Endgame thoughts

I am new to POE, haven't played POE1 b4.
After 3 months of playing POE2, here are my thoughts, some other may have already mentioned.

1. Death Penalty
a) Leveling
I thought this is a gear grinding game, but level 90+ takes way too long to level up, especailly with the 10% loss death penalty. Why noy let players reach max level and have all the skill points to play around?
If GGG is to keep the way it is, at least:
i) allow us to buy certain % of loss experience through gold and gets more expensive as we level up.
or
ii) we lose less exp after 90+, maybe like lvl 90 lose 9% and lvl 91 lose 8% etc.

b) Map/citadels
On top of the exp loss, we also lose the map's modifier. Wouldn't it be better if we lose only either map or exp, not both? We have 6 portals, why shouldn't we be able to go back to the map?
It's even worse for citadels, we don't even get to insert a new map after death. This is way too harsh and frustrating at early endgame.


2. Fix camera location for map device.
At late endgame, we scroll around to find a map to play, but if we don't have a waystone on us, then re-opening map device we will need to find the node again. Maybe we should just go back to where we close the map device. We have a shortcut to go back where we are anyway.

3. Sound effect on Elemental Conflux
I like the buff it gives up, but the sound for switching element every 9 seconds is way too annoying. Especiall we are in town when it's quiet. Please add an option to turn off the sound effect or cancel the sound completly.

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baboo104#8002 wrote:

I thought this is a gear grinding game, but level 90+ takes way too long to level up, especailly with the 10% loss death penalty. Why noy let players reach max level and have all the skill points to play around?
If GGG is to keep the way it is, at least:
i) allow us to buy certain % of loss experience through gold and gets more expensive as we level up.
or
ii) we lose less exp after 90+, maybe like lvl 90 lose 9% and lvl 91 lose 8% etc.

Level 90 is not a problem, and there is no hard level requirement after that. Why do you need level 100? Especially when you have a weak build, you shouldn't take 100.

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baboo104#8002 wrote:

b) Map/citadels
On top of the exp loss, we also lose the map's modifier. Wouldn't it be better if we lose only either map or exp, not both? We have 6 portals, why shouldn't we be able to go back to the map?
It's even worse for citadels, we don't even get to insert a new map after death. This is way too harsh and frustrating at early endgame.

You have the ability to use all the portals, just don't die. Great incentive to make a good defense in the build. In the end, you don't lose that much from losing the map itself.