Early Access Feedback - Exping over level 97 is boring and totally interest in game killing - Forum

" Fnts7#2833 wrote: The problem is you have to play on areas with like <2% death risk at all time, which means very boring even with omen of amelioriation. If you have a good streak and happen to reach around 20% exp without a death, then it is simply too valuable to afford loss, you have to grind all the way to new level. I'm now 45% to lvl98 and I'm not 100% sure I will play to level up. In order to keep vast amount of exp needed for next level and make it more enjoyable, please introduce a possibly, perhaps a new orb that will allow you to freeze your exp at any level. You apply that orb to yourself and can cancel at any time. While in effect, you gain no exp and loose no exp on death. Perhaps there could be small fee of loosing some small amount of exp when applying. The drop rate I would see such that the market price of that new orb would be between 1-5d. So resonable cost plus small fee of existing exp in order to prevent abuse. I always stopped at level 94 in PoE1. Most people stopped at 93 or 94. I see people stopping higher in PoE2, like 96. I don't know if that means the climb is less steep, or that there's nothing else to do in the endgame yet. If you're at 97, you finished the game. My advice: start a new character, or go outside. There is supposed to be a lot more to do in 0.4. Hang tight for six weeks. SSF Rise of the Abyssal Ice Strike Invoker, high survivability and fast clear speed. Deprioritize armor and resistances; prioritize crafting a weapon and faster start of ES recharge. Build is shown at level 47, end of Act 3. It tore through Act 3 like butter. https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/ba84	Posted by DistributedAutomaton#5739 on Oct 26, 2025, 12:21:14 PM Quote this Post
" Faclana#1854 wrote: Some people can't even reach 95 bro... Imagine how s..t the build balance is! Play only Dead Eye and ES if you want reach high levels. I reach lvl 94 over over half year ago and I stopped. Game become frustrated as hell. When they released patch 0.2 this game become unplayable...waste of time.	Posted by DarkDredd#2184 on Oct 26, 2025, 3:13:43 PM Quote this Post
" Sakanabi#6664 wrote: " DarkDredd#2184 wrote: 90% player do not like XP penalty....and still GGG is stubborn. 90%? Where you got that number? come on! This is not rocket science. People complain so much about GGG, lose views on Twitched, amount of negative topics, amount of dropping players from Steam Charts.... that 90% is not so far from reality....	Posted by DarkDredd#2184 on Oct 26, 2025, 3:16:56 PM Quote this Post
" DarkDredd#2184 wrote: " Faclana#1854 wrote: Some people can't even reach 95 bro... Imagine how s..t the build balance is! Play only Dead Eye and ES if you want reach high levels. I reach lvl 94 over over half year ago and I stopped. Game become frustrated as hell. When they released patch 0.2 this game become unplayable...waste of time. "unplayable" and yet more than 100k people managed to play and enjoy it. Must be something on your side then. El. oh. él.	Posted by quarki#9020 on Oct 26, 2025, 3:56:01 PM Quote this Post
" DarkDredd#2184 wrote: " Sakanabi#6664 wrote: " DarkDredd#2184 wrote: 90% player do not like XP penalty....and still GGG is stubborn. 90%? Where you got that number? come on! This is not rocket science. People complain so much about GGG, lose views on Twitched, amount of negative topics, amount of dropping players from Steam Charts.... that 90% is not so far from reality.... And yet they play the game. Can't be that bad, this exp loss, if more then 100k people played this league for quite some time. El. oh. él.	Posted by quarki#9020 on Oct 26, 2025, 3:57:18 PM Quote this Post
" quarki#9020 wrote: "unplayable" and yet more than 100k people managed to play and enjoy it. Must be something on your side then. El. oh. él. Hmmm...here is ok.I think on your side. Actually is 28K...no idea where from you got 100K....	Posted by DarkDredd#2184 on Oct 27, 2025, 5:51:43 PM Quote this Post
When a player says that stopped in 92 level becouse further levels can't provide any special bonus then it's becouse there is absolutely no balance between classes. For example a level 92 Spearman can do 3x damage of 97 level Crossbow player... A level 90 Dead Eye can clear boss 10x faster time than a same level Minion build player. It's obvious catastrophic and GGG proceeds with closed eyes.... Last edited by Falginton#0485 on Oct 27, 2025, 6:56:39 PM	Posted by Falginton#0485 on Oct 27, 2025, 6:55:09 PM Quote this Post
I say add ability to lose levels. No penalty right after leveling is too OP. If I die a lot at L97 I should be slowly demoted to L1.	Posted by Fallfromeden#0861 on Oct 27, 2025, 7:13:29 PM Quote this Post
" Fallfromeden#0861 wrote: I say add ability to lose levels. No penalty right after leveling is too OP. If I die a lot at L97 I should be slowly demoted to L1. First Devs need to stop this madness with unbalanced classes/ builds abd whatever destroys and ruins equality. Becouse right now some "genius" players benefited from broken rules and can reach easily to 200 level without a single death. Then we can talk about deleveling... Last edited by Baggos#7448 on Oct 28, 2025, 2:15:34 AM	Posted by Baggos#7448 on Oct 28, 2025, 2:15:01 AM Quote this Post
remove exp lose from the game	Posted by UnholyKirin#7925 on Oct 28, 2025, 3:56:26 AM Quote this Post