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802Trip

Dec 23, 2024 @ 3:17am

This game is way too easy.

I’m a brand new POE player. I don’t typically play games like this, but everyone was saying it’s like dark souls and super hard.

I have no idea what to do with skills or gear, so I’ve just been winging it. I chose a random class not even knowing I was picking a class and ended up with a mercenary. Okay cool, jumped into the game and had fun making my way through the first act. I was averaging between 5-10 attempts to kill the bosses in act one. I think I was closer to 20 on the final boss of act 1, and almost gave up and quit. I killed him and felt that good ol feeling of accomplishment, that same feeling you get destroying a hard boss in a souls game.

Onto act 2, I have been randomly using different skills and randomly choosing things for my skill tree to equip better gear, and I don’t know what I did, but the combination I chose ruined my experience completely. From act 2, all the way up through act 3 and end game, everything is basically 1 hit. Unlimited mana and health and 1 hit every single mob and the bosses took seconds to kill.

From season 2 and up, I think they need to seriously buff all the bosses and mobs.

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Philly4eva has Path of Exile 2

Dec 23, 2024 @ 3:20am

The problem is it's only the first act that is well made, act 2 is a step down and act 3 just sucks

Noop

Dec 23, 2024 @ 3:37am

Dont listen to the COPIUM bro.

Yes the game is only hard if you play blind and dont have any idea of build crafting. The game is made to be intuitive and so you can make your own build, however if you are stupid or happen to chose a build that isnt balanced properly yet (as this is an EA title), then yea you will have a hard time.

Just as an example I went with poison ranger on my 2nd char and turns out plague bearer doesnt work basically at all. Half of the gems dont fit into it for absolutely no reason basically destroying the build I wanted to go for. This is a clear bug ofc and yea I pushed it into endgame and even with the plague bearer and vine arrow and other bugs it's a strong build but not as strong as other builds.
Also some other issues like I dont like evasion in this game cuz it's terrible made me stop playing that ranger build for now. But I was aware that this could happen in EA, I just think it's stupid that the devs nerfed vine arrow so "it lets your other abilities deal more damage" while the slow of it just doesnt work That was insanely stupid cuz now that ability is basically useless.

illinar

Dec 23, 2024 @ 5:05am

I've played around 3 hardcore Acts of PoE1 and it was stupidly easy, not fun. Died to a boss didn't want to continue.

In PoE2 I've had a blast my first game in Act 1 playing hardcore Merc until I died to unfairly introduced mechanic, continued on normal which sucked because the challenge was gone, things got too easy, I killed Act 1 boss on my first try. 2 times I died to Act 1 minor bosses and both were because the game did not teach a mechanic before it used it to one-shot me.

The game needs a difficulty selection, but they will never introduce it.

I'm playing hardcore warrior now, died 4 times in Act one, 3 of them to the stupidest ♥♥♥♥ like forgetting to refill the flask. So not very fun having to restart all over again 4 times.

I want an Extra Life Mode from Doom Eternal.