Fuck guides, what’s the point in playing, you can always respec if you get completely stuck.
I remember getting stuck in campaign on like level 50 when I first played back in 2015. The reason? I just equipped all uniques I found because I thought they were better than rare and magic items, lol. Good times.
I used my 300 points to buy some premium, gem, currency and essence stash tabs, cosmetics are a trap reserved for the lost.
You'll need to buy a map (waystone) tab as well in the future for smooth endgame gameplay.
mercenary in 1 would be fun
Without WASD movement? Hell no.
So many crashes...
Try switching to Vulcan.
"You hit these goal posts so you'll get these dogshit cosmetics. Have fun restarting! It's what you like after all, right? New season!

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You can play Standard if you care about your 10 stash tabs of 1c/ex items if you really want to though. But nobody plays it, and for a good reason. If a new player wanted to buy a simple +2 quiver, he'd need to pay like 50 divs because of the inflation after a few years.
1st maps are giant, theres like 10 bosses that you have to kill on each map and 1st one took me about 40 minutes to complete
They are, but if it took you 40 minutes to clear a t1 map, you should really upgrade your build with damage in mind lol
The Act 3 final boss is kicking my shit in.
I’ve rebuilt my skills and supports so damage isn’t an issue now, but once I’m in the second half of phase 2 I’m getting one shot.
Nulls comments on PoE2 being a dark souls game ring more true for me now.
He is pretty easy once you learn his attacks. Also, he is a bit of a gear check. Just stand directly behind him, you're probably getting one shot by his laser attack or by the floating attack (just run, don't roll, don't attack, and you'll dodge it). Contrary to souls games, this game is actually fun.
The trick is to stick close to him.
Most bosses are ironically much easier when being close to them, as you can just do circles around them lol. The often have some sort of cone frontal attack that has a slight delay, so you can just stand in front of them and then do a well-timed dodge roll behind them.
For now, I've sinked in 170 hours into PoE 2. Feeling a bit burned out. Might roll a monk though before the next big content update comes. They need to make the levelling faster on levels 90-100. Most players will never reach 100, and while you should be able to complete your build in the 80s (level wise, ofc) and the game is designed around it just like PoE 1, this is still too much exp required past lvl 95.