1 Portal deaths killed the game for me

Im a casual, only hit level 100 in poe 1 one time but always enjoy the experience in playing most leagues. The amount of times I beat Sirius, or pinnacle boss on 1 portal is super rare.

I spent 50+ hours in maps and found 2 stone citadels, dropped my rarity gear and went full defense. 8k effective hp max block and resist. First citadel was a bit juiced but not crazy, one shot by the boss. Second citadel i went with a white map and was one shot again with my block up.

Everyone says its a skill issue or get good, but I think im good on playing the game. Having one portal on SC is just too punishing im putting it down till a solution is implemented.

I've only found one citadel so far. :(

How are your atlas passives setup?

Do you have + boss levels? If you do, take those off for citadel. They make the bosses CRAZY OP. + boss levels in citadel is literally the very last portion of endgame intended for a tiny number of people with absurd gear and builds about to get nerf'd.

Game does a very bad job explaining this

Yeah the citadel bosses when they are fully juiced with + boss Difficulty are way more cracked than they should be.

There is nothing enjoyable about wandering around a completely RNG based atlas map looking for citadels, or really looking for anything since it's all just a random void that does nothing to improve your character or account. Just RNG nodes with RNG Waystones. The entie thing could be a dropdown menu that you just pick what you wanna do and it would be a better experience overall.

I'm well into 250+ hours since POE2 launched, I can clear all content, all trials, all map tiers and I must have ran 1000 maps, still haven't seen a stone citadel and only 1 copper and 1 iron.

Everything about the Atlas kinda sucks to be fair, pinnacle farming included.

Someone did say in Global the other day that if you check the towers in your fog, you can see which ones have corruption around them and which ones don't. Apparently the corrupted ones are where you'll find Citadels.

One Portal is terrible game design.

How is anyone supposed to learn a boss fight?

If we were allowed to build Tanky Characters that would be one thing, but nothing exists that will survive boss combos.

I just got hit with a stun which I am pretty sure is undodgeable, I was spam dodge-rolling, and 8700 ES evaporated, max resists. Now I have no idea whenever I will see another Audience with the King since it appears to be pure RNG.

It's not fun and colossally de-motivating.