THE STATE OF PATH OF EXILE 2.....

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WarhawkOfficial#9280 wrote:

Honest genuine feed back.......

Stop what you are doing and rethink the entire process....

So I have 751 hours in Path of exile 2, I have 12,000K hours in POE1 last season in PoE1 I finished rank 14th Best Inquisitor in the League (out of 15k) 40/40 Challenges and over the course of the years i've finished high placed on Ladder multiple 40/40 challenges etc etc and why am i saying all this???

Well as it stands im currently in Act 3 on a Character with 790 Life...no meaningful Upgrades for gear, not enuff crafting Items to try and make summit, no enuff gold to gamba because ive exhausted all my gold TRYING to get some gear improvements, you CANT reload a instance to get the Abyss to respawn to get Exalts from there, there NOT enuff LESSER RUINS dropping that have Res stats on them so my resistances are nothing short of shocking which ultimatley resulting in Health getting chunked on ever single hit because of low resistances.

So lack of Crafting Mats, Lack of Meaningful loot and Lack of Gold is making Campaign not fun.

Path of Exile 2 whatever the Vision is is failing weather the Dev's like to hear it or not its the truth. IF the player base who play PoE1 are turning away or complaining about POE2 then they needs to be some justifications in there complains...

i will say this again incase the Devs forgot I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY RUTHLESS...

I am getting SWARMED with the same amount of Mobs id expect to see in a T16 Juiced map in Act 2 and 3 of a campaign something thats light, introduces you into the Campaign and building up your character, not having to back pedal away from 40 Mobs kill them use a portal to town to use a well to refill flasks then portal back in and repeat the killing process and leave.

Path of exile 2 is currently this....Play the broken OP build or nothing... there no middle ground simple as that build diversity is non existent. Meaningful loot is Barren and Gold sparce, (however gold dropping and then gamba isnt far off but the gamba needs a bitter yield i used 35k gold and never got a single usable item for my Character Monk but got stuff to use on other characters).

When Path of Exile 2 was announced and people asked about the campaign and how long it would take the community was told its about the same length as PoE1 this is a lie.... POE1 if you are on a 2nd character with levelling gear and your decent can take around 4-6 hours.... first run maybe 8-15 hours if ur a decent player (not a top speed running demon who i know could do it miles faster) im just taking about your decent above average gamer.

But PoE2 Campaign is taking people like 12+++ hours nearly and thats some of the top POE1 players so what chance does a average player have? how much re-playability do you think think this game is going to have when people cant stand running a 10++ hour campaign for a 2nd character? how long till HC players die and then just give up on the game because the though of running campaign again...AND on top theres only 4 acts wait till theres another 2 extra acts as well....

Also Johnathan went on Live stream and said this game was 80% completed.... not a chance im sorry but this at times is pushing to be called a Beta.. i Love the PoE franchise i like the concept but this game needs alot of work... ive even tried myself to post things ive noticed wrong with game, like visuals, mechanics, and other things in a constructive way.

So like i mentioned at the start i have 751 hours in PoE2 and indeed i do, i have in season 1 got 3 character and farmed thousands of maps (this is where my time is mostly spent i also beat the Highest end game bosses on these characters...

2 season i got 1 character to 85 and stopped before fighting the Arbitor....
season 3 (current league) I am 1 character in im in Act 3 and i honestly do not have the will to continue... ive tried and tired and tired and nothing feels good from the lack of crafting, lack of mats, and lack of gold unless you played as one of the 3 viable build the game feels boring or badly designed around 90% of the characters and there abilities well atleast in campaign anyways.....

SO for a example playing Monk things i noticed.... crafting gear or meaningful gear is dropping..... i used gold to gamba to try n get a chest piece with more than 7 life on it managed to get that then get afew rare items so i start disenchanting my rare gear drops to get some regal scraps to try n craft which then means im not getting the best gold option and most gold, i save up 10 rare items which btw do not drop as much as you would think....

