Content Update 0.4.0 — Path of Exile 2: The Last of the Druids

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eternalJOURNEYofTHEloser#5873 wrote:

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Redthorne82#3177 wrote:

Anyone who sees the spiral into boredom should really take this league off.

I re-installed a few days ago to prep for league announcement. Uninstalled right after. If everyone that was REALLY unhappy about the changes just didn't show up, the numbers wouldn't lie.

The numbers will not lie trust me. It is the retention that matters. Just check the numbers 2 weeks after launch.

They literally said retention is less important in the Q&A, it's whether people return for successive leagues.

Grind gear and waste time in the game to receive artificial anti-burst mechanic implemented to slow players down and make them waste even more time. Brutus brain move from you guys. How about anti-micro-transaction mechanic?

Endgame is still dead, btw.

Auuuuuuuuuuuu

Jagged Ground II have no effect with any aftershock!!!

I have a lot to say (mostly bad things), but the most important is: “you’re getting cornered and killed by monsters because we did everything to take the fun away from you? Now we are taking your MOBS too!”
Instead of finally adding movement or clearing skills that would be actually PLEASANT TO PLAY, GGG makes another weird “genius” move - they change the mobs like in Ultimatum league (if I remember right) and, the most stupid part, they reduce their total amount…
I was really hoping they would remove this useless tablet mechanic that felt super clunky and unpleasant to me, but judging by the changes shown, GGG is guided not by some “vision” but by some twisted foolishness close to sickness. With all respect - this is trash. League skip, game skip. I really regret that I didn’t finish the refund process when I had the chance.
From 4 leagues, three turned out basically unplayable, and only 0.3 was in some way good. I still don’t really like the differences from PoE1 that GGG decided to focus on in the second part, but at least most QoL problems were fixed, and overall I kinda liked what they achieved there.
And once again GGG didn’t disappoint me - tons of disgusting changes and no real communication with their core audience…
I get that they wanted to make something different from the first game, but why repeat the same mistakes? Or someone really thought that reducing mob density and increasing their difficulty on HUGE locations was a good idea?
League skip and game skip. I SERIOUSLY regret buying a PoE2 key a year ago…

Great league coming, thanks for your work GGG! <3

I will never remove my "Not Recommended" review on Steam.

Reading the Patch Notes for 0.4 made me really angry. Nothing but nerfs on a already slog game.

You are trying to turn Poe2 into "No Rest for the Wicked". The devs lost all touch to why people loved Poe1.

I like the changes, but I sincerely hope that bosses take at least 30 seconds to kill now, if not, what's even the point of bosses having mechanics?

I prefer the game to have slightly more meaningful combat than just zoom-zoom gameplay.

And you should shelve Path of Exile 1 until Path of Exile 2 is ready for release. This is getting ridiculous at this point, always excuses for missing content.

Pog

A bunch of nerfs and minor additions.

Here's what we should do instead for Poe 2 - make it a successor to Poe 1 (it's currently not and may not ever be).

Remove dodge roll from game or make it a toggle option.
Increase player base life, damage, and movement speed.
Buff ascendancies.
Remove downsides from passive tree - especially on most notables.
Give players more passive tree points (we've made tree bigger since 0.2, but we can't travel as far since we have the same amount of points since EA launch).