Newbie report.

I've never played Poe before. Bought poe2 and played a few hours.
After games like Diablo (2, 3, 4), Lost Ark and other similar ones, poe2 looks really bad -

1. Very slow character speed.

2. wasd controls ruin the game.

3. Very fat mobs, I like the difficulty, but I want to play a Diablo clone and not Elden Ring.
4. The game has a lot of old things - for example, a small inventory and no horse.
5. No character appearance changes.
6. Very bad loot, paid skill changes.

I put poe aside, I hope the developers will listen to the community and make a fun ARPG.

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SeregaAntiPetux#1665 wrote:

I've never played Poe before. Bought poe2 and played a few hours.
After games like Diablo (2, 3, 4), Lost Ark and other similar ones, poe2 looks really bad -

1. Very slow character speed.

2. wasd controls ruin the game.

3. Very fat mobs, I like the difficulty, but I want to play a Diablo clone and not Elden Ring.
4. The game has a lot of old things - for example, a small inventory and no horse.
5. No character appearance changes.
6. Very bad loot, paid skill changes.

I put poe aside, I hope the developers will listen to the community and make a fun ARPG.

1. you can add speed.
2. you can use the mouse.
3. you can get stronger.
4. there is literally a mount.
5. changed with gear.
6. paid by easily farmed ingame gold.

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SeregaAntiPetux#1665 wrote:

I've never played Poe before. Bought poe2 and played a few hours.
After games like Diablo (2, 3, 4), Lost Ark and other similar ones, poe2 looks really bad -

1. Very slow character speed.

2. wasd controls ruin the game.

3. Very fat mobs, I like the difficulty, but I want to play a Diablo clone and not Elden Ring.
4. The game has a lot of old things - for example, a small inventory and no horse.
5. No character appearance changes.
6. Very bad loot, paid skill changes.

I put poe aside, I hope the developers will listen to the community and make a fun ARPG.

"Poe2 looks really bad"
Not sure what exactly you mean by that, but graphically it looks prolly better as any other ARPGs so far.

"2. wasd controls ruin the game."
You can choose between either,... But WASD is in my case the only way to actually play the game. Since it makes dodging and fighting at the same time far easier. Also it was a feature people wished for. But again, you don't have to play it like that, you can easily use mouse and keyboard like the old ARPGs used to.

"3. Very fat mobs, I like the difficulty, but I want to play a Diablo clone and not Elden Ring."
Path of Exile was always designed for players who enjoy deep mechanics and strategic gameplay, rather than a more laid-back, mindless action experience. It required some sort of commitement and knowledge like Elden Ring. This is a given fact which is known for the series and to complain about not informing yourself about the games you buy, on a forum seems kinda weird...

"4. The game has a lot of old things - for example, a small inventory and no horse."
A LOT -- refers to 2 things, got it. While 1 is just a lie, since we have "horses" which just need reservation to be called and the other being simply normal in ARPGs. Just don't take every piece of loot with you, you could for example try using a loot filter. I for example have my inventoy empty most of the time and could go through half an act before I need to sell all the stuff or to store it in my stash, but you get many opportunities to do so, where you anyway need to get back to the city.

"5. No character appearance changes."
That's just a lie. Changing equipment does change the character appearance. So I have to ask, did you maybe play a different game, confusing PoE for it?

"6. Very bad loot, paid skill changes."
What you mean by paid skill changes? You can respec your skill tree either by orbs and regret points or with gold. You wrote the Thread at 03.06. and I know for a fact that the loot got improved crazy. Which also stays controversial to your former point of to small inventory if there is no loot to take with you?

"I put poe aside, I hope the developers will listen to the community and make a fun ARPG."

I think regarding this post we and GGG can be happy if you don't come back, since most of your objection were anyway false or just lies to begin with.

So stay safe and good bye!

PS: Your complains would prolly make sense if you talk about the first part, but there you are unable to use WASD at all.

To the people that have responded so far

4a. he's referring to a mount that is not a skill that requires spirit reservation. one that is available from character level 1 and allows faster movement speed, which the rhoa is/does not.

4b. the inventory in this game is not normal for all ARPGs. in D4, items you pick up all take up a single space in your inventory and not different amounts of space depending on how big the piece of gear is. that game also has multiple inventory tabs for different types of items. you can hold far more items on your character in D4.

5. i would guess he's talking about transmog, which is available if you pay for MTX and not by dismantling gear pieces with different appearances as other games offer


The gameplay in PoE 2 is great, but stop defending the game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. there's a LOT of room for improvement to the base user experience

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Justice90#6812 wrote:

The gameplay in PoE 2 is great, but stop defending the game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. there's a LOT of room for improvement to the base user experience

That's your interpretation of the answers. The actual answers are just responds to his illegitimate claims.

No one is denying there is room for improvement. Stop putting words in peoples mouths.

