Obviously not played much yet. Though i fear twitchiness is gonna to be much greater than in 1. Also i can't play for shit in every class except sorcerer, with warrior and monk i can't even kill fucking Miller lol (first intorductory boss).

  • dead [he/him]
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    7 days ago

    POE 2 feels really bad. I've done 40/40 on 10 POE expansions (completed the game 100%, 10 times).

    It feels like POE 2 was modeled after Ruthless Mode in POE 1. Ruthless Mode is a game mode in POE 1 that is only really liked by one streamer named Kripparian. Kripparian is a blizzard-fanboy who only played POE 1 in the beta and complains that POE 1 is too rewarding and easy. One time I watched a Kripparian video where he explained that he buzzes his hair short because he doesn't shower often and doesn't want people to notice from greasy hair. Ruthless mode has existed in POE 1 for 5 POE expansions now. Every expansion Kripparian plays ruthless mode for 1-2 weeks and then quits because it's too hard to play the game with barely any items. (Duh!)

    Ruthless mode is a mode of POE 1 where the crafting bench is removed, monsters barely drop any loot, skill gems are only obtained from monster drops, bosses go back to full HP when you die, all movement skills have been removed. Everyone in the POE 1 community hates ruthless mode. Only like less than 1% of POE 1 players think that ruthless mode is good. Nobody who plays Ruthless Mode has actually even completed the game.

    All of the characteristics of Ruthless Mode have transferred to POE 2. There's no movement skills, you can only dodge roll. If you become surrounded, you are trapped and die. You can't move through enemies at all, Normal monsters take 5-6 hits to kill. Barely any loot drops. If you die, the whole zone repopulates and resets and you lose any items that were on the ground. Bosses are very difficult to kill. Most of the bosses have abilities that are hard to avoid and kill you in 1 hit. If you die, the boss respawns with full health. The bosses drop very little loot. You will lose 10 times to every boss before beating it. Almost everything kills you in 1 hit because barely any items drop and they removed most of the defensive passives from the passive tree. There's very high difficulty and very little reward.

    I'm wishing GGG would have just released another POE1 expansion instead of this. The next POE1 expansion (3.26) was supposed to be released this month but they delayed it until March because of POE 2.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      7 days ago

      Unfortunately both ingame chat and forums/reddit are full of absolute worst scum of cuckpit worth g*mer gatekeeping scum telling you to git gud. I tried for 2 hours now to get any help for the wolf count boss and guess what, i got insulted more times than in all other hack & slash games ever and ofc nobody helped.

      And i'm 100% sure what will happen later, all those scum will start whining and crying that people play only meta builds and devs need to nerf them.

      If you become surrounded, you are trapped and die. You can’t move through enemies at all, Normal monsters take 5-6 hits to kill.

      This is precisely the problem with that boss. All others can be killed at range but this one has a phase where it locks you in tiny space with tons of mobs and pounce on you from outside visibility ever 5 seconds of so for insane damage.

      Also there is no promised trade, at least not yet, i just wasted entire saturday playing it, got to the same boss on two different classes and got stopped at the same place every time. Now i'm frustrated as fuck and i literally never felt so cheated after buying a game.

      • dead [he/him]
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        7 days ago

        Unfortunately both ingame chat and forums/reddit

        You can change your in-game chat channel. You type "/global #" into the chat but replace # with a number. I like channel 4040, which is a channel for achievement completion, but it always has the same group of people in there and there is friendly chatter. Channel 5055 is the designated reddit channel.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          hexagon
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          7 days ago

          Thanks, i will check this. Also PoE community IS really somethign else. I watched maybe 5 or 6 videos on Youtube and today my new feed is half full of typical nazi propaganda youtubers, which never happened after watching even a lot of videos for Last Epoch, Diablo 4 or Grim Dawn.

          • dead [he/him]
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            6 days ago

            my new feed is half full of typical nazi propaganda youtubers

            Here's a list of channels to avoid for political reasons.

            spoiler

            Asmongold - Toxic wow player turned right winger political commentator. "antiwoke" misogynist. not even a poe player, he only plays poe as a side game. if you click his poe videos, you will get right wing videos in your feed.

            Quin69 - dumb guy. stupid politics. joe rogan type. nickmercs type.

            cutedog_ - libertarian of the age of consent type. shows weird sexualized anime on stream. says his favorite author is Ayn Rand. probably watches Destiny.

            Belton - ex-military canadian chud. got banned 2 months ago for doxxing his twitch mod team

            PathOfMath - Very toxic guy. Permanently banned for making death threats again game devs.

            Here's a list of channels that have good info. I copied this list and labeled some channels I recognize. As a rule of thumb, avoid channels with robot/ai voices.

            spoiler

            aer0plane
            AlkaizerX - best melee player
            Alloces
            BalorMage
            Ben_ - best player ever, won most competitions
            CaptainLance9 - creative builds
            cArn_
            CrouchingTuna - bow player
            devilcatwith2cat - creative builds, taiwan channel
            DirtyDan79
            ds_lily - hardcore
            emiracle
            Fubgun - bow player
            GhazzyTV - minion player
            Goratha
            guccipradas
            Havoc616
            Helmbreaker
            hoeji
            jungroan - creative builds
            KayGaming - minion player
            Kunagi
            Manni2
            Mathil1 - creative, low budget build
            MeShaMaan
            Nerotox
            onemanaleft - creative, high performance builds
            Paak_HC
            Palsteron - creative builds
            phazeplays
            Pohx - new player friendly
            POOGF
            pr3vie
            Quantrik
            RaizQT
            Rudy
            Ruetoo
            simplyVizniz
            SnapOW - group play, support builds
            Steelmage - hardcore player
            Subtractem - creative builds
            Tatiantel2
            TENPURAUDON
            TheGAM3Report1 - minion builds
            travic
            tytykiller - speedrunner
            UberJager
            Ventrua
            Waggle
            Zizaran - new player friendly. I think this guy is sponsored by the game devs
            Zlayge

            • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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              5 days ago

              I don't watch her stream so I don't know if she's OK now, but the DS in DS Lily used to be RWDS for right wing death squad. Just putting that out there.