More bad feedback....

Ive played thousands of hours of poe1, mind you i havent done everything, but thats the point right? im a working adult and cant master it, theres always somthing to do, theres always more.

Im going to try to be constructive and nice but i have to say my time in poe 2 hass been stressful, and i dont think ill be coming back after EA unless major major changes are done, and i dont think they will be

Ive asked my group that i play with 4 guys, as we complained and complained... ok lets stop and ask the question... Besides all the Cons.... take 5 minutes and lets think of the Pros....


PRO's
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1) The Graphics got updated slightly.... but its 2024... this just looks like a remaster.....
we dont even get wide visability or pov, people have always wanted to zoom out more. in the past it was a matter of LOD, Draw distance hardware.. etc... Not now... this is a 3d platformer from a distance... lots of ability to save frames and such....

2) I can Move while Casting/Attacking now.
Hell yah this was nice... but it cause so many other problems in the begining, first the WSAD... is... difficult... we'll get to that...
but i find that now the char can move and cast, i find my self un-knowning moving into groups of monsters, I can hold shift... danm my pinky hurts... i did find the option to stop moving in the options thank god... but, the negative effects vs what is gained... i just dont see this... especially in hardcore, or in high areas, where if i lost 10% at lvl 99, cuz she walked into a group like a dumb@%% -- id snap....

3) We got too see and Play Poe2 and give feedback... this is important! -- I get its not finished... but its also heading in the wrong direction.

For Completion: The WSAD, my issue with it i that, while moving or pushing two directions at once, and alo trying to use Q E R T F.. i literally crossed 3 fingers.... and when that happened i wend back to mouse movement... no thank you...

I do think however this would work better on controller and can see that, but im PC master race.... why am i crossing fingers... si la vi...


ok.... I stopped, i asked the crew again, and get silence...

This is disapointing... 10 yrs waiting for poe 2 and, graphics got a make over and i can move now.... but then they screwed that with dodge...

CON's
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The Game seems to be built on the fact of Dodge Roll.... Alot of people are complaining about this. Every boss mechanic requires roll roll shoot repeat.... boring, repetative, pointless dodge, for somthing u cant tank... every thing is a one shot...

Difficulty is cranked way to high, Everything seems to one shot you. Most people are going to say, you suck get guud, no, thats not the case, even if i wanted to stack nothing but life on a character, WHERE IS IT ON THE TREE - they seem to want people to stack STRENGTH for health, well WTF DOES THAT DO FOR A WITCH - it uses so many points, or you are just have no life and ur squishy


The game seems to have tried to become less complicated, but in course of doing so, has simply done the opposite. The Gem system has become a nightmare in my opinion. Not being able to use two of the same Gem is a limit with the infastructure, not the gems, they didnt want ppl stacking supports on the same skill... but not being able to put spell echo on spark? or arc? these are basic principles.... why are they missing

Monk Bell Attack, Mellee seems to get confused between hitting bell or the eneimes around you, they seem to priorize selecting the enmies vs the bell, which would actully kill the enemies and do more damage, this causes the player to get frusted unable to click and use their abilities while being killed by the monsters that are around

Players now seem to collide with one another all the time while moving, they can push eachother ut of the way or into obsticals or problems

Blasphemy uses 30 spirit for each curse it said, Socketing conductivity uses 30, but adding Higtened Curse adds another 30 spirit? -- this is a support gem for the curses, not a curse itself.... i understand mana multipliers but double for supporting a curse?

When going to the way point, the map needs time to load.... Really? sometimes you get stuck at a black screen for a couple seconds while things are happening around you. Its trying to display a 2D Image.. wtf is the problem, why cant this be made immediate..
The Map is also confusing, Theres no legend, theres no proper indication of where you are or where quests are at first. New players do not understand a cataghraphers chissil, as a quest place marker. Theres no clear indication for which way points you do or dont have, atleast its not as clear as poe1. Rule 1 of a GUI. If it has to be explained, its no good.


I cant look at skills or gems page unless i have a uncut one, Trying to help or aid others is hard, i cant open up the uncut gem page and just LOOK, or PLAN.. Poe is about planning why cant i see whats comming without being there.


Even after the last patch, Drops from monsters are pitiful. They said that Rare monsters should have better drop as they were balancing, ive killed so many rares, and gotten jack. theres no point, the effort put in , is not worth the spoils. And such, we have no ability to progress because were under geared, and being bombarded with boss after boss. which becomes are grind lock. ur foced to grind in an area getting nothing for XP at lower levels (20-45) with no drops no XP, endless grind like i was trying to hit 95 or 96 again... pointless...


