Feedback After 900 Hours of HC SSF

Hey GGG and all the POE 2 fans,

I jotted down a bunch of notes during last league and this one and wanted to share the random thoughts that popped into my head. I played the entire first 2 leagues on Witch and then Sorc for Third Edict so a lot of my feedback is related to those 2 classes. I've also never played outside of HC SSF so my view of the game is entirely from that playstyle. I also played an insane amount of D2 LoD when I was a kid. So thanks for finally making a true successor to D2 LoD. :)

Here we go in no particular order.

POE 2 Musings:

- Maps that are more like dungeon dives where you travel downwards through the dungeon like D2 Act 1 tower with a boss at the bottom (or even travelling down to Andariel)

- More thematically appropriate sets for each class (I really want a Nightreign style Recluse set for my Witch/Sorc)

https://eldenringnightreign.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Elden-Ring-Nightreign/recluse-default-garb-200px-nightreign-wiki-guide.png

- Sheesh, just copy and paste this into the game and I'll give you all the moneys

- Things I want to spend money on. Cosmetics that are locked behind challenges or cosmetic drops. Buying cosmetics feels bad, I prefer to earn gear that's a reward after some hard challenge.

- I really wish POE2 had set items that you could collect and use as leveling sets for your alt characters to speed up the Act 1 to 6 grind and some high levels sets that were decent but not the pinnacle of gear. I really enjoyed the novelty of having set items to look out for that were also lore based from D2 LoD.

- Frost/fire/lighting elemental summons for sorceress via Scepter. I find the safest playstyle for HC SSF is to just have some summons to take the heat off. So on my Sorc I'm just using a Rattling Scepter in my off hand which isn't thematically appropriate for the class.

- Golems for Witch (mud, clay, stone, iron, etc.)

- Chase drop cosmetics with special effects.

- Setting to move the boss/monster health bar UI elements to the bottom of the screen and scale them down or up. There are many times when my character is covered up by the UI.

- Spell transparency settings for performance/visibility tuning.

- Pets pick up gold for you as well as Sekhemas water and maybe some future stuff. I played a ton of Lost Ark and they had this as an active benefit of pets which I actually liked as a QOL.

- Upgrade the spells that are on weapons. Allow different spells to be socketed into weapons?

- When you complete a tower, have the camera pan out to show the animation of the tower powering up. (I wrote this in last league so it's cool to see this added!)

- Rattlecage targeting is all wonky in Trial of the Sekhemas.

- I miss my HC death ghosts. Maybe add a graveyard for HC characters. This was also a thing in Darkest Dungeon that I liked.

- PvE Exiles seem kind of weak.

- I wish Eye of Winter was spammable so I could relive my Frozen Orb sorc days. I'm hoping the 15 second cooldown gets deleted so I can drop a bunch of elements down on the ground and then fire Eye of Winter through it as my DPS rotation.

That's it for now. I'll write some more later.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers!