Dawn of the Hunt - Mobs hunts players

Almost 60 hours into the new season, and I’ve already had three moments where I was right on the edge of quitting this game for at least a year. I kept coming back only because I gave GGG a huge amount of trust and genuinely wanted the game to become the absolute leader in the ARPG world. Over and over again.

But today… that’s it. It’s time to walk away from this toxic relationship between me and what was supposed to be the sequel to a game that stood at the top of the ARPG genre for a decade.

They called the league Dawn of the Hunt, but very few people understood the real meaning behind that name. We’re not the hunters here, and we’re not doing the hunting, guys. The mobs are. Even white mobs — they’re the real hunters in this game. Even if you manage to have a good session that lasts a couple of hours without dying once, the number of times you’re “hanging by a thread” leaves you with the feeling afterward that you just came back from a job you really hate, where everything around you is toxic.

My wife just recently got into PoE1 — she played 150 hours of PoE2 but had never touched the first one. After her first 20 hours in PoE1, she hit me with a line that left me stunned:

“I can’t believe PoE1 and PoE2 were made by the same people. PoE2 feels like a game made by people who hate players. PoE1 is overflowing with love for the genre and for the players — something interesting is happening every second. I already feel better at level 18 here than I did in the endgame of PoE2.”

Sayonara.

Couldn't disagree with your wife more but i like the title. Sums up one of the points why i love PEO 2 atm -mobs hunt players instead of standing idly and ignoring the player. Makes it engaging gameplay.

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dissonance90#3107 wrote:

Dawn of the Hunt - Mobs hunts players

hahaha the best summary of 0.2 patch.

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

Couldn't disagree with your wife more but i like the title. Sums up one of the points why i love PEO 2 atm -mobs hunt players instead of standing idly and ignoring the player. Makes it engaging gameplay.

Most of the "hunters" in POE2 are idly ignoring the player, the modifiers are a doing all the heavy lifting, I got "chased" by 3 types of slow walking mobs spamming magma orbs, chaos orbs, and mana drain.... Yup sooooo engaging.

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weezyplayer3#7716 wrote:

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AIDA_TriEdge#4390 wrote:

Couldn't disagree with your wife more but i like the title. Sums up one of the points why i love PEO 2 atm -mobs hunt players instead of standing idly and ignoring the player. Makes it engaging gameplay.

Most of the "hunters" in POE2 are idly ignoring the player, the modifiers are a doing all the heavy lifting, I got "chased" by 3 types of slow walking mobs spamming magma orbs, chaos orbs, and mana drain.... Yup sooooo engaging.

Don't forget essences, spirits, mobs with auras, environmental traps and badly designed levels