Player power is too big again exactly as I suspected.

To each his own, if you want to play super slow you have unlimited time do want you want.
If someone wants to play differently let them.

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

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UnholyKirin#7925 wrote:

u can try SSF =)
u cant get gear that easy there
im on t14 maps nows whit 6 k dps on Lunar assault lol lvl 87
honestly i find the game to be way more fun in ssf then trade league
on trade league getting power too fast

My thoughts exactly. To me it looks like the game is balanced around SSF and Trade is just easy mode for casuals.

I'm in SSF too. I don't envy GGG. Look at this forum right now. It's blanketed with complaints that the game is too hard. Meanwhile, the game is maybe the easiest it's ever been. What do you do if you're a game designer.

Maybe the free weekend was a "mistake." Good for taking the temperature of a broader audience, but holy crap there's a lot of "game too hard" posts right now.

Stop saying too hard .
Tedious
Boring
Purposely shitty.

The game is propped up by the market its a mistake , and they will keep paying for it. You cant talk sense to them, they made a motion skill where you trip and die.
They don't get it. The life of this will be short.

Act 1 and 2 are too easy for sure. Act 3 is better.

I don’t see the point in making the game easier. In fact, they should cut player power during the campaign so it gets more exciting.

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Jitter912#4278 wrote:

Stop saying too hard .
Tedious
Boring
Purposely shitty.

In 0.2, I agreed with you, and I was saying "tedious" myself. But the posts here the last few days are about people dying dozens of times, etc. That's a difficulty issue (or really an inability to play the game, I suspect no dodge rolling, people are moving their toons as though it's a typical ARPG, and that doesn't work in PoE2).

If you're talking about the Vaal Temple in the endgame, I don't think that was avoidable once they pushed back the real endgame until next league.

The gear in the campaign, at least in my SSF playthrough, was far far better than any gear I've gotten in the game so far. I took bases into the Vaal Temple and Regal/Exalted then until I got cool modifiers. Previously impossible. The campaign is the easiest it's ever been.

Big picture, let's wait until the real endgame is live.

Without build balance everything is a joke....

Don't
Play
Easy mode (Trade).

This is will solve ALL your problems with the game being "too easy." And if it still is, congratulations!

Not sure what's up with this post. Player power is way, way down this league vs 0.3, because they completely destroyed crafting.

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avastcosmicarena#5899 wrote:

Not sure what's up with this post. Player power is way, way down this league vs 0.3, because they completely destroyed crafting.

There was no crafting. Only gambling.

I started this league with Pathfinder and even with LA I don't feel like my power is too big. I play on trade because of friends but we avoid trading with other players than ourselves so something like semi-ssf. Great fun I must say.

This will probably be lost in the abyss of inane rambling but whatever.

You are right, player power is too high AND bosses have way too low HP. You instantly skip the Atziri fight even on a mediocre build. Not to mention all the bugs she has released with, just like Kulemak last league.

The game is not balanced AT ALL after Act 4, that's the source of the problem, combined with the fact they don't have the time to spend too long on it.

It will get worse, as they release under-baked league mechanics and bosses one after another until the campaign is finally done and the game releases. This is design debt they are accruing and it will hurt them in the long term.

If you played PoE 1 in the old days, when Atziri used to be a challenge with her split-phases, her bleed spear, her flame-blasts etc, you can't tell me her current fight is anything more than a (well done) cutscene in comparison at this point.