What do you like and dislike so far about poe 2 ?

for me it is like this so far.

+ In game music. Very good job done.
+ Graphics are better than poe 1 so I guess its a plus.
+ Interesting boss fights.
+ removal of fusings and item linking.
+ new interface for skills.


-dodge roll.
-no orb of alteration. One of the worst change from poe 1 imo.
-No combat log on bosses same as in poe 1. I would love to know what and for how much has damaged me.
- The loot that drops is just weird and too rng and might brick some builds that have to farm zones in act1 over and over in order to actually kill some boss. For example as sorc I had almost no staff drops ?
- I prefered the old system with skill gems as a drop and being leveled by killing monsters.
- You cant see dps of a skill when you mousover over it.
- You cant dodge roll if you are surrounded? or is it just me? Sometimes you just cannot escape death.
- I dont have absolutely top end pc and in order to get 60 fps even on some bosses the graphics downgrade so much that its hard to see what is going on. So for best experience you need top end hardware only.

Overall for me poe 2 didnt live up to the hype and I am not very impressed. I understand I am not the best player in the world, but the game right now just feels boring/worse than poe 1. In my opinion the playerbase will be shrinking rapidly. Maybe I am just too old for this game and I hope you enjoy it.

Im super happy how the game turned out and they erased almost all the issues I had with POE1.

+Graphics
+Audio
+Gameplay
+Difficulty
+Crafting
+Loot

-Not to many moving objects, the world looks a bit static.

Other then that, I am a bit surprised how little MTX are working right now, but oh well.

Played around 10 hours so far and am still in act2, so my experience might change later on. I started HC and got to Act1 endboss, died 2 times in total so far.
Right now I'm very happy how the game turned out.

+Graphics are amazing and (so far) very smooth on my machine
+Audio - Soundeffects are impactful and "feel" good
+Music so far is alright. The intro music is a banger, after that I think it's fine, but not PoE1 levels yet.
+Difficulty as a Ranger feels tight and well balanced
+Loot doesn't feel alot different than PoE1 so far, imo

I'm torn with crafting right now. I try to use all the currency I get, but having 6 exatlts doesn't help if u can't get any currency item to create a rare item in the first place. So I think we need more Regals early on aswell. Same with the Runes, I never got any good item with runes in it, so they just waste in my stash.

Gameplay for the Ranger so far is a bit hit and miss for me. Lightning Arrow felt pretty good in the beginning, but I wanted to go poison and so I got all the poison abilities.
The "combo" stuff feels a bit weird and maybe doesn't even work properly. I never really saw the vines transfering my poisons whenever I shot poison arrow (or w/e its called) ontop of it.
Also poison works different now, so that's something to get used to.

Lastly the only really negative experience I had was Ritual. I think it doesn't work without phasing or being able to instantly kill packs of monsters. I didn't die, but was close to it multiple times and I think only my evasion kinda safed me. I got cornered by monsters many times and couldn't do anything else than facetank everything and just blast until either the mobs or I die.

Yeah well, I guess that covers my experience so far :) solid IGN/10

/edit: 2 things I forgot. The game seems to have some sort of memory leak, because it crashes on me every few hours and I don't like that 99% of my MTX don't work right now^^