Conclusion about PoE 2

Hi there first thing to say i played PoE 1 since Incursion League and i fucking loved this game i do most of the Challenges all Seasons last few seasons i did all of them. I play Around 1-2 Months every Season and enjoy this Game so much. For me it is what Diablo 3 should have been.

This Poe 2 Season i got myself a Hand on a Early Access key and tried it out. Surely it cant be so bad as alle the people say i thought. Hell Boy was i wrong.

First of all a tried Berserker and after dying like 6 times to the tutorial Boss i finally beat it and was kinda pissed off. Its an Arpg why must the Story and even the tutorial Boss harder than a Boss in Dark Soul or Elden Ring.

I Quit for a few Weeks and talk with a friend of mine. He said to me i told you but when you wanna have a at least playable Character go for Ranger and i did so. Besides the deaths because i got stuck in mobs stuck on a Fence or stuck on a Tree i was able to manage to get to the First Act Boss and boy oh boy i was not prepared for this shit show.

Sry to say it that hard but i cant believe that a Game Studio which did so a great Job with Poe 1 can produce such a bit piece of S***. Poe 2 for me fells like it wants to be a soulslike game (i assume because Elden Ring was so succesfull) but under the cover of an ARPG. ARPG'S are games where you kill thousand of mobs to get maybe bit look and not dodging attacks like Neo in Matrix or keep track where to position yourself when fighting white mobs because they have a shield and you cant shot an arrow at them from the front. Its also should not be a game where you have to pair you skills and attack whith this then that and then that to make like 30% damage to a white mob.

I havent finished the Campaign so far because it tilted me so hard that i quit after Act 1 and i also know that this post while not impact the Developer in any way but i needed a ventil for my Anger.

For me PoE 2 in is current state is one if not the badest Game i have played in a really long time. And dont get me wrong i like hard Games i played Dark Souls 1-3 , Elden Ring and even mods like Convergence on them. And i have also no Problem with relly hard fights like Nameless King or Malenia. But PoE is an ARPG and not a Soulslike Game.


Thats my 5 cents wish you all a good day peace.
Last edited by Alucat90#2452 on Oct 8, 2025, 11:12:52 AM
Last bumped on Oct 8, 2025, 9:27:40 AM
Please, for the love of Kitava, format that wall of text.

If we don't want to read that, GGG won't either.
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