You're making an ARPG in 2025, but you're stuck in 1999

GGG tried to copy Last Epoch, which is even worse than Grim Dawn both in quality and popularity, but they did a very poor job with item affixes.
Should have at least figured out how to sort those properly.
It's insane to me how one of the omens is only usable if you use non GGG affiliated websites to check for item level.
This is not really acceptable.
Oh yea and mirror bricks some items with innate skills, not sure if that ever got fixed.
The amount of lazy copy pasted code that was never tested is beyond ridiculous.
They can't even fix netcode to make it so every other 5th map during peak hours isn't corrupted.
But i guess who cares now about 80% people have quit either with positive mindset or not, but quit nonetheless so there ain't any peak hours

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Why are level 20 gems non-existent? Better yet, why can't we just level our gems with experience rather than praying for dog shit RNG?

Level 20 gems exist and the only one worth picking up from the floor, in actuality if they were not rare, they would be just like lvl 19 gems a trash not worth picking.

I have sold a bunch of lvl 20 gems for 2 divines each, so its not much but it is something. You dont have to pray for rng you can just buy them off the trade.

Leveling gems with experience was in poe1 and it sucked a lot. That was a huge waste of time to level up gems, that could take up weeks of gameplay just to test some other skills and take up gear slots for it to level up.

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Why are Perfect Jeweler's Orbs so rare? It's somehow easier to make a properly colored 6L in PoE 1 than it is to find a single orb in PoE 2.

If things would not be rare, they would not be worth picking, with how many players are in this game (millions), it is hard to every find a loot worthy a divine or more to sell.

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

Leveling gems with experience was in poe1 and it sucked a lot. That was a huge waste of time to level up gems, that could take up weeks of gameplay just to test some other skills and take up gear slots for it to level up.

Leveling gems was great compared to what we have currently. I have a level 94 Monk, 90 Witch and 89 Ranger and I’ve found a grand total of one level 20 gem and one perfect jeweler’s orb.

Skill gems rain from the sky in every map, then you enter a level 82 map and they suddenly become rare as hell.

We don’t need another “economy item”. We’re talking about skill levels here. It was much better in PoE 1.

I can't agree enough with the title of your post

There's so many interesting things they could have done instead of light radius, like for example an automatic currency pickup area or something like that

But no, they're stuck in the diablo 2 era, it's kind of sad honestly

There's too much crap in the game, too many trash itens, too many currencies, like the game is in early access and already has more than 100 different currencies, i honestly can't find this to be acceptable at all, no one could convince me that a game needs to have 100+ currencies

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Blasphemous84#2190 wrote:

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GODOFWARSANCHEZ#4574 wrote:

Leveling gems with experience was in poe1 and it sucked a lot. That was a huge waste of time to level up gems, that could take up weeks of gameplay just to test some other skills and take up gear slots for it to level up.

Leveling gems was great compared to what we have currently. I have a level 94 Monk, 90 Witch and 89 Ranger and I’ve found a grand total of one level 20 gem and one perfect jeweler’s orb.

Skill gems rain from the sky in every map, then you enter a level 82 map and they suddenly become rare as hell.

We don’t need another “economy item”. We’re talking about skill levels here. It was much better in PoE 1.

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I went back and played PoE1, the skill system feels infinitely better.

I am fine with taking it out of gear but making links so hard to get and levels as drops is garbage. Give us a generic uncut skill gem that makes a lvl 1 gem of any skill and give us skill levels again.

Also, make skills more generic and supports for interesting.

Also, make vaal orbs and some new currency (maybe ascendancy drop) able to mutate skills with alternative versions (like alt gems from lab).

There are so many flaws like the ones you listed. I became much happier when I realized I will never like or play PoE 2 and PoE 1 will still be the ARPG I play. It sucks, this game obviously had so many development issues when they were making a merged game, then retracted the entire vision of the game. Then we got PoE 2 with end game from PoE 1. PoE 2 is just a diablo 4 clone in the acts. Then it's PoE 1 in end game. It offers nothing new and the things it brought over from poe 1 are all worse. How is Delirium so buggy when it works perfect in poe 1? Why are the Rituals in places we cant even use them When we can in poe 1? Development. It failed.

