Before POE2 was released everyone was dunking on D4 for being too easy

No once you overcome the initial challenge in the game the game becomes easy for you as you overcame something.

Doesn't mean the game wasn't challenging before you had 1k hours in it.

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Henide#3803 wrote:

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hboi#6131 wrote:

I'm not accusing you of anything. If the game isn't difficult then there should be no problem completing all content in the game without much effort.

People can phrase challenging as tedious, RNG based, or un fun mechanics. It's just blatant cope really.

It took me awhile to learn how to not die in the trials. It was challenging. Now I don't die in the trials. I have overcome the challenge. You can do it too if you give yourself enough time.

"I'm not accusing you of anything. If the game isn't difficult then there should be no problem completing all content in the game without much effort."


wow look how hard it is to play poe2 to clear maps eh ???:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uID9wDrXolE


wow look how hard it is to play poe2 and kill final boss eh ???:
https://youtu.be/fn5ulkcFGj8?feature=shared&t=13


is this hard in your book ?


Like I said previously the difficulty selector in poe2 is at the char select screen, and that is the problem with the game currently. I dont see warriors with rolling slam killing bosses or clearing maps somehow...

I'm clearing screens on t16/17 tier maps with bone shatter as warrior. The lack of build diversity only exists in your mind. Theres plenty of fun builds to play

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hboi#6131 wrote:

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Henide#3803 wrote:

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hboi#6131 wrote:

I'm not accusing you of anything. If the game isn't difficult then there should be no problem completing all content in the game without much effort.

People can phrase challenging as tedious, RNG based, or un fun mechanics. It's just blatant cope really.

It took me awhile to learn how to not die in the trials. It was challenging. Now I don't die in the trials. I have overcome the challenge. You can do it too if you give yourself enough time.

"I'm not accusing you of anything. If the game isn't difficult then there should be no problem completing all content in the game without much effort."


wow look how hard it is to play poe2 to clear maps eh ???:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uID9wDrXolE


wow look how hard it is to play poe2 and kill final boss eh ???:
https://youtu.be/fn5ulkcFGj8?feature=shared&t=13


is this hard in your book ?


Like I said previously the difficulty selector in poe2 is at the char select screen, and that is the problem with the game currently. I dont see warriors with rolling slam killing bosses or clearing maps somehow...

I'm clearing screens on t16/17 tier maps with bone shatter as warrior. The lack of build diversity only exists in your mind. Theres plenty of fun builds to play

And i clear screens on t16 with a single mace strike tap on warrior. Now show me that 4th ascendancy trial where you melee the tornado bird or a pinnacle boss.

I think it's just a lot of knee-jerk reaction. Folks insist it isn't Dark Souls but GGG is the one that has the final say on what it's supposed to be and if it doesn't jive with their contrived expectations, they scream about it online. I for one welcome the vision.

The game isn't hard, it's tedious, boring, unrewarding, and directly punishes you for doing anything outside the box or creative when it comes to building your character.

Killing the tornado boss is pretty easy with melee tbh. It's not too hard once you learn the boss. I do think the tornado bird needed to be nerfed but right now he is in a good place.

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SplashKing#6352 wrote:

The game isn't hard, it's tedious, boring, unrewarding, and directly punishes you for doing anything outside the box or creative when it comes to building your character.

I'm having fun playing my own build I made. If the game isn't hard then it wouldn't punish you. You could beat all content without any trouble at all.

Also if you think the game is boring it might be best to put it down and go play something else instead of trying to change the game hundreds of thousands of people enjoy.

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Game isnt hard, its just absolutely borked in its numbers and balance.

The game isn't "hard" because the concept "hard" is different for everyone. Just like "fun" concept. What is "fun" for me, is not "fun" for you. So all these debates about "fun" "hard" "easy" "slog" "fast" "slow" etc are completely useless.

But as for "balance" - this is smth we can talk about indeed.
But thing is - the game will never be balanced with such an enourmous ammount of variables literally everywhere.

If you make the game too hard, then you'll lose in player retention when more casual players leave.

The reason why you're seeing countless threads and countless arguments for why the game is too hard is because they are the majority. Most people agree that the game is too hard.

Also, OP, if you're playing Smith Boneshatter that puts you up there playing one of the top 10 meta builds right now. Hell, there's a guide on maxroll.gg right now I bet you used.

I bet if you tried something out of your comfort zone, something new, something that maybe isn't so meta, something you came up with yourself, you'd change your tune real fast and see what we all see.

On top of this, saying one of the tankiest, easiest to play builds is 'off meta' and that you should be struggling because that's what you chose, just saying you are clearing juiced top tier maps, probably means you aren't part of the group of players that are actually struggling. It's self-evident.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

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SplashKing#6352 wrote:

The game isn't hard, it's tedious, boring, unrewarding, and directly punishes you for doing anything outside the box or creative when it comes to building your character.

I'm having fun playing my own build I made. If the game isn't hard then it wouldn't punish you. You could beat all content without any trouble at all.

Also if you think the game is boring it might be best to put it down and go play something else instead of trying to change the game hundreds of thousands of people enjoy.

What's your unique build?