My Feedback on patch 0.4

Hello, devs.

This is my feedback to you after playing patch 0.4. Try to post feedback every time after a patch. Played this game for just over 1300 hours, so I see great potential but also that it can improve in a lot of areas.

Overall, patch 0.4 couldn't grab me as much as 0.3 did. The temple mechanism at first looked really interesting to me because of that trailer where you guys spoke about getting new arms and legs to enhance your build. I was really excited for that and hoped that some build-enabling things could be done with it. I have never ever seen the rooms where these things can be done, and later when I looked at Poe2db and saw that they are all just very generic and pretty lame and totally not build-enabling options, I was pretty disappointed with it.

In total, because of this, I run the temple like 4-7 times or so. I have a level 92 Shaman and a level 95 Oracle.. so that should be an indication of how fun I found the temple…. Later I found out it is basically to print currency, but I really can't be bothered with that for an early access/beta state of a game tbh.

Had some goals when starting this patch, like testing the new class, making builds that can kill Arbiter on my own (so no build guides, etc.), testing crafting more than before and trying to craft my own gear, or at least making good items I can sell. All these goals have been achieved.

The different druid forms are interesting. Bear and wyvern felt pretty slow to me, and overall I liked the wolf the most. One thing I don't like about them all is that at endgame they all felt like walking simulators where 1 claw, paw, or wing swipe set off the heralds, and BOOM, the entire screen cleared. This is something about Poe2 that I really don't like. For everybody that played Diablo 2, then you know how strong the corpse explosion for the necromancer is in that game. Heralds skills in Poe2 are basically corpse explosions for everybody, with the result that in the endgame basically everybody has them because corpse explosion is just way too strong to not take. I also gives a false sense of playing melee because these screen-wide clears have nothing to do with melee in my opinion and really don't feel like melee at all. I really hope at some point this changes. They might look cool, but it just takes away the identity of a build and makes a lot of builds very similar, tbh in the endgame.

Balancing of skills, items, monsters, visual clarity, and performance all have some massive work to be done to them before 1.0 and the next patch, the big endgame update. Also hoping swords and axes come to the game soon so more melee playstyles come to the game. Personally, I am not a fan of range attacks or spells… so that is why I have 5 warriors (lvl 92 -97) and my level 95 Oracle went from a wolf to a dude with a big shield and a spear.. becuase I just like that more ;)

Anyways, good luck on the development, and looking forward to the next update.
Cheers.

At least they somehow improved the performance, I remember having dc icon every 10minutes of playing back in 0.3

Yeah its the second worst league. It has so many problems its actually absurd.

0.2 was worse, but that didnt even have a league mechanic. I wouldnt call it a league. More like an economy reset.
Not that i have an issue with no league mechanic. I would prefer if they dont do them until they have all classes and acts.

Way to much time goes into league mechanics.

This League has more Bugs than i can imagine. Im encountering multiple bugs on a daily basis.

Some bugs are so bad they literally make a build worse.
For example not being able to use the same +1 to spell elvel rune in both skill sets.

Or not being able to use wolfs in only one skill set if theother one does not have enough spirit.

I have the feeling GGG needs way more time to do a proper league. Its like Good League, Shit Legaue, Good Leguee, shit league

0.4 the GOAT
0.3 very good
0.2 meh
0.1 fine

less and less performance issues

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Darosius#3984 wrote:

0.4 the GOAT
0.3 very good
0.2 meh
0.1 fine

less and less performance issues

As if performance is an indicator for what is good. Lmao
Performance is okay i guess.

But 0.4 is the second worst league simply because of Exploits and Economy issues.

Performance was worse for me in 0.4, so there you go - 0.4 is the worse league