Can we have slow methodical gameplay from act 1 back please?

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Lebotsumaru#5011 wrote:

Act 1 was the freshest experience I've ever had in an ARPG. It was slow, methodical, and calculative, and combined with the WASD + dodge mechanics, it worked brilliantly. With proper positioning and dodging, it was even possible to defeat Geonor at level 16. It felt like playing Elden Ring within an arpg.

However, by the time you reach endgame T15 mapping, the gameplay takes a completely different turn. At this stage, you're either expected to one-shot everything or be overwhelmed and killed by mobs. The slow and strategic approach of Act 1 is abandoned in favor of frantic, high-paced combat. Honestly, this change begins to show as early as Act 3 Cruel. At this point, the game feels like it's in a "Frankenstein" state, with the campaign heading in one direction while Cruel and mapping take a completely different path.

It would be incredible if the devs revisited the direction they embraced in Act 1 and brought more of that deliberate, tactical gameplay into the later stages of the game.

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LVSviral#3689 wrote:

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What's the point in playing a loot game if you're fighting a boss for 3 minutes and he doesn't drop anything that makes the next fight easier or if the game is balanced in such a way that whatever he drops can only make your next fight with that boss last for 2:59?

That's simple. The point is enjoying fighting an engaging boss. And we know that GGG probably prefers brainrot 1 shot zoom zooming. We are trying to change the minds of the devs since PoE2 is just worse PoE1 with better graphics if the combat becomes irrelevant in endgame. Power creep CAN and HAS been far better balanced in many many other loot based games.

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I'm not saying that there are no issues with PoE2 but you're talking about changing PoE2 into a completely different game here.

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LVSviral#3689 wrote:

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I'm not saying that there are no issues with PoE2 but you're talking about changing PoE2 into a completely different game here.

That's just the thing though. Are we? the game plays interactively until late game scaling becomes exponential for both the player and enemy damage among other things. Is bending the scaling curve really a different game altogether? I'd say it's just the same game, but with more fair, engaging and challenging continuity.

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LVSviral#3689 wrote:

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I'm not saying that there are no issues with PoE2 but you're talking about changing PoE2 into a completely different game here.

That's just the thing though. Are we? the game plays interactively until late game scaling becomes exponential for both the player and enemy damage among other things. Is bending the scaling curve really a different game altogether? I'd say it's just the same game, but with more fair, engaging and challenging continuity.

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Rhogog#6908 wrote:

What's the point in having items in this game at all if they don't give you any meaningfull advantage? You have to choose - either you want a game where you learn boss paterns, engage in long fights where everything depends on your skill or if you at some point would have such a powerful gear that you one-shot everything. One negates the other, sorry.

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DemonikPath#1311 wrote:

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Rhogog#6908 wrote:

What's the point in having items in this game at all if they don't give you any meaningfull advantage? You have to choose - either you want a game where you learn boss paterns, engage in long fights where everything depends on your skill or if you at some point would have such a powerful gear that you one-shot everything. One negates the other, sorry.

The point is to become more powerful so you can kill more powerful enemies. What's the point of having over 1000 enemy types if you never interact with any of them and all of them die in a single hit offscreen? You might as well just replace all of them with A1 zombies and no one will notice a difference. In a normal game you get more powerful items to fight monsters that are also more powerful which you wouldn't be able to kill without good items (or will have a lot of trouble).

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DemonikPath#1311 wrote:

You're speaking like I'm complaining about too little drops.

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DemonikPath#1311 wrote:

I'm complaining about exact opposite - there is way too much loot dropping right now but the quality of drops is garbage. When properly balanced killing 5 really strong enemies can be way more rewarding than killing hundreds of trash that dies in a single hit.

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DemonikPath#1311 wrote:

You also assume that it's what people find fun but I don't see anyone outside of really small PoE1 community find that piece of shit endgame fun. Those who find it fun are already playing PoE1, lets keep it that way - PoE1 is a zoo to keep in all the braindead monkeys.