Come on Devs, Bosses are WAY TO TOUGH.

[Robearicus]

20 plus attempts on King of Mists, never even got close. Executioner, well over 15 attempts and never got it below 50%. My char barely moves, and no matter what I do, ONE SHOT DEATH.

I am an older player. Why do you devs make this so tough on us older players. Maybe you like bad posts. After so many attempts, the monster, boss, whatever, needs to be down scaled.

At this rate, I WILL NEVER SEE ACT 2.

Since last friday, I have been stuck in ACT 1. Cannot get the Spirit thing from King of Mists. Witch without any spirit, useless. Cannot beat the Executioner to move to Act 2.

Again, at some point, you will lose players. I am very close, DEVS. I have already spoken with several people that have already quit. Do you think you will get good reviews. There is no way, for a slow, old, not able to move their fingers well, and in the case of these bosses, for 45 MINUTES. Only to lose, and have to start ALL OVER.

Bring back the saved state mechanic for bosses, at least in POE 1, after being killed 20 times, I was still knocking the boss down a little each time. had a chance. Now, it is START OVER each time, and run in circles dodging for 15, 20, 35 minutes only to inevitably, LOSE.

Think about us older gamers. The ones that will never see END GAME, EVER, EVER, EVER. Cannot even see Act 2.

In POE 1, I have never seen ACT 10. There is a point, where the difficulty needs to be adjusted. Never winning, is one of them.

When the Steam Achievements are telling you that only 16% of the players have killed King of Mists, or, 24% have killed the executioner. This tells me that 76% of the players never got out of ACT 1.

How many updates in the last several days, and each time, my char gets worse. Slower. Less damage. Less effective. I am really having a hard time not swearing and thinking the devs hate us. Cater to the fast gamers. Not the ones that will spend the money.

Again, very close to joining all the other people that have already called it quits for this game.

R

[Subset6]

Just have to learn mate. If your attempting something for 20 times and not even close that should clue you in. It's time to change up your strat, build etc.. Ton's of info online about this with full guides for free online. Asking dev's to cater to you because you are unwilling to help yourself grow as a player is a bit selfish and short sided.

I love this game, its just what I was looking for and didn't even know it. I have only minor gripes and difficulty is not one of them. I don't want this to turn into d4 blow up screen mode ever.

[Saturnus]

The problem with these forums is that the people are very pedantic. Hey kids it is not because you can beat a boss of the game that you can be arrogant and think you are better than others. If anyone has difficulty with these bosses you can call me or ask for help in the chat and I'm sure someone will help you. When we have obstacles of this type in the game, we have to resort to the tools that the game has put at our disposal and cooperation is one of them.

[Plum]

Originally posted by Robearicus:

20 plus attempts on King of Mists, never even got close. Executioner, well over 15 attempts and never got it below 50%. My char barely moves, and no matter what I do, ONE SHOT DEATH.

I am an older player. Why do you devs make this so tough on us older players. Maybe you like bad posts. After so many attempts, the monster, boss, whatever, needs to be down scaled.

At this rate, I WILL NEVER SEE ACT 2.

Since last friday, I have been stuck in ACT 1. Cannot get the Spirit thing from King of Mists. Witch without any spirit, useless. Cannot beat the Executioner to move to Act 2.

Again, at some point, you will lose players. I am very close, DEVS. I have already spoken with several people that have already quit. Do you think you will get good reviews. There is no way, for a slow, old, not able to move their fingers well, and in the case of these bosses, for 45 MINUTES. Only to lose, and have to start ALL OVER.

Bring back the saved state mechanic for bosses, at least in POE 1, after being killed 20 times, I was still knocking the boss down a little each time. had a chance. Now, it is START OVER each time, and run in circles dodging for 15, 20, 35 minutes only to inevitably, LOSE.

Think about us older gamers. The ones that will never see END GAME, EVER, EVER, EVER. Cannot even see Act 2.

In POE 1, I have never seen ACT 10. There is a point, where the difficulty needs to be adjusted. Never winning, is one of them.

When the Steam Achievements are telling you that only 16% of the players have killed King of Mists, or, 24% have killed the executioner. This tells me that 76% of the players never got out of ACT 1.

