The Death Penalty and XP Gains in PoE 2 my feedback after 400+hrs

"Sorry not meant to brag, but it's funny how you guys are complaining about XP penalty so much while I'm just like ... What, I'm lv 90 already? But I've just played for a few hours after campaign, lmao. And I'm not even following the "meta" builds of ES/MoM/CI/Spark or ice strike monk etc." ..


This reply is still, to this date, the most funny and un-informed post I have read.
Love it! Re-read it for a good laugh every once in a while.

Please get rid of the awful death penalty. it just makes me to not want to play the game any more. All that hard work for nothing if you die. And you die cause there is lag ,freezes and bugs . It's totally awful.How a game in year 2025 even has it !!!

Hi it's me. I left the game nearly a month ago due to the egregious death penalty. Has GGG commented at all about it? I'd love to come back to the game but I just can't see myself rejoining until they roll out the changes that are desperately asked for and needed. Thanks

I left the game for a number of reasons, but there's a really simple death penalty fix (except if you only have 1 map attempt). Do it like many other ARPG's have done it, drop your corpse and if you can get back and collect it, you get 90% of the XP back. Simple.

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dubarooski#4619 wrote:

Hi it's me. I left the game nearly a month ago due to the egregious death penalty. Has GGG commented at all about it? I'd love to come back to the game but I just can't see myself rejoining until they roll out the changes that are desperately asked for and needed. Thanks

No comment from them other than next patch ETA is around late March/early April. I suggest to check patch notes around then and if no change by that point - forget about this game forever.

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SpankyKong#9805 wrote:

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dubarooski#4619 wrote:

Hi it's me. I left the game nearly a month ago due to the egregious death penalty. Has GGG commented at all about it? I'd love to come back to the game but I just can't see myself rejoining until they roll out the changes that are desperately asked for and needed. Thanks

No comment from them other than next patch ETA is around late March/early April. I suggest to check patch notes around then and if no change by that point - forget about this game forever.

Appreciate the response. I will wait. Not holding out hope though. This game has been ideologically captured by toxicity which I am sure expands to the actual developers themselves.