This is what "The Vision" looks like in Act 3 if you aren't playing screen clearing skills.

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dramargu#4381 wrote:

Dude, listen. Some builds will be weaker and some will be stronger, it's ridiculous to expect that every single thing you want to try will have the same power as some meta build.
If you choose to just use the specific cold skills you want and bash your head against the wall trying to build around it, then you better be willing to accept that it will be an uphill battle, especially if you're not trading to get some specific uniques.

So you play trade league, let someone think for you to craft your build, followed along like an obedient puppy and now you are a game expert?

Got it.

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dramargu#4381 wrote:

Speedrunners clear first 3 acts under 3 hours, also with no trade. Now, obviously not everyone is that good or experienced, but it just shows you that it's possible.
So if your complaint is simply "I can't make this work, devs fix it", you (and others like you) are the reason why games these days are made for toddlers cause god forbid some entitled loser who paid money to play it can't possibly beat it on first try. Bet you'd complain about original Radahn in ER too

Its not good or experienced. No experience will make FOF hit more enemies or do more damage. You BOUGHT a build crafted by someone else, obviouslyu a screen clearing meta build and, guess what, according to GGG its YOUR BUILD that was broken. Now if you ask on the forums NOBODY plays lightning spear but the reality is north of 70% of the player base plays lightning spear.

This video is what happens when you play the game the way the DEVS INTENDED. They will nerf the crap out of your build next league. It will be dead. They don't want you clearing acts in 3 hours. They want the campaign to take 25 to 30 hours. They have said this REPEATEDLY. But now you play a meta screen clearing build and say "whats the problem?" You just don't get it.

P.S. I beat original Radahn. But then this game has NOTHING in common with Elden Ring and anyone trying to mix the two is nuts. I even beat Sekiro and that makes Elden Ring look easy. That game and this one have nothing in common.

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dramargu#4381 wrote:

If you can't make it work yourself while everyone else is sweeping through pinnacle bosses, and you don't want to look up guides for help because you want to figure it out yourself, you can't have such a fragile ego and whine about your own inadequacy as a result.
You're either smart enough to crack the numbers and make a good build, or you accept help and read a guide by someone who can. What's the confusion?

Everyone is sweeping through pinnacle bosses with builds that GGG are going to orbital blast with a nuke. Just ask the folks last league playing infernalist minions or spark or gemling or any of the other builds that got nuked from orbit.

The point of this post is GGG is in your face about saying YOUR build is broken and MY build is the way they want it played. I think that will kill this game and I am highlighting the problem.

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LeFlesh#9979 wrote:

AND THEN THERE'S THE ACOLYTE OF CHAYULA

Acolyte of Chayla Plays how they want you to play. LOL ... yeah I know AoC makes huntress look strong. I know man. Tell GGG that it wont work.

Yeah. Some classes are unplayable in SSF.

Also some are only playable if u follow some concept out of the way them are intended for.

But if u follow the guide GGG gives u for ur character and the way is intended to b played...
U not gonna find many classes that actually work properly.

Is a fact.

However... I think they already know that.
But GGG still dnt know how to balance them yet. So probably till next league them will continue broken.

Is a bit masochist from you to even try that at current state.

But yeah, I get ur point and what r u triying to prove.

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Aim_High#3562 wrote:

Go back to exilecon 2019 when poe2 was announced and check yourself what Chris had to say.

Do you people listen to yourselves? 2019? Some of you live in a parallel universe or something.

PoE 2 is what it is today. That's 2025. Like, what is this comment even about? You want a time machine or something? I don't understand.

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rifraf-_-#9478 wrote:

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Aim_High#3562 wrote:

Go back to exilecon 2019 when poe2 was announced and check yourself what Chris had to say.

Do you people listen to yourselves? 2019? Some of you live in a parallel universe or something.

PoE 2 is what it is today. That's 2025. Like, what is this comment even about? You want a time machine or something? I don't understand.

