The campaign is WAY too long

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Tyg4m1ng#6623 wrote:

I love poe 2, I want nothing more than to make multiple characters and grind the endgame.

But I'm very sad because leveling a new character takes SO long,
Is GGG trying to punish players for exploring builds and playstyles?
Why would they do this, it doesn't make them money doing this so why?

I understand that they put in a lot of effort and made a great campaign and world, but please GGG, the vast majority of players do not want to level a character for this long.

Its actually kind of depressing because I love the game but I can't explore other characters without destroying my life over it

let me know your thoughts, ty for reading

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Soulsniper1313#7576 wrote:

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Tyg4m1ng#6623 wrote:

I love poe 2, I want nothing more than to make multiple characters and grind the endgame.

But I'm very sad because leveling a new character takes SO long,
Is GGG trying to punish players for exploring builds and playstyles?
Why would they do this, it doesn't make them money doing this so why?

I understand that they put in a lot of effort and made a great campaign and world, but please GGG, the vast majority of players do not want to level a character for this long.

Its actually kind of depressing because I love the game but I can't explore other characters without destroying my life over it

let me know your thoughts, ty for reading

This is the problem IMO... The campaign is great and you can tell they wanted to make this great expansive game to teach you different parts of the game as well as put on display all the great art work. It was a blast the first couple times. Now here is the problem... forcing it each and every character without allowing for a campaign skip or some sort of stream lined way to get a character to 60-65 which is about where maps start is the bummer. I would have way more characters than I already do if there was some stream line option.

What a proper fix to it looks like? Well... that is going to vary an awful lot from person to person.

As I see it here are the options...

1. Leave it as is

2. Shrink all the zones/maps by 20% (Also remove nonsense stuff like the Halani Gates get off train to talk to just get back on)

3. Move all the side content that doesn't give permanent perks to an interlude style thing on the side so those who want it can do it, those who don't, don't have to repeat it all

4. Create some sort of "cow level" for players who already completed the campaign once per season and let them just level from kills against giant swarms of monsters that scale with the player level and give the permanent perks at specific levels that is on par with the campaign

Any other ideas to improve the experience without preventing those who enjoy repeating it over and over from doing so are also welcome...