It isn't about the difficulty it's about the TEDIOUSNESS.

[EmperorVolo]

I just had a 42 minute boss fight. People saying oh it's not difficult. Ok lets pretend it's not. Frankly it's not. It's that even when it's not "difficult" it's GD TEDIOUS due to the gear issues. These fights don't need to be nearly an hour long due to gear issues. I had multiple yellows, resistances, powered up pot, etc,.

It's crossing the line from fun to tedious, not difficult, TEDIOUS. This is ACT one lighten this BS up a bit. I'm all down for the latter half of ACT 2, ALL OF ACT 3 and everything else after being nearly an hour long boss fights but not what is essentially the intro.

It's not about whether it's hard but how GD tedious it is due to gear disparity. The difficulty is RNG based and it's not about whether these bosses beat me it's about whether my old ass hands give out on me. I'm not afraid to admit that arthritis is starting to creep into my hands. Even still dodge everything no problem it's just it should not require me to do this for nearly an hour and EARLIER fights no joke if not geared properly I figured would take nearly 2 hours.

Granted instead I grinded for those two hours and came back with better gear but this part of the game where I beat this 42 min boss had no better gear, nothing on vendors, nothing I could gamble for, nothing I could do I could have grinded for hours and got likely a similar geared weapon to what I had.

No amount of new skills, new supports gems, nothing helped.

So I went in there with my old ass hands and beat this MOFO till he quit.

Do I feel some accomplishment? No the wife was happy as all hell since she watched it from the ground all dead, but I didn't feel accomplishment or joy the rewards were garbage and the fight just felt like.....it should have been over a while ago.

[Mouse Rat]

TrashPanda a écrit :

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I eat ♥♥♥♥ at work all day the last thing I have the patience for when at home is to have a game serve it up to me and tell me its fun when the game is not paying me for the privilege of doing so.

So how about they up the drop rates and provide better rewards for ♥♥♥♥ eating and just perhaps Ill not Alt-F4 their game from frustration and go back to Stalker 2.

They can't turn this into arcade or they loose all the players.
Don't play on hardcore, play a tanky class, learn the fights.
And give yourself some time to learn.

It's literally a brand new game.
It's time to be excited and do all the mistakes you want till you learn it that you can mechanically do it with your eyes closes and becomes to boring to play.

That's what i'm planning to do, i'm in act2 with a totem warrior.
Not the most interesting build, but found some cool interactions between reverberating shield , magma aura and infernal cry. besides totems.

Blocking and rolling mitigates a lot of dmg.
Add in some dot dmg from bleeds and poisons on the mace skill and every boss went down so far.

[GeirOve]

People are pretending that spamming the space bar is skill now

[VYM]

Excuse me, but what boss was that?
Praetor, seconds try - 2 minutes; Executioner, first try - 2 minutes; witch king in village, second try - 4 minutes; act 1 final boss Geanor, third try - 6 minutes.
You were just rolling around all 42 minutes not doing any damage or what?

[Booskye]

I completely agree with the OP, the game's drop rate for decent gear is horrible. The trash mob density and difficulty in the beginning stages so far is annoying and frustrating. The boss fights are difficult but I expect that.closer to the end game that is. I love the original POE, it's difficult but not impossible and certainly more enjoyable. I play games to have fun, not have an anxiety attack. Please fix the leveling, the drop rate and the trash mob issues. I'll come back when it looks like it might be enjoyable rather than something that requires a tranquilizer before and after. :)

[Mouse Rat]

Booskye a écrit :

I play games to have fun

Then play something you are good at?

You aren't willing to even acknowledge that you might need to improve and get better to be able to mechanically solve some of the riddles this game fights have..
So don't.. play something you are good at now .. no need to change anything or learn anything new.

This is a brand new game with some new mechanics and brand new fights.. if you aren't willing to learn them ..why play it?

[Moose]

im a warrior and i've been burning bosses incredibly quick with perfect strike. i dont even have to move. maybe you should go back to some previous zones and over level your character so its more manageable for you. i had trouble with a couple of fights yesterday but I have not died more than 3-4 times in any fight.

[Howlbane]

I think they lost themselves and a lot of PoE 1 players who were looking forward to this when it was a DLC are disappointed because it has become more of a Streamer/HC Player kind of game and lost its essence to say the elast. Like even the freedom to build your character your way is pretty much gone and you have to play it a certain weapon/spell combos to actually be viable. Even in PoE 1 you could take the crappiest build and complete the campaign.... PoE 2 you have to play a viable build or you wont even make past the 2 boss in act 1..

[Koala 4peace]

I like that this game is less about lootxplosions addiction a more about being a game compared to the average diablolike, to be fair. Wouldn't mind a little more loot or some early crafting other than orbs and their randomness.

This said, it took me a lot of time to kill the last boss of act 1. A lot as in around five minutes. Since i bit the dust several times against him, the total was close to around 20 minutes. If it
really took you 42 minutes for a boss, something is wrong on your end.

[MetalHev]

VYM a écrit :

Excuse me, but what boss was that?
Praetor, seconds try - 2 minutes; Executioner, first try - 2 minutes; witch king in village, second try - 4 minutes; act 1 final boss Geanor, third try - 6 minutes.
You were just rolling around all 42 minutes not doing any damage or what?

Skills are wildly unbalanced atm, some do thousands of damage while others do single-digit, to say nothing of the bugged ones being exploited by the top players.

[Steel]

Great we're getting actual scrubquotes here now.

[Pivke]

remember all those complaints how D4 sucks because it is to slow and tedious, and all those memes about druid doing 17 damage?
than make it 10 times worse and you get POE2.

and the most strange thing is that everyone is now suddenly praising and defending POE2 for the exact same (but even bigger) flaws that they were bashing on D4.