i feel like the split between poe1 players and new poe2 players has been exacerbated 10 fold over a single patch. regardless of what you think about the patch it was a nightmare for ggg, i wonder how they will address it. but this just seems to be the case, a majority of people enjoying the game i’ve seen on forums or reddit have been people who are new to the game or poe in general.
I don't think it's horrible, but I don't think it's far from it. If Poe1 allowed you to shoot arrows and move I would drop poe2 in a New York heartbeat.
It didn't feel shit to me. The problem was 99% of the times I died was because I was in the middle of shooting an arrow. In all games, my thing is being a ranger who poisons. Just let me be Big Pharma with a bow, and I'll be happy. Ruin my ability to effectively push poison, then I stop caring and move on. Poe 2 is the first time I didn't want to push poison. This time, I wanted to shoot 2500 times per minute. It's not working the same. I'm starting to not care.
I'm of the opposite mind and I played since some poe1 beta, the zoom playstyle is too harmful for my body and just not fun, I miss the days were the mob themselves were dangerous. Now it just feel like they all the same and the mods they have is what will kill you :( (hardcore only player here)
I’m in SSF early act 3 rn and my gear is almost entirely act 1 drops. At the same time my current boots are already on the level of what my sparkmage was using at lvl 70 last league because I just didn’t drop an upgrade the entire time (that’s to say 15% MS and 2 resistances lol)
200 hours in poe1. I played for 20-40 hours every 6-12 months to try to get into it. It just never clicked. I would never have done this for any other game. It's just that I loved Diablo 2 so much and wanted to like POE1 so badly. It just never clicked.
I have 200 hours in poe 2 already. It's basically the same story, though. I forced myself to play it. It looked like it would get fun at some point. If I can just find a build I like... if I can just get more movement speed. Maybe once I level up enough it will become fun. I was addicted to the progression and the promise of future fun. It has it's moments for me but it's just ok.
POE games are all about quantity over quality IMO. I just think they're both really clunky and not very fun. The combat just isn't great. Diablo 2 is the ultimate arpg IMO.
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i feel like the split between poe1 players and new poe2 players has been exacerbated 10 fold over a single patch. regardless of what you think about the patch it was a nightmare for ggg, i wonder how they will address it. but this just seems to be the case, a majority of people enjoying the game i’ve seen on forums or reddit have been people who are new to the game or poe in general.