POE 2 IS WAY TO DIFFICULT

1) Play easy builds that focus on range attacks/minions
2) If you want to play your own "fantasy" with a character like a melee it takes a certain level of skill, awareness, and game knowledge, what monsters do, and where to position yourself. (It also applies to the first point but less)

Game is better the better you are, the more understanding you have. Do not try to be "good right now" look for things that can make you get better so you will have more fun. PoE is a journey, once you get to a certain level of understanding of the game - it's the best game ever as you can do "anything" on the fly. You have the wrong approach for this game (ie. diablo 4 player mentality)

get good

I am good with hard, d4 was the worst money spent ever in my life, trying to play that garbage put me to a coma...now I spent 10 times more money on POE2 just give d4 devs middle finger and I am happily raging in POE2 everytime I die or get stagger or run out of flask charges :D

First off i want to say thank you for everyone who engaged in conversation i greatly appreciate any feedback i can receive good and bad.

I 100% agree with everyone saying that part of the problem might be my understanding of mechanics or certain stats in how they work i am not refuting that and I know i can always learn something to improve.

My pov of this is more from the perspective of a newer player. I did play a lot of poe1 but never really got into crafting due to the many systems. But coming from that new player perspective i was just trying to get across the feeling and experience that I had playing poe 2.

You can probably consider me the typical casual fan who comes back every so often so I probably relate a lot closer to brand new players then most of the community and to me the campaign felt really difficult and punishing for melee classes. When I played a witch or a sorcerer sure I died but at no point in time did i feel impossible and I constantly felt that way on my melee classes. I figured that if I felt this way as someone who has spent years playing games like this then how many new people who feel like this or worse playing the same classes.

Poe2 isn't for everyone you right and by no means do I expect any game to be able to make everyone happy but if players such as myself that played a heavy amount of poe 1 cant even get passed Act 2 then isn't the difficulty ramped up to much for campaign where newer players that want to play feel defeated and go to play something else entirely? I feel like alot of people aren't leaving because they finished the game they left because certain things about the game feel impossible to overcome.

Maybe dawn of the hunt brings players back for a time but nowhere in the patch notes does it address anything about player damage, monster damage or survivability. It does say something about skill damage but I am uncertain if it refers to nerfs or buffs.

I saw other posts discussing similar topics and even so much as suggested that poe2 won't feel playable or fun for most until a year or 2 passes. I will always come back to check every so often until it gets to that point but it does need to become easier. Not everyone has hours on end to play games anymore and how irritating does ut feel for people that work a lot to sit down for an hour or 2 to play there favorite game only to spend majority of the time reading build guides and boss guides. Poe1 has it's own issues but to me neither game really gives players the ability to experiment on there own and figure things out for themselves. How many of you made a character and followed a build someone else created? Does the build creator work for a website where they get paid to build craft? How many players made a build that works themselves?
All im advocating for is making the campaign accessful for all players to experience especially when you lock the AH behind act 3 you should want players to experience the new systems you created. If I don't have a build by the end of the campaign then it's 100% on me but that's all im asking either improve the melee classes or nerf the campaign difficulty.

Why isn't there a HAHA react in these forums?

OP, just wait for the next patch and you will be able to write the same things much more emotionally!

My eyes Ahhh!!!