>>720308451
They forgot to balance the early game since GGG has been conditioned to only give a shit about mapping since that's the only thing you do in POE1. Slow animations, long combos, swarms of enemies, and for some reason they reverted the dodge roll character size bug from 2.0, making it an actual chore to get through the first 2 acts, let alone on an off-meta character. Once you're in act 3, the game actually opens up and you start breezing your way to maps, but at that point most players have left.