Game experience (8/12 ascendance played)

Hi GGG, hi all.

I played a lot of POE2 the last 2 month. I already tested 8 Ascendancys and all defence layer.

First of all. I really enjoy this game and the gameplay of it.

Categories:

Bossing: I like the progress of the Boss Atlas and the fight against bosses in general. The pinnacle bosses feels unique.

Mapping: The maps looks amazing. In my opinion the world feels good to move on and try to discover as many as possilbe. But on the other hand, the progress feels to small. Often i need to run to many large maps to get to something new. I dont like the idea to rush to endgame bosses if u play lower tiers to get the them.

Skills: I played every skill into the lategame, except crossbow, grenade and chaos spell skills. Spell skills feels greate. Most of them got their own playstyle and u can easily achive t16 maps with them. Sometimes i miss a little bit of diversity ( but it´s early acces ). Totems, bows and staffs are in a good state. But it feels like their is a lake of physical options for staffs and bows.
For me maces got their own sector. Of couse it´s just my opinion but except of hammer of the god, they all doesnt fit. It doenst feel like i am playing a warrior or a strong guy. It´s more of a clunky and depressive playstyle. The dynamic doesnt fit the game.

I love the new jewellers orbs and the idea of linked skills. I doesnt like sills binded to weapon types. I hope we can play more skills with different weapons in the future.


Defence Layer: ES and Evasion is like the way to go. It´s awesome with the new auras. The interaction with Spirit is wounderfull. Block is also a good layer, feels like poe 1.
Armour is bad. Really bad. It´s the only Character i deleted( the gear ). It gave me a good feedback until t14 maps. I needed a big invest and still u get 1 shoted from whtie mops on a corrupted yellow map. I really hated it.

Loot: The loot progress is fine. It doesnt take long to get acces to the lategame.

Crafting: It´s horrible. POE 1 is/was the best ARPG because of the crafting and build diversity. Without the possibilty to make an item white again, u cannot craft in a fun way. Their is no point to looking for white items on maps. I really dont like it. It´s taking a lot of fun away.


All in all i enjoy the game and very proud of the whole GGG team.
For me it´s awesome that poe 2 doesnt feel like poe 1, because of this i can enjoy both games in the future.

Thanks for the game and the good time.

I hope for a good future for POE 1 and 2. Because both games are masterpieces.

BOCM