When did PoE "click" for you?

It was back in open beta. I was playing lightning strike and a skill gem called multistrike dropped in docks. HOLY CRAP! it blew my mind lol

As soon as my first character got herald of purity.

The minions it spawns made me understand that having minions who are burning themselves to death and then blow up is fantastic if the minions are short lived anyway.

After that I looked at all the mods/skills differently. Still didn't understand a lot of them and laughed at the unique flasks I was finding that just seemed like: "you restore 100life and then die from chaos dmg."

That was near the end of 3.20. Made a character on standard and got to maps, then rerolled when tota started.

Never, to be perfectly honest. I tried it through years but it never really changed. So I tried 2 for few hundred hours because I thought it's going to be different, and I noticed every thing that I hated in 1 is even worse there.

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hasatt0#7256 wrote:

Was mostly into RTS like command & conquer and Earth2150

Tried diablo 2, played necro and didn't like it at all because of buy potion > kill stuff > drink potion > go to town and repeat. Just slogged through and killed diablo. Put it down and uninstalled it.

Fired up diablo 2 again a few months, this time with a barb. Again more potion spamming. Finally killed andariel and went to act 2. Unique 2 hander dropped with life steal/mana steal. Life/mana steal QoL instantly hooked me in. Never looked back. Same reason came over to PoE.

Asked my brother how he got into d2. He said 2 words: Life steal.

Sometimes the little things matter.

Honestly, my main problem with D2 was the fact that you lose equipped items on death. Sure, you can recover them from your corpse, however when the corpse in question is near a huge pack of mobs that you can't kill because you don't have any items...

The game is otherwise quite solid and I can see the similarities between it and PoE.

if you exit the game and open it again your corpse will be in town from what i recall.

peaked 3.17 for me, before didn't really play much or at all (first time poe 2010)

and after 3.17 it was sometimes fun, sometimes meh
necropolis was the worst patch for me, not because of the league itself but because of that in my opininon awful "endgame rework" with the introduction of T17s and other stuff that made the game less fun

It clicked before I even played it thanks to this review by the outstanding Good Game crew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOqVPGmNbQ

As a long term fan of D2 this just hit all the right nostalgia feels and I picked up the game not longer after.

Then it clicked again in 3.09 when end game became viable to a lowly pleb like myself thanks to a great Zombie build... that GGG then destroyed two leagues later because - can't have players having fun.

It's been steadily downhill since then with poorly executed changes that only punish the bottom end players all in pursuit of "The Vision".

What doesn't click with me is Trading and the concept of having to purchase gear from others. The fact that the game is built around this very concept is a major pain point for me personally but I understand others who enjoy it.

I play almost exclusive SSF now and simply resign myself to the fact that end game will be forever out of reach as I do not want to engage with several of the mechanics the game has. It just means my assessment of the game has gone from "Amazing" to "Pretty Good but could have been Amazing".

i fell in love with this game when it first came out. you can build your character however you want!

and that i did. i failed a huge lot. got stuck in the docks and never could get past level 84. got flamethrowered to death lol.

i dont remember when but i "clicked" abit. and my cap was now level 95. i could do much more content.

i think the game really clicked to me was somewhere before maven.

once maven dropped, i felt the "end content" never was within my reach.

i could have just followed a build guide. but instead i tempered my expectations. there were things i could do and things i couldnt.

this led to me realizing that most end content wasnt meant for me. which led to resentment. many years later i fully realized that GGG is never going to cater to players like me and has gone past any point of turning back.

i cant change the game, so i just removed myself from this game.

so yeah. it clicked a little but not enough and never enough.

It must have been in 2013 or 2014. The skilltree was love at first sight. The community in these days also was very different from what it is now. I miss farming xp in Fellshrine and Docks with my old friends...

I started 2014. Played a lot, but mostly struggled with bad builds. Then I found out about Pohx and his RF builds. That was my click moment.

For me it wasn't love on first sight tbh.

At first when I saw PoE I was turned off by the graphics and a different isometric perspective than D2 had. The game looked kinda unpolished, but I tried it anyway in open beta, because I was bored/disappointed with D3.

I played a shadow to act2 merciless, that was before act3 was a thing I believe, or at least before Dominus. I was shit at the game and didn't know how to fix my resistances, so I kept dying in act2 from Spark mages :D
I quit frustrated, but still had the game in the back of my mind because I was intrigued by the skill tree and gem system.

When PoE 1.0 launched I came back and that's when I fell in love with the game. I now had enough pre-knowledge to learn more about the games' systems and how to trade/price item drops ect. That's when I was able to fix my builds, or rather follow the guides I was looking at.

It was at a later point when I started making my own builds successfully that the game "clicked" even more and yeah... it's still going on and the learning never stops.


I don't know if I'll ever feel the same about PoE2. I was pretty pumped at first, but right now I'm more pessimistic about it :/ Time will tell.