POE'S BIGGEST PROBLEMS STILL TO THIS DAY

I make posts similar to this it feels like every league, where i try to remain positive, i try to find a reason to enjoy the game, i take things with a grain of salt, but poe1 is still plagued by the same problems of random BS happening and it just ruins my entire enjoyment of the game.

I still should not ever run into situations where the result of my death was literally RANDOM ENCOUNTERS, and it's not a situation where it's like, "oh that mean scary yellow mob is gonna run at my face i should dodge it", no it's literally monster spawns instantly is on top of me and im dead. Like I had a choice that 3 kitava rares could spawn out of a blight portal and just instantly off screen leap me and destroy me without any warning, then literally instantly destroy the blight pump because they can leap to it.

I refuse there is a single GGG dev who has done more than 2 blight maps with Kitava herald mobs or goatmen and had their pump immediately destroyed after 2 minutes in a blight map and them go "yeah this random situation that we allowed to happen to just waste your time is totally fine"

I should not be able to just be blasting in a map, doing expedition, doing everything in my power to make sure the map isn't rippy, im checking the mods, they're things i can handle, i'm not juicing the expedition as much, i hit detonate, and suddenly a soul eater mob spawns inside expedition, and is full power, immortal and proceeds to being the most annoying thing in existence.

The fact that sh*t like this still exists in a way that it's literally just "hah hah, gotcha", is just absolute slap in the face and actually makes me angry that i provide feedback like this. Yes, we should build defenses, yes we should have systems in place that we can predict these situations, but the amount of times something "randomly" just is juiced out its mind just makes zero sense. The mercs really highlight this, even after the nerfs, they still have the ability to just randomly one shot you off screen. It's like, "yeah i should have totally anticipated that enemy could earthquake 3 screens away with zero ability to avoid it because to EQ travels faster light.

/endrant

PS, i've tried to criticize these things productively in the past and it just feels like me even making this post is a waste of my time. Call it what you may, POE2 doesn't have half these problems, with its combat, and it's why I enjoy the combat in it more, i just wish it had similar systems and movement speed.