Well, one month later and it's pretty clear POE 1 is most certainly not dead and GGG most certainly should not just shutter it to just work on 2.

>>714621162 (OP)
I won't be touching 2 again until probably when all the classes and ascendancies are added and the acts as well.

>>714621162 (OP)
It's actually kind of insane how dead POE2 is. I hate how right this board was about POE2. Why the fuck did it have to die? It could have saved the genre. I dont want another 10 years of POE1

>>714621162 (OP)
Poop Of Excrement II killed this game.

>>714622490
Too slow, too unrewarding, GGG learnt NOTHING from their previous game.

If I want to play ruthless I'll just play ruthless. Poe2 was fun for a few hours but it didn't help that loading screens take ages if it didn't crash half the time during zoning.

>>714622751
>Die
>Zone resets
>Die
>Boss health bar refills
What were they thinking?

>>714621162 (OP)
Mercs is one of the worst leagues they've added for a long time and the expansion sucks donkey thingy

>>714623503
T17s were a mistake. They ruined pretty much everything fun left about the game.
Combined with archnemesis going core the game is essentially dead to me.

>>714623503
Necropolis was way worse and that wasn't too long ago.

>>714623503
>>714623814
I hate T17s but mercs themselves are a fun addition and should have been a core part of the game since forever ago. They were great in D2.
t. minion gamer

>>714621162 (OP)
Shame I haven't been able to play much because I haven't had a good enough Internet for 2 months with which to play it.

>>714622490
>Remove movement skills because Dodge would be considered functionally the same
>MAKE ALL THE ZONES FUCKING MASSIVE AS FUCK WITH NO SHORTCUTS AND FEW CHECKPOINTS (this got solved but GODDAMN doing that dreadnaught level sucked ass as melee in the first patch)
>make auras reliant on spirit which is a smart choice
>scale skill damage with levels which means more mana but lacks the leech/sheer recovery/EB to sustain, so you gotta worry about that shit
>no fucking HP in the tree because ???

I can stomach re-doing acts in poe1. It sucks, but you can learn speed run strats to blaze through. But if I had to go through that jungle nigger stage to flip 20 fucking levers just so I get through more vaal niggers to genocide one more fucking time, I swear. Levels don't need to be massive zones, especially since we don't have movement skills. But just progressing through giant levels at like what 30% MS max? Hell no. No thank you. Utzaal or whatever the fuck was just completely nauseating to go through once. That nigger johnathan thinks he's hot shit too, making the game feel like you're progressing at a snail's pace. But all it does is just make the game more tedious. If a game's movement isn't fun, the game is dead. Simple as.

I'm convinced that the dudes bitching about ZOOMIES are fucking reactionlets because if POE2 is the actual answer, I'll just stay with poe1 and zoom n doom.

>>714624516
>>no fucking HP in the tree because ???
This one is still an atrocity I can't wrap my head around.
>ES is allowed to have practically as much HP as they could possibly want
>Armor does nothing
>No HP
>Actually nerfed HP builds in the Huntress patch (reduced the %HP from Candlemass Cruel)

>>714621162 (OP)
It's painful to me that they thought it was necessary to butcher the building aspect of the game in favor of this casualized slopfest for itemization, gems, and the passive tree. The basic shell of the game didn't need a revamp. If we had poe1 autism, with the poe2 coat of paint, the new socketing system, and the more tuned/toned down visuals of combat, without all the retarded one shot fuckery and AN, it would be goat.

As it is, they literally took the worst parts of poe1, and ripped out the best parts, to make one of the worst, most boring games I've ever played. They truly are a bunch of retarded niGGGers

since we are talking about this game can someone tell me how to fight the breach boss? i killed him 3 times when he was weaker and i was able to burn him while tanking one hit or so. but on the 4th fight i would get 1 shot by the hands that spawn from the ground like 3x in a row.
how TF do you dodge them? i tried so many times and even during attempts where i thought to myself SURELY i dodged it this time it would still fucking hit me. can someone tell me why im so shit at the fight please?
I did already look up the ziz video showing each mechanic how the work and the appropriate way to deal with them but for some reason i just cant fucking dodge these stupid ass hands.

