End game is hot garbage right now

[Ultrazen]

Level 71, tier one map, all resists maxed including chaos and chaos damage over time, 3 hexes plus bane on mob, one shot by a single mob. Your lack of curation as to what is possible on mob damage combos is really frustrating, and ruins what is otherwise an amazing game.

[Rinko]

Originally posted by dxdiag:

Because it's safer to ask questions

Originally posted by Ultrazen:

End game is hot garbage right now

He's just asking for friendly advice, my mistake. Thanks for singling me out instead of

Originally posted by 中身はおっさん:

71 level end game btw OMEGALUL

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

The end game might be garbage, but so is the early game!

[Traveler]

Ok well I'm up to Tier 14 and I rarely even take damage. And my build has a whopping total of 8% phys dmg reduction and 5k life atm. One shots do happen and there's nothing anyone can do about it. But it's nowhere near as bad as what you're making it out to be.

I assume you're playing a Life based Bane Occultist. Maybe with Dodge. I've also played that recently and that version of the build has essentially no defense. You are a glass cannon that can only become tanky through very good ES gear + CI and the Occultist's ES node. It should be able to perform well enough for you to grind currency to get such gear. I think damage was good enough to go all the way into red maps. I just personally decided I hated ES casters.

[Bartek]

New player here, started with expedition. In my opinion the game dificulty ist just right, i played 3 chars so far:

1. rouge deadeye, learned the game, hit a wall at t4 maps, char lvl 80, not enough defence.

2. earthquake-barbarian (whatever its called in poe ^^), got him to lvl 83, t8 maps, brick wall, not enough damage xD.

3. dual wand Arc-Elementalist (so much fun), got her to lvl 91, t14 maps (is this finaly the endgame?), but again, to squishy (8,5k hp + energyshield, but not much else for def). i redesigned her for the next league with a shield in off-hand, hope i can get her to meet this sirus(sinus? sidus?)-guy everyone is talking about xD

imo this is just right. it would be a bit disappointing, if a new player could finish all content with his first char on the first try. this way i discover so many new things with each playthrough.

now i started my first ssfhc-char .D an looking forward to the gauntlet.

tldr: difficulty is just right, would be dissapointed if it was easier. seems i started playin poe at just the right time ^^

[2-1 your move kid]

just get guud. you'll never see endgame with this attitude.

[lenn]

if your getting one shot at T1 maps this is a classic case of "git gud"
probably poorly rolled maps is your issue

[BeanStalknJimmy]

I was helping someone with mapping the other day and ended up in a 17% phys reflect though both of us were phys dmg.. classic case of not reading the map roll then ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cause random mobs one-shot you.

The BEEEGEST problem here is that people are still wanting to Speed-Run maps and bosses. I died all 200+ times because I did not understand boss mechanics at that time, Al-Hezmin, The Hunter for example has 2 phases that are easy to manoeuvre but if you don't know then dying is even easier.

Too many players not giving the game half a chance go on to review it and say its garbage. I have just over 1100 hours (rookie numbers) and only now do I kinda maybe not follow a guide so much and experiment which half the time ends up ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but that is the fun in the game. To try stupid things, if its stupid but it works then well...

[NixBoxDone]

Everybody wants content to be challenging and rewards to be amazing. Nobody wants it to be effortless because then there'd be no point to it.
The problem is that everybody thinks THEY ought to be the ones that the difficulty is measured by, no matter how good or bad they are at the game, how much experience they have and how much thought they did or did not invest into their character.

If your character has maxed resists and the mob had three curses and still one-shot you, you either rolled a hard-counter to your build into the map mod, had some really weird defense setup (energy shield without shav or chaos inoculation or something similar) or had like 2k hp.
My berserker cyclone character has zero curses, runs the notable that makes blocks not remove 100 % of the damage, has under 5k hp and little in the way of chaos resist and runs yellows just fine.
No amazing investment either, garbage uniques and rares across the board, highest investment was a watcher's eye with one applicable modifier (pride effect).
Only time I ever die is when the mobs pile on, I get pinned and get hit by a dozen hits or so at once.

Game isn't garbage, your build is just seriously flawed in some aspect.

[Thornburst]

Tired of this too.

[⬛️◼️◾]

Wow you aren't good at this game. Which is scary because it's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. It isn't brain surgery. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy as hell.

[Tony Twist's Thunderous Right]

The whole game is hot garbage and has been for a loooong time.

[Polterghost]

Originally posted by Arandur87:

You can reach level 80 in 6-10 hours of playing. If you need 2 months for that, please just don't play the game anymore, it will never cater towards your needs/desires.

10 hours?? Dude, getting trough the acts alone takes me around 20 hours. Your standards are insane.

[davidb11]

MAn. It doesn't even take me 20 hours to get through the campaign and I am slow as hell.

[wespe___o=/;;;:*]

Originally posted by Traveler:

Ok well I'm up to Tier 14 and I rarely even take damage...

If you´re really T10+ you should know that it depends HEAVILY on your build.
Not everyone likes to play strong Meta-builds

I have seen Builds fail in former seasons just because new player couldn´t get the Gear required to get this jump from "average" (dies occasionally) to "great" (can do T8+)
And in HC this is a real problem, especially if your build became more trashy after 3.15

Originally posted by NixBoxDone:

...My berserker cyclone character has zero curses, runs the notable that makes blocks not remove 100 % of the damage, has under 5k hp and little in the way of chaos resist and runs yellows just fine..

I think you´re quite on spot, BUT.. this example is a joke tbh

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It´s very simple...
1. game less fun = less teammates for Coop
2. less teammates = you lose interest and play other games with friends
3. ..all that leads to players dropping out in huge numbers

-> Seasons require a motivated playerbase (GGG failed hard this season.. eg: FLASKS )

[Abstract]

It's almost like people don't want to play a post base game for 4x longer than they spent on the main campaign.