Player power is so high that it is ruining the game. 1-button screen clear is BORING.

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ImSenseless#6124 wrote:

Please be quiet.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Showing 3–5 builds that dominate the game out of 300 skills [Removed by Support].

the rest of the skills do practically 0 dmg

Most skills do 0 damage especially to bosses. So there is time for big buffs and these broken builds should stop from Devs in next patch otherwise there will be more followers. Every time Streamers post founded broken builds , Devs should nerf them. This is the right move until game will be released. And this is not hate to people they like one click clearing. Not even Jonathan's vision. It's a philosophy that comes from decades back when RPG games was truly games and not sacrificed everything in the name of profit.

Just know these builds will be nuked next league so no stress.


GGG has fully adopted the "full release schedule" of changes, so sadly we have an "EA" game treated like their finished product -- no updates for 4 months. (patches aren't updates, i'm talking new fresh content)

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You really need to see it from the PoE1 players point of view. They were promised that PoE2 would not affect PoE1's development, yet they were put on ice for a year. Obviously they'll either try to turn PoE2 into PoE1 or straight up tank it to get the devs back. The only functional feedback PoE2 will receive will be in the next two months after PoE1's new league starts and sadly that's completely understandable.

Practically breaking the game is the primary objective of every arpg player.
We just need a million ways to do it instead of like 5 so everyone has a way to break the game the way they enjoy. But also, every way has to be obscure or hidden or convoluted so it doesn't appear cheap, tacky, or to be by design. It has to seem like the player created and earned that condition or else the player doesn't get gratification for it.

Otherwise the game has to be extremely sophisticated or in other words deeply well designed and tailored for the betterment of the user's experience well beyond what the user could know without very big smarts.

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_Cgaex#2339 wrote:

POE1 enjoyers, did you watch ANY of the dev talks. Did you read ANYTHING about POE2 when it was in development? The devs NEVER said they were going to make a new game like POE1. That's why it was split off into a second game.

THat's not only not true, but we have proof, 3 year old development videos -- 2 years into development, when the game was literally the same as POE 1.

The original goal was to make POE 2 just a new campaign, and after that the games merge to the same endgame as POE 1.

They showed us video of movement skills, attacks, clear speed -- they had us pay for multiple years of development... then SUDDENLY "oh POE 2 is gonna be a new game now, a totally different game".


So yes, we did pay attention. That's why MANY of us are pissed. We watched for years, as they told us POE patch 4.0 was coming (now POE 2) -- Then 2 years ago they showed us "hey, we actually changed EVERYTHING entirely, it's nothing like the original game anymore".

So I must ask you -- did YOU watch any of the dev talks before or just their ones once POE 2 was announced? because for the first 3 years, all the dev talks (and video showcases) were just POE 1 in POE 2 zones legitimately. It was way faster, dev commentary, assuring us it'll be a fun campaign and nothing else. THey were showcasing spears -- and then it spiraled into POE 2 sometime after ELden Ring came out.


So for years we watched, listened, funded, and were then suddenly told for 3 years everything they said was a lie.

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POE1 fanatics, I don't understand why you even care what POE2 is like. You already have POE1, which by your standards is the perfect game, so why do you want the new game to be exactly like the old one?

Bro, we haven't had anything new to do in a year. We get updates and new leagues with LOTS of new shit to do every 4 months. We haven't had that in a YEAR.

Do you think we just want to sit around and play the fucking base game forever?

We log in for NEW FRESH CONTENT. We do not log in for a game that doesn't get new content. Full stop.

dont use those builds then lol.
pretty simple solution for you

tbh i think one button screen clear builds are really fun

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Tyg4m1ng#6623 wrote:

tbh i think one button screen clear builds are really fun

yup and so does the vast majority of the player base.

we have these really neat websites where we can see what people are playing.
almost nobody is actually running the slow tedious boring shit.

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yup and so does the vast majority of the player base.

we have these really neat websites where we can see what people are playing.
almost nobody is actually running the slow tedious boring shit.

Have the devs tried forcing their hand? "Play slow or not at all". /s

I know what i'd pick.