Endgame and one shots and general frustration

You can't have it all.

I was fine with bosses not being in every map, at least I could progress and farm stuff, now I am stuck because you have to have bosses that one shot characters with 40k armour in tier 3 maps for some reason.
Of course the boss you fought for 2 minutes is on full HP again because everything else would be too easy. No the loss of XP isn't enough of a punishment, of course the boss is back to 100% health.

What your designer doesn't seem to realize is, sure, there is hardcore. You could even add another difficulty like let's say "annoying core" and add that, but no, you have to annoy us softcore 6 portal lovers until we just smash that game against the wall.

And as I often voice: it wouldn't be as annoying if PoE2 were just bad. But it's so close to being decent. So close to being long term fun but then some guy in the office said "Wouldn't it be really fun to have a giant ape that one shots just everything? You know, like the Maven, just even worse!"

Love you guys, you are doing fine work but not everyone is happy with your ideas. Give us options, just more options to have fun with the game. Make another difficulty, even if that means the people playing in it don't get all the rewards or MTX but this how it is now is no fun.

1 shots = hard
2 shots = too easy, having "chances" to recover is for the noobs

There's no middle ground.

BTW a friend just quit once again because this game has too many 1 shots and defenses doesnt matter enough.

I'll have to +1 this. It was actually enjoyable to farm maps and I actively looked out for bosses now and then as a challenge on ethical builds.

Now they're in every map. Every map I'm afraid of failing because every boss is capable of destroying my 8k effective HP in milliseconds, even with non-critical moves that don't have sound cue, no apparent pattern, or invisible pattern thanks to visual clutter.

I am literally as tanky as I can be given the options on the left side of the passive nodes. 1.8k HP. 6k ES.

And yet, every fukken map is now a struggle until you become a blaster who destroys bosses in 1 sec to avoid all these mechanics. Every boss has a one shot mechanic. You must be flawless every single time.

Or, you know. You poison burst them all.

Yep that might happen. Sometime I am going from full 2k hp and 4k es to ZERO in a blink of an eye. I can't even understand what is happened most of the time. The most funny thing is that I have fkin OMEN in my pocket being activated BUT IT JUST DOESN'T WORK. Omen just doesnt respond when you actually been on low health. Even clearing trash in T16 maps I feel like I am playing minesweeper.

Also TO HELL ALL THOSE BOSSES ON EACH MAP I RUN. I AM SICK OF YOUR BOSSES GGG. I AM NOT GONNA DO YOUR MECHANICS, GGG. I FOUGHT THOSE BOSSES HUNDREDS OF TIMES ALREADY I AM SIPLY TIRED OF THOSE OBSTACLES.

I am not gonna do mechanics. I will just get powerful enough to ONE-TWO-THREE TAP your bosses, even your so-called Anti-Burst mechanic will not help.

I am running with 40k armour, 1600 life and about 65k armour against elemental hits.
Ape shreds me in one shot tier 3 maps.

I hope I kept away from being too toxic. But the game just doesn't keep me around. I can't get better gems because I can't get better maps. I can't get better armour because see above. I don't want to trade for just op gear, if that exists.

And shield wall bleed was really fun until I got aped twice and then birbed. Maybe, just maybe stop nerving (nerfing?) us for a round or two and nerf one or two of the bosses.

OR at least let us go in again and don't set the bosses to full HP. That would help a lot for the frustration. I paid for my portals after all.