I'm just not having fun...

I was having fun with the first version of the game.

I know lots of patches have dropped in the past few days to fix lots of things but it didn't put the fun back.

I'm not into trading so I'm pretty fucked because there isn't any loot. This game is forcing you to trade or play very specific meta builds, other wise it's a mind numbingly slow and boring experience.

I'm finding almost no currency either. Johnathan's snide little remark to Ziz as if he didn't know what he was doing (you know, the guy with probably more hours into PoE than anyone on the planet) was to to break down all the rares we find to get regal orbs. Problem is, I'm not finding many rares either.

Game balance is still way off after the patches. It's amazing to me that the last version of the game was fantastic. I made 10 different characters and leveled them up a bit and had fun doing most of it, although endgame started to drag on.

Now it's the opposite. The campaign just sucks. The mobs take way to long to kill and even though you said you fixed it the mobs still rush you down and overwhelm too fast. I know they said they fixed it but they didn't fix it enough.

This game is worse than Ruthless mode ATM. Please do better we know you can.

It really seems like GGG are trying to define specific meta's in the game and then punish you for not using them. It almost feels like Diablo 3 in many regards and that's a very low bar. I always like the build diversity in PoE1. Doing whatever you want and managing to squeak into end game and find loot to turn you into a god is that what the game was all about. And it feels almost none existent in the game.

GGG, RNG IS NOT SKILL! MASHING BUTTONS IS NOT SKILL! Getting over run by white mobs constantly knocking you back so you cannot react to anything, isn't fun. This is a video game it's supposed to be fun. It was fun until 0.2.0. PoE1 is still amazingly fun. This game just feels like a lot of work.

Its taken me 8 days to get to maps (i'm not a noob, nor a speedster)
In that time i was forced to use trade 3 times just to have a chance at surviving the insane speed and ability to stun of the white mobs

Now i am at maps, one thing i have noticed due to how i play maps is:

The detection ai of white mobs in maps is insane, absolutely insane
They can spot you from "almost" off screen, which means you cant just attract 1 pack and deal with them.....you ended up being seen by 3 packs of overactive, hyperactive speed running white mobs.
And god forbid 1 of those packs are ranged and can literally shoot from one side to the other and sometimes i have noticed through line of site objects.

I am a slow mapper, i like to open the whole map, i creep around like a ninja so as not to wake everything up

That style doesnt work in poe 2....the detection ai is insane.

Totally agree on the agro range thing. I forgot to mention that as well. When the entire map chases you down, the whole time, there is no fun in constantly running around in fear trying to whittle down the massive pack a tiny bit at a time for several minutes. It's exhausting.

You don't have to trade. Just slam and welcome to the jam. Everything I have is completely self-found and farmed.

You're not having fun because the game isnt rewarding, and it doesnt get better at end game.

They have destroyed drops of all kind. Currency and gear. I have had abysmal drops from campaign to T15 maps. I can't even keep regal orbs handy to regal my maps.

Jonathan is out of touch.