I give up.

[Sideras]

So I finally find the stone citadel, use currency to juice up the prefixes without all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Tune up my defences some more, I go through the map without issues, no one-shots no near death experiences. Then I get to the boss, I play well and get the boss frozen and start to melt him and then BOOM all of a sudden something just explodes, I don't see what it is, no fire, no lightning, no ice nothing, just a transparent shock wave all this while the massive model of the boss is coated in ice, frozen animations and all. So what ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ killed me?

This ♥♥♥♥ is exhausting, there is no proper feedback for anything it's like the game just decides when you die on a whim. This is by far the worst ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ experience in a long time.

Campaign is fantastic and the endgame has just been a spiraling nightmare of ♥♥♥♥, like flushing diarrhea down the toilet. No real challenge just mindlessly plowing through monsters until suddenly *BOOM*. What an absolutely sad ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ state of game design to see such a brilliant game just cannibalise itself, and for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ what?

I truly hope this game stays in early access for longer than 6 month because that endgame needs to just be taken out back and shot. Who is this ♥♥♥♥ for?

All the time spent finding that piece of ♥♥♥♥ map node, all the time juicing up the towers, all the time progressing through it all to die to some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

All the rest of the complaints people are having are fixable, the rarity situation etc but this? This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ concerning.

[dynatierchen]

if i would be able to collect a reasonable amount of waystones id be happy to also progress up until this point

[crzyfsh123]

Can't blame you.

[JiggleBill]

It's not the game it's you. You're mad about losing progress because you died. Dying has consequences. Build a stronger character. Play better in the fight. Don't stand still. If you think it was a bug/glitch report it. It is early access, but i doubt it was a bug tbh. Player error most likely.

[Stockwerk 13]

its ashame this game has no death recap

so much features missing in PoE 2

[Arbadacarba]

That would suck

[Stockwerk 13]

Originally posted by JiggleBill:

Build a stronger character.

and how should he "build a stronger character" if the game does not even tell him what killed him?

like was it fire damage? was it physical? was it chaos?

dude does not even know what killed him, so how should he build?

not to mention half of the game defense mechanics do no even work and are 100% useless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-uD-vz_5s
tens of thousands of people build armor characters because the game tells them "60% damage reduction"...but the formula is broken and it does not even reduce 5%.

the game is broken.
dont blame the players, thanks.

[crzyfsh123]

Dying has consequences. Fine give me a recap so I can know what killed me instantly.

[JiggleBill]

Originally posted by Stockwerk 13:

Originally posted by JiggleBill:

Build a stronger character.

and how should he "build a stronger character" if the game does not even tell him what killed him?

like was it fire damage? was it physical? was it chaos?

dude does not even know what killed him, so how should he build?

not to mention half of the game defense mechanics do no even work and are 100% useless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-uD-vz_5s

You obviously look at your stats and figure out what your weak points are. They give you all the info you need. Are you below chaos cap? It was probably chaos. Low eHP? Mitigation isnt enough to reduce the hit even capped. How many layers of mitigation do you have? 1? Thats probably your issue. You have all the info at your fingertips to figure it out yet you wait for the game to hold your hand and tell you exactly what to do. Boring. Armour isnt broken and yes it works but its not as powerful/effective as it should be. If you're relying on just armor as your only layer of mitigation thats your problem to figure out. Kripp even tells you how to fix it for like a few ex. Very common chest armor can fix that issue easy. But again you want your hands held and told how to win.

[Stockwerk 13]

Originally posted by JiggleBill:

Originally posted by Stockwerk 13:

and how should he "build a stronger character" if the game does not even tell him what killed him?

like was it fire damage? was it physical? was it chaos?

dude does not even know what killed him, so how should he build?

not to mention half of the game defense mechanics do no even work and are 100% useless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-uD-vz_5s

You obviously look at your stats and figure out what your weak points are. They give you all the info you need.

have you watched the video?
the numbers they give you are wrong. the game says it reduces damage by 60% but its not even 5%.

And this is exactly what kripp is saying, the numbers in game are wrong.
also kripp does not say "how to fix it" he says: drop armor entirely as it is 100% useless.
this is no fix, this is forcing everbody playing energy+eva builds as nothing else works.

[Thorba]

I hate such one shot things at an action rpg, sadly today they must turn every game into dark souls. It seems thats not a game for me, i love to farm things but i dont want perma frustration. Already was giving up on last epoch because such one shots at every lategame boss.

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Originally posted by crzyfsh123:

Dying has consequences. Fine give me a recap so I can know what killed me instantly.

This is definitely needed soon imo

And yeh that sucks op, unlucky I suppose.

[DirtyMick]

Yeah death recap would rule.

I lost my hc warrior to a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ little sword slide ability that the colossus does, and I didn't get mad or anything, im not complaining, I just suspect that something was off about it. Its not even a big wind up ability he does and I had been reeeeally focusing on my max health. Had over 1k hp, which was pretty good for level 29, was at full health when I got hit, and was building armor but idk how much I had exactly. Just seemed a bit suspicious that that little move one shot me and I'd just like to see how much damage it did exactly and if it was just one hit and not some weird two hits in a row during the slide. Just seeing a death recap would be nice.

As for end game, I'm taking my sweet time leveling a bunch of characters in campaign cuz I'm dreading the end game wall that people complain about lol.

[Stockwerk 13]

Originally posted by DirtyMick:

, was at full health when I got hit, and was building armor

you too should watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-uD-vz_5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=henLgTe4Ztk

TLDR:
do not play armor, at all.
it is a 100% useless stat.