Anyone else just...DONE with PoE1 Speed Freaks Wrecking PoE2?

"Oh no, I'm not instabooming entire packs by level 4!"
"Oh no, I'm level 12 and I can't instantly destroy rares without even noticing they're on my screen!"
"Oh no, I'm level 30 and it still takes me more than three clicks to kill every monster in an entire zone!"
"How DARE this game present monsters on my screen for more than fifteen milliseconds before they spontaneously explode into showers of currency simply from entering my presence!"

Just...why? Why won't any of these people leave the new game that's NOT FOR THEM freaking be? This is a new game, with a new paradigm. Yeah, stuff can get spongey sometimes and they're working to address that, but this playerbase's adamant, ironclad, unshakeable REFUSAL(!!!) to engage with the game on any level whatsoever is dumb, pointless, and actively counterproductive.

If all you want is a gory fantasy-flavored Cookie Clicker clone attached to a Byzantine economic simulator that requires absolutely no thought, engagement, or judgment? PoE1 is back that way. That game has been solved and will never again be a fun or engaging time for people who aren't in it to just grind an unreasonable number of divines with whatever alien method the streamers insist on this time, followed by buying a 100M DPS streamer build and beating all the pinnacle content in a week. Followed, of course, by bitching about how there's nothing left to do in the league.

Just...play the game you actually like. Please?

Hoping Jonathan/Mark are done w/ it...from latest interview... ;)

You may be speaking to someone like me so I will reply.

Look, part of the issue may be that it is called POE.

POE 2 isn't even an ARPG as many people understand the term ARPG.

It is kind of jarring. I think they/we all need time to see the "Vision".

As it stands now, this vision won't work, in our opinion, it won't work.

IMAGING THIS:

You find out there is the great CHINESE restaurant called "POE".

It has an amazing reputation for CHINESE food.

A franchise opens near you, so you invite everyone you know to come try it.

You turn up and everything says CHINESE. The sign, the menu, the staff. Even the language in the menu and images are all Chinese writing and food images.

Then you sit down, you order, and they bring you ITALIAN food.

There is that moment where you look at your friends and they are all looking at you. You said this was Chinese, we know what to expect, this isn't it!

You start thinking, does the person running the restaurant know this isn't Chinese food. Do the other customers here know, this isn't Chinese food?

Does the manager know, the chef creating the food and menu?

The Owner, Chef and Manager then approach your table.

We have a new "vision" for this Chinese franchise, we only serve ITALIAN.

We call it "POE 2".

You sir, are one of the other customers at the restaurant, you are enjoying the fact this advertised Chinese restaurant only serves ITALIAN food.

You like their vision.

The rest of us are not yet convinced this is going to work.

well hello there Oracle.

Well POE2 is not a brand new game but based on POE1'as its engine, it should work with POE1 logic just different feel, it's the same person with different outfit, right now many thing are wrecked because it goes against basic logic of that engine, all you did is say you don't like a bunch of people, you have rights to say that, but it's fruitless.

You obviously don't understand my post then, lol.

No, its like walking in mud The game is called Path of Exile 2.......otherwise they should have called it somthing else.

L take bro off to reddit with you.

I'm fine with it being as slow as it is or even slower, I enjoy, the pace of the game, I just wish we had a bit more on the defensive side, especially for armour

Slow paced game != sluggish unbalanced things.

Also, in a game were you need to kill a lot of things to get to a point were you kill big things, the slow pace you want it's pointless...

The point of an ARPG in it's essence, is to start slow and by the end feel empowered to take on multiple hoardes of monsters ( it's like the lore of the genre), you want it to be a pvp match between you and 5 white mobs that takes 20 minutes, it's unrewarding but feels like you pulled a muscle by doing that big bad pack of mobs and you deserve a medal.

I do not think people have specifically asked for the clear speed from PoE1, but at least balance the damn gems/gear/power aspect of the players, because right now every boss feels like a damn wall (probably in the end game it gets a little better)...For me, I just try to get this out of the way, but for new players picking up a game that looks like d4/le/poe1 and actually seeing it's a 10 damage class vs a 5 milion energy shield boss that fills the screen with stuff, it ain't going to stick with him. And if you think you do not need new players, then when GGG abandons PoE2 like it abandoned PoE1 you will feel very sad and pathetic, for being entitled to getting that pvp game in an arpg game.

Yeah some situations feel like a bit sluggish, but at the same time I dont want it to be a 2 hour and done campaign and then off to the endgame.

For example Kripparian told that people would have hard time with the League being 3-4 months. Well for slower people there is still the option to do Standard.

The problem for me with Kripparians posts were that he said he played some 18 hours in total and was done with the campaign. Granted he is a good player.

For that 18 hours he spent 2 days out of the 4 months.

I can bet he still represents a major parts of players that dont usually have problems with the campaign.

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Still some classes should be buffed/enabled. White mobs should not be so strong in some places. Those freaking blood pools should evaborate faster!11