A Letter to GGG

Dear Grinding Gear Games,

I’m open to changes regarding skill mechanics and game balance, but I’m frustrated with how my time has been wasted.

I don’t have a lot of time to level my character, and I chose not to use guides for POE2 because I was told it would be much easier to respec the passive tree if I made mistakes while exploring builds. My frost build was changed, and while I tried to adjust, I don’t have enough gold to fully respec out of it. As a result, my character is now essentially unplayable and I can’t progress at all.

This has greatly diminished my desire to play. I was hoping that either the respec costs would be reduced or that frost builds would have access to a tree respec.

At this point, I’m hesitant to create a new character, as I’m concerned that I’ll face another situation where my time is wasted due to changes that make the character unplayable. I had hoped to play longer in the Early Access, but I’m losing faith that the time I invest will be rendered pointless by future changes.

From
Customer #1095821

Totally understandable.

The whiners complaining about whiners are just complete ego maniac posers.

It's natural to not want to waste time. Balance changes are good, but being locked into a horrible spot where you can't even change your build is not okay.

This early in balancing / massive game testing (because lets face it that's what we do playing an incomplete game), respec should have been pretty much free.

The number of upcoming changes to skills/support will make new builds (I hope) but break some too.

Their either stop with the nerfs that turn down your dps to 10-20% of what it was (especially if it's not even average in damage output anymore) or significantly reduce the gold cost for respec.

Really hoping people figure out a new build or there are some ways we can fix the build. I'm lucky to be only level 35.

Would love a free respec. I wasn't even playing the op builds. Was tring to do a ball lightning with cast on shock lightning warp. It wasn't great but it somewhat worked. The change destroyed it, can't even kill white mobs anymore. They nerfed the wrong thing. I already spent most of my money doing an almost total respec after my first build failed.

Now I feel incapable of playing without a new char. Which just sounds miserable to me right now.

Its anti-consumer especially in EA to destroy the builds and overly charge gold that no one has to pay to try and do something else...

its fucked up and pisses off many people even veterans.