Act 1 Boss: Overdoing It, or Intended?

PoE 2 Act 1 Boss has more phases and different skills than Uber Sirus. A number of which are either going to instantly kill a new player (i.e. not a twink) or get you freeze/stun locked and then you die anyway. This feels a lot more like Dark Souls than Path of Exile.

I remember an old interview with Chris where he said that most of the new players in PoE 1 quit before completing Act 1, typically around the time they met Brutus. Well, compared to this new guy, Brutus is a toddler.

Multiple GGG people also mentioned how important were the first impressions. So, is this the first impression you are going for with PoE 2? There is absolutely no way a new player is going to beat this boss unless they are pretty damn good. Are you trying to cull the influx of new players that way? If that's the case - good job. Otherwise you might want to reconsider a boss more complex than Sirus serving as a gatekeeper.

have you tried playing with a friend?

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

have you tried playing with a friend?

Is this question somehow relevant to my post?

Have you tried looking at the screen?

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Kelvynn#6607 wrote:

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

have you tried playing with a friend?

Is this question somehow relevant to my post?

Yep. You should try playing with a friend.

I don't know why people here are talking about playing with a friend. POE has never been balanced to need a group to do content. With that being said I loved the act 1 boss it truly felt like an epic fight and personally I think it's fine if not maybe lower the health.

What's the point of making the same game as POE 1? New game, new mechanics, souls mechanics are popular, not that much for me, but it is what it is. At least there is some challenge here, not just soloing the game with left click.

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

have you tried playing with a friend?

That makes it actually more difficult. I had an easier time soloing him than with a friend. Thats true to basically every boss so far.

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

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Kelvynn#6607 wrote:

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Andromansis#4714 wrote:

have you tried playing with a friend?

Is this question somehow relevant to my post?

Yep. You should try playing with a friend.

Who are you to tell me how to play? I've played PoE 1 alone for 9 years and I've enjoyed it. Vast majority of PoE players never group.

Any how is this relevant to my topic?

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WalterWhite#0170 wrote:

What's the point of making the same game as POE 1? New game, new mechanics, souls mechanics are popular, not that much for me, but it is what it is. At least there is some challenge here, not just soloing the game with left click.

You mean PoE 2 should be a different TYPE of a game? We already know that's not the direction GGG were taking. If they wanted to make a completely different game, they would do that. But PoE 2 was intended as the next evolution of PoE 1. Until last year, it was officially a sequel. Then they decided to make it more independent from PoE 1, but it's still the next Path of Exile.

Hence my feedback above. The boss of Act 1 is going to make a lot more new players quit than Brutus ever did in PoE 1. If that's the intention, it's fine with me. But I suspect that it's not. And I'd rather make GGG aware of this issue early than after the official release.