PoE2 is hot garbage

[Clyan]

- Crafting is basically dead, you dont think about what you do, you just blindly slam currency on your items and if you don't get what you want you are forced to vendor it, because rerolling mods is crazy expensive.
- Travel skills also got removed with one exception: Blink, which now is an aura. This change literally adds nothing, just less gameplay.
- Another iconic thing gone is the ascendancy lab, instead you now are forced to either play sanctum or ultimatum, both of which the vast majority of the community doesn't like.
- The passive tree has been watered down; where before nodes would give you something meaningful that you could feel they now instead just are weak and generic. Therefor build variety is very limited.
- I could add how horrible the story writing is, but i know that most people don't care about that. Still it leaves a bitter taste knowing how insanely good the writing for PoE1 was.
- They also killed off the most important thing about ARPGs: The possibility to create a godlike character. Even after investing hundrets of hours and a fortune your character still will get wrecked by a bunch of white mobs you somehow missed.
- For all things movement related removed they added dodge rolling. I can only say that dodge rolling feels annoying. The meme of zooming has now become the meme of spamming space bar.
- Utility flasks have been removed and replaced by charms for no good reason. Mechanically they are the same except that they have far less charges and need slots you can only unlock via super rare mods that roll on belts.

Really all these changes strike me as unessecary. One gets the feeling Jonathan and his team wanted to be different just for the sake of it. It's pure hipster excrement. And it didnt make the game any better, everything about this sucks and i wonder what their thought process was.

I keep coming back rolling different builds hoping i will enjoy one of them, but so far it all has felt tedious.

I have a lvl84 Monk which i stopped playing because endgame progression feels pointless without crafting. You basically just grind for currency and then trade for upgrades. So in other words you grind hundrets of hours just to kill the Arbiter and become a pretentious prick.

I am by no means someone that gives up fast. I can play a bad game for hundrets of hours in search of enjoyment, but others can't. And i think GGG really needs to stop masturbating to their reflection in the mirror.

[xXBrothaManXx]

i kinda agree with this for the simple fact that youre right, they just did things because they felt like it and it kind of makes me angry. Its really really really bad design to say hey we have 6 classes to start with 2 ascensions but youre locked into one. instead of letting us experiment with one character we have to make 12 if we want experience every asceension... and then lets not forget the time wasted if you dont like one. its just so bad at this point i cant even.


*edit: id like to add i disagree on the passive tree, for new players its much more accessible and i feel like once every weapon and skill and class become available the tree will feel better. a lot of nodes are useless because we dont have everything yet.

[Detergent]

Originally posted by Clyan:

my character can already destroy 99% of all content.

Originally posted by Clyan:

The possibility to create a godlike character. Even after investing hundrets of hours and a fortune your character still will struggle with white mobs.

Doesn't add up.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Detergent:

Originally posted by Clyan:

my character can already destroy 99% of all content.

Originally posted by Clyan:

The possibility to create a godlike character. Even after investing hundrets of hours and a fortune your character still will struggle with white mobs.

Doesn't add up.

They are a troll.

[xXBrothaManXx]

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Originally posted by Detergent:

Doesn't add up.

They are a troll.

i dont think hes trolling because there are some very valid points, but i dont think he thought everything through

[AH-1 Cobra]

Originally posted by Clyan:

- They also killed off the most important thing about ARPGs: The possibility to create a godlike character. Even after investing hundrets of hours and a fortune your character still will struggle with white mobs.

You literally have no idea, I found it to be the opposite. Bro, I played a minion auto bomber, I could literally just walk through tier 18 maps with any random modifiers rolled and walk in a direction and watch screens full of enemies get deleted, I didn't even need to press a button to activate a skill, even though I could. I couldn't die because I had 20k ES, and constantly leeched ES back from kills to stay topped off. I could walk into shotgun volatiles even with multiple added damage mods + maximum elemental resist reduction on me and still not die, even on tier 18s (corrupted tier 16 with +2 enemy levels).

