months with new content.

I'm not here to take anything away from POE2 enjoyers by the way. I get it: I suck, I need to get good, etc etc etc.... and I honestly am happy for you that you get a new game you can love and enjoy.

HOWEVER - I also want to love and enjoy POE1 some more... and consistently provided new content and leagues there.

+1.

Literally everything is designed with a downside or to be annoying against players. Everything. It's worse than 0.2 so far. 0.2 had Lightning Spear. 0.3 "build diversity" is that every build is equally worthelss and weak.

I watch streamers and everything is so unfun.

Abysses are activated by default... Yeah so great to have many OP monsters activated by default in acts.

They even lied with 0.3 being filled with buffs to everyone, when in fact everything good got destroyed again. Like Volt Support and many other supports, many nodes in the tree etc.

Sprinting is literally a joke instead of normal movement skills from PoE1. It's unuseable and even got that "twist" when you end sprinting and stuck for 0.5 seconds or something.

I have to force myself to clear story because I want to read dialogues (and uninstall most likely unless a build that can clear properly is emerged).

Meanwhile PoE1:



(Played a lot and never bored. I want to play ARPG. Shouldn't call it Path of Exile 2 otherwise. Should just stick with PoE1, make a league each 3 month and accept that no one wants vision.)