Starter monk, the class of absolute fragility...

[Erinhor]

I've done some hack'n slash, but then playing something as splintered as the monk in starter never, I've never seen something so splintered that kills everything with everything and anything, and that can happen right from the start for ridiculous things, like the first mobs that throw fire, if there's more than one throwing fire at the same time, you're pretty sure you're OS, not to mention the boss of the tuto with that little charge you kill and even more so when you don't pick up any equipment on the mobs, never seen such blatant development errors...

I want to believe that the monk can offer probably one of the best experiences of POE 2 in endgame, but starting a monk, it is a true disaster and a big share of frustration and incomprehension, already several returns were made on this subject and apparently nothing is made by GGG...

[Dr. Rockso]

Sounds like a you issue.

Monk is the easiest class to destroy the campaign in no time.

Once you get Tempest Bell all of the campaign content is trivial.

[equinox1911]

Originally posted by Erinhor:

never seen such blatant development errors...

It, in fact is not an error, is a choice ggg made.
And i did start monk day one, it was kinda tough until around mid act 2.
Its one thing to not like a game, but whining about it with near 0 experience is only going to garner response: git gud...

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Erinhor:

I've done some hack'n slash, but then playing something as splintered as the monk in starter never, I've never seen something so splintered that kills everything with everything and anything, and that can happen right from the start for ridiculous things, like the first mobs that throw fire, if there's more than one throwing fire at the same time, you're pretty sure you're OS, not to mention the boss of the tuto with that little charge you kill and even more so when you don't pick up any equipment on the mobs, never seen such blatant development errors...

I want to believe that the monk can offer probably one of the best experiences of POE 2 in endgame, but starting a monk, it is a true disaster and a big share of frustration and incomprehension, already several returns were made on this subject and apparently nothing is made by GGG...

Have you tried . . . moving?

[skullhunter]

Little did you know every class in this game is fragile, including warrior. You will need to darksoul everything while output tons of damages, that's how this game is designed, once you reached endgame in tier 10+ map, any random stupid thing can one shot you doesn't matter you have 20k armor, 50%+ element resists and 4k hp/ES

[equinox1911]

Originally posted by skullhunter:

any random stupid thing can one shot you doesn't matter you have 20k armor, 50%+ element resists and 4k hp/ES

While i agree that armor is sorta useless, with only 50% res you take double the elemental damage. The endgame is balanced around having at least the cap of 75% elemental resistances. chaos is ok with like 50ish

[DirtyMick]

I do get it. Monk feels very fragile as a new player. Then you get a little better at timing things and you stop dying at all. As a HC player, I only died with monk at level 39 testing the level downscaling trying to rush my friend's new char in act1. He had 1600 energy shield, and died in act1 manor, because I got cocky and was curious about level downscaling. Needless to say, it works lol. Got shredded by 4 enemies that just ran up to me and stunlocked me.
It wasn't the fault of the monk.

The point is, it was surely on its way to cruel, with no deaths up to act3. Sure maybe I would've died to viper or something, but you're talking about dying to tutorial ♥♥♥♥. Thats honestly just skill issue, which is why I understand, for a new player it feels fragile. But thats you being new, not the monk suffering from some developer error.

[Random009]

OP crying about starter zone?

OMG if you can't move left and right to avoid 3 projectiles or a tutorial boss that has 1 skill move then please quit .

Sounds like that guy who couldn't pass Cuphead tutorial jump