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HeroEvermore#0498 wrote:

There are so many flaws like the ones you listed. I became much happier when I realized I will never like or play PoE 2 and PoE 1 will still be the ARPG I play. It sucks, this game obviously had so many development issues when they were making a merged game, then retracted the entire vision of the game. Then we got PoE 2 with end game from PoE 1. PoE 2 is just a diablo 4 clone in the acts. Then it's PoE 1 in end game. It offers nothing new and the things it brought over from poe 1 are all worse. How is Delirium so buggy when it works perfect in poe 1? Why are the Rituals in places we cant even use them When we can in poe 1? Development. It failed.

Don't give up yet bro. I feel like you're 1 of the few here that are moving the needle...lol.

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chobo999#2010 wrote:

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HeroEvermore#0498 wrote:

There are so many flaws like the ones you listed. I became much happier when I realized I will never like or play PoE 2 and PoE 1 will still be the ARPG I play. It sucks, this game obviously had so many development issues when they were making a merged game, then retracted the entire vision of the game. Then we got PoE 2 with end game from PoE 1. PoE 2 is just a diablo 4 clone in the acts. Then it's PoE 1 in end game. It offers nothing new and the things it brought over from poe 1 are all worse. How is Delirium so buggy when it works perfect in poe 1? Why are the Rituals in places we cant even use them When we can in poe 1? Development. It failed.

Don't give up yet bro. I feel like you're 1 of the few here that are moving the needle...lol.

I've certainly done my best to shove a thought down GGG's throat (removing xp loss) but I am not a big streamer so they arent going to listen to me (sarcasm) <3

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HeroEvermore#0498 wrote:

There are so many flaws like the ones you listed. I became much happier when I realized I will never like or play PoE 2 and PoE 1 will still be the ARPG I play. It sucks, this game obviously had so many development issues when they were making a merged game, then retracted the entire vision of the game. Then we got PoE 2 with end game from PoE 1. PoE 2 is just a diablo 4 clone in the acts. Then it's PoE 1 in end game. It offers nothing new and the things it brought over from poe 1 are all worse. How is Delirium so buggy when it works perfect in poe 1? Why are the Rituals in places we cant even use them When we can in poe 1? Development. It failed.

Devs aren't going to ignore the feedback because you aren't a big streamer....they are going to ignore it because it is factually lacking. Just noting on the specific things you mentioned here:

1) PoE 2 is just d4 clone in acts: it is NOTHING like D4. Like from the ground up. Nothing at all. No idea where this came from.

2) PoE 1 in end game. Yes.....and this is the one aspect of the game that needs the most work. I've agreed with this before and I'll agree again here

3) Delirium/Rituals being bugged in certain ways: this is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how these interact with a new game. "They worked in PoE 1" is utterly meaningless lol. We have new map layouts, new textures, new ground, new obstacles, new random procedural generation, new EVERYTHING. The only thing that's the "same" from PoE 1 is the name and the general mechanic. But everything else had to be reprogrammed from scratch. And with that reprogramming comes bugs, which will get fixed. Rituals spawning in places that can't be reached is likely due to NEW map layouts and NEW obstacles that never even existed in PoE 1. Delirium bugginess comes from the fact that delirium fundamentally works differently in PoE 2.

4) The general comment: "this game obviously had so many development issues" which related to the separation of PoE 1 and PoE 2 is such a ridiculous and personal statement to make as if it were fact. Personally, I don't see "so many" development issues. I see issues present in nearly every EA, beta, or "new" game I have ever played, and far LESS issues than were present in the PoE 1 beta. They will get fixed.

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cowmoo275#3095 wrote:

Personally, I don't see "so many" development issues. I see issues present in nearly every EA, beta, or "new" game I have ever played, and far LESS issues than were present in the PoE 1 beta. They will get fixed.

Huh, is that you? I thought you or 1 of the ones complaining about stuff...or perhaps not, wrong alias or something...

So, if I'm getting your comment there correctly sounds like you're on the side that dev is fine. Alright then...that's Your Opinion!

Personally, there are tons of problems w/ the game! So we agree to disagree...lol.