My honest opinion after 160 hours

[Foogley]

Cons:

• From what I know about builds, a monk without a bell is a loser that doesn't want to do 50% more damage.
  
• Minions without fire skulls and igniters are losers.
  
• The entire passive tree is what people laughed about with Diablo 4 - haha +damage haha +stats.
  
• The environments are a static diarrhea of "guess if you can walk here" and that you can't break except for vases and barrels.
  
• There's no crafting, just casino-crafting or trade crafting where you craft your search request to buy the best gear you can afford.
  
• The game constantly crashes during loadscreens and in a crowd of mobs, the FPS drops below 30 (from stable 120+).
  
• For a game with "wow, so many builds 2.0" in PoE 2, there are probably about 8 builds FOR END GAME, you can finish the campaign using autoattacks for all I care.
  
• You can get stuck in creeps, or you can get creeps that heal each other and can't be killed.
  
• You can also one-shot yourself by killing a creep or just by hitting it.
  
• The cherry on top is, of course, after such a death, you lose 5% of the experience you've earned over the last 4 business days.
  
• There is no need in "identifying" things. Remove it.
  

• Aim assist can f-off when i'm using a mouse, monk just refuses to hit the bell.

• Backtracking in endgame maps is at this stage with no movement abilities:
  https://i.imgur.com/3aLZCte.jpeg
  
• unique items are unique in the sense of being uniquely dogwater

Pros:

• The sound when loot drops is nice
  
• Lootfilter can edit those sounds and you can get stuff displayed on the minimap if you want and have huge pillars of light (i'm using this lootfilter https://github.com/cdrg/cdr-poe2filter)
  
• The bosses are interestingly designed with fun attacks, although the monk removes them using a bell in about one and a half seconds, similar to Diablo 4.
  
• Particles are pretty.

[donut32]

endgame here is absolutely giga trash terribad. im 78 all res with the overcap, 5k total mana and health running MOM and i literally just ALT F4 after dying to a mob that i froze and got "lightning stormed" by and 1 shot while i was animation locked and casting

LMFAO. just pure garbage

[soulfool74]

I’m having a break also , pretty much same reasons , gear drops and crafting are bad , think these two alone make the other problems feel worse

[Karnadon]

Weird, i dont agree with almost nothing you said. The only bad thing for me, is the limitation of the support gems, this is the main reason for less builds variations. That's it.

[Pedro Prypjat]

Gandalf the Grey just evolved to the white wizard

[Pinard]

Origineel geplaatst door Foogley:

Origineel geplaatst door DirtyMick:

I'm just amazed at 200 hours in 14 days. Holy guacamole.

I work in IT from home... oh ♥♥♥♥ it's actually 160 hours. My bad.

"work"

[Dregora]

Origineel geplaatst door Foogley:

Origineel geplaatst door Kassie:

We can stop read here, give me clown instead

Or you can show me where minions do endgame without fire. A monk can be used without the bell if you want to effectively remove about 50% of your DPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoN86lNS3cU

You're welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpVsm0YpaI0


The reason you see so many fire infernalist minion builds is because it's quite low investment while being pretty strong. It doesn't require much to take off, the others do. That doesn't mean the rest isn't viable.

[radekim]

you ok with inventory/ item size? Looter game with inventory space for 5 items. GG GGG

[Carian Champion]

Origineel geplaatst door radekim:

you ok with inventory/ item size? Looter game with inventory space for 5 items. GG GGG

^ THIS. you need to add the fu8cking small inventory. annoying af.

They also deemed to keep the game immersive while having mobs casting skills non-stop. Impossible to play melee.

[AirSniffer]

+ Character movespeed is slow af
+ Maps are ridiculously big for campaign and mapping
+ Not enough "crafting" mats throughout the campaign and early mapping
+ Killing trash mobs is usually a waste of time, better just run past them
+ Boss tracking is absurd for some abilities
+ Inventory is too small, even considering only picking up actual valueable stuff
+ Rares and bosses sometimes not even dropping a single rare item
+ No ability to craft exalted or chaos orbs
+ Underwhelming skill tree, boring ascendancy passives
+ Playstyle doesn't change much for most builds
+ Support gem limit sucks

[Humanimalientity]

"There's no crafting, just casino-crafting or trade crafting where you craft your search request to buy the best gear you can afford."

Surely the game series with one of the most robust crafting systems of all time has no crafting

[.]

Origineel geplaatst door Humanimalientity:

"There's no crafting, just casino-crafting or trade crafting where you craft your search request to buy the best gear you can afford."

Surely the game series with one of the most robust crafting systems of all time has no crafting

This isn't PoE1. PoE2 doesn't even have upcrafting of flasks (selling 3 of the same flask to get a better one for life+mana), nor any other proper crafting, only: "slap orb, slap another orb, slap another orb, maybe vaal maybe not".

[Foogley]

If I die to an exploding rare after killing it I'll probably uninstall this diablo-like for good lmao.

[coffinwood]

Origineel geplaatst door razor:

This game is a disaster I just wish I could get my money back...Its not even worth the hard drive space. No one wants to dodge roll with crap loot that is +1 attribute. This whole thing generated by AI?

POE2 is Early Access! Please inform yourself before buying an Early Access product to avoid being disappointed by unrealistic expectations. The game is far from being finished, and it's already far from being what you call a "disaster".

If you keep reflexively buying every unfinished product that someone puts in front of your nose, you'll keep being let down by your own lack of discipline. Go and acquire some self-control instead.

[Noop]

Classic D4 enjoyer that watched some streams/yt builds and has no clue about endgame. Or maybe I just fell for one of the worst clown farmer in history.

[moody]

People dog on D4 so much but you can dog on POE just as hard.

I've always known this. Everyone does. Or they should.

POE 2 is not innovative. There are so many issues with the game. At all stages of progression. But so many think that GGG can't do any wrong and D4 is bad.

It's so backwards.