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

Can't f'n take it... I was so excited for .3 and it's just as bad as .2. The gameplay is SO slow, no fun and no matter how you gear up, level up or spec your tree the game always stays a step ahead of you. At no point do you feel OP. It's not fun always needing to run from mobs while you try to perfectly land a combo. Screw combos and this slow ass, unrewarding gameplay. I'll stick with POE1...

With you here. The sprint sounded so good on paper and it's just so bad. It's useful for some parts, but WHY this turn rate?! Why is there such a delay before I stop sprinting to change direction or do something else?

Can I not spend 20 hours on a campaign each patch?!

I played melee. It took me an age to get it done. It was horrible. I re-rolled ranged and this is literally an entirely different game

I understand the frustration. I play only self found gear. First i made a warrior with my friend. Going full fire. Need to spam screen full of fire to kill white trash mobs.. damage is just not there.

Then tried solo monk and could not go further than act1.. feels horrible. No abilities to destroy all the monsters chasing me. Abyss = instant skip.

Then tried solo sorc. Act1 felt horrible. Could not do it. Came back after two days and struggled through.. now acts 3 and 4 it feels good when my damage is enough. I really like it so far.

The first 15 levels of the game is something that feels awful because you dont have the abilities to do anything about the situation when a pack of monsters is chasing you.



I think the problem is that if you dont have enough damage and good aoe skill to kill all the monsters before they get to you, then you are in trouble and the game feels horrible bad. It really should not be like this.

How is SSF Monk bad? You have an excellent bossing skill - Glacial Cascade, and a way to fight off trash that charges you - Ice Strike. It's probably the smoothest leveling experience there is.......after LA, of course.

I'm sorry but a lot of these problems are absolutely on the player. Like that dude earlier who said he cant finish act 1 on monk or whatever. I've been playing HC SSF with no build guide, going with warrior , merc and even witch. They are all super easy to play. It's worlds apart from 0.2. Extremely easy, everything barely touches you. If you get insta killed then you should look inwards for the problems. How can you complain now , when its the best and easiest it's ever been? When will it be enough? When you can just steamroll everything since level 1 by mindlessly spamming just left click?
TLDR: Most of the problems are on the players' side, maybe check into that before foaming at the mouth on forums.
Edit: Bosses got nerfed into oblivion as well, forgot to mention it earlier. Yet you still find reasons to cry.

Y'all crack me up with your "dark souls is not an arpg stuff".

Don't say that the game is difficult, just say what abilities you're using and what you're investing in tree, your off-meta build might need a buff but the game is already easier than before.

Fun from this game stopped after release patch 0.2...now is slippery slope with developing

What I find funny is how frequently those who don't enjoy PoE2 who come to post their feedback in the place specifically made for that purpose are insulted and shouted at by those who *supposedly* do enjoy it. Especially the ones who conflate fun with "skill".

Now don't get me wrong, I am sure there is a small niche of players whom are enjoying this game, I mean even Yoko Ono had some fans after all, but even the small subset who are doing more than just enduring this experience with their playtime aren't doing so because they have "skill".

Games that are difficult, whose fun comes from practicing and getting good at the game to overcome it's challenges have nothing in common with PoE2, and neither do their player bases. In games that derive their fun from skill and challenge, you always see a group of players who go out of their way to take on more challenge to have fun, this is something that you don't see and which is really not even feasible in PoE2.

Someone please show me where are there people doing no armor/starter weapon campaign runs in PoE2? Deliberate low-level runs? Is there a passionate community doing campaign runs where they never put a point in the passive tree? No, there is none of this. There's not even a passionate community for the so often touted boss fights. These things likely are or at least are near impossible in PoE2 with it's one poorly implemented, half functioning dodge roll which due to the poor networking code and the way the game is built has no iframes because PoE2 can't even allow for tight timing and accuracy with skill usage and movement. The servers literally aren't built for it, it would be live trying to implement iframes and a dodge roll in WoW. Even if it were able to magically allow for skillful plays to be pulled off, still no one would find enjoyment in doing challenge runs because PoE2 doesn't require "skill". PoE2 barely even has "challenges". There is only tedium. Every task from trading to fighting to planning your character is just a mind-numbing, frustrating slog. PoE2 is merely a game of endurance, how long can you endure the tedium, how much are you willing to put up with and how long can you go with little to no reward.

True. I'd like to add that some bosses are just horribly designed. You can't see what they're doing because they are either out of sight or completely invisible because of tons of animations.

Loot is terrible. Crafting is only good for people who did it in PoE excessively. Skill and build variety are just not there and the difficulty is just weird.
Getting one shot by all kinds of badly visible things is just so frustrating.

But well - in the end it's a pretty stupid game mechanic from pretty bad game devs. Klick boom. Klick boom. Ugah Ugah.

Uninstalled.