Vaal Temple / Black Chamber tuning

I went through the end of Act 3 Cruel with a breeze, got to Black Chamber and got owned repeatedly, like bad, feels bad.

Here I am in maps and exactly the same thing is happening in Vaal Factory.

If it were for my gear (which is horrible and not good enough for maps). I would expect the same results in other maps of the same tier.

If it were my skill, I would expect the same results in other maps as well.

I don't have enough data or information to support my claim but, it really feels like this.

In map X there are Y number of mob types and each mob type has a difficulty of Z

In most zones you have a certain number of things to look for, because Quadrillas can hit hard, or poison spitters can you down fast. Memorable units that obviously seems more difficult than standard units.

In Vaal Factory / Black Chamber literally every mob is something that can hit hard, 1 shot you, have a pack of 10 people shooting hand cannons, while AOE lightning goes all over the room and Giant 2h swords pushing you all over the map so you have 0 control over your character.

It is so over tuned in comparison to other zones its as if its 5 times as difficult at the exact same difficulty level? Like WHAT?

The game has this riddled throughout, there is no balance... you can transition to 1 shotting bossing and having a blast to a miserable experience in a split second on the same exact character.


I have to add... 4000+ hours in POE1 and I have NEVER one time been so frustrated by POE and felt the need to post negatively.