What's the point of the early game being such a slog?

What I mean specifically:

introducing the abyss mechanic literally right outside the act 1 town, and then barely 1 zone over they're already spawning hyper dick mobs that have a beam attack that hits you across the map and melts your measly 100 hp health pool before you can even react. Bro, I'm level 5. And when you die, they disappear.

Couldn't they save that for, I don't know, the end game? It's like cool, league content, oh just kidding, the enemies are hyper over tuned you died at level 4 and it's gone.

So pointlessly punishing just so the game can needlessly come off as being overly giga try hard. Don't get me wrong, PoE overall is great, but small annoying things like this just degrade from the overall experience.

This is not a game its a job. Playing this game feels like i am punching a time clock and going to work for 8 hours.

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Nightmare123#4979 wrote:

This is not a game its a job. Playing this game feels like i am punching a time clock and going to work for 8 hours.

..Except the boss likes to come along, whack you on the head and add 2 hours to your day if you don't cross a T or dot an I, lul.

Agreed, progression in the campaign is excruciating. Cant figure out what ggg is thinking. Free weekend and most people wont get through the first act. God what a chore.

god act 1 is so easy. ppl failing here should learn to play better instead of blaming the game.

Um, no, there are many reports coming in that the game is off to a rough start, irrespective of your experience. I'm not complaining about it, but I'm going to deny what I see with my own eyes and be a "gitgud" wiseass.

The game is demonstrably more difficult in the early game. I practiced a number of league starts all this week and NONE of them was an issue, until I actually logged in this afternoon and started playing 0.3.

Not sure what GGG was thinking but don't be surprised to see a hotfix this weekend.

The start is ridiculously overtuned.

'Game is easy' bros are trolls.

good luck in the later acts and trials if now is already "ridiculously overtuned" for you.

While you're busy letting everyone know that you're not having any trouble, all the free weekend new players who agree that it's rough going for THEM, are just going to confirm what they'd already heard, that this game is not for them.

Maybe that's what you want to see happen? I'm not sure what benefit you see from that stance, why do you feel compelled to deny the reality that others are experiencing with your "git gud" attitude? Does that make you feel better? Will you feel better when all those new players leave? (shakes head)

Quarterstaff monk is basically unplayable in Act 1. No defenses cause early evasion does nothing. Micro stunned to hell, forced to spam Glacial Cascade most of the time.