I can not do it.

[Maccie]

I have tried very hard to stay positive, but I have lost my mind

After more than a 100 deaths in act 1, and not even being able to finish the act as I'm stuck at the executioner, I have to come to an insight.

I am a bad player. I am not able to get a grasp on the game.
I must either be too old, too dumb or just not cut out for this Elite game. This seems to be a game not targeted at casual players but only for the best of the best.

I tried playing my sorc .. but either I am not getting the right gear, not using the right spells, not using the right combinations of spells or I am just too slow at clicking/typing/whatever

I will try again tomorrow ... as everyone keeps saying 'get gud'', 'skill issue'
But I bow to you .. dear toxic uber elite community ... You bested me today

/sad little rant over

[CookiePounder]

If you want to be done - can I have your EA key?

[CyberDown]

D4 has its purpose

[qsnoopyjr]

Originally posted by Maccie:

I have tried very hard to stay positive, but I have lost my mind

After more than a 100 deaths in act 1, and not even being able to finish the act as I'm stuck at the executioner, I have to come to an insight.

I am a bad player. I am not able to get a grasp on the game.
I must either be too old, too dumb or just not cut out for this Elite game. This seems to be a game not targeted at casual players but only for the best of the best.

I tried playing my sorc .. but either I am not getting the right gear, not using the right spells, not using the right combinations of spells or I am just too slow at clicking/typing/whatever

I will try again tomorrow ... as everyone keeps saying 'get gud'', 'skill issue'
But I bow to you .. dear toxic uber elite community ... You bested me today

/sad little rant over

This is one of those games where you need, absolutely need at least 5 years of gaming experience. If you are not experienced at playing video games this is going to not going to be enjoyable.

I recommend, go play other games that are entry level and then when you get some experience under your belt come back to this game.

The nice way to put it is, "skill issue"
Just like anything else, like making money on the stock markets, need experience otherwise "skill issue"

[Witch ~]

Originally posted by qsnoopyjr:

Originally posted by Maccie:

I have tried very hard to stay positive, but I have lost my mind

After more than a 100 deaths in act 1, and not even being able to finish the act as I'm stuck at the executioner, I have to come to an insight.

I am a bad player. I am not able to get a grasp on the game.
I must either be too old, too dumb or just not cut out for this Elite game. This seems to be a game not targeted at casual players but only for the best of the best.

I tried playing my sorc .. but either I am not getting the right gear, not using the right spells, not using the right combinations of spells or I am just too slow at clicking/typing/whatever

I will try again tomorrow ... as everyone keeps saying 'get gud'', 'skill issue'
But I bow to you .. dear toxic uber elite community ... You bested me today

/sad little rant over

This is one of those games where you need, absolutely need at least 5 years of gaming experience. If you are not experienced at playing video games this is going to not going to be enjoyable.

I recommend, go play other games that are entry level and then when you get some experience under your belt come back to this game.

The nice way to put it is, "skill issue"
Just like anything else, like making money on the stock markets, need experience otherwise "skill issue"

This is... such an awful comment. Like did you even read your own comment. It screams reddit

[Bodge_It]

Originally posted by Maccie:

I have tried very hard to stay positive, but I have lost my mind

After more than a 100 deaths in act 1, and not even being able to finish the act as I'm stuck at the executioner, I have to come to an insight.

I am a bad player. I am not able to get a grasp on the game.
I must either be too old, too dumb or just not cut out for this Elite game. This seems to be a game not targeted at casual players but only for the best of the best.

I tried playing my sorc .. but either I am not getting the right gear, not using the right spells, not using the right combinations of spells or I am just too slow at clicking/typing/whatever

I will try again tomorrow ... as everyone keeps saying 'get gud'', 'skill issue'
But I bow to you .. dear toxic uber elite community ... You bested me today

/sad little rant over

I beat Geonar today with my monk at lvl 19 after I think my 20th or so try.

There are some mechanics that are easy to avoid with enough awareness and patience... But the flurry of mobs make the whole encounter a miserable experience.

After I beat him, I just felt this sense of exhaustion. Not even a sense of victory just relief it was over.

Act 2 starts and I get a 10% resistance penalty and I'm like... Oh come on the game is already plenty challenging enough can't you ease off FFS?

The difficulty never seems to stop outpacing the sense of growth as you learn things.

