tips1pxl: kind of weird that they haven't changed the enemies to cater to the nerfs, if the enemies were slower and didn't hit as hard it would prolly feel much better

JustAFatherlyNerd: I played for 3 hours today and got absolutely no where my damage was non existent so I gave up and got back on Khazan to actually have fun.

badger297: I don't get it.

I specifically remember Jonathan saying "we're just making the game we, want to play, and we hope others want to play as well"

There's no way you could convince me they are enjoying this.

I'm a new player and a big GGG fan boy. This to me has been the first time I've really felt frustrated with the game. I don't understand the philosophy behind neutering all the power in the game.

KingJerbear: This is exactly why I haven't been able to get into this game, despite having multi-thousands of hours in PoE1. I just felt forced into playing like 1 or 2 builds to be able to even beat the campaign on Hardcore mode, and it's just not fun. The whole entertaining part of an ARPG is supposed to be the element of choice, and being able to CHOOSE a high damage "glass cannon" setup if you want to blast through content, at the risk of it being incredibly easy to die. Here it just feels like the illusion of choice, you either play the absolute strongest meta build (most of which were just gutted) or you're simply not strong enough to even beat the content. I quit before I even finished act 1 (after trying multiple characters/builds), and again, that's saying a lot for someone who has thousands of hours in SSF HC PoE1 and paid money for early access to this game with an extreme level of hype.

Honestly, I have more fun booting up Diablo 4 and gearing up a character over 3 days before I quit again, which feels like a joke to even say.

RyukoMeows: They purposefully wanted to slow down the game from POE1. To me as a POE1 player, this game is now so slow it's unplayable.

ryanqube9132: Meta builds are now just "playable builds" because everything else is not playable. 10/10 would GGG again.

sumdood7410: It’s clear Poe is trying to chase the Elden ring/souls like formula but it just isn’t what people come to Poe for it’s sad to see really.

DamienGWilson: I figured this would be the case. The campaign already wasn’t fun with the initial release, and so it’s such a shame they would make it even worse. They clearly don’t understand what is and isn’t fun.

shad7298: Devs nerfed damage, I got to see Count Ogham's full moveset lmao.

Misho_the_exile: I cannot agree with you more, I stopped playing on the 1st hour, if they want this game to be this way, this is not the game for me. I loved poe1 for many years, i cannot believe that 2 is soooooo much worse for me. I feel this game will need 3 more years to be a decent game to try again

seven9: I never got to endgame because I kept getting rares for classes I never wanted to play.

I never found a single good bow on the ground the whole time I played that game. I had to by a crossbow from a vendor and level it up.

For some reason they wanted my merc to have every wand in the history of video games.

MSFS-2024: Same, I got to level 20 with the new hunter, i am done, so damn boring, same shit over and over but now 50% slower, shit loot, boring ass zones, I am completely done. Great job GGG you lost a ton of players today.

Chrismontt: I played for one hour yesterday, and like you said, it was not fun at all. Even when I went back to creating another class that I'm familiar with, I didn't enjoy it.

frankfly1368: I agree and that’s why I quit playing. It’s slow

vincegaming2434: What a surprise. I've played alot the first release, but 90% of the maps layouts burned me, they feel horrible (to big, to many dead ends, backtracking). No changes to map layouts, no playing for me.

sir.torantino: im starting to hate PoE 2 i really don't wanna do act's at all and everything gets nerfed.

nebucadneza1914: As a das with limited time i was so hyped. My wife took care of the kids so could play for 6 hours. Im now lvl 11.

Hard skip for me. I dont have the time. Sad but i have a life. It feels like its made dor streames that make a living of playing 12 hours a day now.

Zetsumei88: Dawn of the Snore is the correct name

Hikabusha: Best advertising for last epoch. Chris Wilson is missed.

evilsdemise1287: When I stopped having fun in POE2 I stopped playing. Very simple concept.

Biffwee: I quit for the same reason I quit Destiny 2, the creators made it obvious they no longer respect my time so it’s just not fun for me. This is just me, maybe other folks with more time to give love it, but it’s not my cup of tea.

GerardGamesGG: I put in like a thousand hours before this update and now I don't even wanna play.

MorrowMixtape: Yellow enemies I understand. Blue and below though? There's no reason for me to use legit combo skills against mindless enemies that charge forward to ensure that I do enough damage to kill them. This means that I'm forced to fight at full capacity and take every single fight seriously at all times because one little common mob can kill me, ESPECIALLY if it staggers me.

^ this is more or less the gameplay loop for POE 2 until your build gets strong enough to one tap the majority of things on your screen. Even if you can one tap things on your screen in endgame, a common mob can still potentially one tap you, so you have to consistently play perfect, and if you don't, then you'll lose hours of progress from one death...literally.

mcubed1: Totally agree. Going to skip this league. Game feels so damn sluggish rn. They really need to tweak the leveling process.

casediedwell5094: 'Difficulty to Overcome' =/= dying on the regular to WHITE packs.

It's just awful right now. Huntress feels bad and I'm 'meh' on starting a different class because, really; the only 'New Content' in 0.2 is dying to trash mobs.

EmissaryVoid: alot of people hate the update so many nerfs to things that weren't needed aka grim harvest, I can't even play monk because my shield takes so long to recharge my whole health was my shield because my Max HP is 1

Xhotic: Everything we played before this "League" is completely slaughtered, I agree with you on the game feeling slower and the player character feeling a lotttttt weaker, even squishier , it just feels a bit bad even early and mid game, im fine with the combo gameplay they want only on certain classes, like sure Monk and some of the Huntress gameplay should be combo-like, but now it just feels like they are FORCING you to do multiple combo abilities before trying to press your actual skill/button you want to use so it can do damage. The prep time for some of these huntress combos is insane to do legit 0 damage. Status ailments are applied to the player constantly now, FORCING the player to focus on getting Ailment threshold now....just unfun design philosophy.

It just feels too slow right now and they are still heavily nerfing things actively, i think the game will be better in the future but right now it just doesnt feel great to play anymore since release, and not to mention for some reason the performance and stability is worse for me since launch, this update has added a lot but its not enough to make the game feel somewhat unplayable at times.

Apr 06 2025

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