FLASKS!!! Where the hell are my flasks! -- This is crazy, you make a game thats so difficult and only give me 1 health potion no wonder canada Legalized M.A.I.D jesus....

Who ever thought of taking away 3 flask options from people and then purposling forcing those slots to mana or life should be fired quite frankly.... some builds depend on flasks, there entire damage and life support comes from flasks, and you have completely negated the possibility of those builds because for this mechanic.

Socketing Weapons/Armor for runes... This concept is old as Diablo 2... Some People play poe, because they dont like diablo... -- This concept would have been better approached if runes and things could be pulled out of sockets, so you didnt ruin a piece of gear. When trying to level i found 1 good shield, and u can put 1 thing good into it at lvl 13, but at lvl 40 im still using that danm shield, cuz i havent found any thing else!!!!! and it stuck with CRAP socketed into it!

Poor as dick. Wheres the currency drops?? do i have to farm magic items and disenchant everything... god thats annoying, and NOT SATISFYING -- At Level 40-50 ive found more Exaults then Alterations.... Making 100 runs to town to disenchant shit to get fucking SCRAPS of regals, when i need 20 scraps, is a joke, its insulting to the player.
I can totally get behind this for high end currency, chaos ex, Mirrors, Divine... big stuff, scraps.. ok np... f..ing Regals? really...

Running an Area 5-6 Times seems to net, 1 Alch, Maybe

Need Orbs to add Sockets to Gems?? Sockets Follow Gems??? Wow... -- ok but now i gotta farm those orbs if i want to change skills or try new things, and again at lvl ~45 ive had 3 orbs drop... so ive been able to add 2 sockets to my main skills - But i cant find more or have enough money to trade for more, to actuly try new things, so im forced to make a new character? one that will be deleted after beta?? yeah that seems like a goooood use of my time......



Cant buy or trade Chromes/Alts/Augs from vendors


If GGG is trying to lure players in from diffrent genres, there not thrinking right, poe is the only one that has stayed unique with this mechanics and gems and skills for years... Now we seem to be incorperating what mainstream crap, wants to shovel us, and now GGG is gunna buy in i geuss? - Is this cuz Tencent bought big portions now? Profits over Players??? --- When can we expect Your legendry and GREAT Microtransaction system to go the way of the wind for profits?


Seems to me GGG is trying to put the Cart before the horse... they wanted all these cool features and new things incorperated from other successfull mainsteam titles, but didnt think it through enough to really run things through the fan base, before creating somthing there utimatly going to have to rebuild imo....

The game is a 4/10.... lets be frank... Its more stressfull then satisfying, and even for skilled players, i see people complining, Newbs would be totally turned away by this.... i cant honestly see how GGG expects to keep a player base if they dont address some major major issues.....


Poe was always about making what you wanted, out of what you got, what we got now is a bunch of make up on a pig, with crappier drops, and less slots to fill.

This honestly may be the end of poe for me.... its just killed my enthusiasm...


The Assendency, i get what they were trying to do, looks like they copied all the mechanics from Crucible? i think was the leauge, but any way, the Honor system, i already have to dodge roll, now i have to make sure im not hit ontop of it, sure fine i get it but, this area, is mundane/boring, reusued/rehashed, i get but...

The Acts are mediocre at best, and act 2 town is ultra confusion when it dosnt need to be, ESPECIALLY the part when blowing the horn, every one seems to get stuck there wondering what the hell to do.

But besides the Acts being mundane nothing new, just same green items, take here there, kill boss, whoopdy doooooo,

If i had to Deal with Act 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 like they were planning, holly christ sign me up for war, id rather go to ukraine.



If you made it this far, Congrats, -- I KNOW this is early access. i get it... but the direction this is going is bad.... bad bad bad.... The words money grab come up.... Honestly i dont even think it was tested to some degree...

If GGG wanted to use the community for actual testing and feedback before this, i could understand how this would be a ALPHA --- not beta... and not EA... Early access to me means that the core structure has been completed, and they are fine tuneing, this seems a step pre-mature... i think they should have had a closed beta of 5-10k players... that are hard core into poe for years... so they could quietly tune and refine this to what players would love, respect, and play for years to come... In its current state its not possible to enjoy, which means theres no point putting time into it. so even if GGG wanted additional feedback, people are simply exiting the scene.


Ill be monitoring patch notes with hopes but untill atleast the difficulty is balanced better, the rest i dont see happening, to many mechanical faults imo...

Sorry GGG, i think were better off as friends.