Improving Death Penalties // Unofficial Poll: Are Current Penalties Making You Quit?

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Tohtori_Murha#4392 wrote:

Stop dying you peasants. (Meaning there are MULTIPLE ways to make your char not take that much damage, use them?)

Or learn to read Waystones. It ain't that hard, I learned to do that.

If game is to ohard, maybe it is not for you. There are alternatives.

IF you HAVE TO say you play Path of Exile and you are not happy about it, it might just be the point you need to look into mirror.


People want small phones with huge displays. As always.

bro is playing a meta 1 button build and is telling everyone to git gud. the irony.

No, but I do dislike the one portal policy.
I have suspended playing (for about 2 weeks now) until 0.2.0 when I shall definitely be coming back.

That doesn't matter. You are not playing souls like to change it's core mechanic.. All people who want 6 portals just fuss about to make it another POE 1 - when the way is to distinct and make poe 2 even more different and toned to core of poe 2. For now it's even to much poe 1.

All op builds should get nerfed by tons, game should be slower, harder and not how it looks like

LIKE IT WAS PROMISED FROM 3 years to be HARDER and more engaging than poe 1. If you like 6 portals - go to pou 1. And play your zoom-zoom death fiesta builds.

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DeadlyNerd1337#2668 wrote:

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Tohtori_Murha#4392 wrote:

Stop dying you peasants. (Meaning there are MULTIPLE ways to make your char not take that much damage, use them?)

Or learn to read Waystones. It ain't that hard, I learned to do that.

If game is to ohard, maybe it is not for you. There are alternatives.

IF you HAVE TO say you play Path of Exile and you are not happy about it, it might just be the point you need to look into mirror.


People want small phones with huge displays. As always.

bro is playing a meta 1 button build and is telling everyone to git gud. the irony.

Git gud.

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saashaa#5518 wrote:

That doesn't matter. You are not playing souls like to change it's core mechanic.. All people who want 6 portals just fuss about to make it another POE 1 - when the way is to distinct and make poe 2 even more different and toned to core of poe 2. For now it's even to much poe 1.

All op builds should get nerfed by tons, game should be slower, harder and not how it looks like

LIKE IT WAS PROMISED FROM 3 years to be HARDER and more engaging than poe 1. If you like 6 portals - go to pou 1. And play your zoom-zoom death fiesta builds.

The irony of them actually making this game distinctly different from PoE1 such that that its current death penalties would potentially be entirely fair and tolerable, but no, end game is just as zoom zoom and with the same horrible mob scaling and loot system. I've had a rare hit me for >200 damage a hit only for the same map and another rare of same mob base type hit me for over 2500 with the same attack. That kind of shit is easily the biggest reason why death penalties right now are stupid as fuck because this game is almost LESS of a challenge in end game thanks to all the PoE1 brain game design it is overflowing with that is fighting against the PoE2 vision.

+1

I bitched and moaned for years about the 10% XP loss in POE1 and though I knew they wouldn't change it I had hoped they would see the light.

Instead they also added on top of it losing progress in your maps by taking away the waystone and the buffs to each map.

Spend an hour or two clearing horrible maps for whatever content you're focusing on so that tablets will hit the maps you do want to play.

Get a handful of maps with content + league mechanic + boss

Then die from a off screen 1-shot and lose it all.

+1

Those who quit the game are not on this forum, so unfortunately polls are not representative. While hypocrite elites are all here, and will repeat how this penalty is "making death meaningful" and "forces player to learn" while they bypass penalties themselves with cheesy exp gain, buying dozens of omens, and paid services. And later on they use one of gamebreaking screen wipe builds further reducing any chance of dying.

As for learning, nope, never worked that way. When you know how big damage variance on mobs is, between critical hits, map modifiers, mob modifiers, mob native skills with obscure mechanics, would you sit and guess what exactly went wrong? 99.99% would assume it is RNG and hit respawn.

Original Vision of crossbreeding soulslike difficulty with arpg is BS to begin with, arpg is all about RNG, player's manual control matters little compared to passive stats. So it boils down to "periodically lose 10% experience and map" game. Might as well write this on loading screen.

+1

It takes ages to make progress on the map to get all three Crisis Fragments.
Then I died at Arbiter of Ash. I killed him many times before, but not this time. I don't know why I died cause there is no combat log.
But im so pissed because the Crisis Fragments are gone and it took so much effort to get them.

Also I realised that I don't play bosses anymore. I only started to make them after I was able to basically instakill them. I had so much fun with the bosses in the campaign and died frequently. But this is not possible in end game because you lose the necessary fragments and you have only one (expensive) try every few hrs or even days.

1) When did you start playing?
At release

2) How many hours do you have in PoE 1?
22

3) How many characters have you played in PoE 1?
1

4) How many hours do you have in PoE 2?
321 hrs

5) How many characters have you played in PoE 2?
2

6) What's your feeling about death penalty? Positive, neutral or negative?
negative

7) Do you feel death penalty has a positive, neutral or negative impact in your desire to play this game?
negative