Path of Exile

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Pumpkin Girl IRL said:
Only thing really putting me off is the idea of having to follow someone else's build down to the letter just to have a chance in end game.
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It's less having to follow someone else's build, and more that there's only 1 or two builds possible for each class (as of now).

There's not really any creativity for builds open right now, you're just stovepiped into the (very) few things that are available. This may change when they open up more classes and weapons, but I doubt it, as it looks like more of a design choice than just a limited pool.

It's the biggest irritation for me right now. Over and above how ponderously slow it is, even. Want to make a bleed based unarmed monk? Tough shit, you can't even theory craft it. Want to make a melee sorc? Tough shit, even if you cripple her tree to account for attribute requirements, you just wasted your ascendency on a less than mediocre warrior build. Etc etc.
 
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Act 1: Oh cool, this actually plays really nice, and is pretty different from zoom'y PoE 1. Looks and sounds great, too. Runs like shit though, but whatever, this is PoE, it always ran like shit.
Act 2: A desert level? This *is* Diablo-like. Still pretty good, though.
Act 3: Ok, the map sizes are kinda cancerous for the play style they (allegedly) want to have. Still pretty good, but I hope I won't have to redo this bullshit again.
Act 4-6: Fuck.
Maps: Yeah, this is PoE 1 with a roll, a block, and better graphics. The slow gameplay just doesn't work, at all. Maps are pretty big, loot is shit, and I'm not fucking wasting 30 minutes on a map just to get a white that I'd discard right away after attempting to "craft" (LMAO) something good out of it, when it doesn't roll a mod I want (which it won't).

This game doesn't want you to do the endgame content, either. Getting 1 (one) token from Rituals took me from level 89 to (almost) 93, mostly doing Ritual maps, and that's with a couple of deaths. Then there's Breach, which requires fucking 300 splinters, and the "story" boss (that I haven't done yet) that wants you to find 3 locations on the map, and even with all this, you only get a single portal. So, 1 mistake is (probably) hours lost, which I can't say I'm a fan of. Just do the 6 portals, or fully commit to this being Dark PoE, make the whole thing more difficult, but don't close the portal on death.

So, Act 1 is great, but otherwise I'd say PoE 1 is better currently :story:.
 
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Black Willow Lurker said:
Act 1: Oh cool, this actually plays really nice, and is pretty different from zoom'y PoE 1. Looks and sounds great, too. Runs like shit though, but whatever, this is PoE, it always ran like shit.
Act 2: A desert level? This *is* Diablo-like. Still pretty good, though.
Act 3: Ok, the map sizes are kinda cancerous for the play style they (allegedly) want to have. Still pretty good, but I hope I won't have to redo this bullshit again.
Act 4-6: Fuck.
Maps: Yeah, this is PoE 1 with a roll, a block, and better graphics. The slow gameplay just doesn't work, at all. Maps are pretty big, loot is shit, and I'm not fucking wasting 30 minutes on a map just to get a white that I'd discard right away after attempting to "craft" (LMAO) something good out of it, when it doesn't roll a mod I want (which it won't).

This game doesn't want you to do the endgame content, either. Getting 1 (one) token from Rituals took me from level 89 to (almost) 93, mostly doing Ritual maps, and that's with a couple of deaths. Then there's Breach, which requires fucking 300 splinters, and the "story" boss (that I haven't done yet) that wants you to find 3 locations on the map, and even with all this, you only get a single portal. So, 1 mistake is (probably) hours lost, which I can't say I'm a fan of. Just do the 6 portals, or fully commit to this being Dark PoE, make the whole thing more difficult, but don't close the portal on death.

So, Act 1 is great, but otherwise I'd say PoE 1 is better currently :story:.
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I *WAS* enjoing POE2, but I seem to have hit a roadblock in Act 2 as a witch. My thing has been flame wall, spirits, and a fuck load of zombies. But now...well the bosses don't take much dmg at all and I get skullfucked.
Help?!
 
