Do we need cooldowns, spirit, ammunition, charges, rage, glory, fuel, infusions, combo, and energy?

Every one of these things is just a slightly different way to say "No! You can't do that!"

This doesn't even include the skills that consume ailments on enemies; the skills that consume flask charges; detonators; jagged ground; overgrowing plants; things that make something that one or two other skills interact with, like Lightning Rod and Hexblast.

On top of this, all of the attack skills require specific weapons to be used. And now we have skills that require the use of a specific weapon that are further restricted by only being able to be used in a specific shapeshift form! And you can't use most non-shapeshift skills when shapeshifted.

Most of these "resources" don't interact with anything outside their bubble. So, if you want to use a skill that uses any of these resources, you only have one or two methods to generate the resource, and the resource can only be spent by using a couple different skills.

This is why there is effectively no creativity in combining skills in PoE2. Everything is railroaded by GGG, leaving no mechanical creativity for the player to express.

Agreed. Needs to be reined in and some of this resource management is getting redundant.

Spirit is one of the things that baffles me the most as a minion player because it's incredibly detrimental to the fantasy as is,and exists SOLELY because they wanted a roadblock to prevent high power when that was never the point of the style to begin with.

The friction should be like how it is in most ARPG's where minions tend to have a harder time getting the upgrades they need in exchange for that ease of use.Spirit just tells the player "Figure it out idiot" as your now juggling multiple scaling issues at once.

Power charge on wyvern shapeshift is so annoying, clearly just busywork. You can get three charges easy, but at the same time the charges themself always run out before you can use all three.

You're jsut not seeing the visionTM

All of our problems will be fixed when they add the lieange supoort gem

"ItsTuesday: Generate a random charge upon reaching maximum rage (30sec cooldow per proc), 500% skill cost multiplier"

Its not only that you also have a lot of extra power buffs like infusion overgrown etc that just buff certain skills.

Yes it makes the game more complicated, but at some point it becomes overcomplicated nad nothing fits together anymore.

Volatility for example is basically not used by anything.

And Overgrown does work on Bow skills, but Druid isnt made in mind with bow. You dont have much stuff that buffs bow skills.

So the overgrown effect Bow Plant skills can get is wasted. They might add more stuff there.

I'm fine with spirit
My only problem with charges and infusion are getting them, specially fire infusion
Now fuel...that was just lazy and unnecessary, it killed incinerate, it limited a skill that was already underperforming...for nothing in return

I think you forgot fury

Yeah, add it to the list of meaningless counters tracking horseshit in order to prevent you from using skills.

Uniques have there own problems in PoE2 but one item i had drop today that emphasizes the problem exactly, https://poe2db.tw/us/The_Empty_Roar, i can have an empowered item that does nothing. Crazy logic.