From what we've seen so far, do you feel you're going to stay with PoE1 or move to PoE2?

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Raycheetah wrote:

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PathSoph wrote:

With work and not enough time to play/relax, I'm just a casual player and consider myself not even a good POE player but I am enjoying the game so far. I always get killed when dealing with the big bosses and it helps that when you spawn again, the damage on the boss is still there so I get to slowly kill them even though I die multiple times in the process.
I heard that this is no longer the case for POE 2 and I can understand that as I belong to a very small market while you guys can easily defeat the bosses even when your eyes are closed. I might end up sticking to POE 1 if I can only kill the non-bosses in POE 2.

You've been playing PoE for a relatively short time, Exile, and haven't yet begun to plumb the depths of what there is to learn (it's encyclopedic). I think you have plenty of time to explore classical Wraeclast without worrying about switching over.

Here's a fine resource simply to explore whenever you have a question, or are just taking a break:

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_Wiki

Have fun! =^[.]^=

- Thanks man. Good source.

Ive been playing PoE for over 12 years, just like D2 Ive played too much of it at this point. I still like the game and settlers was a banger of a league, but I feel the fatigue of not being able to enjoy the leaguestarts as much as I used to and quit a few weeks into a league just because Ive played so much at this point.

PoE2 is a fresh start for so many things its really an entire different game. Extremely excited for it.

I think there's quite a bit of content done.

Early Access DOES NOT mean incomplete game from POE perspective; this game is never finished and is always adding new material.

If they start with 6 chapters, that's already more robust than POE1 was for 6 years. The POE2 website also suggests Map Play has already been designed.

I'm currently in Evony and Diablo IV, because as a Hardcore freak, I needed a break. I don't like following metas and I like to explore and get excited about building from the ground up rather than following someone else's math and making the only enjoyable thing about a game being the loot.

That's pretty hard to do with Diablo IV. Its ease of access until very late game where they just instantly give bosses 10 times the Life and everything becomes an exponential buff check. Most skills don't have a good path to keep up with that design. In other words, TRASH. It's just pretty to look at right now.

POE was different in that almost every skill had a viable path to end game, or two, or 5. You just had to FIND it.

So, lots of my Hardcores died here. Sometimes to invisible enemies or glitches. Or the game's engine falling behind technology. Or, later, its graphic demand SURPASSING technology only 1-2 years old. I could never have been considered a level 100 elite because I enjoyed theory craft. I got close a few times, but the drop gods drove me nuts and I don't like to trade a lot.

Still.... Path is inevitably my solo game. I see the gameplay for POE2 and think : There's no slow and gentle introductions. That Iron Knight just leaped right into a fight and I have to get in gear. That Orc kin Lord has awesome body dynamics in the corpses he's playing with. Witch's gameplay looks morose and sexy, tugging at life strings. I look at the gameplay and think: I probably won't die to these mechanics, but I might have a heart attack thinking I will! Then the map version of some bosses will stealth crit and suddenly make me hate getting smashed..... (Asha was one I recall in POE 1 that they will surely ressurect in maps).

So.... what do you think? Do you think I didn't see the clip of a Nessa boss fight? Yes. Yes I did. I will be playing POE 2.

Both, but likely to end up just playing POE2 over time.

What did they leave in POE2 that we liked in POE1? Nothing, except the setting. They cut 90% of the crafting, 90% of the mechanics, added ridiculous rolls and "EPIC" boss battles. They simplified everything they could, just so that console players wouldn't have any trouble understanding the game. Maybe Twitch soyjacks will appreciate it, but I don't need it. If I want to play Dark Souls, I'll play Dark Souls. So the choice is obvious. The developers made the game not for POE1 players, but for themselves (I want to believe it) and idiot streamers.

I predicted that it wanted to become the dark souls of arpgs.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3407628

Also in my opinion the fireball and spark skill effect look much worse than the cool poe 1 versions from 2013. These effects don't showcase power like they do/did in poe 1.

POE 1 was designed for the pc fanbase. This is how a pc game looks and feels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFO4E5OKSE&t=96s

Poe 2 for sure. This warrior playstyle is perfect and the difficulty is great, love a bit of a challenge

Based on day 1 balance I would go back to poe 1. Will see where we get to though. It is early access after all.

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TorsteinTheFallen#1295 wrote:

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Well I don't play PoE 1, tried it about 5 years ago wasn't for me. Been waiting for PoE 2. I'm not a huge souls like player but I do like the slower pace and feel this is dark and gritty and what really D4 should of been.

I've played a lot of Last epoch waiting for this and getting used too the gameplay. PoE 2 is a beautiful game I'm 21 lvl lets see how the game feels with gear latter on.

TBH, GGG appears to have decided to go down the Dark Souls path, but it has none of the benefits of a DS game...no first person, no close in third person. In fact, I would call this game 75% DS, 25% aarpg. If I wanted to play a DS game, I would play a DS game. I played for a bit last night and TBH, not really interested in playing any more as I'll probably head back to POE.