I never feel like I'm ahead of the game or there's any real meaning to my leveling or skill powerups. It only ever seems to make the most marginal amount of difference.

The grinding for equipment isn't awful, it gives me time to learn the attack patterns of mobs and such. But I was often encountering packs of creatures that seemed to just be hurting me by being near me, and not even small bits of damage, big constant damage just being near them. Which is a miserable experience if you're a melee build... I'm glad I'm a monk because if I was moving any slower I'd go mad.

It's too late to refund now but if I could I would. I feel so burnt out just finishing act 1.

[Sleek]

Its all weapon dependant, if you get lucky and find a good weapon you breeze through it. I'm a Warrior and im in the middle of act 2 and i hardly die and mostly one shot bosses. I speced mostly all my talents 70% defensive and 30% offence. It's starting to get slower now that my weapon is past its prime. I'll probably start farming one zone a few times to try and get a few levels and a weapon.

[Bodge_It]

Originally posted by ste cheese:

I don't think there's much skill balance, my ice monk felt useless, my lightning monk is doing good, I'm also using poisonburst arrows they're really powerful with no investment. Lot of buffs hopefully incoming? Who am I kidding they'll just nerf everything down to the same level

I've definitely found the game easier using both ice and lightning.

Lightning for my big charge attack and ice for my retreat attacks.

[Martoq]

Originally posted by Kentucky Sperkle ♿:

just gotta git gudder

STOP IT. Just because we're old and have hand issues, eyesight issues is no reason to be a jerk. Get good, how about have some compassion, someday you'll be in the same boat. Hell you may be like me and have it start way early in life.

This is why games need difficulty settings. Screw artistic freedom, when I buy your software it should be accessible in the way that is best for me. Not what is best for you. Personally I would love to see some sliders and toggles. Like being able to turn off one shots. I think they are a cheap mechanic.

Would also like to see a reduction in boss health. Boss fights don't need to be multi minute affairs. That is what screws me over, the gout in my knuckles starts to hurt and my hand will cramp up. Boss fights should be 2 to 3 minutes and you should be allowed to be aggressive. To much crap needs to be manually dodged.

Our feedback is just as valid and important as yours. We paid for the game too, we should have our concerns addressed. Just because we're old and broken we shouldn't be ignored.

[Micheal]

Yep, I'm done until they fix the spongey enemies and blocking you in place. If it doesn't' change, oh well, lesson learned not to buy Early Access.

[DeadZeus]

Originally posted by ste cheese:

I don't think there's much skill balance, my ice monk felt useless, my lightning monk is doing good, I'm also using poisonburst arrows they're really powerful with no investment. Lot of buffs hopefully incoming? Who am I kidding they'll just nerf everything down to the same level

For me it's the complete oppsite, My Ice monk is destroying and melting everything, it's quite funny.

[Orb of Me]

My inventory is full of items + I managed to farm currency by disenchanting items, so I also crafted gear myself. On top of that I farmed a lot of gold by selling items but also used a lot of gold to respec. If it happen that you can't get the loot you want, vendors also have rare items to help you out.
For anyone familiar to ARPG games, it should be a breeze but for people that never played those kind of games just look for a guide to look the way you need to build your passive tree and you will be fine.

[Angrypillow]

I finally got past the boss of Act 1, most of my game-time up until that point spent thinking "If I wanted to dodge roll all day I would be playing the elden ring dlc". First boss I get to in act 2 was effing Rhadan. I logged out after that. To say that I feel let down by something I've been looking forward to for years would be the understatement of the century.

This was closely followed by the second thought "there is absolutely ZERO chance of me repeating this absolute slog every season."

If this was CW's "vision" this whole time, I hope he stays the ♥♥♥♥ away from POE1 so I can still enjoy at least one relatively modern arpg.

[The_Gospel]

I've made it to act 2 on Monk and Sorc. The games just not fun for me. It constantly feels like you playing in mud. The art is great, the speel effect..amazing. the boss mechanics are good.

But combat feels really bad. I didn't play POE 1 at all. Is this normal? Loot is almost non-existent. Respecting to try other build is expensive as hell..like. Who is this game for? Lol

[Orb of Me]

People don't know, you can farm same bosses more than once and try to get items that way.

[Canadian MisFit]

One thing to remember, this is early access and not full release. Things will be changed.