If loot wasn't dogwater 90% of complaints wouldn't be here

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LaraDorren#2828 wrote:

I like the current loot drop rate.
I can progress through the game without ever having to farm loot.

There are multiple ways to gear up:
-drops
-crafting
-buying items from vendor
I used them all, but optimized none (e.g. you could look for new items to buy at vendors after everys level up).

I like that I don't need to look through giant piles of trash loots and don't have to constantly throw away my gear to replace it with the next better version after 5 min.
I like that I can have a challenge and do not overgear content easily.
I like that there seem to be few "tiers" of loot per act and I can stay a while in a loot tier, get smaller improvements and numbers do not become super large.

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BossOfThisGym#2062 wrote:

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spokipo#1869 wrote:

And smaller maps.

If you had gear, and didn't have to do a full ass skill rotation to just to kill 3 white mobs the maps would be fine.

I run into a white pack, have to cast flame wall, into solar orb, into firestorm x2, then fireball spam. EVERY SINGLE PACK. There is no "trash mobs" that you can just throw a firestorm at and forget about them, and then sweat on blue/rare packs and bosses, its just all sweat all the way through. I'm sure this will change for me when I get significantly more damage, but how many dozens of hours is that going to be?

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Destructodave#2478 wrote:

Watching some streamers in the end-game maps, they are demolishing maps similar to PoE 1.

The only thing that makes it different is the lack of movement speed and travel skills. Maybe they are pressing 3 buttons instead of 1 but some of them arent even stopping, just running through the maps as fast as their little no movement speed/travel skill feet can carry them.

I do think there is a power scaling issue that needs to be addressed in the early game. It does look like it smooths out when you get to end-game, but people already had a hard time reaching end-game in PoE 1 before quitting, much less PoE 2 possibly. The power fantasy seems alive from seeing streamers(I havent reached maps yet) in the end-game, but the slog through the early game feels way too cumbersome and tedious.

I think an item drop increase would go a long ways to help early game.

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spokipo#1869 wrote:

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Destructodave#2478 wrote:

Watching some streamers in the end-game maps, they are demolishing maps similar to PoE 1.

The only thing that makes it different is the lack of movement speed and travel skills. Maybe they are pressing 3 buttons instead of 1 but some of them arent even stopping, just running through the maps as fast as their little no movement speed/travel skill feet can carry them.

I do think there is a power scaling issue that needs to be addressed in the early game. It does look like it smooths out when you get to end-game, but people already had a hard time reaching end-game in PoE 1 before quitting, much less PoE 2 possibly. The power fantasy seems alive from seeing streamers(I havent reached maps yet) in the end-game, but the slog through the early game feels way too cumbersome and tedious.

I think an item drop increase would go a long ways to help early game.

If you think that, you haven't played normally in poe 1.