Why play this ?

[**Sarge**]

Stop typing your angry comment. The title is click bait. but since you are here .... lol.. Can anyone tell me why this is so hard to get into? I see that I am not the only one. THOUSANDS of accounts with like 40 min of gameplay. I absolutely get SHREDDED trying to play this. as soon as you start with your level 1 character there is like 300 boss fights on the beach? Why is it so hard at the beginning ? It is discouraging. What makes this game appealing to so many people? is there a good story? Do you need friends for it to be fun? Cuz if so then I am screwed! I want to get into it. its just so punishing.

[Brandl]

Yes, they are up to mess up the game...
Best example is the new league....starting with a new char and simply die forward...that has nothing to do with fun. Its simply stupid...the worst league i ever had in any computer games ever.
Seems like the Devs runnning out of ideas and dont think about the players anymore. Remember...game should be fun...not frustration.

[Odai]

i recently startet a charakter after a long looong break and honestly after playing many other games, the start of PoE is really reaaaally jaring, its so slow, you drink pots like it's oktoberfest and you miss 90% of all attacks.

First area after the encampment sucked the joy out of me.
Magics and rare enemys are so overtuned, you constantly run and suck you potions dry. I can't imagine how people feel that play PoE for the first time and have no idea.

I honestly dont know why i would ever play PoE again apart when i want to feel angry and torture myself!

[Gottschkopf]

Originally posted by Tat2dSoldier:

Stop typing your angry comment. The title is click bait. but since you are here .... lol.. Can anyone tell me why this is so hard to get into? I see that I am not the only one. THOUSANDS of accounts with like 40 min of gameplay. I absolutely get SHREDDED trying to play this. as soon as you start with your level 1 character there is like 300 boss fights on the beach? Why is it so hard at the beginning ? It is discouraging. What makes this game appealing to so many people? is there a good story? Do you need friends for it to be fun? Cuz if so then I am screwed! I want to get into it. its just so punishing.

Low quality troll post, go home.

[**Sarge**]

Low quality troll post, go home. [/quote]

calm down fan boy... your mommy will still pay for you to win in your favorite game lol

[ZAToM]

Originally posted by Tat2dSoldier:

Stop typing your angry comment. The title is click bait. but since you are here .... lol.. Can anyone tell me why this is so hard to get into? I see that I am not the only one. THOUSANDS of accounts with like 40 min of gameplay.

the game started long time ago and it was very simple compared to now. over time more and more mechanics got added, making the game complicated, people who play for a long time had a much more easy entry and "learned" all the different mechanics one by one.
im joking with friends like "imagine starting poe today LOL impossible"
and other thing is, its a free2play game.. i guess every free2play game has thousands of players with only little playtime - which is pretty obvious why

Originally posted by Tat2dSoldier:

I absolutely get SHREDDED trying to play this. as soon as you start with your level 1 character there is like 300 boss fights on the beach? Why is it so hard at the beginning ? It is discouraging. What makes this game appealing to so many people? is there a good story? Do you need friends for it to be fun? Cuz if so then I am screwed! I want to get into it. its just so punishing.

tbh i thought you atleast a little serious after first lines. 300 boss fights on the beach? are you that bad that every single monster feels like a boss to you?
~stop getting triggered but since you read so far
no you dont need frends, you cant even really play with friends when
you reach endgame cause the engine is so bad and this is the worst thing about the game and its successor to me personally
(you could play through the story with friends that works fine but is not needed)

[**Sarge**]

Originally posted by ZAToM:

Originally posted by Tat2dSoldier:

Stop typing your angry comment. The title is click bait. but since you are here .... lol.. Can anyone tell me why this is so hard to get into? I see that I am not the only one. THOUSANDS of accounts with like 40 min of gameplay.

the game started long time ago and it was very simple compared to now. over time more and more mechanics got added, making the game complicated, people who play for a long time had a much more easy entry and "learned" all the different mechanics one by one.
im joking with friends like "imagine starting poe today LOL impossible"
and other thing is, its a free2play game.. i guess every free2play game has thousands of players with only little playtime - which is pretty obvious why

Originally posted by Tat2dSoldier:

I absolutely get SHREDDED trying to play this. as soon as you start with your level 1 character there is like 300 boss fights on the beach? Why is it so hard at the beginning ? It is discouraging. What makes this game appealing to so many people? is there a good story? Do you need friends for it to be fun? Cuz if so then I am screwed! I want to get into it. its just so punishing.

tbh i thought you atleast a little serious after first lines. 300 boss fights on the beach? are you that bad that every single monster feels like a boss to you? :praisesun:
~stop getting triggered but since you read so far
no you dont need frends, you cant even really play with friends when
you reach endgame cause the engine is so bad and this is the worst thing about the game and its successor to me personally
(you could play through the story with friends that works fine but is not needed)

well im 40 years old and have arthritis in all of my knuckles and a brain injury so... yes i suppose to me it feels like what people encounter as normal monsters feel like boss fights to me.

[Bnn1]

The first part is indeed hard due to the lots of small critters running about.

