People love dark souls

I don't know how far you've been in the endgame anon but it's actually pretty fun. There is a lot of progressing to do with atlas maps, waystone progression and really taking your build to the limit. There are also things like expeditions, breaches, etc that make it more than just monotonous chaff clearing

The devs literally don't know what they're doing, they have no plan or ideas of what works, or even really what they want from the game. They're just throwing stuff at the community and letting them figure it out.

Because ARPG mechanics and Soulslike mechanics clash badly and don't work with each other.
You can't have slow methodical combat that also requires you to screenwipe and 1-tap bosses before you get 1-tapped.

I'm exactly the same. I've played the campaign multiple times and wish it was longer, despite most people complaining its too long. Because same as you as soon as I get to the end game I lode interest. It just feels pointless spamming maps for no reason except to level up a bit more and maybe see the end game bosses. They've actually made it hard, especially for SSF, to even get to the end game bosses anyway. You have to collect 300 fragments of this and that and find citadels on the map or whatever, I can't be bothered.

I love poe2 but holy fuck do I hate the trials. The first sekhema and chaos aren't too bad but the second ones are pure utter bullshit.

sekhema

get hit 2 times to unlucky twin boss attack timing

lose instantly because of honor

chaos

have to pick 42 different instant kill mechanics to dodge

lose instantly if you get sky seer

One of them said in one the interviews they are "shooting from the hip". They are literally just throwing random numbers onto skills, seeing what happens and then nerfing or buffing them, going too far the other way usually. Which would be fine because it is an early access, but they are treating it like "leagues" where they will not make major changes frequently, but wait until a reset and then do a whole bunch at once. So something broken stays in for the whole "League", and then when a bunch of new stuff gets added, it breaks new stuff. There's still things broken from when they did they 0.2 patch. Support skills not working right, problems with trials getting hard-locked, all sorts of shit

wtf do i do with these, run em or just sell

run suns / blacks only and sell rest or

It's amazing to see how much of a player drop off PoE 2 has had.

I've played the campaign multiple times and wish it was longer

there will be 6 true acts eventually, (not the 123 then repeat we have now) check back when they release that update. although I have headr act 6 will be shorter

I just buy a carry from the trade channel

Yeah the trials are maybe the worst part of the game imo. I can't believe they did Izaro dirty and replaced the system with the current bull shit. I never enjoyed sanctum and now I definitely don't, considering the biggest source of character power is gated behind it.

Yeeah but you run the first 3 acts twice as it is, so technically its already 6 acts. It will be good when they have the 3 new acts, but it will still be the same length. They will probably cave in and makee it shorter / easier too as a lot of people moan about having to do it again each charatcer

Having said that, a lot of crybabis are treating this open beta/early access as a full release.

This is a shit take, GGG themselves are treating this as a full release in all but name. They even have named "seasons" at this point, are full steam ahead on the MTX shop, and are doing literally nothing common of a beta such as rapid balance changes. They are treating the economy and game as a whole as if it was a full release and can only be balanced in major updates every 3-4 months.

Trying to push this sentiment on the community is a bad faith argument when the fault is at the game director level and official comms from GGG

game sux

When I get a token for a trial I just wait to overlevel it by 10 levels or so. They are still total bullshit but being able to down the bosses in 10 seconds at least gives you a better chance

You're wrong tho.

True but for me the cruel difficulty is a total slog, especially if I have an idea for a different character and have to repeat the same short act 1-3 sequence twice. I'm sure they will have DLC at some point. Basically the game needs like 2 more years to be good imo

Not balancing skills mid league so you're pigeonholed to the single meta skill that clears multiple screens with a single click and also at the same time balancing the game for trade leagues so if you don't want to play a meta build you'll be so behind the curve that the game sucks ass but can't really play SSF either because loot is nonexistent.

Only subhumans hate PoE2.

my dog took a huge poe2 on the neighbour's yard

Normalfags played it. Also GGG is a bit retarded with their timelines and underestimated how fucked the game was on release.