He is referring to a concept called "bait and switch". We took the bait, funded the development, and they Switched less than 1y before EA.

Now I know you don't care. You are in that "everything is fine" group that doesn't look at the fact that POE2 has lost 90% of its audience since EA launch. The rest of us are trying too convince GGG / TenCent to make changes to save the game from financial ruin.

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Sarke#5416 wrote:

Yeah. Some classes are unplayable in SSF.

Also some are only playable if u follow some concept out of the way them are intended for.

But if u follow the guide GGG gives u for ur character and the way is intended to b played...
U not gonna find many classes that actually work properly.

Is a fact.

However... I think they already know that.
But GGG still dnt know how to balance them yet. So probably till next league them will continue broken.

Is a bit masochist from you to even try that at current state.

But yeah, I get ur point and what r u triying to prove.

There is one FUNDAMENTAL flaw in your reasoning. You are assuming a weak class like demonstrated is not intentional. You would be wrong. That is what they intend ALL classes to be. This is what they mean by "Meaningful" combat.

For all of you that say "the game is fine, the vision is great," I have three numbers for you.

playing 21 min ago: 34,577
24-hour peak: 58,224
all-time peak: 578,562

Bleeding 90% of the player base in 5 months isnt fine. Patch 0.2.0 had 254k peak and we are down to 20% of that.

MAYBE ... JUST MAYBE it isn't just me. MAYBE I am one of the few that care enough about this game to not want it to fail.

The mental gymnastics you are doing to blame your lack of skill on anything but yourself is absolutely mind-boggling. Send me your cranial measurements so I can study you for science, because you are something else.


After catching a glimpse of your skill-tree, it tells the whole story. I counted at least 12 entire nodes (12!!! 12!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/zttKHqG ) dedicated entirely to boosting the effectiveness of parrying, and then I watched you struggle against Queen of Filth and you parried quite literally 1 time during that 4 minute ordeal. I encourage anyone else viewing this thread to watch this fight on x2 speed and count how many parries he uses. (https://youtu.be/3PWSSG06x2M?si=zsDxrcVYEsKlDdPX&t=2392) Are you AI? Tell me the truth.

I think if you spent less time whinging on the forums about things that are entirely in your control and spent more time actually reading your skill-tree nodes and figuring out what they do, you would have a better time.

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Kraythax#2592 wrote:

He is referring to a concept called "bait and switch". We took the bait, funded the development, and they Switched less than 1y before EA.

Now I know you don't care. You are in that "everything is fine" group that doesn't look at the fact that POE2 has lost 90% of its audience since EA launch. The rest of us are trying too convince GGG / TenCent to make changes to save the game from financial ruin.

Oh, I get it now. I'm not aware of all the PoE 2 backstory but not that you cleared this out I get it.

All I'm saying is I love the gameplay and how the game is set up. The other major stuff like performance issues, bugs, glitches, etc. I want them solved. It's in a pretty rough spot right now but the core game I think is great.

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wolfandsaint#2302 wrote:

The mental gymnastics you are doing to blame your lack of skill on anything but yourself is absolutely mind-boggling. Send me your cranial measurements so I can study you for science, because you are something else.


After catching a glimpse of your skill-tree, it tells the whole story. I counted at least 12 entire nodes (12!!! 12!!!!! https://imgur.com/a/zttKHqG ) dedicated entirely to boosting the effectiveness of parrying, and then I watched you struggle against Queen of Filth and you parried quite literally 1 time during that 4 minute ordeal. I encourage anyone else viewing this thread to watch this fight on x2 speed and count how many parries he uses. (https://youtu.be/3PWSSG06x2M?si=zsDxrcVYEsKlDdPX&t=2392) Are you AI? Tell me the truth.

I think if you spent less time whinging on the forums about things that are entirely in your control and spent more time actually reading your skill-tree nodes and figuring out what they do, you would have a better time.

Her rolling attacks and slam attacks cant be parried. Her poison pools degen your life rapidly if you are standing there with a dinner plate up. Thanks for playing.