Endgame doesn't work.

DISCLAIMER: love the game, the best gameplay and progression feel in the genre so far in my opinion. I've loved the genre since Diablo 1 and played almost every game existent through its endgame, my favourites so fare being Grim Dawn, Last Epoch and PoE.

I'm level 80. I reached T4 maps but I have no incentive to keep playing whatsoever. Here's a brief list of the reasons I don't feel motivated by the endgame at all.

- Map scarcity: I would assume the system would be balanced for me to drop multiple maps and choose the best ones instead I have to go back to T2 because I haven't dropped any T4 or T5 during my T3 and T4 runs. Considering my character hasn't really been challenged in days, since low tier maps are easier than the campaign this is not only unsatisfying because of the artificially slow progression but also straight up boring.

- Orbs scarcity: I am all for the PoE2 / cruel low loot economy but I haven't dropped a single Chaos Orb since cruel Act 2, I'm on T4 maps. I'm reforging decent items because I'll never have the orbs to work on them.

- Items/Crafting balance: It is unbeliavably unsatisfying interacting with crafting and reforging when 99.9% of stat rolls are bricks. I have changed 4 bows from lv 10 to lv 80. I have rolled in the hundreds between crafing and reforging. The bow I'm using now is still a half brick tbh.

- Mechanics are confusing: Breaches, Mirrors, Delirium, Expeditions etc. are poorly explained, not introduced gradually enough and not different enough one from the other. All they do to me is make me feel even more hindered and aimless in my endgame progression. Some should stay and be better introduced but some should go or be redesigned into something different.

I had much better experience with Last Epoch's endgame in its early access because the crafting and the endgame systems, while still prone to become repetitive, were very engaging and satisfying.

Played for 4 hours tonight, gotto a few bars from 78 several times. Get randomly one shot by some stupid overtuned mechanic or surrounded and unable to do anything but die is BS and unfun. Then I got from 2 bars to 78 to 4 away... thaa's happened twice tonight so essentially i get zero progression tonight due to, in my opinion, some bullshit. Either I'm getting burnt out or this just ain't it, dawg.