CaptainAutism69 said:
I *WAS* enjoing POE2, but I seem to have hit a roadblock in Act 2 as a witch. My thing has been flame wall, spirits, and a fuck load of zombies. But now...well the bosses don't take much dmg at all and I get skullfucked.
Help?!
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Zombies are trash. When I played Witch (rerolled to Sorc, which doesn't burn my retinas quite as much), SRS+Arsonists melted everything. GGG nerfed Arsonists spirit cost a bit, so you get like 25% less summons, but the damage should still be good, although in Act 2 pretty much anything should work, I think.
 
titan boss in act 2 is kinda bullshit
not because he can one shot you but because his hitbox is wanky as fuck
i couldnt hit him with my molten blast no matter what, had to hit him with perfect strike like 7 times.
other than that act 2 was pretty easy but the tower map in the end was annoying as fuck with a shit ton of thin walls that somehow manage to block your projectiles and yet it liked to lock on the guys behind them (yeah im playing with the controller)
 
Jesus, I thought people were exaggerating the difficulty, but this undead dude in the graveyard one-shots all my minions and pretty much splats me with the same level of effort. Actually, all bosses so far just roll through my minions as if they're not there, but I completely stomped everything else.

This is a weird adjustment period.
 
Just unlocked my Ascendancy as the Mercenary. Definitely enjoying the game a lot more with this class, even if the targeting drives me absolutely mad at times - swinging between enemies on different sides of the screen, when I'm trying to throw grenades at the jackass in front of me, comes to mind.

Would murder a child for the Dread Engineer's kit.
 
Has there been any updated on when the other classes will be added? Like the game so far but nothing has completely "click" and want to see what the other melee class bring to the table.
 
PoE2 is AWFUL. AWFUL.

I only play zookeepers in any ARPG and they are always, always the niggers of the game. PoE2 seems designed from the ground-up to stop necromancers from necromancing.
  • Minions block each other and you.
  • There is no recall.
  • Walking too far from minions causes them to instantly fucking die.
  • Half of minion skills are active casts (zombies) instead of permanent companions.
  • The respawn time is enormous.
  • Spirit as a concept seems designed specifically to ensure you will never have an optimal composition of minions.
  • You have to sink all of your passives into minions but they suck so bad you basically need to take up active casting.
  • Bosses seem singularly designed to fuck over necromancers specifically.
  • Many bosses have no minions, or (insultingly) minions that do not leave bodies behind for spellcasting.
  • There is no corpse spawning skill like in PoE1.
Bosses are fucking GRUELING, AWFUL. I hate fucking Dark Souls and I know this is just Dark Souls. You do the fucking roll thing every single goddamn motherfucking game has these days and it's just Dark Souls. I don't want to play fucking Dark Souls, I've never played Dark Souls, I never want to play Dark Souls, I will never play Dark Souls. So instead of just chilling with the zombie pack farming maps I am rolling around a claustrophobic set where 50% of the arena kills you at any given time with a perpetual countdown timer for my fucking minions to respawn while I do 0 fucking damage myself and if I try to put a skill towards direct casting it is so slow and awful because 100% of my passives are into minions which is what I actually want to fucking play. Without exaggeration half the fucking game time spent is just trying to do a boss that has infinite HP and if you fuck up once you have to complete restart, or sinking all of my wealth into niggerrigging some faggot fucking setup that i only ever use when i have to do another tedious boring rollathon boss.

no doubt this is a chinese skinnerbox game developed by indians and all they said was "copy diablo and dark souls"
 
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DefinitelyNotMe said:
Idk sounds like total warrior victory
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And absolute Merc supremacy.

Null said:
only play zookeepers in any ARPG and they are always, always the niggers of the game. PoE2 seems designed from the ground-up to stop necromancers from necromancing.
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Them real issue was not adding NEGROmancy to the skillset tho.
 