I also don't really like all the skill being weapon-locked so much. You're not so much playing a class, you're playing a weapon. You're playing a mace character, or a crossbow character, and in each group theres acouple of skills that shine and a bunch of shit ones, so theres a limit to build variety. I've made everytype of crossbow character I can think of at this point and there's only like 3 that are decent, there's nothing else to try there aren't that many skills to start with and its pretty much got all the skills its ever going to have in that weapon

The devs became retarded. You can't use from other weapons anymore. Several things like heralds are boxed into melee only, etc.

use skills from other weapons*. I guess im retarded too

The funny thing is GGG blew off their existing customer base to pander to normies that consider this a one-and-done game and won't be back for future leagues and/or be buying any mtx. They've completely cut out their funding source by chasing a 1 time purchase and within a few months it will really bite them in the ass when tencent wants to know wtf is going on with the numbers

POE2 dead

POE dead

LE gets updated once a year

what happens now bros

one-and-done game

literally fucking EA?

I'm just gonna keep playing Diablo 2 like i have for the last 20+ years.

In a small handful of interviews, the spokesperson for the game at the time, Chris Wilson, talked about "the vision" for the game. People latched on and turned it into a meme that anything and everything wrong with the game is a part of "the visions" for the game.
There is no real vision.
But the worst part is that they don't even know what direction they want to take the game in. Many systems and changes are at odds with one another and the games (both of them) suffer massively for it.
The mouthpiece says whatever bullshit they think will placate the masses and then the developers themselves shit something out and hope it works.

Because the devs are fucking retarded. I still find it funny how before 0.1 Jony mentioned "muh meaningfull combat" every chance he got, but if youve ever played any from soft games and poo2 you will know that doesnt exist in poo2 past act 2 normal.

Heralds work on Bows and Spears.
Barrage is Bow/Spear.
There is literally only 2 melee weapons and years of development left in which they can adjust and improve things.

its nothing like Dark Souls. Its more like Diablo4 meets PoE with some improvements
theyre a LONG way from making PoE2 have meaningful Action Game Combat

It's not like Dark Souls. Devs literally lied to us but it's not like poe players care because they just wanna play their vampire survivors slot machine.

food analogy

What went wrong?

Tencent.

screenwipe and 1-tap bosses before you get 1-tapped

when did we decide this is what "ARPG" means?

Well it's twofold of blowing up the screen and putting together the pieces of the puzzle that allow you to blow up the screen more efficiently.

PoE 2 Gud, maybe even the guddest.

ggg has been using the word "vision" to explain their retarded decisions for like 15 years

PoE2 has the best boss fights out of every Isometric ARPG ever made

Very gud

mostly negative reviews reviews on steam and every forum related to the game has been in meltdown mode for like a month straight but sure there are a lot of trade bots playing it so everyone must secretly love it right

The devs don't know either and that's the issue. They're trying to make two games into one, except that those two games have antithetical game design philosophies and thus, merging them is a disaster.

Only "meltdown" is in your head lil bro.

Nobody wants something that tries to be both diablo like and souls like.
No Rest for the Wicked is unironically far better than this garbage and nobody likes it: the only reason PoE2 has any following is that it coasts on the success of the pre-Vision era.
basically the concept of "dis be a hardcur gayme for hardcur gays!".
Becomes the excuse for poor balance, heavyhanded nerfing, spitting on the player, things that literally DO NOT WORK on an arpg (sanctum honestly?), shitty itemization, the list goes on

t. Filtered.

Stick to PoE 1 kiddo.

please dont let me disrupt your cope, I want the game to die and your defense of its current state contributes to that so carry on

lets make a deal shall we
roll back the clock to when PoE1 had 4 leagues a year and cared more about fun than it did about pretending to be soulslop and I wont ever even look at your direction anymore
we both win

Or the players successfully gaslit the devs?
Let me guess you're memoryholing the past 3 years of retards spamming

SHOW DA ENDGAME THIS IS 2 SLOW

POE 2 SLOW ENDGAME BETTA BE FAST

FAST NOT SLOW MAKE DA GAME FAST

DA ENDGAME BETTER NOT BE SLOW JEEJEEJEE

tiny tits

this game might be the biggest failure I've ever seen
besides concord ofc

You will die before PoE does fatso, sort your life out.

sold as a release and treated by the developers as a full release. good job reading, you must be american

that's actually not possible because my life is directly fueled by hatred for jonathan and poe2

You will never be barry.