Make the game good

You have a new patch incoming. You have the opportunity to make it good after you failed in the last patch.

Add speed to the players, it doesn't need to be a 0 to 100 speed change, but the game is the most slow and underwhelming arpg ever. I've seen turn based games be faster than this game.

Rework the skill system. Is the worst skill system I've seen. You cannot scale levels on gems if you are stuck because you depend on uncut gems. You cannot experiment with spirit gems because they barely drop. You cannot experiment with different skills early on (when you want to experiment with skills) because some of them are unlocked at lvl 50ish. Gems require too much attributes and levels to use, 205 attribute requirement in a game where everything gives you 50% than the previous one is just stupid. Level 90 to use a max level gem is one of the most dumb things you did for the game.

Rework the socket system. Is worse than the first game. This system was supposed to help with the pressure of getting a 6-linked item in the first game. The way you designed it just made it worse because you decided to make the perfect orb super rare.

Rework the skill combo system. Some skills are dogshit if you are not using primers or certain conditions because they combo with other things. This makes those skills not viable unless you clutter your setup with skills that you may not want to use or passive points or support gems that you don't want to use but you are forced to use because the skill that you want to use has a stupid requirement. This makes build variety so low because everybody playing a skill need to use the other 3 skills to set it up.

Fix your crafting system. I can't believe Diablo has a better crafting system than a GGG game, but we live in that timeline now. God, just stop and add a crafting bench, add more ways to roll items, make essences good as in poe 1. Every single way to craft in this game is so boring, random and dumb that makes you not want to craft and just farm currency to buy the item that some lucky person got and is good for you.

Fix ascendancies. They are the worst classes I've seen in years. Most of them come with points that do pretty much nothing. Others have points that should no be there. And half of the ascendancy points across all characters are unique skills that you cannot use if you are not that ascendancy. Again, lowering the customization of the game and variety of builds because if you want to play a concoction skill you NEED to be a Pathfinder. What happened with all classes can use all skills?

Fix your uniques. Uniques in this game are the most boring and uninteresting things I've seen. 99% of them are just gold in form of an item.

Fix campaing. Lore is awesome and extensive, I love it, I (and most people) don't like to run a 7-8 hour campaing everytime they want to play a different character. It feels like shit opening up PoB and thinking of a character that may be fun and interesting to play and then you remember the forced 6+ hour run of the campaing you need to do.

Fix your passive tree. It looks awesome from the distance, all the clusters with the shapes of things they represent and all. But it is so crazy how many DEAD points you have in it. There is so much travel nodes that don't lead to a single cluster, that are there just to be there. There is so many points that connect to a single cluster when they could connect with 2 and remove the extra points that do nothing. The passive tree in poe 1 is one of the reasons your game is so good, is condensed power, here is just points that lead to nothing.
Most notables are just boring, or barely a better version of the nodes before it.

Fix the loot of currencies and just remove disenchanting. Disenchanting is one of the most shitty mechanics in this game. Tearing your decisions between gold to get upgrades or just a single shard of a currency to get upgrades is just supid. The better option is always gold, because you can gamble for an item, disenchanting a rare item just to get 1 regal shard that you need to combine with the other shards that you have so you get a regal to then use it and slam thorns into an item is one of the most frustrating things in the game. If you remove disenchanting and up the shard and currency drops then it will be better.

REMOVE THE FONT. I remember when Rogers said that they added it because it was FUN. How a person that thinks that is game director. If one, if not the most, useless mechanic in the game. It is not fun, it doesn't add anything to the gameplay. Is just one more thing that you need to do everytime you go to town or your hideout.

Fix the endgame. Right now, your endgame is the most boring piece of content. Even more boring than running twice through the same campaing. Remove towers, add scarabs, give players agency in what layouts they want to run. You tried to copy Last Epoch and failed miserably.

Balance the drops of ALL monsters. Right now is Archnemesis all over again. You only care about the rares. Every other thing just drops nothing so you may aswell walk past all the trash mobs and go directly to the rares and uniques. Is so crazy that a LOOT BASED GAME has NO LOOT.

Fix Spirit Gems. They are garbage. You end up with 6 characters using the same ones because there is no good ones aside of like 4.

Add life into the passive tree and make armour good. Evasion and ES are still the kings, but its not because you can get so much of them and they are really effective that is like this. Is because armour is so not effective and the amount of life you can get is pityful compare to their counterparts that make the situation be like this.

Fix the spell problem. Spells are garbage. No clear, barely any single target (All compared to the attacks). The fact that you decided to not let spells be compatible with Heralds, WITH HERALDS, just makes clearing with spells one of the worst experiences.

Fix the stun and ailment problem. Brign immunities and avoidance back. Have them be a trade off. Is so painfully horrible to get stun locked of freeze locked all the time because you decided to use calculate the tresholds based on maximum life and then not give players the ability to actually scale that life.

Fix charms. THEY ARE THE SINGLE WORST AND MOST USELESS PIECE OF GEAR THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN YOUR GAMES: Even Thief's Trinkets are more usable and have more value than this pieces of rock that try to be a utility flask and fail in every single way.

You have this patch to be able to fix a lot of CORE problems with your game. Don't miss it. The retention of this game has been horrible because of the core problems that you are constantly not addressing.

Also, the game is suppossed to go golden in december. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT. You don't even have all the classes out yet.

About 70-80% of the problems I listed here you already solved in PoE 1. Crazy how you decided to introduced them in the UNSOLVED version instead.

The game has so much potential to be a good game, and right now is BARELY a game. Even Slormancer and Hunting Grounds are better that this barebones souls-like trying to emulate an ARPG is right now.

FIND YOUR NORTH. You are either a souls game or an ARPG. You cannot really be both fully as most of the core pieces of the styles are on the opposite side of the spectrum. You can still find a balance, but remember that you are a good company when making ARPGs, not when making souls-like games.

Are you really expecting people coming back every 4 months to do a 6+ hours campaing to then go into one of the most boring endgames and just focus into farming currency to get upgrades because your crafting systems are dumb and then 2 weeks later have most of the players go to play Last Epoch because is a more fun and entertaining game. Because that is whats going to happen, it happened last patch. It will keep happening because you are not focussing on fun. GAMES ARE SUPPOSSED TO BE FUN. They are an entertaining piece of media, and you are failing at making it fun.

Much love, hope you guys made the correct decisions and the game grows to be a good one.

true but ggg will not hear you. there is not a single reply to a player thread from ggg