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I'm having fun with my witch. Just unlocked infernal witch thingy and am busy burning everything with fire, and then my zombie army
 
Null said:
Bosses are fucking GRUELING, AWFUL. I hate fucking Dark Souls and I know this is just Dark Souls. You do the fucking roll thing every single goddamn motherfucking game has these days and it's just Dark Souls. I don't want to play fucking Dark Souls, I've never played Dark Souls, I never want to play Dark Souls, I will never play Dark Souls. So instead of just chilling with the zombie pack farming maps I am rolling around a claustrophobic set where 50% of the arena kills you at any given time with a perpetual countdown timer for my fucking minions to respawn while I do 0 fucking damage myself and if I try to put a skill towards direct casting it is so slow and awful because 100% of my passives are into minions which is what I actually want to fucking play. Without exaggeration half the fucking game time spent is just trying to do a boss that has infinite HP and if you fuck up once you have to complete restart, or sinking all of my wealth into niggerrigging some faggot fucking setup that i only ever use when i have to do another tedious boring rollathon boss.
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I wisely avoided touching POE2, from what I have heard they fucked up monster density too and all "open" maps are riddled with non traversable objects.

I have no idea why they would have fuck up a game taht was about fast gamplay with speedfarming and non-linear gear-progression into a mixture of rogue-like-faggotry and a walking sim.

Also Sanctum is the new lab I heard and Sanctum was already the worst thing in POE1
 
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After killing every endgame boss at least once, I now absolutely fucking hate dodge roll and everything it represents, which is paying 6D (or wasting hours collecting 300 widgets that drop at a rate of about 5 per map, if you're lucky) for a single attempt at a boss that one-shots you if you don't roll in time. "Git gud", I know. I hate you too.

Going back to minion Witch after the Spark sorc feels like I'm back on a summoner Necro in D2, without an Enigma. WTF did Convocation do to you, GGG? Actually, the whole auto-revive fucking sucks, because you can do a jank-Convocation with a weapon swap (or get booted from the game if you set it up wrong), but you can't put the minions where you want them anyway. And, if SuicideDark Pact ever makes it in PoE 2, it's going to be absolute fucking trash, which is a shame.

The fucking Blood Mage is a joke, especially compared to Sorc. While Sorc gets scaling Arcane Surge and gets to double-tase everything, a Witch gets to spend Life *AND* Mana on casting spells, for no benefit whatsoever (ooh, a life orb every 2 seconds, very cool). The Demon Waifu is just weak, and the only interesting gimmick build doesn't have ES, which means it's not really viable. So yeah, very disappointing.

The WASD is the worst thing though. Going back to PoE 1 is going to be tough :(
 
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Bah, hit a road block with the final act 2 boss. My damage is absolutely pathetic, and his HP is so outrageous I can't get my way through the fight without running out of healing, or simply being caught in one of his AOE crystals. Game really loves it's big AOE attacks in small arenas, huh.

Doesn't help that my equipment is really bad; getting a lot of melee weapons, but nothing ranged, and the armour has been really limited in use. Further to that my currency is awful- I only have a couple of Regal orbs despite religiously selling and disenchanting.

Gonna go back to my Witch for a bit. Not sure where to grind out items and orbs at this level.
 
The fact that shitters, who can't dodge for shit, can't build for shit and have garbage gear and expect to faceroll, cry and bitch about this game, that makes it more enjoyable.

Same thing with Elden Ring, where lots of retarded niggers complained about bosses, instead of git gud or giving up and going to play farmville or walking simulator. Worthless fags.

I got to endgame with 4 characters, melee and range, and while the game needs improvement in some areas, I never thought to myself "this is tedious or impossible".
Right now, I'm practicing and learning the intricacies of certain mechanics, because once the game is stable, I will go back to playing HC like I used to.
Maybe this mentality from HC PoE1, where I layer my defenses, cap my resists and improve my gear always, along with 560h of Elden Ring makes PoE2 enjoyable for me and not at all that hard.
I've seen so many shitters ask for help in global for some lame bosses that I have come to accept the fact that some people just suck hard. That would be fine, but like with niggers, these suckwads blame everything else besides their lack of skill and it really irks me.

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They've clearly done a bad job at making the early game way too grueling and unfun. It wasn't till the first act on cruel that I got a few nice drops/ good orb rolls and started feeling on top of things. Just a single item with a +skill level mod makes a huge difference to dps.
 
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