Something is "wrong" with this game...

I am struggling to even log in this weekend. PoE2 is really a niche game.

Really like the game but I will agree, the ascendancy is awful, no idea why they brought sanctum back, and made it even worse for melee.

Once I reached/tried Sanctum, I decided I've had enough of this slog. My motivation to continue has abated which is disappointing since I really looked forward to playing this. It's just not fun for me.

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Mordread#1431 wrote:

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eternalJOURNEYofTHEloser#5873 wrote:

I will tell you what is wrong. When you press the skills it feels like its lagging. One thing that was actually good aboud d4 was the responsiveness. Sometimes when I cast one skill and immeditaly other one it doesnt even go off. If I cast a curse I have to double check If i even did something.

Just not a smooth good experience :(

This is proof how different people are. That instant cast of D3 and D4 is one of my biggest issues with those games.
I absolutely love the feel, pace and combat of POE2.
I hate the 1 shot mechanics on bosses though and I feel like there are just waaaaay too many bosses. I feel like I am constantly walking into boss fights....I want to fight more normal mobs!

Yeah, this needs to be reiterated. For some people, "weighty" animations work. For others, they are repulsive and make a game unplayable. It's the same reason I prefer almost any other action game to Souls-likes. There are things I LIKE about Dark Souls, like the level design... but the core gameplay is repulsive to me. For others, they like that slow, animation-stop design.

But I would say overall the ARPG genre has evolved in the direction of faster, snappier gameplay where animation time doesn't feel like it is limiting your gameplay, not the other way around.

I think the core idea of PoE2 was to solve PoE1's Problems.

To name a few: old campaign, power creep, random 1 shots, graphics etc
From my PoV this is a complete sucess.


But in the Process of making PoE2 it lost it's core identity - Hack'n'Slash.

We now play Elden Ring with an Endgame.
I don't like Elden Ring it's just not my type of game.
I can't see myself rolling around for 30-50 Hours trough the campaign just to get to maps.

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sunocoz#2181 wrote:

Once I reached/tried Sanctum, I decided I've had enough of this slog. My motivation to continue has abated which is disappointing since I really looked forward to playing this. It's just not fun for me.

Same here. I was having fun with the game; sure, I had my complaints, and things I felt were 'off', but I was enjoying the game for the most part.

Then I hit Sanctum. Then I died on the boss because I'm melee and kept losing honor points to things I couldn't even see or thought I'd dodged. And the map filled with volcanoes.

Now I don't even feel like continuing, and all the negative aspects of this game such as the slow attack speeds/cast times, slower clear speeds compared to PoE 1, lack of movement skills, terrible drop rate of loot, and a few other issues are just... Overwhelming. It's not good.

I truly don't understand how they could have made so many ugly mistakes in building this game. Their last PoE 1 league was fantastic. This? Not so much.

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Ragain#7672 wrote:

Doubling the damage we do or halving the hp of monsters would solve a lot of issues for me.

Also the dodge roll is stupid and they should bring back travel skills

Make it so dodge roll can have support gems

Because there is no sense of progress. It doesn't really matter what I find or equip or how my gems are allocated or leveled, it's just a slog either way.

It's got bad bones .

In an interview i saw recently with the lead dev said " it's important to not get basic things wrong "

I feel like the core of this game is ... somehow slanted , not on sturdy footing , feels bad . Even once you get past the acendencys , like im a ranger and the acendencys are super meh , pain in the ass to make frenzy charges , i have no idea when the game will bless me with the ability to make charges , hecnce the accendyncy is basicaly useless .


I agree that it's a ton of small things that are adding up to frustration and will sucking energy . Lots of visual mis que in the terain , can't look at the gem cutter tab for planing , evreything you do slows you down , animations are clunky , colour pallet is bland and makes evreything blend , effects blend into the surrounding really bad , movment skills move you verly little then punish you for using it with a long locked in place animation , my character gets body blocked by tiny mobs when he's in mid air doing jumping attack , many zones are to tight for using the dodge roll , dodge roll is lame , Many HP gear checks , very difficult to get new gear till WELL into act 3 , since no gear in act 1 or 2 , your resistances are meninless ( you can't change gear out for resis cuz you have no gear to swap to ) , really REALLY trying to force you into using weapon swap ( it's required ) Skill tree is lacks meninfull change to your character till later and even then they are much less significant since you have less gear options to exploit them , love running around with a 3 link for 20 hours .

And the worst of all ... the game seems to demand you play a very spasific way and punishes you greatly for trying anything elce , this includes skill gem combos gems may as well just be a unlock on a skill tab , cuz you can't do anything interesting with them and only ening abel to use a suport on one skill SUCKS !!!!!

It's completely soulless. An empty vessel of a game. It's like an evil corporation jumped on a hype train and pumped out a cash grab, except it's somehow a freakin F2P game? It's all so nonsensical. They made the game like they have no idea what the hell an ARPG is or what makes it fun, even though they have been the innovators in the space for the last decade+. Everything that doesn't truly matter is super polished and well thought out, and everything that actually matters is a complete failure. The entire thing is just a complete disaster that cannot be fixed unless they literally abandon every conscious major decision they made about the game design. Just an embarrassing failure on every level as far as I'm concerned. But hey the graphics are great!