I just want vampire survivors difficulty with PoE's depth. Is that too much to ask for?
The best leagues ever where Crucible (explody totems) and affliction (ridiculous juicing and penance brand of dissipation bug) because it was easily possible to deal billions of dps while being nigh-immortal.

>>714625416
>the breach boss
There are a combined total of 7 Breach bosses across PoE1 (5 main + Xeshtula) and PoE2.
Since you didn't even say which game, I assume you mean PoE2, but it helps to clarify.

>>714625416
You just one shot it. Interacting with a bosses mechanics is suicide.

>>714625468
Penis brand was actually bugged to do LESS damage than it should, which I think they eventually fixed mid league, but I don't think anyone noticed because it was already deleting everything. I farmed harvest to get a mageblood on that build and immediately stopped playing after I got it.

I really don't think they can make PoE2 fun, every aspect of the game after the initial honeymoon phase is just so deliberately unfun.

I still can't believe they tricked people into buying an early access F2P game just to beta test it and find out that it sucks and wasn't ready, lol.

>>714626078
>buying
They gave away tens of thousands of keys.

>>714626412
they need to refund the write operation I wasted on my harddrive installing their shit.

>>714624676
it's actually mind boggling that they didn't nerf ES at all. there's clearly a fucking design problem existing if HP struggles to go above 4k but ES can stack up to 100k almost effortlessly. and they didn't even touch ES with a feather in their big patch? what the actual fuck are they doing.

>>714625513
mad bad im tired and didn't realize i meant poe 2. all the bosses in 1 are piss easy.

>>714626861
It's all good, lad.
I don't actually know though. :^)

>>714626937
you fucking nigger i hate you.
;^)

>>714624516
>no HP in the tree because
because it's not fun to "waste" points on not dying instead of making your build stronger

I also fucking hate aura stacking, second worst thing in PoE1.

Worst part of poe2 is the non existing build variety.

>>714622490
dont care. im not going back from wasd

>>714622490
>dead
who cares, it'll shoot back up the moment it gets a new league, this has always been how poe has worked? why is it different now?
people are fucking weird man

>>714627408
people are forcing hate campaigns on random shit now a days. poe2 isnt perfect but it is early access still. idk why people are hellbent on trying to bad mouth it so hard and will negative shit into existence. been seeing it alot with other games too.

Don't care.
Didn't read.
Will never play Poe again.
Buy an ad.

>>71462451
>But all it does is just make the game more tedious.
Jonathan's vision originally included not being able to change ascendancy. That was certainly a decision...

>>714621162 (OP)

>>714627202
not dying to something you used to die to means you got stronger by definition retard

>>714621162 (OP)
All the mistakes of PoE 2 are having holdover design decisions from an already terribly game (PoE 1), a lot of which are already holdover decisions from D2. You can't have your 'slow methodical combat' in a game where you can heal to full at the press of a button that has charges you can replenish at any time infinitely, the only way to make mobs mean anything is if they can oneshot you, and if they can oneshot you the only way to play is to kill them before they do anything. So until they make some actual changes its just going to be Poo1 braindead zoomerslop but with extra steps of tedium, pleasing nobody.

>>714627668
POE2's Ascendancy annoys me. I didn't mind the trials in 1 even if it was very trap focus. But having 2's version be basically either Sanctum or Ultimatum? Two league mechanics that I heavily dislike in 1? Fuck.

poop2 has no reason to exist

>>714622490
>I hate how right this board was about POE2. Why the fuck did it have to die?
The fact is that the campaign sucks ass. It's just a shitty copy of Diablo 2, like so many other ARPGs. NOBODY wants to play through it over and over.

>>714622490
People already bitch about the campaign in poe1. Now imagine it being ten times harder and taking ten times longer. It was destined to fail