So I gave PoE 2 a shot and rate it pure garbage

For the A3 lava boss, I too timed out on the fight my first try against him as a smith warrior. Seemed he had a lot of HP left so I concluded that my DPS was too low and I'd come back later.

I messaged in global chat for tips and someone said that the lava empowers him and makes him tanky - you want to get him far away from the lava as much as you can.

There's a sweet-spot distance you need to maintain from the lava with your character. Too close and he is too tanky, and too far and he jumps back into the lava to power up again.

I went back 5 minutes later with the same gear I had before and got him down on the next try with plenty of runway left.

Your review is way too damning for how shallow it is.

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Kr_ZyPxL#4060 wrote:

Hi, I feel the same. Sad but true.
The new league of poe 1 : June 2025

Wait is that actually confirmed? Where did they announce that?

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Its a video game, if you put this much effort into thinking about your own problems in life then maybe you would realize being this mad about a game is completly insane. If you dont like it unistall. That is the only way to show someone youre serious. Breaking up with your gf and then texting her how bad she is kinda shows how abusive and manapulitive you are.

why do you care. or maybe you care like he cares? ya know what would be the absolute worst outcome for GGG. if NOBODY CARED.

Sounds to me like the game just isn't for you, that's ok.

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JakkerONAIR#4902 wrote:

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arome1#6905 wrote:

Some time ago in Poe1 there was a lake of kalandra league - where everything was nerfed to the ground and people hated it, later on they also implemented - ruthless mode, which everyone hated even more and it was meant to be "side project", then they started buffing up the campaign, and who like that - no one. TLDR: Current state of 0.2.0 is kalandra + ruthless + huge focus on hard campaign combined. No idea in what world this had to be a success.

Eyyy... don't forget "Archnemesis", ppl hated only for GGG putting it in the game anyway under a different name...

Oh true, thank you for reminding. That too! So it's 4 in 1 - things that players ever wanted ^^

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Sounds to me like the game just isn't for you, that's ok.

Yep there are LE and POE1 and D4 for braindead zooming.

The 0.1 campaign was better than 0.2 for sure. We were all learning it for the first time and even though the pacing was slow, things actually clicked except for a couple of the act 2 and 3 areas, which actually improved in 0.2. The pacing although slow was about right.

In 0.2 they dropped a massive nerf hammer on player power and juiced up certain mobs and mob density which only served to slow the player down. Even the OP lightning spear build doesn't come close to the power that spark sorceress had with even less gear investment.

I managed to get through the campaign much easier on 0.2 than I did my first time in 0.1, but the fact that I have to do acts 1-3 twice in order to get to endgame is a massive turn off to me and I will not be making alts this time around because I have seen those same 3 acts on 5 characters total now. It's too much of a slog with whatever they have done to gear and currency drops. The devs have made the conscious decision to slow even alt accounts down through poor drop rates.

For what it's worth I would have been OK had they given us another 2 acts and then jump into endgame and would consider playing through it a couple times, but currently there isn't enough interesting content in acts 1-3 to warrant playing it anymore with the current state of the game.

The game still has the potential to be pretty good, but has a massive identity crisis right now. They need to stop the intentional throttling of the game and make something that the players enjoy.

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karsey#2995 wrote:

For the A3 lava boss, I too timed out on the fight my first try against him as a smith warrior. Seemed he had a lot of HP left so I concluded that my DPS was too low and I'd come back later.

I messaged in global chat for tips and someone said that the lava empowers him and makes him tanky - you want to get him far away from the lava as much as you can.

There's a sweet-spot distance you need to maintain from the lava with your character. Too close and he is too tanky, and too far and he jumps back into the lava to power up again.

I went back 5 minutes later with the same gear I had before and got him down on the next try with plenty of runway left.

Your review is way too damning for how shallow it is.

I was able to take his life down in the lava as a Merc using oil grenades with passives that boosted damage against ignited enemies.

That's how we all feel, but you know, JR's vision is still about fun and difficult campaign.

I don't know how many of you actually care about playing an enriched campaign at all. I don't. Campaign is a chore and I want it done and over with asap.

Nevertheless, it has to be as hard otherwise this game would be infested with bots. finding a balance is critical

i do wish however they focus on other areas.

this league is essentially over and its not even week3 lol.

The problem is that PoE1 players got so used to being invincible that the first time they got punched in the mouth, they ran to the forums calling it “bad design.”

PoE2 isn’t for everyone. But it’s not “doomed” because it doesn’t cater to people who confuse effortless dominance with depth.