How many updates in the last several days, and each time, my char gets worse. Slower. Less damage. Less effective. I am really having a hard time not swearing and thinking the devs hate us. Cater to the fast gamers. Not the ones that will spend the money.

Again, very close to joining all the other people that have already called it quits for this game.

R

Fix your gear.

Fix your gems.

Walk in a circle around the bosses.

Why did you spend 45 minutes dieing to a boss on repeat rather than repeating the previous zone ten times for gear and levels? At some point the fault is on you.

[Words And Chaos]

Originally posted by Ferrsai:

I prefer my dungeon crawlers to essentially be my stats vs those of the enemy.

Honestly, you're just playing the wrong game, then. Literally every ARPG over the past 30 years is this. Personally, thank God PoE 2 and No Rest for the Wicked are more skill-based, but PoE might be more what you're looking for.

[MatterFacker77]

Originally posted by Robearicus:

20 plus attempts on King of Mists, never even got close. Executioner, well over 15 attempts and never got it below 50%. My char barely moves, and no matter what I do, ONE SHOT DEATH.

I am an older player. Why do you devs make this so tough on us older players. Maybe you like bad posts. After so many attempts, the monster, boss, whatever, needs to be down scaled.

At this rate, I WILL NEVER SEE ACT 2.

Since last friday, I have been stuck in ACT 1. Cannot get the Spirit thing from King of Mists. Witch without any spirit, useless. Cannot beat the Executioner to move to Act 2.

Again, at some point, you will lose players. I am very close, DEVS. I have already spoken with several people that have already quit. Do you think you will get good reviews. There is no way, for a slow, old, not able to move their fingers well, and in the case of these bosses, for 45 MINUTES. Only to lose, and have to start ALL OVER.

Bring back the saved state mechanic for bosses, at least in POE 1, after being killed 20 times, I was still knocking the boss down a little each time. had a chance. Now, it is START OVER each time, and run in circles dodging for 15, 20, 35 minutes only to inevitably, LOSE.

Think about us older gamers. The ones that will never see END GAME, EVER, EVER, EVER. Cannot even see Act 2.

In POE 1, I have never seen ACT 10. There is a point, where the difficulty needs to be adjusted. Never winning, is one of them.

When the Steam Achievements are telling you that only 16% of the players have killed King of Mists, or, 24% have killed the executioner. This tells me that 76% of the players never got out of ACT 1.

How many updates in the last several days, and each time, my char gets worse. Slower. Less damage. Less effective. I am really having a hard time not swearing and thinking the devs hate us. Cater to the fast gamers. Not the ones that will spend the money.

Again, very close to joining all the other people that have already called it quits for this game.

R

I agree with you 100%. I'm tired of games adopting the "Souls-Like" difficulty levels in games. At least let players adjust their difficulty level like you can in Diablo 4. Not everyone is into the Souls-Like difficulty levels in games. GGG is shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. Extreme difficulty levels is catering to a specific group of people and is going to alienate a lot of players. Doing that is also removing potential revenue when it comes to the cash shop. It makes no sense. And not everyone has the time to invest in endless attempts to fell a boss character.
Another thing that is killing this game for me is the fact that if you die before you can pick up a piece of loot, the loot disappears when you resurrect. That to me is completely evil and unnecessary. I love POE1 and I want to love POE2. But it's too stressful. I love ARPGs and play them to unwind. But this one has me wanting to punch holes in my walls.

[shwarmizzle]

Originally posted by Robearicus:

When the Steam Achievements are telling you that only 16% of the players have killed King of Mists, or, 24% have killed the executioner. This tells me that 76% of the players never got out of ACT 1.

nice try

[DarumaPlays]

my thoughts on the bosses and mobs:
yes it's hard, sometimes you need to up your level more and then try checking out what element the boss is vulnerable to and if it is armored (you can see the icons on lower right of the boss health bar, red means it's vulnerable and other colors means the boss has resistance to it, it also mentions it sometimes below the boss health bar itself. so you have to adjust your equipment and skills (if you are able to) tailor made to defeating the boss or even the damn mini-bosses.

