I'm just curious...

To satiate my own curiosity can you reply below

If you've played PoE 1 - and if so how many leagues or hours.

and then if you like the direction of PoE 2.


Much appreciated!

I´ve played PoE 1 since beta so more than 10 years more or less.
I´m the typical SSFHC kind of player, i enjoy making new builds if i rip a character and just go-again mentality.

My issue with PoE 2 atm is this:
Replayability is VERY VERY BAD.

Act 1 will take on average maybe 1.5-2 hours on SSFHC/HC since you have to overlevel and farm gear due to rare/blue drops being very rare, you´ll be gatekeeped by bad equipment for this reason, the same thing will happen in later acts, what this does is increase act-times severely which is a result of replayability going down.

The typical nolifer SSFHC streamer (Ziz, Raiz, Steelmage) will likely reroll 10+ characters per season due to being able to go from a1 to maps within 5-6 hours

5-6 hours in PoE 1 will likely result in double the time in PoE 2 and that is for a nolifer

A casual will give it one try and then skip/wait for next season due to the time investment required to simple get to the actual "game" which is the endgame, this is a very bad approach.

I want the game to be slower as PoE 1 reached the stage of having to resort to ONE SHOTS to balance the game...This game is a lot slower and yet they still resorted to one shots, that decision did not make much sense to me.

A slower tactile gameplay should resort to better balance paths than to simply do the typical "+ -" damage increases to "balance"

~400 hours of PoE 1, probably like 6 leagues spread over like 5 or 6 years, so not a hardcore or anything but so far I feel like PoE 2 has a decent starting point, but it definitely needs work (hence, I think, Early Access). I'm somewhere in Act 2 rn, so I have nothing to say about endgame, but right now the critical things they need to work on are some buffs to match the recent nerfs and maybe a big loot table overhaul.

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Deltaspirit#0738 wrote:

To satiate my own curiosity can you reply below

If you've played PoE 1 - and if so how many leagues or hours.

and then if you like the direction of PoE 2.


Much appreciated!

I've played since open access, and nearly every league, save for a few in the middle (roughly the time the new masters showed up) as I was too busy to do much of anything.

In terms of hours I'd be terified to know. Thousands?

And yes, so far I enjoy PoE2 a lot. It's fairly different from PoE1, but I generally like the direction of the gameplay, and the shifts in core mechanics like gems.

Well, I only just attached my POE account to steam, due to the early access beta.

I'm sure I've got thousands of hours (10k+) at this point and have played most seasons, played beta and remember when POE was literally a reskinned D2. (3 acts, multiple difficulties)

My opinion of POE2? I love it personally and find it to be more enjoyable than even POE1. It plays well, the voice acting is great and I can see myself plummeting thousands of hours into it, it's got balancing issues and some bugs, but that's normal for an early access beta release. BRIGHT FUTURE.

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Holigawd#2935 wrote:

Well, I only just attached my POE account to steam, due to the beta,

I'm sure I've got thousands of hours (10k+) at this point and have played most seasons, played beta and remember when POE was literally a reskinned D2. (3 acts, multiple difficulties)

My opinion of POE2? I love it personally and find it to be more enjoyable than even POE1. It plays well, the voice acting is great and I can see myself plummeting thousands of hours into it, it's got balancing issues and some bugs, but that's normal for an early access beta release. BRIGHT FUTURE.

Bright future, indeed. Come release, or even sooner than that I'm betting this week will just be remembered as growing pains.