I have a lvl84 Monk which i stopped playing because endgame progression feels pointless without crafting. You basically just grind for currency and then trade for upgrades. Which dont mean much as my character can already destroy 99% of all content. So in other words you grind hundrets of hours just to kill the Arbiter and become a pretentious prick.

Wait, you can't have it both ways, you can't complain about struggling against white mobs and in another paragraph claim to be able to destroy everything at level 84, which is it?

[DustMan]

ARPGs have been dead since 2016

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Clyan:

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Like how you add more to your story after the fact?

Dude we all know you keep spamming "read the disclaimer" here whenever someone writes a critique. Youre basically a bot or a person with a very limited and very one dimensional mind.
Me adding more to the story doesnt mean im wrong. Its time you pull your head out of the sand and stop smelling your own farts.
If you truly want this game to succeed youll accept it isnt perfect and needs improvement.

I do want it to succeed. It is why I use the proper forums for feedbackc. They do not take Steam feedback as constructive. Your post is an example of it.

Originally posted by Clyan:

- Crafting is basically dead, you dont think about what you do, you just blindly slam currency on your items and if you don't get what you want you are forced to vendor it, because rerolling mods is crazy expensive.
- Travel skills also got removed with one exception: Blink, which now is an aura. This change literally adds nothing, just less gameplay.
- Another iconic thing gone is the ascendancy lab, instead you now are forced to either play sanctum or ultimatum, both of which the vast majority of the community doesn't like.
- The passive tree has been watered down; where before nodes would give you something meaningful that you could feel they now instead just are weak and generic. Therefor build variety is very limited.
- I could add how horrible the story writing is, but i know that most people don't care about that. Still it leaves a bitter taste knowing how insanely good the writing for PoE1 was.
- They also killed off the most important thing about ARPGs: The possibility to create a godlike character. Even after investing hundrets of hours and a fortune your character still will get wrecked by a bunch of white mobs you somehow missed.
- For all things movement related removed they added dodge rolling. I can only say that dodge rolling feels annoying. The meme of zooming has now become the meme of spamming space bar.
- Utility flasks have been removed and replaced by charms for no good reason. Mechanically they are the same except that they have far less charges and need slots you can only unlock via super rare mods that roll on belts.

Really all these changes strike me as unessecary. One gets the feeling Jonathan and his team wanted to be different just for the sake of it. It's pure hipster excrement. And it didnt make the game any better, everything about this sucks and i wonder what their thought process was.

I keep coming back rolling different builds hoping i will enjoy one of them, but so far it all has felt tedious.

I have a lvl84 Monk which i stopped playing because endgame progression feels pointless without crafting. You basically just grind for currency and then trade for upgrades. Which dont mean much as my character can already destroy 99% of all content. So in other words you grind hundrets of hours just to kill the Arbiter and become a pretentious prick.

I am by no means someone that gives up fast. I can play a bad game for hundrets of hours in search of enjoyment, but others can't. And i think GGG really needs to stop masturbating to their reflection in the mirror.

Quite a few bits in it that make it non-constructive.

You know they do not take Steam seriously, yet you try to make it look like you are a concerned critic. For the sake of trolling and belittling others that do not buy into your attempts.

[AH-1 Cobra]

Originally posted by Clyan:

Originally posted by AH-1 Cobra:

If white mobs can rip you apart then you are clearly and obviously not destroying everything at level 84, you're getting BTFO, and I suspect that's why you're mad, and that's why you made this topic.

You suspect something and think you got me lol
Your hyper focus on this one aspect indicates that you are butthurt about everything else i wrote as you cannot deny it. Youre a clown.

Hey, you're the one complaining about getting BTFO by white mobs, not me.

Expecting a god tier build and picking monk, which requires god tier equipment to be godly, when you're also struggling at acquiring gear is going to leave you 10x saltier than the ocean. Which is exactly what we see here.