So you finally save up 10 scraps and get 1 regal you put it in a item.... item is terrible or garbage..... so you scrap the item for gold..... or 1 regal shard... and rinse and repeat but only you cant, unless you rerun the campaign areas over and over as if you are running maps.... but who wants to do that?

IF you rerun over and over the Campaign instances you dont get new Abyss's the main source of alot of crafting mats but if you cant push campign then you get no new Abyss's and lets be honest for a second here some Abyss's are brutal for the lower Act campaign.. especially coupled with the lack of gear and loot, the game on the whole isnt too hard monsters health and stuff feels fine its just over tuned with packs having 40 monsters in them at time, or constantly poison, without a meaningful way to combat it, FLASKS take a month and 40 monsters to regain charges...

And Bosses.. Act 1 boss is mechanically clunky, and you get over swarmed by the werewolfs (in the fog stage)....Act 2 Boss is a visual nightmare as well are way way too many attacks this is a Act 2 boss were talking about and....

Act 3 Boss well... i will let you know about that when i get to it because the Vaal Poison Queen fight is impossible with a a Melee up close attack I.E. im hitting her dodge roll, im hitting her dodge roll use a flask (im poisoned my antidote charm ran out like 2 seconds ago and we dont get Charm charges unless we kill) so 2 more attacks and poisoned, use a flask 2 more attacks and poisoned then a flask..

the more and more i play PoE2 the more and more it drives me to go play other things and as someone who loved PoE its the loyalty to the franchise thats keeping me here, but how long will that last?

There is great parts of the game and loads to enjoy but the lack of crafting to be able to get you character out of a hole when presented with one or a meaningful way to get loot/gear to help is killing the experience.... because maybe that pack of 40 Monsters wont matter or be a problem if i just had some extra defences, or maybe that boss isnt that hard if i had a better weapon so it is balanced??? or maybe the OP builds arnt that OP maybe the other builds just aint in a great place?

MAYBE If the devs played the campaign themself they would see first hand. NOT EVERYONE IS BEN_ or a TyTyKiller (or other equivellent amazing POE players/streamers/speed runners i just used them as a example) just knowing everything and speed ruinning the game making it look easy.....

Some of us are just kinda decent at the game (or atleast poe 1) and anyone less is just on a struggle bus. I remember the whole point of Poe2 was to bring new players in making things simpler and easier to understand and being New player friendly.

If i was a new player and started playing Poe 2 i would confussed as heck and id prob give up, because id be like so how do you improve gear...Oh you gamba slam.... Or i could gamba gold....right so everything is just RnG with zero determination? there should be straight forward basic crafting or atleast decent shop options that help on a standard level and then if you want to improve beyond you can try n craft or gamba but as it is niether function

Examples of this could be alone the lines but not tied to the following:-

Maybe in Act 2 gear that drops with life on it can be less than a certain amount IE Act 1 Life can range from 7-20 on gear Act 2 could range from 25-50 Act 3 could be 40-90 etc etc so ur are always getting a potential helping upgrade life wise rather than getting a half decent gear piece and then getting 10 life on it in Act 3 compeletly spoiling the piece...

or along those lines all defensive things included like Ele res on gear similar way Act 1 5-15 Act 2 10-20 Act 3 15-28 (because by this point you also have meaningful help from the skill tree)

Anyways needed to get that off my head there so much more i could touch on but the overall feel of the game is that Skill and build are on rails that the Devs want you to play... Crafting or the ability to craft isnt there, Monster are either overtuned or Build are undertuned, and well its drove me atleast to play other games and im someone who will literally sit and no life POE1 ive just came off a month and half straight lvl100 40/40 character looking forward to POE2 and its made me jump on Terraria ......and btw Terraria has a better crafting system that POE2 atm lol

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Xx-Mr_Stark21-xX#9833 wrote:

If youre going to constantly complain about a .3 version of an early release game, go to reddit.