Feels like time wasted

Re post from patch notes in hopes devs see this.

I love poe2. It's amazing in almost every way.

With that being said, most of my friends/clan/gaming guild peeps as well as myself have all pretty much quit the game due to the lack of progress made for time played.

Xp loss kills level progress.

Group play is just bad in every way so you have to solo.

Finding upgrades after the campaign is impossible.

Getting enough orbs to buy gear using the trade site is impossible in the current inflation. And trading through the site is horribly painful.

I ran over 100 maps t15+ at level 89 before I quit. I gained no levels, found no gear that was even worth picking up, and only found 2 divs. This was all with stacking rarity and quantity. I was averaging around 250 to 300 rarity per map.

I can't play until this is fixed. The last loot "fix" just added more junk.

I've gambled well over 20 mil gold. Haven't found anything good. Even the crooked lottery system let's you get a small hit every 4 tickets on a scratcher.

I'll wait and watch for the next few patches to see if this is addressed. But if it's not addressed soon I'll likely just uninstall and move on.

Your peak players went from 590k to 30k since launch. Most of what I'm talking about is why. You can have grind, but not so much grind that your time seems wasted. I hope this gets fixed.

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sirgijoe#9059 wrote:

I ran over 100 maps t15+ at level 89 before I quit. I gained no levels, found no gear that was even worth picking up, and only found 2 divs. This was all with stacking rarity and quantity. I was averaging around 250 to 300 rarity per map.

Math not adding up here brother

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YNRY#3842 wrote:

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sirgijoe#9059 wrote:

I ran over 100 maps t15+ at level 89 before I quit. I gained no levels, found no gear that was even worth picking up, and only found 2 divs. This was all with stacking rarity and quantity. I was averaging around 250 to 300 rarity per map.

Math not adding up here brother

I agree. You would have to die very often to not level running a 100 t15 maps at level 89. Maybe you need to take all that rarity gear off and try getting some gear that lets you kill stuff.

Maybe that is the problem, you just "run over 100 maps". You got to actually kill stuff in the maps to get stuff to drop and to gain experience. Just running over the map does not do much. Common mistake, they should have a tutorial to make that more clear.

No way brother, your numbers are flawed.

I run around 35%-150% rarity and 80% quantity on most of my maps, with % pack size and +% rare monsters plus 30+% Deli and i get divs very regularly, even from chests and strongboxes.

Dude I run 0 rarity, and I get Divs regularly. I'm lvl 97, at 70% to 98. You don't know anything about leveling. I could literally get you to 91 in 2 maps...

All I'm saying is you haven't played long enough to make these wild statements, and you haven't learned how everything works

My advice is stop watching YT videos and believing what those people say, cuz most of them suck at the game. It's already been proven that a 100 rarity and 0 rarity test session resulted in the exact same amount of raw divine drops.

I'm a Titan Warrior Dual wield/Armor/0 Energy Shield. So in before you try to tell me I play some broken EZ mode build. Cuz I don't, I know how to play the game, and know how to get currency, and how to juice, and how to dodge mechanics.

Yeah I die a ton. But I've ran countless t10 and under and it's non existent xp and no loot, so I moved up to try to get something. I might go 3 or 4 maps without dying but then I'll die and lose every bit of xp I made.

I've played over 1000 hours according to ps5. Had absolutely zero issues last seasons to get to 90+ on multiple characters. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it just feels so much worse this season for me.

Like I said all of my friends are in the same boat. And they all already quit.

I'm leaving my opinion here, if you are enjoying the game great. But I'm not alone, over 500k players left. 220k just from this season alone. Many of whom are saying the same thing I am conveying here in this post.

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sirgijoe#9059 wrote:

Yeah I die a ton. But I've ran countless t10 and under and it's non existent xp and no loot, so I moved up to try to get something. I might go 3 or 4 maps without dying but then I'll die and lose every bit of xp I made.

I've played over 1000 hours according to ps5. Had absolutely zero issues last seasons to get to 90+ on multiple characters. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it just feels so much worse this season for me.

Like I said all of my friends are in the same boat. And they all already quit.

I'm leaving my opinion here, if you are enjoying the game great. But I'm not alone, over 500k players left. 220k just from this season alone. Many of whom are saying the same thing I am conveying here in this post.

Mmk yeah but you very obviously lied about your experience. Idk why. Getting 250-300% rarity on [edit] 100 maps* requires more setup than I imagine you're capable of if you don't have any currency to spend on tablets. If you asked for help instead of--whatever this is--lots of people would be more than happy to share with you.

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YNRY#3842 wrote:

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sirgijoe#9059 wrote:

Yeah I die a ton. But I've ran countless t10 and under and it's non existent xp and no loot, so I moved up to try to get something. I might go 3 or 4 maps without dying but then I'll die and lose every bit of xp I made.

I've played over 1000 hours according to ps5. Had absolutely zero issues last seasons to get to 90+ on multiple characters. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it just feels so much worse this season for me.

Like I said all of my friends are in the same boat. And they all already quit.

I'm leaving my opinion here, if you are enjoying the game great. But I'm not alone, over 500k players left. 220k just from this season alone. Many of whom are saying the same thing I am conveying here in this post.

Mmk yeah but you very obviously lied about your experience. Idk why. Getting 250-300% rarity on [edit] 100 maps* requires more setup than I imagine you're capable of if you don't have any currency to spend on tablets. If you asked for help instead of--whatever this is--lots of people would be more than happy to share with you.

I'd be happy to show you my setup if you'd like. Maybe you can show me what I'm doing wrong.

I have 173 rarity on my gear. The rest is from the 3 tablets I stack and the way stone.

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Securetate#3464 wrote:

No way brother, your numbers are flawed.

I run around 35%-150% rarity and 80% quantity on most of my maps, with % pack size and +% rare monsters plus 30+% Deli and i get divs very regularly, even from chests and strongboxes.

no, most map covered by two towers, each tower with 3 tablets about 3-6 iiq each, sum 9~18 iiq, let's get 13 iiq average, so two tower get 26% IIQ.

With tablets altas passive, get you most +10% IIQ, just 36% IIQ, with waystones, 10~20% IIQ is best(even with no IIQ waystones), let +5% IIQ with aveage.
So when you open a map, get 41% IIQ is normal, if double passive effect(20% chance), is 80%+ IIQ.

About IIR, just add with waystone, about 30~80% IIR is normal, let get 50% IIR ave.maybe can inc with altas passive, about inc 40%. let's get 70% IIR finally.

so, with all, you enter a map, get 41+% IIQ & 70% IIR is normal, with you juice tablets.

Rare can add with deliumn, +45% rares. that is all.

But this is when you BD is strong enough, can beat any waystone suffix.
Most of peopel can't do this, so deliumn can't add(add monster HP and IIQ), and waystone explicit inc can't add(this passive can inc waystone suffix too). Because if you die once, 10% exp is too pain.

So normal player, just get 36% IIQ & 50% IIR when enter a juice map.
that's not bad, but not good, need progressing you BD to not die.

so this 0.2 is need patient version, and like soul-like game. Not everyone like this.

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sirgijoe#9059 wrote:

Getting enough orbs to buy gear using the trade site is impossible in the current inflation. And trading through the site is horribly painful.

gotta agree a lot with you on that
The lack of build diversity puts the loot on a bootleneck easy to inflate