Please explain to me how casual are supposed to enjoy poe?

stand also fun with more builds bcs has legacy stuff
also good to learn mechanic

I went to Sanctum once with my Boneshutter. Died almost instantly :o)

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Allo Allo9922 wrote:

I went to Sanctum once with my Boneshutter. Died almost instantly :o)

But if you ask @Pashid on forums here, It's for every build man... He did run thru it without gear on his melee char.. Like Rambo!

Just a lot of BS coming from people here.
Sure the sanctum has patterns to learn, but don't ever never compare meta-cast-off-screen-lowskill build VS melee in sanctum.

Sanctum is and never will be MELEE friendly, whatever anyone of you say. The sanctum is built for one purpose and ONE purpose only in PoE as we speak.

All new players are playing the game wrong. They want to do everything, want to learn everything, and they want to do it now. They think their so special that they don't have to learn anything and should get all the rewards for their ignorance. Being casual has nothing to do with the problems you mentioned in your post. Being unwilling to learn is the problem.

The goal of poe is not to know everything, not to be able to do everything, and not to play everything. The goal of poe is to be good at 1 thing, and slowly branch out into learning new things, learning where you made mistakes, and improving on it the next season when you got to start over. There's a reason people play the same builds pretty much every league non stop, and that's because their always learning something new to make it better, and there are always new things coming out to make it better.

You want to be a casual player and do everything, eventually, no matter how long it takes, it is pretty simple. Play Pohx's Righteous Fire build. It has an entire website dedicated to it, along with videos, and tons of detailed explanations to carry a nobody through all the content the game has to offer.

A new player should be following a build, they should be following the build to the T, everything exactly as recommended. Then once you have all that is recommended, you can play around and mess with stuff, and see how it effects the build. Learn why your change was either good, or bad, and go into the next league able to play the build better, faster, and more efficient, potentially even discovering something that makes the build even better with each new iteration.

Coming into poe, and thinking you can just do whatever you want with what ever you want when ever you want to do it is just foolish. Unlike a new player, most of use have been playing for a decade, or nearly a decade. So the stuff new players would need to learn all at once, is just stuff we already know. We learned a small amount, and then every 3 months, we would continuously learn a little more, and a little more.

I played all of sanctum league with a melee build, true melee with double strike. If you have problems with sanctum as melee, it is because your damage is bad, pretty simple.

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Jgizle wrote:

A new player should be following a build, they should be following the build to the T, everything exactly as recommended. Then once you have all that is recommended, you can play around and mess with stuff, and see how it effects the build. Learn why your change was either good, or bad, and go into the next league able to play the build better, faster, and more efficient, potentially even discovering something that makes the build even better with each new iteration.

I think that's the main problem so many people have with this game - it won't let you get far with your own build. I 'grew up' playing Diablo, Diablo 2 and Titan Quest which obviously are way simpler than PoE so I suspect most people who start this game expect same level of complexity.
So to answer the origina question - "Please explain to me how casual are supposed to enjoy poe?" - do your best but don't expect to get far unless you follow the guides :o)

There are generally 3 tiers of players

1st tier must follow guides either because they are new or they don't want to bother theorycrafting.

2nd tier are experienced enough to make adjustments to a build which suit them and their playstyle.

3rd tier are the ones who can actually create their own builds.


Naturally, most PoE players are in the 1st and 2nd tier.

So as a casual player your goal is currency generation? because lets face it, that is the only point doing sanctum if you don't like sanctum (and it sound like you don't).

So as to the question how a casual like you should play this game? Forget the illusion you will be shoveling currency like the streamers you may watched. As a casual i would begin to play this game with a build i find fun and play the leagues/mechanics i come to like. everything else will come later.

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niveusursus wrote:

Can't do sanctum...30min with nothing to show for it (guess my builds is wrong)
Can't do trials...30min with maybe ~20-40c to show for (also wrong build apparently)
Can't do ubers...unless I have a)gear b)the "correct build" c)play the whole entire season to finally enjoy the game?!

Maybe it's just this season or something, feels diff, hard to enjoy it as a GAME. Logging in feels like work/2nd job.

By playing and doing something that’s fun for you? I don’t like sanctum or trial. I don’t do them. Yes I know they make a shit tonne of money, I don’t care. They aren’t fun. I like to map. So that’s what I do. I play my 5 hours a week give or take and just map. That’s fun to me.

i dnt want to play this game after watching "30 second clear map" builds.
I feel like "there is no gameplay in this game" Holding 1 button without seeing anything or deciding for anything feels like im a bot.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

There are generally 3 tiers of players

1st tier must follow guides either because they are new or they don't want to bother theorycrafting.

2nd tier are experienced enough to make adjustments to a build which suit them and their playstyle.

3rd tier are the ones who can actually create their own builds.


Naturally, most PoE players are in the 1st and 2nd tier.

I finally progressed this league to "look at poe.ninja, work out how the build works and make a slight variation".