Make the game EASIER

[P00CH]

it's an ARPG not a soulslike. If you want to retain the players, do the right thing devs. What would Jesus do?

[Holyblades]

I normally don't agree with this type of stuff but in this case yes I feel the curve needs to be toned down a bit.

[AnotherVenue]

There's always D4 for no-skillers.

[calz-ere]

no , just make roll better and increase currency.

[Valravn]

Please no!

[Rhophius]

Originally posted by P00CH:

it's an ARPG not a soulslike. If you want to retain the players, do the right thing devs. What would Jesus do?

thats CoD players for you

[Shade30Seven]

Originally posted by P00CH:

it's an ARPG not a soulslike. If you want to retain the players, do the right thing devs. What would Jesus do?

Player skill issue and player build theory crafting issue! And leave jesus out of this.

[SoLiT]

The game is not so hard as you think, just try to use brain, read skills description and try to combine them. Also use spheres from time to time and Dodge roll is ur best friend.

[[STD]Random Lead]

please god no. You want baby level games play blizzard games.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by P00CH:

it's an ARPG not a soulslike. If you want to retain the players, do the right thing devs. What would Jesus do?

325k players are on right now. Jesus would drive out the inept and clueless players.

[Jonas]

Yeah its kind of weird they did not advertise it as a soulslike but the boss in ACT 1 is supposed to be given like 30 trys. super annyoing.

[SquidsGrowHouse]

Just play POE1...Youll probably say the same ♥♥♥♥. Go back to D4

[wulfster42]

Luckily it is not so close to being cake walk easy that a few tweaks here and there would not ruin the game for anyone who likes at least some challenge, but it's not THAT far from it.

Remember that poe 1 has always had you build on previous characters, slowly gaining currency and uniques, especially if you did self found (which everyone is doing right now mainly). As you play the game you will get better equipment, you will learn the fights better etc, and everything will be easier. It's hardest when you first start.

Make it too easy though and suddenly there is not real reason to replay through the same stuff again, as there is no challenge (I'm looking at you D4...and D3).

Right now even if you play through with 1 character, you can still die to some bosses with your next. That is refreshing. Even if (like me) you usually don't die, you still have to TRY not to die (well except in some cases for the warrior who is pretty good at just face tanking things).

Tone things down too much and you will lose way more players then if you don't because there will not be any challenge left, no real reason to make strong builds, because you can walk through it with anything. It would defeat the purpose of having such a good system to build up a character.

Yes, following other peoples builds already does that, and yes trading and getting all the best equipment right away also does that, but those are play choices. Right now if you struggle because you don't have equipment etc, you just have to wait till it's available, till guides are made for you etc.

IF you tone everything down though, there is no fix for it, you no longer have motivation to come up with good combos, and you can already pretty much face tank most of the bosses with halfway decent defenses.

If you are dying, if you are being challenged, USE that......practice and get better, play more/grind for better eq, or bring another character up, you'll get more resources, more uniques and can make all your characters strong.

IF you don't enjoy bringing the characters up and trying the different skills and weapons, then you just don't enjoy this game, so move on or wait till someone will walk you through how to play it.

For those of us that actually like to explore new horizens and challenge ourselves with new content that hasn't already been spoiled, this game rocks. I'm not thrilled by the trial but other than that, no major dissapointments here. I could handle a bit more difficulty but based on the posts I have seen, asking for that would be too much. I certainly don't wanna see everything become easy/baby mode like D4 though, that would ruin this game.

[Subset6]

I respectfully disagree. I went into this having never played PoE and expecting another auto pilot game.. boy was I wrong. It’s nice to have this style of game that can be punishing. Yah, it’s fun to play auto pilot games as well but we have those, tons of them in fact. They don’t need to all be that.

[orionar101]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

Originally posted by P00CH:

it's an ARPG not a soulslike. If you want to retain the players, do the right thing devs. What would Jesus do?

325k players are on right now. Jesus would drive out the inept and clueless players.

its 2 days in dumb ass

[Dyer1981]

This is the best ARPG I have played since D2. D3/D4 require 0 thinking skills besides what number to spam.