Kinda sad what other people here are saying about POE 2

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gusgalarnyk#1566 wrote:

I'm having a great time with the game. The ARPG genre comes with a difficulty slider built in. If something is too easy, you push to harder zones earlier, if something is too hard, you farm for mere minutes and get overleveled and overgeared.

This is very well said. I don't understand why people don't get that, it seems so obvious to me.

It seems like a lot of people picked up some habits in POE1, and are now really reluctant to see any changes to the gameplay design. Maybe it's just about feeling safe with what they know and an unwillingness to go beyond the confort zone, idk.

I would be very sad if POE2 get changed into a POE1 clone and I hope GGG will find a way to stay true to their vision while also finding ways to help players that don't like it to get on board and see what is enjoying about it.

No point in reading past the first line.

LOLOLOL.

Have a good night bud.

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Ageless_Emperion#2844 wrote:

I am not taking anything out of context and from where I am observing you are really not fit to judge who is ignorant or not. The simple fact of the matter is that you folded like wet tissue paper under the lightest scrutiny of your absurd ideas. Go touch grass, or keep playing the game, I don't really care, just stop pretending you are some kind of authority on anything.

p.s. In all seriousness, if you find you have tied so much of your identity to this product that you feel the need to defend it on the internet against random strangers because they do not demonstrate the same level of zeal towards it, you need help. Professional help. That is simply not healthy.

So, a bad faith argument? Yikes.

Have a good night bud.

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

And running through maps while enemies automatically die is not?

Well that is any arpg's goal. The arpg formula is simple:
1.) start weak
2.) get stronger
3.) become the overlord
An arpg is kind of a power fantasy!

In my admittedly personal perspective, the gameplay loop is an iteration of 1-3. Becoming the overlord to the point that the game is no longer a challenge, flattens that curve and leads to diminishing returns, so the game becomes less about character progression and more about loot grinding to go after that one affix, or x% improvement in damage/armor/resistance. In order to get the same amount of juice for the squeeze the bosses need to be turned into loot piñatas.

Just my thought.

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RottenSausage#6164 wrote:

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matisto29#1060 wrote:

the difficulty gap from poe1 to poe2 is ridiculous i'm sorry it just is !

That's a good thing imo.

It's really not. You're not cool because you like a harder game. You're engaging in a sense of superiority by trying to take pleasure in the misery of others.

GGG need to make a real Standard mode and add 5-10x more loot and reduce enemy HP by 50%.

Then they can add back in a ruthless mode, which can be even more difficult than current poe. Then people can choose what they want to play. I GUARANTEE you wouldn't play the ruthless mode. You're just here to take pleasure in trash talking other people and it's pathetic.

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92ranger#4205 wrote:

It's really not. You're not cool because you like a harder game. You're engaging in a sense of superiority by trying to take pleasure in the misery of others.

GGG need to make a real Standard mode and add 5-10x more loot and reduce enemy HP by 50%.

Then they can add back in a ruthless mode, which can be even more difficult than current poe. Then people can choose what they want to play. I GUARANTEE you wouldn't play the ruthless mode. You're just here to take pleasure in trash talking other people and it's pathetic.

I don't understand what you find hard in POE2, I really don't. My experience seems to have been very different than yours and it would be interesting to understand why.

Honest questions:
Where did you get stuck? and what did you do to try and get past the difficulty?

Personally, getting more levels and tweaking my build, updating my gear with crafting, making sure my weapon is good and having health and resists seems to be more than enough to make the game quite easy.

I feel like people are not using all the tools the game is providing and expect to roll over the content anyway. Am I wrong? Admittedly It's not things we got used to be required to do in POE1 Act1 but is it really a bad thing?

That being said, if the problem is the slower pace, or the fact that it's maybe more "tactical" and might require different kind of builds than POE1, with more control or something like that, then it's fair to say you might not "like the game". But saying it's hard because of that would not describe properly the problem you're facing imo.

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92ranger#4205 wrote:

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RottenSausage#6164 wrote:

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matisto29#1060 wrote:

the difficulty gap from poe1 to poe2 is ridiculous i'm sorry it just is !

That's a good thing imo.

It's really not. You're not cool because you like a harder game. You're engaging in a sense of superiority by trying to take pleasure in the misery of others.

GGG need to make a real Standard mode and add 5-10x more loot and reduce enemy HP by 50%.

Then they can add back in a ruthless mode, which can be even more difficult than current poe. Then people can choose what they want to play. I GUARANTEE you wouldn't play the ruthless mode. You're just here to take pleasure in trash talking other people and it's pathetic.

It's not about ruthless mod, and yes, I would prefer ruthless to be the only mod.
People nowdays got used to junk casual braindead games with no any challange...
It's not even PvP game, jesus.
Any casual hamster when you give him argumetnts be like:
"You're just here to take pleasure in trash talking other people and it's pathetic"

Game is perfectly fine, it's even quite easy I would say.

Most of pathetic viners who cry about act 1 final boss simply have no idea how stats work, zero maths in brains and zero intention to create some solution.

They even don't ask for or seek for help on their situation, just straight away complaining. Typical arrogant home hamster behaviour.

That's why they don't get any respect. This game requires some minor intellectual effort to get understanding how it works, and after that you will embrace all available hundreds of options.


And this is not new league of poe1, this is poe2, get used.

Modern education seems to be degrading fast.
Primitives can't stand the fact that somebody is better than them, even if it's just a game. That's the result of this dumb world wide policy of kids being grown up like home plants and all these woke human rights culture.

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PIRATEyohoho#2830 wrote:

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And some primitive still considers he is smart enough to say that they are wrong.... But not smart enough to pass through act 1, created by those same developers.

Think about it, if you are able at all.

This guy has an account created in 2013 with a single level 92 character, and has never bought any packs.
And he feels legitimate to give lessons and ask those who don't share his opinion to leave and play another game, even though these people have been playing the game for 10 years and have contributed to the development of studio GGG and have finacially supported the creation of PoE2...
Don't waste your time talking to these people, they'll be out of the game in a month or two.

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Talamor1#0630 wrote:

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PIRATEyohoho#2830 wrote:

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And some primitive still considers he is smart enough to say that they are wrong.... But not smart enough to pass through act 1, created by those same developers.

Think about it, if you are able at all.

This guy has an account created in 2013 with a single level 92 character, and has never bought any packs.
And he feels legitimate to give lessons and ask those who don't share his opinion to leave and play another game, even though these people have been playing the game for 10 years and have contributed to the development of studio GGG and have finacially supported the creation of PoE2...
Don't waste your time talking to these people, they'll be out of the game in a month or two.

That doesn't make his view or post any less valid. What is with this elitest attitude some of y'all have? It's so weird to have that kind of mindset.

For me this game has been awesome because it takes me back to a time how games used to be before games became overly simplified. Gamers today die at a boss then rage quit. Back in the day, gamers took dying as a challenge and an obstacle that you had to practice to overcome. I'm no arpg expert, but I am capable of restrategizing and trying different things until it works. That last boss in act 1 took me about three tries, but it was SO satisfying when I finally beat him. That's a feeling I haven't got from video games in a long time. Please keep the difficulty as it is.


And for those making an issue about how old people's accounts are. You should be happy that so many newer players are trying this game out. That is how franchises grow. I and many others are not interested in another D2 clone. I want something different from the genre and this game scratches that itch. Our opinions are just as valid and you cant silence them . Deal with it.