Forgot how fucking awful the early game is

The campaign is truly awful. The druid is truly awful. The loot drops truly awful...just all awful lol

I only tried melee once with Warrior and now with Druid, I remember why I never wanted to play melee again in this game.
They need to do something about defense and recovery. I should not be this squishy after speccing fully into regen and armour/ES.

0.4 is OP. I play spark with infusion and I one shot every trash mob and bosses are easy.

look every level on vendor (I got instantly +58% spell damage and 3 mana each mob kill)

Even with lvl 10, I feel like a "medium god".

game is fun. just check the vendors.

To me, one of the biggest weaknesses the early campaign has, it the enemy design. In general, the monsters suck in this game. They are way too basic and simple for how long it takes to kill them. So unless your playing some kind of overpowered build that one shots everything, your forced to engage with them and there is nothing to engage with. It like slamming your head against a wall over and over again.

There is no challenge, no strategy, no meaningful feedback of any kind. Just work, it's a chore. The juice just isn't worth the squeeze.

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YohSL#2995 написал:

To me, one of the biggest weaknesses the early campaign has, it the enemy design. In general, the monsters suck in this game. They are way too basic and simple for how long it takes to kill them. So unless your playing some kind of overpowered build that one shots everything, your forced to engage with them and there is nothing to engage with. It like slamming your head against a wall over and over again.

There is no challenge, no strategy, no meaningful feedback of any kind. Just work, it's a chore. The juice just isn't worth the squeeze.

That's the result of Elden Ring tourists failing to understand why it works in Souls and not in other genres.

You end up with exactly something like PoE2. But don't worry, just a couple of years and PoE2 will anyway transition into PoE 4.0

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H3rB1985#0551 написал:

That's the result of Elden Ring tourists failing to understand why it works in Souls and not in other genres.

You end up with exactly something like PoE2. But don't worry, just a couple of years and PoE2 will anyway transition into PoE 4.0

To be clear, simple monster design isn't inherently bad. For classic ARPG's it's actually a good thing for monster design to be simple and clear. Because the general expectation is that your always moving forward and clearing enemies in 1 or 2 hits. And if enemies aren't going to be around for long you want them to have maximum impact and ease of design.

But the minute you slow everything down, that same simple design becomes a problem. As your then forced to reckon with how absolutely boring they are.

And the problem with POE2 is that they redid a bunch on the player side of the equation, and did sweet fuck all on the monster side of equation. Little wonder things are out of balance.

I got to act 1 boss, all the way I was thinking when will this become fun? I tune into Ghazzy stream, he is 12 hours in and having "terrible experience". Do I want to spend 20 hours to find out that it does not get any better later on? Early on unless you know exactly what you are doing, game is a slog and figuring stuff out is far from fun since you have to spend gold on respec. I stumbled across Asmongold's first 4 hours playing melee warrior and it looked exactly like painful slog.

For example sprinting with WASD is so bad, I don't know whether I should laugh or cry. Bump into obstacle, having to roll before, animation when you stop. The most basic issues are still unresolved.

I started to have survability problems, as a bear, at Red vale. The poisonus mobs really melts you, and the archers you summon from the totem deals extreme damage.

On the other hand, the damage i manage deal on bosses is pretty high though, the volcano stomp combo is satisfying

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Darosius#3984 написал:

0.4 is OP. I play spark with infusion and I one shot every trash mob and bosses are easy.

look every level on vendor (I got instantly +58% spell damage and 3 mana each mob kill)

Even with lvl 10, I feel like a "medium god".

game is fun. just check the vendors.

I'm honestly not being an ass toward you but this is such an sad answer. It's a looting game and the best way to get gear is to go through vendors every level. The entire game design is so off.

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Mulukki#1592 написал:

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Darosius#3984 написал:

0.4 is OP. I play spark with infusion and I one shot every trash mob and bosses are easy.

look every level on vendor (I got instantly +58% spell damage and 3 mana each mob kill)

Even with lvl 10, I feel like a "medium god".

game is fun. just check the vendors.

I'm honestly not being an ass toward you but this is such an sad answer. It's a looting game and the best way to get gear is to go through vendors every level. The entire game design is so off.

Oh no, you have the ability to get actual loot by using the vendors, how dear they, what complete garbage game design.