GGG, gotta change that new 'one attempt per waystone'.

dO oNlY mAps yOu cAn hAnDlE...

sure bro, just did a really terrible long map, which I totally dominated but had to backtrack nearly the whole way to kill the last rare which then oneshotted my (80% armour 90% evasion) char with some on death explosion

Only redeeming fact was that the loot he dropped was total junk

I think I'll take a break again until something is done at least about the time it takes to finish them

Seems like the biggest argument to mine was "If you can't handle it, do a lower map."
Well, that's the thing, I can frost strike around the map and clear it fine, and the next one, and the next one. Then I run a lower tier map, and get stomped.

Simply dying does not mean you cannot handle the content. It means something happened that you were unable to react to. I completely cleared a T15 map today with one of every modifier, corruption, irradiated, boss, breach, ritual, etc.

Why? Because I spent an hour going at a snails pace so I didn't back myself into a corner. Immediately after that, I logged off, losing my drive to keep playing for the day. My resistances are maxed, I'm using my own build that is putting out better damage and survivability than the meta build, but that doesn't mean some Lich's won't freeze me on the tower, powering through my thawing talisman, and let the other 4 land their hits at the same time, killing me.

It's not a skill check, they made the game more difficult. I'm fine with the difficulty, I'm fine with the old death mechanics losing xp, I'm fine with losing my entire experience bar on one map. I'm tired of losing waystones and modifiers do to one misstep. No, it doesn't happen every map, maybe one in every 6 maps, unless I have waystones with poor affixes to my build. That's me... a fairly experienced PoE player. If it's happening to me, it's happening to you, you're just part of the "Challenge Good!" crowd.

Yes, when game launches and everything gets tuned, I will absolutely be running hardcore characters, but right now? I'm tired.

There's a lot that's better about PoE2, but One attempt per waystone is not one of them.

The game is too unstable imo for 1 portal. "texture missing" crashes and just random freezes are happening all the time. This is the only game I get that kind of stuff with.

I think 2 would be totally fine, and especailly if they didn't delete all loot on the ground.

I haven't finished the campaign, but in Act3 I saw the terrible fate of most last Vaal people, and I think POE2 is definitely for Vaal descendants, fight for another one-shot. Anyway at this difficulty I have to lower my expectations that the time needed to kill the final boss form 1 year to 3 years. For the Queen!