Am I playing the game "wrong"?

Glad to see so many like-minded folks here. I hope they realize that a million people bought their early access game with the showcase that it was NOT going to be like PoE1.

Not 'super-speed-blast-through-loot-tunnel-to-boss-1-button-delete-then-next-loot-tunnel' gameplay. I want to get lost in a dangerous and sprawling labyrinth where around every corner in the maze could lie great treasure or great danger!

Not interested in anxiously blasting down a singular loot tunnel as fast as possible because of some streamer-induced FOMO.

The game revolves around loot because the endgame is thin, so the only longterm endgame that exists right now is chasing currency. After 0.4 drops, re-evaluate.

To the question in the title: if you are enjoying yourself, you're playing a game correctly. The only exception to this would be if you were a professional chess player, eSports team member, etc.

Also: you could do challenge runs where your movement speed isn't allowed to be above 10%, or whatever other limitations you choose. I do this, because base PoE2 is too easy for my taste (no armor or ES allowed on my current character).

My hopes are pretty low honestly ... I do wish GGG would prove me wrong.

But as of right now it seems like zoomfest, 1-shot everything is the direction they are picking... it's also the easy way out since the game would need some serious overhauls to make it work out as a proper good game where it actually feels engaging to play.

People like to pretend the game is some kind of stock market for whatever reason, you play however you enjoy the game. It is here for your entertainment, not to consume you. People only do all that nonsense because they rely on trade, whether they are buying or selling, they only see the crafting items as currency and not literal crafting materials lol just keep doing what you are doing

You can't "play however you enjoy the game" ... there are various reasons for that. One of the most obvious one for me is for example how the game loses all semblance of meaningful combat in endgame.. well actually much earlier then that. You can't play it in a way such that it becomes meaningful... it's just impossible.

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Panzerstrike#1881 wrote:

Glad to see so many like-minded folks here. I hope they realize that a million people bought their early access game with the showcase that it was NOT going to be like PoE1.

Not 'super-speed-blast-through-loot-tunnel-to-boss-1-button-delete-then-next-loot-tunnel' gameplay. I want to get lost in a dangerous and sprawling labyrinth where around every corner in the maze could lie great treasure or great danger!

Not interested in anxiously blasting down a singular loot tunnel as fast as possible because of some streamer-induced FOMO.

Hold your horses

I see you're the guy of the "single path maps are garbage" post. I can get behind the sentiment of a harder and more meaningful combat game and I have been asking it since 0.1, but spare me the labyrinth bs

not playing wrong just playing it slower and with less ceiling than a tested build

which is kind of how it should be if you think about it, people test the game in between playing leagues like it is their life, they also specialize in a few ways to scale and know the ins/outs of those better so their builds are just naturally better.

you are just gonna usually have more success if you use a shell that's proven to work. I dunno why that wouldn't be true.

but a lot of the skills do need a better baseline so you can realistically use them with less investment and get a bit further without getting insanely lucky for sure.