Sorry to my pal who passed me the Early Access key. But I'm giving up...

Imagine thinking you're too old to handle a video game at 42. Just get better at the game. It's possible at any age

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Babonzo#0016 wrote:

I played this patch for about 20 hours (~200 hours with first patch and ~4000 hours on PoE 1)...

Wow 4000 hours. But I suppose POE1 has been around for plenty years, and even every day 2 hours should get you that cumulative play time.

When my friend pulled me in to POE2, he said no need to play POE1 in order to enjoy POE2. True in some ways. But I think some of the story links back and a few references and maps refer back to POE1.

I'm not sure what I am missing out without playing POE1.

I agree, POE1 is already so massive and if they just focus their efforts to renew and modernise the game, there is no need for POE2. They can easily pump in more story-line acts to follow "The Corruption".

Or perhaps, it's easier for them to build new game using modern engine? Either way, glad that you have POE1 to fall back to.

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hboi#6131 wrote:

Imagine thinking you're too old to handle a video game at 42. Just get better at the game. It's possible at any age

How to get better at avoiding getting one-shot from something off-screen? 800 hours in, only having one main playing character Merc Witch Hunter. At every point ALWAYS trying to make the character better. Re-spec-ing, trading better gears, learning from pros their playstyle and builds. Just as I reached a balanced point, something else later throws you off again.

Have you read my suggestions? Will any of those implementation break the game?

Anyway, in case you're thinking I'm a simple casual gamer;
https://steamcommunity.com/id/AndySng/games/?tab=all

Ignore the Soda Dungeons as they are idling games.

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BellatorMonk#4008 wrote:

Always easy to walk away from things that were free :)

How you got your POE2 free? Please share...

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N3vangel#0037 wrote:

...sounds like your build doesn’t account for crowd control....

My apologies that I'm not quite sure what CC here implies. But I did follow the guide to the letter, which should account for crowd control.

https://www.poebuilds.net/builds/mercenary/explosive-shot

If I push my character for survivability, that it can't kill bosses in decent speed. Still able to clear mob packs but have to throw a lot more of stuffs; oil, gas and explosive shot. Leftovers can eat flashbangs. Didn't die much with this build:

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/lolcohol-grenadier-mercenary?widgets-state=eyJmN2Q4MjEwMi03ZTc3LTRhNDQtYWQyNC0zM2I2N2U4YWU3YmYiOnsiZmlsdGVycyI6eyJhY3RpdmVWYXJpYW50SWQiOiIzNDA0NThlYy05OWY0LTRiMjAtOGYyMC02Y2RjZmU5NWE4ZGQifSwidHlwZW5hbWUiOiJOZ2ZEb2N1bWVudENtV2lkZ2V0Q29udGVudFZhcmlhbnRzVjEifX0

Just quite hard to fight bosses.

How about you stop following build guides and actually learn how to play the game

I gave out 6 early access keys and absolutely no one enjoyed the game.
You know it's bad when people consider "free" as too high of an investment for a product.

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2836742981#3689 wrote:

...I think some of us will be back in a few weeks.

How about my suggestions to alleviate the punishing 10% EXP lost? Any of them viable? Or will outright break the game?

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DarkDredd#2184 wrote:

...maybe GGG will back on the track.

Actually, they did fix or attempt to, on the bugs I encountered and posted here.

Like, Selling stacks of runes, previously only gets 30 gold regardless if it's 1/20 stack or 20/20 stack. This is fixed.

Endgame Crimson Shores Deadly Boss not dropping loot, now it drops but the area still says cannot use portal in boss fight. Small issue as you can walk out the fighting area to portal.

Just that, the 10% exp punishment is not well thought out.

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Oddball#0339 wrote:

All true...

Thanks for your affirmation! So my suggestions to even out the EXP lost torture can be implemented without breaking the game, right?