Frustration and personal Opinions

I don't really know who to send this to or if it will even be read. I've been playing POE since POE 1 when it had 3 acts and crap graphics and a small budget. I have spent thousands on POE and have supported GGG from the beginning. POE 2 is an impressive game so far, but there are some things that make it to where I can't love poe2 like I did poe1 and maybe that's by design, if it is, its poor design imo. I'm not what people would call a pro POE player, I'm the average player who loves POE, and I'm frustrated. This isn't to bash the game, I love the game, I just don't love it as much as POE 1 in its current state.

Endgame Feeling

I'm not a fan of the endgame in poe2 so far. The first reason being is how currency works. I miss using augmentation orbs to reroll for better map modifiers, now you are stuck with modifiers you can't use and the way stones becomes useless if the character can't run said modifier, its either go make a character who can run it or just corrupt and hope for the best, it feels like I'm wasting way stones due to so many negative modifiers and not being able to reroll modifiers on a way stones to make them more favorable to whatever build I'm running. The average player doesn't have time to waste farming way stones and losing half of them cause they are unusable due to not being able to reroll modifiers.

Tiers of currency

Why, just why are there 3 tiers of the same damn currency. The market price makes it ridiculous to try and actually get the tier 3, unless your someone who has time to run the amount of maps u would need to run to even have a shot at creating something good. Nothing to me feels fluid when it comes to currency, I feel stuck and that's not a feeling I had in POE 1. You need an absurd amount of currency to do almost anything towards endgame when trying to create items to even be able to keep up with the difficulty in endgame. I get innovating and wanting to try new things, but the current way currency is in POE 2 for me is a turn off and frustrating. On a side note, I do like the way omens work but yet again good luck actually finding the ones u need and fat chance of using the market to get what u need due to how high all the ratio values are. The average player is just screwed imo and yet again not a feeling I had in POE 1.

Endgame Map Bosses

The only thing I have to say about the boss's fights is how imbalanced they are. Some bosses just roll over and die with almost no fight what so ever and other bosses seem to wipe the floor with you no matter the build you are running, making it hard to gauge the fight and the mechanics, also causing me to just straight up avoid certain maps for this reason.

Endgame map

The endgame map concept is good in concept but for me u spend most of your time lost or searching , even with bookmarks it's just a wide-open mess of the same stuff, more is not always better. This might be personal preference but I prefer POE 1 endgame map that resets every season, you get your maps done and then grip endgame bosses, to me it was perfect. Also the endgame atlas passive tree is terrible on all fronts, but I have heard that will be fixed or changed so no grips on that, ill wait and see how that ends up in later content releases.

Class Builds

No matter what build I go with or how much time, money, currency, energy and love I put into a character, the builds don't feel like world enders. I don't get that sense in poe2 that I did in poe1 when I entered a map and knew I'm about to reck shit. This might be due to not being able to reroll map modifiers on way stones, and I'm just stuck running to many negative modifiers that go against my build. I don't feel powerful, it's like you have moments of being powerful then your back to wondering why I'm not playing poe1, it's a slog and a painful slog at that. You used to not need a lot to build amazing builds in poe1, now it seems you have to have an absurd amount of resources to create items to just keep you in the game, not make you powerful , just making you struggle enough to hang around. I feel frustrated most of the time and that is a new feeling when it comes to POE.

Trials of frustration as I like to call them

I hate and I mean hate the trial of chaos and Sikahema, please just bring back the labyrinth. I've had to delete several characters because I don't want to run all 4 of the trials to reset my ascendancy. Things change and builds change, you need a quick way to change them like in poe1, just run a regular lab and boom done 10 mins your on to making a new build and have new options. If you have a fully unlocked ascendancy with all points, you are locked into running the entire thing to switch to a new one, beyond time consuming and dumb. It's a turn off and frustrating.

POE Market

The only grip is that people post things for sale and never respond when u message them, over and over and over again. There needs to be some type of checks and balances for posting items for trade. They are online yet no response, AFK I understand. If you aren't ever going to respond why post the item for trade to begin with, I mean it's terrible compared to poe1 the lack of responses when it comes to trading. You want to buy an item for 100 divine, tuff shit cause the guy won't respond and he's also the one who has all of said item in the trades. Posted for trading but never any responses. POE 1 wasn't like this, not even close.

Mirror Of kalandra

Personal grip, means nothing really, more for humor, but how the hell have I played POE since 2013 and never found a damn mirror, I mean seriously. I played with a friend who didn't really know much about the game, and his dumb ass found one within 3 weeks of playing the game, I have played for over 13 years and nothing. All the grinding, all the late nights and hopes, NOTHING damn it lol.

I think that's about all I can think of. I'm just a regular guy with regular guy opinions. I don't know how pro players feel, but I'm just speaking for the common player. This wasn't about bashing the game like I said, I love the game, just not anywhere as much as poe1 in its current state, hope with more patches and releases thing will sooth out.

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