If you want your god build, you should have picked something that's not a monk. Plenty of other classes can perform better than monk with less expensive equipment. Try Sorcerer, Ranger, Witch, or Merc.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Clyan:

Originally posted by AH-1 Cobra:

If white mobs can rip you apart then you are clearly and obviously not destroying everything at level 84, you're getting BTFO, and I suspect that's why you're mad, and that's why you made this topic.

You suspect something and think you got me lol
Your hyper focus on this one aspect indicates that you are butthurt about everything else i wrote as you cannot deny it. Youre a clown.

There are several of us denying you. Yet, you are just trying to belittle/gate those who do not agree with you

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

You cannot create a godlike characters but characters can clear 99% of content. Yep

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by AH-1 Cobra:

Originally posted by Clyan:

It doesn't add up, right. Because i can clear a screen with 2 hits, yet if for some reason i miss a bunch of white mobs they will rip me apart. Balance is totally retarded.
Also, it is obvious you are looking for holes in my argument because you dont like the truth. Stay dumb lol

If white mobs can rip you apart then you are clearly and obviously not destroying everything at level 84, you're getting BTFO, and I suspect that's why you're mad, and that's why you made this topic.

I am doing well with my monk build. Added painter's gloves to my build and it went to another level. I am able to play with all 3 elements and see all types of explosions. Using 3 heralds at a time is fun.

It was a nice drop. I'm quite lucky with the RNG

[Clyan]

Originally posted by EvilHare:

There are several of us denying you. Yet, you are just trying to belittle/gate those who do not agree with you

"Several". Its the same few people that try to police these forums. Your stance has become a joke at this point. We all know you will show up and drop your turds.

Originally posted by AH-1 Cobra:

Hey, you're the one complaining about getting BTFO by white mobs, not me.

Expecting a god tier build and picking monk, which requires god tier equipment to be godly, when you're also struggling at acquiring gear is going to leave you 10x saltier than the ocean.

If you want your god build, you should have picked something that's not a monk. Plenty of other classes can perform better than monk with less expensive equipment. Try Sorcerer, Ranger, Witch.

Again, it is obvious you want to focus on this only, because you somehow believe this will redeem everything else wrong with this garbage. Go on, it changes nothing.

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Quite a few bits in it that make it non-constructive.

You know they do not take Steam seriously, yet you try to make it look like you are a concerned critic. For the sake of trolling and belittling others that do not buy into your attempts.

So you claim.

[Ragna-San]

Regarding the game's story, I don't know if it was for DEI reasons or if the game's writer is just retarded.
But it's incredible how they try to paint tribalistic, cruel civilizations whose entire society is focused on killing and torture as "advanced, progressive and technological".
It simply doesn't make any sense for the characters to always try to beautify these civilizations. They weren't bad because they were corrupted, but they were horrible from the beginning.

And all melee-strength nodes are like:
"You gain 0.1% damage. But your attack speed, movement speed, and maximum health are reduced by 99.99%."
SERIOUSLY, BECAUSE EVERY MELEE-STRENGTH NODE IS JUST A SMALL BUFFS WITH HUGE DEBUFFS.

It's not enough that Warrior is a total piece of ♥♥♥♥, slow, weak, and non-tank, on top of that all the nodes in the passive tree are filled with debuffs.

[EvilHare]

Originally posted by Clyan:

And i think GGG really needs to stop masturbating to their reflection in the mirror.

This alone makes your topic non-constructive. It is sexual harassment and NSFW. This also violates Steam ToS.

As I said, if you were serious about your feedback, it would be constructive and posted in the proper place.

Your words betray you.

[Ragna-San]

Originally posted by EvilHare:

Originally posted by Clyan:

And i think GGG really needs to stop masturbating to their reflection in the mirror.

This alone makes your topic non-constructive. It is sexual harassment and NSFW. This also violates Steam ToS.

As I said, if you were serious about your feedback, it would be constructive and posted in the proper place.

Your words betray you.

This isn't Reddit, grow up.