Tried the game again in SSF... NOPE! I'll try again in 0.5 to make sure it still sucks!

Sorry but the game is UNPLAYABLE without trading... I tried the game again in SSF (I'm NOT gonna trade... I like to PLAY the game and not go buy stuff...)


I had decent loot for SSF thanks to the Vaal Temple... so I was confident I would do decently well... after what felt like 20 minutes of pointlessly hitting Jamanra in Act 2 I quit and uninstalled the game... I was doing NEGATIVE damage to him... and no, my build was not the problem... I was clearing mobs just fine with the poison pathfinder... then you get to the boss and is sooooo tedious... it takes forever... and it's not "challenging"... it's ANNOYING!!!

Can we have a REAL ARPG ffs??? PLEASE??? MAYBE??? One where your build is what matters and not buying the absolute best min-max gear even for leveling in the campaign to avoid these 20 minute slog-fests??? I've played quite a bit of PoE1 in my life (no I don't have 10k hours in it, I have a life)... PoE1 is the MUCH harder game... PoE2 is not hard, it's very very streamlined but it's just sloooow and tedious, and time-wasting and annoying... HOW is it challenging to keep hitting a boss for 20 minutes??? WHY is this challenging??? The boss is not hard... HIS HP BAR IS ENDLESS!!! And this is the freakin campaign!!! It's not even endgame... in endgame it's more bearable really cause you will eventually find good gear even in SSF, but leveling is TORTURE!!!

I'm sorry, but do I have to have a perfect 20% quality rare weapon FOR LEVELING??? Are you kidding me??? And don't come and tell me that I didn't take the right skills or that I "Did the wrong path on the passive tree"... the passive tree is a joke anyway, 15 nodes on the passive tree combined give less stats than one piece of gear... even if I did one or two nodes wrong (which I didn't do) it wouldn't matter... what matters is that this game is a slog fest...

Let me give you the perfect example from another genre... the last Wolfenstein game that came out (don't remember the title name) was by far the worst in the series and has hugely negative reviews... why? Cause the enemies are bullet sponges and the game is tedious and annoying... PoE2 has done EXACTLY that... made spongy enemies that take forever to take down unless you are running with absolute perfect gear and leveling is just a constantly painful experience...


I don't care what you nerf or buff... NERF THE BOSS HP BARS IN THE CAMPAIGN!!! 15-20 minutes of clicking and begging for the fight to end out of boredom is NOT acceptable...


P.S. GGG, you know what to do... delete the post like you always do when I write something that's not glazing... [Removed by Support] like last time... I'm taking screenshots cause I'm not cursing or saying any profanities... it's time you got exposed for the INSANE censoring you're doing...

Sorry but if you're hitting a boss for 20mins and not making progress your build is absolutely the problem.

Boss fights are between 6 seconds and 3 minutes unless there is animations where the boss becomes invulnerable during phasing.

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 wrote:

Sorry but if you're hitting a boss for 20mins and not making progress your build is absolutely the problem.

Boss fights are between 6 seconds and 3 minutes unless there is animations where the boss becomes invulnerable during phasing.

No, it's not... the problem is that I don't have a perfect weapon, with perfect stats and perfect everything...

90% of your power is your WEAPON!!! Pretending that it's otherwise is just sniffing copium...

I'm using the correct skills and took the correct nodes on the passive tree cause newsflash, I CHECKED IT... the problem is that the game is made for Youtubers and streamers and not for gamers... just hype hype hype... no substance...

PoE1 was 100 times harder cause you had to have a brain... in this game you need to trade for everything and follow the cookie cutter meta build... no substance, no brain power needed... and PoE1 was also 100 times more FUN!!! Cause it wasn't this slow, tedious, pathetic mess...

Enjoy your "Dark Souls of ARPGs"... it's a game for low IQ players that think that going through the boss pattern 50 times in a row makes them "skilled"... it's slow, boring, tedious and unenjoyable unless your brain is too soft to understand boredom...

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 wrote:

Sorry but if you're hitting a boss for 20mins and not making progress your build is absolutely the problem.

Boss fights are between 6 seconds and 3 minutes unless there is animations where the boss becomes invulnerable during phasing.

I've never killed Jamanra in 3 minutes with my first SSF character. Maybe Ben could. But most of us would need more time. Unless you ladder in SSF, you might need more time too.

I agree with you that the OP doesn't know how to make a build.

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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JarlaxleDaerthe#2435 wrote:

Sorry but if you're hitting a boss for 20mins and not making progress your build is absolutely the problem.

Boss fights are between 6 seconds and 3 minutes unless there is animations where the boss becomes invulnerable during phasing.

I've never killed Jamanra in 3 minutes with my first SSF character. Maybe Ben could. But most of us would need more time. Unless you ladder in SSF, you might need more time too.

I agree with you that the OP doesn't know how to make a build.

I checked my build and it was correct... the only thing I lacked was a perfect weapon roll... PERIOD!!!

That's a FACT!!! Now if it doesn't suit your narrative it's not my problem... the fight was pathetically slow and his goddamn HP bar was not going down... the fact is that anything over 2-3 minutes in a campaign boss fight is UNACCEPTABLE if you want to call this a good video game...

It's an ARPG and the campaign should be what it is in all ARPGs... just something to get you to the endgame...

The only thing this game challenges is people's patience... not their skill!

They made an ARPG where 90% of your power is in your weapon... ONE PIECE OF GEAR is more important than your whole build...

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Blade_Dancer_90#3602 wrote:

I checked my build and it was correct

What does that mean? You checked on exile build checker dot com?

Jamanra doesn't take 3 minutes in SSF. It's a skill issue.

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SoFaux#7759 wrote:

Jamanra doesn't take 3 minutes in SSF. It's a skill issue.

You're more skilled than I am at that fight!

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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Blade_Dancer_90#3602 wrote:

I checked my build and it was correct

What does that mean? You checked on exile build checker dot com?

I checked a guide genius...

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SoFaux#7759 wrote:

Jamanra doesn't take 3 minutes in SSF. It's a skill issue.

How can it be a skill issue when this is an ARPG... meaning it's a game that's all about gear power and not skill???

Yeah, the problem is that PoE1 was an ACTUAL ARPG that your power came from leveling, building your tree and getting passives and ascensions... [Removed by Support]


I'll take option number 3... which is to uninstall the game and pity the people that don't have enough brain to see how rigged this system is... all RNG except when you open your wallet...