im playing a minion witch and have the arsonist and frost skellies switching depending on the boss and mob on the map, i also use the vulnerabiltiy curse (which in hindsight was a good thing because the mobs on act 3 are almost always armored, fckin hell) other skills i am using right now are bonestorm, switching between frostbolt and firebolt with the support that splits into multiple projectiles(forgot the name of the supp skill), contagion paired with ed and the totem that fires at mobs having chaos damage, cast on minion death that casts a chaos type curse(also forgot the name lol), unearth (helps with additional minions when there are corpses around). i mostly switch inbetween armors too to up my resists when fighting bosses (especially the lightning boss dude in act 2 and the fire witch mini boss in act 3 in the bog where you can loot the +30 spirit after killing her).

being in a party makes the boss harder so you either solo it (like i did on the bosses mentioned earlier because we couldnt just finish it when in a party and gave up to rest lol) or you can adjust the party settings, you can disable the setting where it adjusts your levels and you'll have an exp penalty (we did this when i was helping a lower leveled guild member when killing the wolf because our party of three couldnt finish the damn thing off so we tried disabling it and somehow we beat it and then just turned the setting back on again)

[Proteaus]

Becoming obvious this game not for casual players , thinking i may like poe 1 better .

[Valravn]

Act 1 bosses are easy, in act 2 though they have such large health pools every boss fight is a terrible endless slog and quite frankly it's really boring.
It burned me out on the game already, too much of a time sink.

[DarumaPlays]

also for the passives, ive been making my way up the tree, there's a passive there that lowers the spirit requirements of the minions, around top left. i was taking every minion related skill on the way to going up there

[Assassin Aria]

Nope, I like the difficulty. I don't want a mindless game like Diablo.

[Thisissgrimm]

are you serious? i played witch and every boss yet through all of act 1 was so easy....

[DarumaPlays]

Originally posted by Valravn:

Act 1 bosses are easy, in act 2 though they have such large health pools every boss fight is a terrible endless slog and quite frankly it's really boring.

act 3 will probably get you frustrated if you're not there yet. mobs have a lot of resists for fire and ice and are mostly armored. and there are elite mobs that are resistant to those three which is making me mald so much xD

[Beef0x]

It's a shame, ACT II is awesome. I love the setting and the music and the whole Lawrence of Arabia vibe.

[Zalera]

Originally posted by Robearicus:

20 plus attempts on King of Mists, never even got close. Executioner, well over 15 attempts and never got it below 50%. My char barely moves, and no matter what I do, ONE SHOT DEATH.

I am an older player. Why do you devs make this so tough on us older players. Maybe you like bad posts. After so many attempts, the monster, boss, whatever, needs to be down scaled.

At this rate, I WILL NEVER SEE ACT 2.

Since last friday, I have been stuck in ACT 1. Cannot get the Spirit thing from King of Mists. Witch without any spirit, useless. Cannot beat the Executioner to move to Act 2.

Again, at some point, you will lose players. I am very close, DEVS. I have already spoken with several people that have already quit. Do you think you will get good reviews. There is no way, for a slow, old, not able to move their fingers well, and in the case of these bosses, for 45 MINUTES. Only to lose, and have to start ALL OVER.

Bring back the saved state mechanic for bosses, at least in POE 1, after being killed 20 times, I was still knocking the boss down a little each time. had a chance. Now, it is START OVER each time, and run in circles dodging for 15, 20, 35 minutes only to inevitably, LOSE.

Think about us older gamers. The ones that will never see END GAME, EVER, EVER, EVER. Cannot even see Act 2.

In POE 1, I have never seen ACT 10. There is a point, where the difficulty needs to be adjusted. Never winning, is one of them.

When the Steam Achievements are telling you that only 16% of the players have killed King of Mists, or, 24% have killed the executioner. This tells me that 76% of the players never got out of ACT 1.

How many updates in the last several days, and each time, my char gets worse. Slower. Less damage. Less effective. I am really having a hard time not swearing and thinking the devs hate us. Cater to the fast gamers. Not the ones that will spend the money.

Again, very close to joining all the other people that have already called it quits for this game.

R

So you're trash.