Cleaning up my room and house in prep, got my snacks ready. Poisonous concoction and then eventually full time heist. Only really have today to play hard but I wanna be set up so my free time for the next week or so can be spent getting them wonderful dopamine hits finding loot.
There is something very wrong with me
I really wish I could get into that game. Everyone telling me to plan out a build ahead of time and the sheer complexity of doing that really puts me off.
Also the esoteric as fuck currency system does my head in.
I think you might be fine if you just jump into the game and try whatever looks good to you. If you want to make it to the endgame following a build guide is recommended but that's too much of a commitment if you don't even know if you'll like the basic mechanics and the feel of the game.
edit: this aged badly wait it out until they fix the game as it's currently in a very bad state
I would definitely call Poe convoluted rather than complex. Bloated too, every other dumb fucking league mechanic is now permanent with its own shards. The trading is also dogshit. There was a period where I kind of just mindlessly played Payday 2 for hours despite not having much fun and I think that was more or less the same thing that happened with poe for me.
I'm one of the weirdos who really likes trading but my introduction to online gaming was EverQuest in 2000 where we had to barter in the same zone and I figured out I could gear myself by sitting around and buying cheap gear to resell. I do think they need to make currency exchanging automatic, it's absurd that currency bots exist simply because of the annoyance and the profitability of doing mass exchanges
Yeah it's absurdly complex at this point. When I started I managed to get through the storyline of the game just abusing minions and some spell, but it's really best to find whatever builds are likely going to be meta to start with and copy someone else.
It doesn't help that you need a publicly maintained program on the side to reference for builds (Path of Building). Once you get to the endgame though you just spend time learning stuff until you get it. I still don't have a great grasp on crafting, myself, despite playing for years.