How I play endgame in POE2

[BeerManMike]

Not a quitting post, 40yrs old and I still remember buying Diablo in a EB Games in the mall. Played a bit of POE but moved onto other games. Played this as I have been waiting for a exile-like game. Got to maps, I can now start farming and playing endgame, here is how I play the end game as a casual, self-found player. I put a T1/2/3 waystone in, then I slowly walk around the map trying to kill monsters as far away as possible. When the pack dies I stand back for another 2 minutes for all effects to fade out so I don't die. After doing this for a while some yellow arrows point at what to kill, I stand WAY back and kill the rare guys, again waiting a minute or two to pick up the loot. When my map is cleared I leave with all the loot I got. I sell all of the rares, put a couple orbs in stash then take the one white base that is 10 levels below me but 5 levels higher than what I have one to craft. I add a orb and roll +22% evasion and +12 hp, eh sucks but still +14 more evasion than my armor that is 5 levels lower so lets see, slam another orb and +26% stun threshold, I sell it. repeat 15+ times and I no longer want to play maps/end game. Watch some no lifers farming T15 maps on youtube, spergy characters flashing around the screen in a epileptic nightmare, now I really don't want to, maybe this game isn't for me.

[Cryptic]

your literally playing the most boring way you can and than complaining its boring lol. Do you have any brain cells man? your right maybe this game isnt for you. or any game for that matter.

[Pink]

Endgame at its current state is very methodical.

Since you're not a PoE1 veteran, right now your only choice is to follow guides to figure out how to maximize your character's dps and mapping loot output if you wish to have any hope of seeing more content.

If you wish to follow your own path then quit now until the next league, as you'll realize the above is inevitable sooner or later.

[takers]

im curious, what is the fun way to play POE endgame?

[BeerManMike]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

your literally playing the most boring way you can and than complaining its boring lol. Do you have any brain cells man? your right maybe this game isnt for you. or any game for that matter.

If this is any representation of the community then maybe you are right.

Originally posted by Pink:

Endgame at its current state is very methodical.

Since you're not a PoE1 veteran, right now your only choice is to follow guides to figure out how to maximize your character's dps and mapping loot output if you wish to have any hope of seeing more content.

If you wish to follow your own path then quit now until the next league, as you'll realize the above is inevitable sooner or later.

Again, maybe you're right and this game isn't for me. I follow guides, with most looking like they are bugged or going to be fixed next patch. But flashing around the screen deleting everything on the screen in .002 seconds or else you explode just doesn't feel like fun game play to me.

Originally posted by takers:

im curious, what is the fun way to play POE endgame?

This seems like an "as opposed to" challenge, which is fair. I was thinking with the whole "souls" comparison that the game play would be slower, more tactical with a blending of using a variety of your skills vs a boss. The whole spamming maps with a 1 click kill all monsters button while sometimes dieing to something, you don't even know what it is, in 1 hit. It's just not fun or it's not fun to me. Also it seems like to keep the interest, games are using things like "scenes" in games like Core Keeper. Imagine running a map and it can have waypoint modifiers but there are also 100s of random situations that can happen, maybe a witch in a swamp house needs something from another map or you run into a group that needs help, whatever. But I don't see myself playing or spending money on a game that is based around gearing your character to zip around the map in a epileptic fit, i mean is that fun to you? Look at any T15 runs, is running through 100s of explosions and FX fun? And no, that's doesn't mean to take it the WAY to the opposite side and want to fight trash mobs for 10 minutes either, there is a middle ground.

[Thornburst]

im also 40 years old and crafting in poe 2 makes me wanna quit too, when i get nothing after spending all my currency in this casino

[KillJoy]

At least the OP has stones. I am trying to complete my T5 map quest, currently at 3/10 completed and it for sure is not easy to get T5 stones from me playing the maps.

Yes, I use pre-cursors in the towers, I manage to stay alive and clear each map until 0 mobs are left, I open every chest/trunk I see, I orb every stone I have and even with +200% chance of stones to drop from a map, I still rarely get a T5 stones.

I can combine 3 x T4 into a T5, but finding 3 x T4 is not exactly sustainable either.

I also watch youtube videos of these T18 or T15 map "clears" and all the "stuff" that drops. But yeah, that type of endgame is not exactly satisfying to me.

They really need to do something to the stone issue. I can get unique's to drop easier than the stones I need to progress through the mapping system. The stone drought is also holding me back from levelling up, which in turn holds me back progressing on the passive tree to improve my character, which in turn holds me back from trying to clear maps faster so I can get stones faster.
It's like hitting a wall...

I even used Vaal orbs to corrupt my skill gems so I can have the extra skill support slots and increased the quality of the ones that are not corrupt to +20% to get the extra passives on the skills. The skill gem quality system is another poor system, but that's a different story.

[KillJoy]

Just did a T4 map that had 13 modifiers on it, including a 300% chance for waystone's to drop.
1 unique helmet drop, 1 T4 stone and 1 T6 stone.

No idea what to try next to sustain waystones.

[Dadbod 9000, Sirer of Sons]

bump

[Illumina]

Did they teach you what a paragraph was in 40 years?

[Chelios]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

your literally playing the most boring way you can and than complaining its boring lol. Do you have any brain cells man? your right maybe this game isnt for you. or any game for that matter.

you're* then* it's*

Go on about brain cells

edit: nevermind, this has to be feigned stupidity

[ClAyMoRe*]

Don't listen to them , if you are not someone whos all live revolves around playing this game , or you have played lot of POE 1 there is plenty to do in maps and explore.

[Knavery]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

your literally playing the most boring way you can and than complaining its boring lol. Do you have any brain cells man? your right maybe this game isnt for you. or any game for that matter.

What the hell is wrong with you?

[tolshortte]

Originally posted by BeerManMike:

Originally posted by Cryptic:

your literally playing the most boring way you can and than complaining its boring lol. Do you have any brain cells man? your right maybe this game isnt for you. or any game for that matter.

If this is any representation of the community then maybe you are right.

Originally posted by Pink:

Endgame at its current state is very methodical.

Since you're not a PoE1 veteran, right now your only choice is to follow guides to figure out how to maximize your character's dps and mapping loot output if you wish to have any hope of seeing more content.

If you wish to follow your own path then quit now until the next league, as you'll realize the above is inevitable sooner or later.

Again, maybe you're right and this game isn't for me. I follow guides, with most looking like they are bugged or going to be fixed next patch. But flashing around the screen deleting everything on the screen in .002 seconds or else you explode just doesn't feel like fun game play to me.

Originally posted by takers:

im curious, what is the fun way to play POE endgame?

This seems like an "as opposed to" challenge, which is fair. I was thinking with the whole "souls" comparison that the game play would be slower, more tactical with a blending of using a variety of your skills vs a boss. The whole spamming maps with a 1 click kill all monsters button while sometimes dieing to something, you don't even know what it is, in 1 hit. It's just not fun or it's not fun to me. Also it seems like to keep the interest, games are using things like "scenes" in games like Core Keeper. Imagine running a map and it can have waypoint modifiers but there are also 100s of random situations that can happen, maybe a witch in a swamp house needs something from another map or you run into a group that needs help, whatever. But I don't see myself playing or spending money on a game that is based around gearing your character to zip around the map in a epileptic fit, i mean is that fun to you? Look at any T15 runs, is running through 100s of explosions and FX fun? And no, that's doesn't mean to take it the WAY to the opposite side and want to fight trash mobs for 10 minutes either, there is a middle ground.

its the EXACT representation of the community currently. anyone who wants to see improvements has to deal with EXACTLY this nonstop. it is what it is