Path of Exile 2
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Fyff
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Made it to 70 and t5 maps. The new map system is fine. The new cinematics are cool. Lich Plants is pretty dumb. I had negative results for all 3 going into my t4 maps and was only dying to stupid one shot mechanics that I would have died to anyway. Plants are pretty boring overall.
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People with this attitude is the only way the past few pages of this thread make any sense when juxtaposed with the popularity of PoE2.
The irony is that PoE2 is speedrunning system complexity. Far faster than PoE1 did.
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I mean shit will get added on to for sure as the leagues go on. We all know GGG hates to waste content. And in sure as time goes on it will be more complex. But what they have done so far is slow rolling all the league mechanics out to you at end game or act 4+. Simple quest and a location on the map if you choose to go there or not, or just stick to the main end game fortress shit. Like an actual place you go to on the atlas and interact with it.
There is a main atlas tree for the general shit and minor league shit like rogue exiles and essence and others. Then you have the bigger separate trees for the main league mechanics which is simple to understand and spec into however you like.
Biggest downer about this game so far is the campaign IMO. That shit is aids and they really need to fix it. Everyone is complaining about it. And rightfuly so.
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Tholan
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I don't hate the campaign as much as you do, but I do think act 1 is not well done at all, difficulty wise. I started a plant druid, played by the book, added the correct support gems, got some ok gear, but I still had to use my staff fireball to do any damage at all, otherwise it's just a snoozefest or I die because my life flask is empty.
Noodleface
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Still might check it out. Deeply entrenched in d4 at the moment but I'm kind of hitting that wall where I've done everything this season I wanted to. Got the arpg itch.
OU Ariakas
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I just do not understand why they make the first few zones so punishing. How much faster would it really make league start if they balanced the goddamn mobs around having to hit the player 20 times before death?
The fucking league mechanic...the one they want you to interact with because it is new and shiny....was actually HARDEST in the first encounter when you probably have 1 piece of gear, no jewelry, level 1, and a white weapon. They had fucking 50% chill on that oversized pack. What the actual fuck?
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The follow-up to this line of thought is how much of the 500k players are people toughing it out hoping/knowing it gets better?
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OU Ariakas
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For sure, but what if there are 50-100k more ARPG-ers like
Noodleface
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Caliane
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bad rng. its like ONE monster in those Rune packs that does that aoe 50% chill bullshit.
I don't think its guaranteed you'll get it the first time.
but yeah, that worm sucks balls.
OU Ariakas
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My guy, why is it even an option inside the RNG? How is chill even a thing when you have 0 resists and no gear? Love of God, the first zone has the frozen Unique that chills as well. I love POE and POE2, but it is obvious that they are retardedly holding onto this idea that they need to punish everyone in the first 3-5 zones to show how 'different' this game is.
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Nahh, the dude explicitly said this shit is not balanced and this is what they will focus on from 0.5 to 1.0. He said there is a lot of shit that was put in but not tuned at all. All they have been doing is adding content, not balancing any of it other than the glaringly broken shit. Monsters, the monster mods, the weapon and armor bases, all of the skills need to be gone through....Skill tree is a big one....It was all in the interview.
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For all the talk of the dogshit early game (it's dog shit), they've much improved maps. End game feels about 80% better than it did, not quite great yet but certainly much more compelling. MA beyblade is breezing through, not having a ton of luck with drops though!
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Easy answer.
The players openly DESPISED doing PoE 1 campaign, so GGG’s response was to make a 20+ hour campaign you are forced to go through EVERY season with bigger maps, lower mobility, inflated hp, and slow combo gameplay. Drops in game are so ass ur basically forced to trade in the season to get ALL of your loot. The game is seemingly balanced around this. So its trade or sink 4 times the amount of effort for a tenth of the reward