Slow and punishing repetitive gameplay with a lack of build diversity.

TL;DR

Make general gameplay less punishing, more interactive, strengthening builds and diversifying. More optional difficulty scaling options in end game, making the game more accesible to players, with a wider scale of progression, in a way that is easier for developers to make small tweaks, and focus on finishing the the classes/ascendancies/game.






Personally I think this game has it's back is up against the wall with a lack of build diversity, only half the classes released and just one third of the ascendancies. There are many more issues that exacerbate this.

The one shot mechanics. There are many bosses that dont have clear visual telegraph for their one shot attacks, which in my opinion should also have a clear audible sound. I'm an ex MMO player and for me the biggest challange in a game is PvP, and the most toxic thing which all players despised were one shot mechanics. There is no challange there because you lost the interaction, now all the players switched to the one shot mechanic.

To my understanding this is counter intuitive to what the end goal of challange is, which is in the interaction. The game is too slow without stacking movement speed, so you're chasing stats on gear out the gate, yet the boss can delete you with one hit in the first two seconds of the fight. Not only that if you want to run 6 mods you also only get one portal. I just dont understand this in a game many people are playing 8+ hours nearly every day of their lives.

In end game uber content I can understand these mechanics, but it's forced into every part of the game play I find myself getting to the boss and rolling my eyes. I dont see how this can be inviting for new players.

There should be better optional difficulty scaling which helps strengthen builds performance creating diversity, and strengthens the economy by creating more diverse rewards and active trades, essentially making the game not only more accessible to new players but also opening up the field to more experimenting and in turn more balancing options.

Early access should be fun for the gamers and easy for developers to finish the game! This I think should echo into crafting, I like that orbs are more accessible, but its as if there needs more end game scaling options so that you can experiment with these orbs earlier on. It's as if they are there, but using them is out of reach, but this is also likely stemming from a lack of build diversity from what I can see.






TL;DR

Make general gameplay less punishing, more interactive, strengthening builds and diversifying. More optional difficulty scaling options in end game, making the game more accesible to new players, a wider scale of progression, while easier for developers to make small tweaks, and focus on finishing the the classes/ascendancies/game.

Update: installed POE1. Ran a map, dropped a divine and a fractured rare. Lost nearly all my health multiple times, didnt die. Everybody having fun in global chat. Uninstalled POE2.

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Edwardsausagefingers#0710 wrote:

Update: installed POE1. Ran a map, dropped a divine and a fractured rare. Lost nearly all my health multiple times, didnt die. Everybody having fun in global chat. Uninstalled POE2.

First of all, i doubt that happened but it is possible. You must be running juiced maps?

Second, you will be back to POE2, exile. POE2 is the future and at some point POE1 will be too old and too much for devs to update.

Thanks.

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2836742981#3689 wrote:

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Edwardsausagefingers#0710 wrote:

Update: installed POE1. Ran a map, dropped a divine and a fractured rare. Lost nearly all my health multiple times, didnt die. Everybody having fun in global chat. Uninstalled POE2.

First of all, i doubt that happened but it is possible. You must be running juiced maps?

Second, you will be back to POE2, exile. POE2 is the future and at some point POE1 will be too old and too much for devs to update.

Thanks.

I did come back, see my new post just got frozen and one shot on first citadel. I went again for the fully juiced maps and can manage to do 10-15 maps without dying now. I like the pace actually, it's high risk high reward, theyre almost forcing you to slow down in every way, which is starting to take away this feeling of repetition chipping away div by div and watching map chat everybody helps each other out, I see theres always people jumping to help with campaign/bosses as well, so there is a way around the difficulty in early game. I just like to try myself.

Gameplay is too fast, it needs to be slowed down. I didn't buy this to just have a prettier POE1, I wanted a different experience.

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Asmosis#7365 wrote:

Gameplay is too fast, it needs to be slowed down. I didn't buy this to just have a prettier POE1, I wanted a different experience.

Welcome to the world of Zoomers bro. No caps for DPS and MS and everything about defences a big joke...

Poe2 = Poe1 1.2 version.

I agree.

Also i want to add that POE1 have been feeling the same for years.

All the spells feel the same. All the Melee Skills feel the same.

Abilities feels the same. Somehow they feel the same to me even tho visually different. The feeling i get playing is strange and the same. I do not know what it is.

They might as well combine them all together and trow one out there to play with.

So no diversity in Poe2 does not surprise me.

The huge selection of skills and the Big Skill tree is an Illusion.
You have a couple of stuff that work and the rest is garbage. They switch between them every league almost to artificially change the meta. So we do not get bored out of our minds.

Still you cant play them for more then a couple of weeks a league because they are boring and they do feel the same.

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Edwardsausagefingers#0710 wrote:

Slow and punishing repetitive gameplay with a lack of build diversity.

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