After playing the poe1 event

Please dont make this game like poe1, im just tierd of it all. Poe2 is so much better in all aspects imo. poe1 is starting to feel a lot like a chore for me at this point. I have to do a lot of boring stuff to be able to finally be able to do what i want. The constant one shots that really dont make sense because of the sudden you had 50 orbs that mobs dropped flying to you that you didnt see because of packsize explode. Just in the wrong spot and none of this happens in poe2.

To all those saying its dying, literally has 60k 24 hour peak, idk what they expect but that is a massive win. A lot of people also play standalone like myself. Awesome game and waiting for 0.2.
Last bumped on Mar 4, 2025, 5:18:53 PM
No, PoE2 is not better in all respects. I'm actually concerned GGG don't know where they're going with the game and have nowhere near enough of the still to come content anywhere near complete. You've just put a lot of hours into PoE1, so of course it feels a little tired with such a long league.

Worst of all, I don't see how (and haven't seen GGG's design direction ideas for it) they are going to ensure PoE2 differentiates itself properly from PoE1. It seems stuck between when it was going to be PoE+ to it becoming a separate game.

- Melee is still bad because they don't know how to balance monster damage (in numbers, mob sizes, projectiles, etc) or innovate on melee playstyle. At least they toned down monster damage a bit in PoE2, they could certainly do it easily enough in PoE1 but don't.

- PoE2 is literally still missing most of its classes and weapon types, with no news as to when they're coming. This is concerning.

- The game loop is still -> rush campaign, do maps, fast -> farm currency, and not in new and interesting ways.

- The really interesting ideas of using multiple weapon sets and playstyles to go with it hasn't come through well, it's a disadvantage because of the game loop above that doesn't reward tactical play.

- There's no crafting, upgrades rely on unreliable RNG, until you've farmed a mass of currency, then it's still RNG with more pulls of the slot.

PoE2 has promise, but I think the devs are still all over the place trying to figure out their design vision for the game and I see no clear roadmap for what the completed game will even look like or play like.
Last edited by Headsoup#4370 on Mar 4, 2025, 5:21:11 PM

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