The game doesnt teach you to how play the game

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Kraivan#1745 wrote:

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Vyend#2601 wrote:

The game really does a poor job at explaining stuff to new players, and you can see that very early at the character selection screen

The big thing about this game is ascendancies, and yet, when you select a character, the game basically just shows you an explanation of weapon type skills instead of ascendancies, imo this is a monumental and obvious mistake

Right now the game just expects you to have experience with poe 1 and that's it, i really hope that by 1.0 they have a better learning curve and tutorials for new players

Oh... I don't really want to nitpick that deep.
Usually you play a class with specialisation. In poe2 the reality is you play a skill gem first (not even weapon) that's optimised with an ascendency. :D

This is not a nitpick at all, 90% of the skills are tied to a weapon type, so it doesn't make much sense to say that "you play a skill gem first"

It's true that ascendancies work well with the class base weapon, but it also creates confusion to new players like the difference between classes and ascendancies, and there's weapon type on top of that

My character is a mercenary tactician who uses quarterstaffs, but at first glance a lot of people will think i'm playing a monk, you see what the problem is? Weapon types are too strongly associated with classes, but the class (monk) is not that important, the actual important thing is the ascendancy

To make it simple i just wish it was easier to tell these things at glance, and i don't think it's intuitive rn

It's a part of meaningful friction vision *fixes glasses with a middle finger*

OH man, this game literally holds your hand, explains everything, and has information on every keyword on gems/skills/items/stats...


POE 1 does literally none of that. You had to google every single stat to know what it is and what it does and how it effects you.


Your take is crazy, this game essentially chews your food for you and only asks you to bother swallowing yourself.