This is what the game was supposed to look like.

No, this is what you wanted it to be.

They've been very explicit in the interviews. This is going to be very much like poe1 but with more space for executing a combo.

We've heard that the 95th percentile in terms of speed in poe1 is fine. Don't be confused about the leveling process. Poe1 was originally nowhere near this fast to level up in.

Player misconception partly due to faulty marketing, that's all this is. The marketing team is also to blame for why this is called EA and not a beta.
All done in the name of commercialism in the Dark Souls era. You got caught in the marketing net.

10+ minute boss fights don't sound exciting to me .

Maybe for like act bosses or major bosses, but not every boss.

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ZaruenVoresu#5823 wrote:

10+ minute boss fights don't sound exciting to me .

Maybe for like act bosses or major bosses, but not every boss.

This was not every boss....was THE boss!

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Immoteph#2974 wrote:

No, this is what you wanted it to be.

They've been very explicit in the interviews. This is going to be very much like poe1 but with more space for executing a combo.

We've heard that the 95th percentile in terms of speed in poe1 is fine. Don't be confused about the leveling process. Poe1 was originally nowhere near this fast to level up in.

Player misconception partly due to faulty marketing, that's all this is. The marketing team is also to blame for why this is called EA and not a beta.
All done in the name of commercialism in the Dark Souls era. You got caught in the marketing net.

To be fair, the devs did say, in one of the first interviews when 0.1 released, that boss mechanics should matter.

I think one of them said they want boss fights to be 2 to 3 mins long when they are first encountered. But eventually, with BIS end game build/gear, bosses can be obliterated in under 30 seconds.

There are so many builds that can kill almost all bosses in seconds on a fresh start. Even in early maps, the meta builds with just decent gear, can kill bosses almost as soon as they spawn. And there are plenty of non meta builds that can do the same.

Balance will never be perfect in a game like this but it should be better than what it is now. Balance between players and enemies, between different skills, between different builds - they are all off the reservation.

A very large part of the reason I play ARPGs is because I want to be able to outgrar content. I don't want a personal skill check. If I did I'd pay am FPS or a DS game or MH. Being able to trivialize end game bosses the second they spawn is my power fantasy in this game.

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lol49#6377 wrote:

Completely agree, this is what boss fights should look like. You actually have to play the mechanics. Its open for debate if a boss fight should last 8 min or 2 or 15. But there should be no way to beat a boss so fast you basically skip the figth.

Boss fights should not last 8 or 15 minutes lmao.

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KaosuRyoko#1633 wrote:

A very large part of the reason I play ARPGs is because I want to be able to outgrar content. I don't want a personal skill check. If I did I'd pay am FPS or a DS game or MH. Being able to trivialize end game bosses the second they spawn is my power fantasy in this game.

But it's not the power fantasy of creators of this game I'm afraid.

Yea, no.

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

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KaosuRyoko#1633 wrote:

A very large part of the reason I play ARPGs is because I want to be able to outgrar content. I don't want a personal skill check. If I did I'd pay am FPS or a DS game or MH. Being able to trivialize end game bosses the second they spawn is my power fantasy in this game.

But it's not the power fantasy of creators of this game I'm afraid.

Source?

Because that's how the game currently is, and they did repeatedly say that the top end would be similar to PoE1 to my memory.

it should but ggg want to make tihs game casual as possible