Why I/ left poe 2.... again

We where 6 friends who started playing poe 2 on early access launch. 3 returned for 0.3, 1 remain. Here are the two reasons we have in common for leaving the game again shortly after 0.3. I'll describe them from my point of view:


1. Ascension trials (and I can not stress this enough, this is the PRIMARY reason for leaving).
These f...ing things. I haven't raged this much since playing League of Legends. In fact I'd rather play League than run through this maze of BS only to die in to some random boss mechanic you didn't know about and then go through all the BS again. Together with issues like performance/stutter, so many graphical effects on the ground you easy miss a one-shot mechanic makes these trials pure cancer.
On top of that you have to do them AGAIN every time you make a new character, every time there is a new season/league. AAA NOPE! I'm not doing it!!

Suggestions:
- The easy solution is only make us do them ONE TIME, like Diablo 4 shrines. Those are easy to do and they only make us do them one time. After that we are free to spend them on any character any season
- Get them out of the game. Make a little epic mini questline that tells a cool story, sort of like Star Wars the old repubic.


2. Loot and loot destribution. It's just to rare for my taste. I ran 50 maps(10 lvl 1, 10 lvl 2, 10 lvl 3 and so on) and found no upgrades FIFTY. Maybe I got unlucky but still. The new market helps a lot with this issue but I would rather find it myself or craft it. I have seen videos on how to craft and it seems super complex, so I don't see that as an option at the moment but had I stayed longer maybe I would have invested the time to learn.

I will say this in it self would not have made me quit, so had there not been any other reasons I would continue playing.


Minor issues for me:
- Inventory management, moving things around to make room for more should not be an issue in 2025.
- Performance and I would say in this patch. Can't remember I had this much trouble at launch. Game freezes like every half to 1 hour.
- Abyssal craks, everything is green! even things that more or less one-shot you hehe. Might need a color tweek.


I hope things will get ironed out over the early access period because I love gameplay a lot more than other ARPG. I love all the options in the skill tree and with the skill gems. Definitely a game I'm keeping my eye on and hope for some good changes further down the road.


I just wanted to leave my, and a couple of my friends, reasons here in case you were interested in why people choose to leave your game.

Good luck forward,wish you all the best!

See you next league again!

1. Ascendancies shouldn't be free. That's insane (sorry). Personally, I absolutely hate trials of chaos, so I do my 1st and 4th ascendancies in sekemas. Not optimal, but sekemas is very easy once you obtain 75% honor resistance (2-3 failures at most). I assume the same for trials of chaos, I just don't like waiting for platforms lol

2. You do bring up an interesting point for early mapping - which I believe is where a lot of the players stop. There should be some loot drop changes to bring up the desire/ease to progress. T1 vs T15 currency drops should be looked at here to see if it's scaling as intended. Perhaps the first 3 rolls should have a higher chance to roll rarity depending on the level of the map (e.g. T1 should guarantee a % rarity within the first 3-4 rolls, whereas it matters less at higher tiers as they have higher drop rates by default).

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side note: personally, I don't play this game (or any ARPG) for their campaigns. I play them to kill stuff/get items/gear my character. There's no reason to keep playing past 3-4 mod maps except to grind currency for 100+ div items. This is where I stop as my character can only really get trivial/marginal upgrades that do not impact gameplay. Yes, I could go slam full juiced t15/t16 maps, but why? So I can get surrounded by mobs faster than I can see them come on screen & die in 2-3 hits? Nah.

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tdonov5#2743 a écrit :

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You literally got nerd-baited in this thread and now being monitored to be the problem in this community as you think you know better than any other player while the OP peacefully trying to explain why bad things are bad for more than one player.