My wife said today...

+1

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x__Holy_One__x#9005 wrote:

"It's good that POE 2 is hard. I don't like Diablo 4, you just walk around and it's so easy."

The game is not hard, the gearing is, at least on lower acts. There is much required to streamline the experience for NEW PLAYERS and people which want to rather EXPERIMENT.

The experimentation in builds and skills is, cause we don't drop or have access to enough skill and support gems.

The game the moment we have access to most of that stuff, is easy.

Doing exactly what guides tell you make the game also easy.


We don't even require resistances for most parts of the campaign especially bossing. (Yea I know jamanra feels easier with lightning resistances, but most of his abilities that are dangerous are based off of physical damage that convert a part to lightning, the rest can be easy dodgable, which can be further improved by literally having more movement speed on your boots)

There is nothing really hard about most of it and I rather wish we would get 0.1 boss encounters back, were it was actually kind of hard and not so tuned down, but I wish they would balance around experimenting and trying (new players) instead of demonizing that behaviour and force new players to use a guide to not be frustrated about the campaign.

Some still manage, no question that, there are people which either are big brains or run with just the right strat by coincidence. But that shouldn't be a rule for anyhting.