Casual Standpoint Positive Feedback

I only played in season 1, and stopped to let the game cook, but I was baited to play Act 1 because of the weekend cosmetic rewards (thanks for giving me a goal in the game!)

So this is only from a casual standpoint - which I hope can be appreciated as I am not an end game guy unless there are fomo rewards for doing so - I am a play on the weekend but love the care that has been put into this game over other arpgs kinda guy. They deserve some recognition even from a non-streamer, weekends only cause I'm in school, dumb kid playing their game like me.

I saw a clip of one of the GGG team reminiscing with the guy who helped make Diablo 2, and saying how fun it was to deep dive into the mechanics of the game to find how it ticks - I think I get it now, cause I want to play more if I could afford the time. I can't wait for some Christmas holiday grinding.

The levelling process is so sexy in it's current iteration - I vendored items for far more than enough orbs to upgrade all my stuff constantly. I bought a wand cause I was impatient at vendors from trade, but I didn't HAVE to in order to feel good, which is exactly in my mind the sweetspot for levelling.

The rares seem to be dropping in a good pace (I even farmed that frost witch a few times and she kept giving me rares) that I don't have to rely on orbs to upgrade to rares
I barely had to shop for gear at vendors because I always had enough from monster drops - just a good phys wand as I went for a vine levelling strat on druid

The Vaal Temples upgrade my whole inventory - these are so great to have early game.

I finally got that power spike feeling early game that I think was gravely missed back in S1. It used to be an arduous grind, but now it's fluid and to be honest a bit overpowered in how easy I can upgrade early game - but don't start nerfing to harshly, because it's FUN.

I love Act1 from a story standpoint, atmosphere standpoint, and now from a pacing standpoint.

And holy crap the druid animations are SO freaking amazing. Just him walking is sexy but everything else is too. How he changes into standing bear which is a mechanical choice and it's just so satisfying on wasd.

Much love for the GGG POE2 devs. I'm actually so excited to play again next weekend and continue on just for fun despite no more fomo rewards for moving on.

Can't wait for challenge journey's like those in POE1 or other ARPGs - I'm assuming it doesn't exist yet because making a reward system for a unfinished game seems like a waste of time resources at this point.

Regardless, thanks so much for this experience - you really captivated me with how far along the game has come.

I think it is super easy for devs to not sit fully back and instead tunnel vision to people who say x or y is bad right now - but it's so so so good compared to season 1, seriously great job on the progress from an overview standpoint.


Thanks much once again.

My man gets it.