General Feedback from a General Player

Hi,

Wanted to give some feedback from a player that has played POE1 and POE2 to date. This is specific of course to POE2.

Here are some things that overall, I would like to let you know as my biggest issue is FUSTRATION at the game. Not game play, not any specific game item, the game the way it is currently. Here is why below:

1. Quality of Life things that are lacking are killing me using the game.
- Item SORTING! Please make that a priority as that kills me daily!
- Very low items in Act 2 to getting any better items other then magic level. This is a bit weak and even in POE1 I felt you got more chances earlier on to get better gear.

2. Building gear improvement request
- Please allow the player if they collect x (maybe like 20) amount orbs can be converted to a level higher. It is FUSTRATING to have so many lower ones and I can basically do nothing with them in early Acts

3. Boss fights
- Look I am not the best player by far and I make mistakes which I take responsibility for as a gamer. However, when you have a great time getting to the boss because you have terrific weapons, armor and such to get there and then over and over again the boss just at times can one hit you is TERRIBLE AND FUSTRATING! I like a challenge and if I made the mistake so be it, but the end of Act 2 is killing me if I use any character other than the same old Witch or long-distance attackers.

4. Passive Tree
- I do like the current tree, I think it works. Well kind of... I think it needs better balance with passives and with the gems. Overall please take a look as at times giving me 8% attack does not feel like it does anything or evasion, etc. While it is passive it needs to "FEEL" better to me to use the items in the tree which currently does not. Well not to me anyway.

5. Gems
- Can I tell you how meh gems are to me. They are really just MEH... nothing great and kind of weak. I know it is early so please taking a look and evaluate with the players ways to make the gems work better with weapons (could be a me thing). Overall Gems to me are just not exciting and rather boring... Overall it takes too long to get them improved and it is not really exciting when they get upgraded. So very uninteresting to me

I am going to move to playing Last Epoch for a while since I am overall just frustrated with the Huntress and just playing in general since I do not feel that connection like I did with POE1. Once again I know it is early access so this can be fixed and I am looking forward to seeing that as GGG is doing a good job.

Anyway, please let me know if you would like to discuss more across the board.

Thanks!

You have some good points here.

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Item SORTING! Please make that a priority as that kills me daily!

We could use some clarification here. Do you mean like sort your inventory so that the loot is all together and leaves the most free space? LE has a button for this (and one for stashes, too). GGG could really learn from them here. I, too, get really annoyed with having to jigsaw things into my inventory. I'm sure this is a common issue.

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Please allow the player if they collect x (maybe like 20) amount orbs can be converted to a level higher. It is FUSTRATING to have so many lower ones and I can basically do nothing with them in early Acts

We can't know what you're talking about here, either, because there is no thing called an orb. Do you mean gem? Rune? You are probably correct in your judgement, though.

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I like a challenge and if I made the mistake so be it, but the end of Act 2 is killing me if I use any character other than the same old Witch or long-distance attackers.

I also think Jamanra was too hard. But it wouldn't be so much a problem if I could go off and level up some, and easily come back later. But no, if I do that I get punished by having to run through the whole Dreadnought map again, which is super long. They ought to have persistant checkpoints before bosses that you can always fast travel to before you beat them for the first time. I get not wanting a checkpoint there always, cause it makes it too easy to farm the bosses, so just have it there until you kill it the first time.

Your point about gems: are you talking about active skill gems or support gems? I'm happy enough with the active gems, but am meh about a lot of support gems.

I mean, there are many, many great things about the game.

Unfortunately they've been forgotten due to how bad this patch was...
- No loot drops
- 200% nerfs to builds that weren't even being used
- 0% buffs to builds that had <1% utilization (Hi Chayula)
- No currency drops
- No endgame drive
- No mobility or way to scale it
- Campaign is absolutely atrocious
- No Crafting & they
- Trading is terrible & no AH in sight due to 'Vision'
- No versatility
- We can't use orbs or try out gems early because vendors don't sell them and nothing drops them

I don't get it tbh. Even from a data point of view, it makes no sense what happened in 0.2.0.

And the biggest problem of all is how all of this made it out of QA & came as a surprise to them in the immediate post-patch feedback.

This last part is what really makes me wonder what's wrong on their end that they don't see this. Or perhaps feedback hasn't been enough on our end.

The Ops oriented person in me would tell them to functionally survey a huge pool of players from different playstyles / hours invested / $ invested to find out what's wrong.

Patches like these with emergency corrections aren't the way forward, even in EA :/

Hi, thanks for the comments!

I do think this game is great and has great potential, just not sure what they were thinking with this last patch as well. I think they have a great base of characters for the game and can do so much, but so far I see things lacking.

Some more details:

Sorting, just organizing and putting space together would be huge! Putting it so I could have each of my weapon types sorted, armor, etc. would be great. Free space would even be a good one just to have! Also, maybe add a tab type that would allow me to have subtype of my equipment? I would even micro transact to have a tab that I could say have just equipment like bows, and one that I have for shields, etc. That would be awesome (or even mix them up)! That would be a great plus... GGG, hum... here is a good idea... ;)

for the Orbs: I have like 74 orbs of Augmentation... I should be able to take them and combine like 20 or so and create 1 regal orb. To make it so farming is not so crazy maybe make it so you start by allowing 5 to be combined and then everyone after that gets more expensive. So first take 5, next take 10, etc. This would make it so I could try and get them when I am driven and would stop farming since it would get too expensive to combine later on...

On Gems.. Skill Gems they are good and work for me (cool effects for many of them) the support Gems.. meh... those are the ones I look at and really do not care for them. It does need to progress a bit faster for Skill gems if possible, in my view.

I am not sure how this got out of Q&A as it is and hoping they do take our feedback and continue to make this game better...