Skills/gear offer some improvement on 1.
I myself dont have much issue with WASD in terms of moving around, but its apparently interferring with Skill Targetting. This should be examined further. The chunkyness of mobs is more build-dependant, ultimately leading to discussion of making balance changes. This absolutely should be examined and changes to player/monster balance shouldn't be as restricted as it currently is. Inventory management is part of the game. Cosmetics are part of GGG's $$$makers. They're still tuning droprates but I suspect the true culprit is class balance.



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SeregaAntiPetux#1665 wrote:

I've never played Poe before. Bought poe2 and played a few hours.
After games like Diablo (2, 3, 4), Lost Ark and other similar ones, poe2 looks really bad -

1. Very slow character speed.

2. wasd controls ruin the game.

3. Very fat mobs, I like the difficulty, but I want to play a Diablo clone and not Elden Ring.
4. The game has a lot of old things - for example, a small inventory and no horse.
5. No character appearance changes.
6. Very bad loot, paid skill changes.

I put poe aside, I hope the developers will listen to the community and make a fun ARPG.

As a veteran:

1. Agree

2. Hardly disagree. Being able to move while using skills is one of the best improvements in this game. They just need to improve this feature further.

3. Some mobs yeah, specially those with shield. But this game is nothing similar to Elden Ring. No idea why people even mentioned that game.

4. Some old things, yeah. Although it is new game, it works with the same engine and inherited a lot of things from the previous game. That said, there is no need for a horse, it makes more sense on open world games, not instanced ones.

5. MTX (paid content)

6. Loots, yeah, they improved a lot but still could be better. No idea what you meant by "paid skill changes" though. Is it about MTX for skills?

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Justice90#6812 wrote:

To the people that have responded so far

4a. he's referring to a mount that is not a skill that requires spirit reservation. one that is available from character level 1 and allows faster movement speed, which the rhoa is/does not.

4b. the inventory in this game is not normal for all ARPGs. in D4, items you pick up all take up a single space in your inventory and not different amounts of space depending on how big the piece of gear is. that game also has multiple inventory tabs for different types of items. you can hold far more items on your character in D4.

5. i would guess he's talking about transmog, which is available if you pay for MTX and not by dismantling gear pieces with different appearances as other games offer


The gameplay in PoE 2 is great, but stop defending the game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. there's a LOT of room for improvement to the base user experience

4b. D4 is one game of how many ARPGs out there? So it is neither the rule nor does it change the fact that most other ARPGs have a to small inventory, for what people would like to have...

5. First of all, he then should say so,... his point says something else. Also which other games offer them for free besides D3? Which wanted us to pay 60$ for the base game and another 60$ for the addons/expansions. So there is a major problematic in this thought. You paid like 30$ for this game or nothing if you supported GGG just once before.

"The gameplay in PoE 2 is great, but stop defending the game as if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. there's a LOT of room for improvement to the base user experience"

How about stop pretending it is bad or defending people which don't even know what they want to say? Nobody said the game is the best out there. Like any game has a room for improvement PoE 2 has, too, especially since it is STILL an EA title and not a full game............................................................

Also there is no need to lie, if you guys simply are to bad or don't like the game at all.

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

That's your interpretation of the answers. The actual answers are just responds to his illegitimate claims.

No one is denying there is room for improvement. Stop putting words in peoples mouths.

this has to be a troll. go back and re-read your response to OP, specifically the points that i brought up, and tell me you're not defending these aspects of the game as if they don't need any improvement. with the exception of WASD and mobs being too beefy, his claims aren't illegitimate

"there is literally a mount" clearly OP is talking about a functional mount that is not build dependent, doesn't require sacrificing anything else to use it, and provides benefit to every single player

to be honest, your first response to OP had little to no value at all.

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Justice90#6812 wrote:

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bloomhead#3858 wrote:

That's your interpretation of the answers. The actual answers are just responds to his illegitimate claims.

No one is denying there is room for improvement. Stop putting words in peoples mouths.

this has to be a troll. go back and re-read your response to OP, specifically the points that i brought up, and tell me you're not defending these aspects of the game as if they don't need any improvement. with the exception of WASD and mobs being too beefy, his claims aren't illegitimate

"there is literally a mount" clearly OP is talking about a functional mount that is not build dependent, doesn't require sacrificing anything else to use it, and provides benefit to every single player

to be honest, your first response to OP had little to no value at all.

I am sorry, but for us, you are the troll. :/
His claims are illegitimate...

"clearly OP is talking about a functional mount that is not build dependent, doesn't require sacrificing anything else to use it, and provides benefit to every single player"

Then he should say so? Cause there is a functional mount, that is not build dependent, which can provide benefits to every single player, if they want to use it or make it work. As much as you should learn to make sense... especially since a Mount makes no sense in instance based zones while D4 and Lost Ark are Open World games which lack other things in exchange. Like Lost Ark has literally no gameplay till we get to the actual endgame and D4 dying right after we beat the story of it. We don't have to walk nearly as close as much as in those game. So for what reason is a mount a requirement in every build?


"to be honest, your first response to OP had little to no value at all"

Like most of your comments have for the game or the discussion?