Upcoming Plans for 0.2.0g

Let me start by saying this is the 1st ARPG I have ever put more than a few hours into.

I come from a 30+ year background of playing and developing MMO's.

With the minimal amount of time I have in ARPG's I didn't know what to expect. I was given a key from a friend who invited me to play. I did play POE1 for a short time. I did NOT like the mouse movement, so I only logged maybe 12 hours in it.

I was excited to hear about AWSD movement in POE2, so I thought I would give it a try. The graphics are nice, the movement is ok, the dodge roll is an absolute JOKE! If you are going to give me a skill that I 100% NEED to rely on it needs to work. If I dodge roll it needs to move me through enemies or at least around them. I have been pinned into corners and killed HUNDREDS of times in the game with NO ability to dodge roll out of it. It is an evasion move, I should ALWAYS be allowed to get away with it. 1 exception would be bosses.

Enemies pushing me and my totems around the screen literally breaks the mood of the battle. It is a horrible mechanic. Enemies should not be able to push me across the entire screen then stick me in a corner and kill me. never played a game where enemies can do this. it's neither fun nor engaging. It is visually garbage and annoying at best.

From everything I have read about every other ARPG, LOOT!!!!! is the whole point of the game. Loot and gaining power to feel like a GOD when destroying enemies. This game has none of that at all. You always feel weak. You never truly feel as though you "got this" in any fight. You never get the loot you need when you need it. I was wearing the same gear from level 20 until level 50...why... because nothing else better dropped. I had to resort to farming act 1 and 2 rares to get currency to buy the gear I needed for endgame play. I now have hundreds of hours in this pile of junk game just to get 1, yes 1 character to endgame and he still doesn't have the right gear because it NEVER drops!

This leads to the next issue. CURR$NCY. You know why the gold/currency selling sites are doing so well? The game sucks, we have no choice as players but to buy from sellers because nothing ever drops. I put in over 100 hours before I saw a divine drop. Another 50 before I got my own. That is not ok. It is a key piece to upgrading gear. I understand a mirror being a super rare drop, but a divine is no different then a exalted IMO.

There is ENTIRELY toooooooooooooooooooo much busy work in the game. I don't want to sort my loot, I want to hit a button and auto sort. I know you make ALL your money from selling tabs. At least give us some way to sort loot within a tab we PAY for.

The bosses... if you can even call them that. They are just boring long drawn out fights that have NO mechanics other than dodge, cast, attack, repeat. If you want boss fights to be engaging they need real mechanics. They need to be killable by the appropriate level character not some over tuned no life player.

I am at the pint of calling my credit card company and getting my money back for fraud. The game is a joke.

I want to link the 'Rage Vessels' support gem to my banner skill, but it doesn't work right now. Hopefully they'll change that later on.

I strongly believe GGG intentionally make character weaker so that us players must spend more time in the game. Than give us more mechanics to grind and crafting items to make our time worth. Its fucking time consuming to find a good weapon, farming for exepedition currencies, than gamble crafting with 10% of success for only 2 stats.

And yes you guys already make the game harder and intentionally make players weaker.

I was planning to support the game more,but the direction of this patch is terrible.

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kimandyoyo#8394 wrote:

I'm a normal player and level 85 now but I still can not pass the 3rd ascendancy trial. It shows how poor its on the game design of 0.2.0 version!

You should have been able to pass it by level 70. It's not the devs fault you chose a bad build, can't navigate the easiness of the trial, or chose not to work towards getting better relics by running the lower trials to make your future runs easier.

If you're not playing SSF then you can easily trade for relics that'll make the run 1000x easier.

Make a better build. Get better at the game. Stop blaming GGG.

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"It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools"

I hope these devs know they're appreciated. So much negativity these days smh.

maybe delete poe 2 and work on poe 1 ?

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Cadenza#3170 wrote:

I hope these devs know they're appreciated. So much negativity these days smh.

Nope. People dont appreciate THE VISION. They want a fun game and right now POE2 is not delivering on the fun. Its a slow and tedious Soulslike game in a POE1 mosnter balance economy making it unappreciated and intolerable.

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Suimono#5003 wrote:

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Cadenza#3170 wrote:

I hope these devs know they're appreciated. So much negativity these days smh.

Nope. People dont appreciate THE VISION. They want a fun game and right now POE2 is not delivering on the fun. Its a slow and tedious Soulslike game in a POE1 mosnter balance economy making it unappreciated and intolerable.

Fun is a subjective term. For example I think that fishing is boring but for many people it's peak fun.

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czdj117#3792 wrote:

It's incomprehensible why the developers ruined this game irreparably. Before the fatal major patch, it was enough to make better balance for those builds that were played very little, let everyone play what they like and then make other improvements to the game itself, I still can't understand why Poe2 ended before it started.

Yea, letting people enjoy the builds they want to play is so hard.
Classic and overdone balancing in the form of nerfs, instead they should indeed buff or look at underplayed builds.

Just let people play how they like with the class & spec they want, nerfing skills is old & lame, just buff underused and underperforming skills, and then worry about mob & boss balance.

Awesome job.
Your constant updating is great.
Please don't change the loot too much -> More currency is good, more uniques is good, but i don't want to play with loot filter like in PoE1. Having fewer loot let me kill things more.
Please also don't listen to crybabies and don't change the vision -> PoE 1 for blasters, PoE 2 for slower engaging combo-based combat.
This season i am having even more fun than the last one.

Playing Shield/Thorns/Breaking armor Warbringer when my wife is playing Bleed Amazon utilizing my armor breaks - and blasting through maps is just awesome.

Spirits felt underwhelming but i see You Are already changing it

Everyone was crying how LE is in better shape, tried it this season but after PoE2 i just couldn't play in so blunt and easy game. (Before PoE2 i actually enjoyed the game very much).