But once one beats the first section and arrives in town, its easy pickings. Pick an AOE attack and never worry about clicking one single enemy at a time. Mines, molten strike, freezing pulse or lightning tendrils, all options to get you to the Nest Crushing part, where you get even better skills like SRS and such.

[NixBoxDone]

TL. DR. is that the developers decided to make the Diablo 2 successor they felt they never got.
As a result, they're mostly making the game for people much like themselves - which happens to be masochists.

Jokes aside, they like the game to not be a cakewalk. They still want you to have that power fantasy of mowing down screens full of mobs, but they want the critters to be strong enough that you A) have to earn that power fantasy and B) so that the power fantasy will have meaning because you know just how tough the critters you're blowing up actually are.

Add to it that the game has seen a LOT of extra content (which translates to power creep and a lot of extra mechanics for newbies to learn) and it can get pretty tough to get into PoE if you're used to the likes of Diablo 3 - where most of the game is basically a participation trophy.

Some monsters in PoE can be OP, the trick is to use even dirtier tricks to beat them with.

[Sonnenbank]

Originally posted by Odai:

i recently startet a charakter after a long looong break and honestly after playing many other games, the start of PoE is really reaaaally jaring, its so slow, you drink pots like it's oktoberfest and you miss 90% of all attacks.

First area after the encampment sucked the joy out of me.
Magics and rare enemys are so overtuned, you constantly run and suck you potions dry. I can't imagine how people feel that play PoE for the first time and have no idea.

I honestly dont know why i would ever play PoE again apart when i want to feel angry and torture myself!

you also have no idea about PoE so they would feel like you did....

the problems you describe can only mean you do something seriously wrong.

you probably choose a skill where you cant attack the ground but have to attack directly on the mob.
this probably makes you feel like missing 90% of your attacks since you click a bit off the mob and therefore attack misses

Solution 1
choose a spell

Solution 2
choose a skill where you can attack the groudn and then have an AoE effect

Solution 3
get prescision aura and click on the monsters instead of next to them

[asdra]

I also don't know. I tried a few different playstiles but I only die with single hits.
I uninstalled the game in the past because of this. Recently, I tried playing again expecting that they fixed the hit kill issue but nothing. Just uninstalled again.

If you want to play the game, keep in mind that it's extremely pay to win. You'll die in a single blow out of nowhere because you can't see what's happening. If you are willing to pay for items or have hours and hours a day to farm endlessly until you get a decent set, go for it.

[MagnusGrey]

Originally posted by asdra:

I also don't know. I tried a few different playstiles but I only die with single hits.
I uninstalled the game in the past because of this. Recently, I tried playing again expecting that they fixed the hit kill issue but nothing. Just uninstalled again.

If you want to play the game, keep in mind that it's extremely pay to win. You'll die in a single blow out of nowhere because you can't see what's happening. If you are willing to pay for items or have hours and hours a day to farm endlessly until you get a decent set, go for it.

There is 0 pay to win in this game. There are whole leagues where people cant trade at all and people do fine.

FYI if your hands are bad, make sure to pick up a spell with a big AOE as your main attack. Spells cant miss and you wont have to click nearly as precisely to land a hit.

[Brandl]

Originally posted by MagnusGrey:

FYI if your hands are bad, make sure to pick up a spell with a big AOE as your main attack. Spells cant miss and you wont have to click nearly as precisely to land a hit.

Yes, thats a good suggestion...for example, if you choose the Thief class then try the Cobra Slash gem and use a support gem for 2-3 more projectiles. The projectiles nearly search there targets by themself and it makes a good damage.

[Alendert]

Originally posted by Odai:

i recently startet a charakter after a long looong break and honestly after playing many other games, the start of PoE is really reaaaally jaring, its so slow, you drink pots like it's oktoberfest and you miss 90% of all attacks.

First area after the encampment sucked the joy out of me.
Magics and rare enemys are so overtuned, you constantly run and suck you potions dry. I can't imagine how people feel that play PoE for the first time and have no idea.

I honestly dont know why i would ever play PoE again apart when i want to feel angry and torture myself!

First act take 30-60 min for most players at league start (no gear in stash). This is 18 areas (excluding town).

Originally posted by asdra:

I also don't know. I tried a few different playstiles but I only die with single hits.
I uninstalled the game in the past because of this. Recently, I tried playing again expecting that they fixed the hit kill issue but nothing. Just uninstalled again.

If you want to play the game, keep in mind that it's extremely pay to win. You'll die in a single blow out of nowhere because you can't see what's happening. If you are willing to pay for items or have hours and hours a day to farm endlessly until you get a decent set, go for it.

There is no donation affecting gameplay at all. Only cosmetics and stash tabs that doesn't change your character stats at all in any way. You get oneshot due to lack of defensive mechanics (reist is most important, elem should be 75%+, chaos can be ignored till maps)

[Ghin]

Games don't have to be for everyone. If you don't enjoy it, that's perfectly fine.

[RvB Churchaboose]

I made it to about the 14 hour mark, took me a minute to see how it all shakes down. But now I'm at what I think is the first acts main boss Merveil? She's impossible to kill solo it seems. So I'm right there with you.