VERY INTRESTED in POE2!, should i play POE1 first?

[Purge_One]

so as the title says i'm extremely interested in POE2 just curious if i should play the first one first or jump right into number 2? haven't really played any ARPG but i know the basics ans what knot.

[arjensmit79]

No you should not.

PoE1 is a rather complicated game not suited for casual players. You either need 1000+ hours into the game or follow builds from the internet. It is too complicated for newer players to expect to create their own builds. Even many experienced players don't. Similarly, crafting and the whole trade economy require quite a bit of study. There is an insane amount of content to learn to deal with and all that together makes it hard to beat the end game bosses within 1 league if you are not yet experienced and/or ready to spend 1000 hours within 1 league.

PoE2 is made much more casual friendly and accessable. Which is a bummer for the real fans, but sounds like right up your alley.

[RawMeatDiet]

POE2 is much much easier to get into, has better tooltips, more accessible systems. Starting with POE1 will involve a lot of spreadsheetmaxxing to understand anything.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by Purge_One:

so as the title says i'm extremely interested in POE2 just curious if i should play the first one first or jump right into number 2? haven't really played any ARPG but i know the basics ans what knot.

Short answer is no. You do not have to nor really want to play PoE. There is no underlying story connection and PoE2 is trying to go different route than the original.

[Freeman]

Originally posted by arjensmit79:

No you should not.

PoE1 is a rather complicated game not suited for casual players. You either need 1000+ hours into the game or follow builds from the internet. It is too complicated for newer players to expect to create their own builds. Even many experienced players don't. Similarly, crafting and the whole trade economy require quite a bit of study. There is an insane amount of content to learn to deal with and all that together makes it hard to beat the end game bosses within 1 league if you are not yet experienced and/or ready to spend 1000 hours within 1 league.

PoE2 is made much more casual friendly and accessable. Which is a bummer for the real fans, but sounds like right up your alley.

This is nonsense. I played 400 hours of PoE2 having never touched PoE1, and now that I feel a bit burned out on PoE2 because they havent done anything with it yet, I decided to take a break from it and try PoE1. It's not quite as good imo, but still enjoyable and it's certainly not THAT hard to pick up.

[RawMeatDiet]

Originally posted by Freeman:

Originally posted by arjensmit79:

No you should not.

PoE1 is a rather complicated game not suited for casual players. You either need 1000+ hours into the game or follow builds from the internet. It is too complicated for newer players to expect to create their own builds. Even many experienced players don't. Similarly, crafting and the whole trade economy require quite a bit of study. There is an insane amount of content to learn to deal with and all that together makes it hard to beat the end game bosses within 1 league if you are not yet experienced and/or ready to spend 1000 hours within 1 league.

PoE2 is made much more casual friendly and accessable. Which is a bummer for the real fans, but sounds like right up your alley.

This is nonsense. I played 400 hours of PoE2 having never touched PoE1, and now that I feel a bit burned out on PoE2 because they havent done anything with it yet, I decided to take a break from it and try PoE1. It's not quite as good imo, but still enjoyable and it's certainly not THAT hard to pick up.

Yeah... after 400 hours.

[Acronen]

It is free to at least start and try, so if you have the time to spare you can always try it. I tried it years ago, and within a couple hours knew it wasn't for me (it's not as complex as some make it seem, but it's also not very good at explaining things, and the skill system is gorilla balls.)

[NaRf]

I would say no, just head into PoE2. As PoE hasnt really ever been new player friendly(lets say) and as the years have gone on, less so.

[Hiroko]

Originally posted by Purge_One:

haven't really played any ARPG

This part alone makes me agree with the others saying no. Poe1 is not a good first arpg experience. Either do poe2 or another arpg first. I'll go ahead and pitch Project Diablo 2 (modded D2 with some poe1 influence). You do need a paid copy of D2 for that though. There are plenty free arpg's to choose from if you look as well.

[arjensmit79]

Originally posted by Acronen:

It is free to at least start and try, so if you have the time to spare you can always try it. I tried it years ago, and within a couple hours knew it wasn't for me (it's not as complex as some make it seem, but it's also not very good at explaining things, and the skill system is gorilla balls.)

My PoE1 experience went as follows:

I first tried it almost 10 years ago. Like you, i gave up after a few hours. It seemed too hard, the first local area boss kicked my ass. I had no clue what i was doing and even looking at that skill tree made my head spin. Then years later (heist league), i have it another try. I read everything i could, i spent 1300 hours in a single league and got totally hooked.
During that 1300 hours i did get to solo kill all the bosses, but i still felt i only experienced half the game and i only barely gotten into the whole crafting and trading. The possibilities seemed endless and knowing what craftings are going to make a profit or not was going to take many, many more hours. As i was trying to get a team build to work, the league was over. So yes, 1300 hours and i experienced about half the game.

And then i got a job and decided i could not play PoE again as it is not made for working people. Still, it was the best game i ever played.

So what i am trying to say is on one hand: dont give up after a few hours, give it another try. And on the other hand, in those few hours you cannot have gotten the slightest clue of how much there actually is to learn in that game.

[arjensmit79]

Originally posted by Hiroko:

Originally posted by Purge_One:

haven't really played any ARPG

This part alone makes me agree with the others saying no. Poe1 is not a good first arpg experience. Either do poe2 or another arpg first. I'll go ahead and pitch Project Diablo 2 (modded D2 with some poe1 influence). You do need a paid copy of D2 for that though. There are plenty free arpg's to choose from if you look as well.

How about unmodded Diablo2 ? :)
Thats still the granddaddy of the genre (well maybe diablo1, but that admittedly is unplayable now that we know better, D2 still is a very good game though)

[The Real Fragamemnon]

POE2 is for casuals who can get OP in a day or 2. If you're a causal gamer than GGG wants you.

[CHAO$$$]

no, poe1 sucks

[Freeman]

Originally posted by RawMeatDiet:

Originally posted by Freeman:

This is nonsense. I played 400 hours of PoE2 having never touched PoE1, and now that I feel a bit burned out on PoE2 because they havent done anything with it yet, I decided to take a break from it and try PoE1. It's not quite as good imo, but still enjoyable and it's certainly not THAT hard to pick up.

Yeah... after 400 hours.

learn to read

[NaRf]

Originally posted by Freeman:

Originally posted by RawMeatDiet:

Yeah... after 400 hours.

learn to read

Ermm.... You played 400 hours in PoE2, so you would ofc find PoE easier to get into as both games share a number of design decisions. As a new player that wouldnt be the same case, but I guess you fail to see that.

[RawMeatDiet]

Originally posted by Spaced:

Originally posted by Freeman:

learn to read

Ermm.... You played 400 hours in PoE2, so you would ofc find PoE easier to get into as both games share a number of design decisions. As a new player that wouldnt be the same case, but I guess you fail to see that.

Yeah I think if a new player wants to play POE1, he actually should start with POE2 lol. Because it's more intuitive and better explained. POE1 will just overwhelm when trying to learn from no knowledge.