Pace of the game

Game is fun and engaging but its progression system needs work!! Having to backtrack constantly makes you lose out on good XP gains. I've got 5 characters that I've only gotten up to lvl 10-15 because of this, it becomes a hard grind that gets slower the high lvl you become.

Not to mention, the risk/reward ration sucks. Gear is hard to come by early on, and so is any good quest rewards. They keep it catering to the top 2% instead of the average Joe, no one has time to sit there and grind all day for little progression.

Also, the monster difficulty level is set much higher than normal player power at or below similar levels. Are we playing dark souls or an ARPG? You're supposed to feel powerful, of course with some level of difficulty but I'm just talking about the leveling experience.

I do like it a lot but they need to change things. Without flaming, what are your thoughts?

idk maybe it's a typo and you mean lvl 90-95 ? :D cause if you think lvl 10-15 is a hard grind you must be trolling tbh.

Nope, not trolling. I've played POE 1 for 10+ years, never had this type of experience with it before. I'm sure there's a max efficiency way to level through the low end of the game but why do we need such a thing?

You can't tell me that the quests are literally all over the place? If it weren't for the backtracking I'd say that solves half the problem.

Also, lvl 90-95+ is, again for the 2% of the player base, most players don't get to that point.

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BigBeuss#5956 wrote:

idk maybe it's a typo and you mean lvl 90-95 ? :D cause if you think lvl 10-15 is a hard grind you must be trolling tbh.

Heavily class-dependent.

OP, in Jonathan's most recent interview, the one with the Japanese streamer, he said they were rebalancing maps in 0.3 so they would be faster to complete.

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BigBeuss#5956 wrote:

idk maybe it's a typo and you mean lvl 90-95 ? :D cause if you think lvl 10-15 is a hard grind you must be trolling tbh.

Most people don't get past the cruel campaign.... i had 15 friends play. Only 4 made it to pinnacle endgame, and only 6 beat cruel campaign.

lvl 10-15 is like 1-2hr play max

The limited access to T18 maps is bad. That's the most important thing that needs to be changed.