Does anyone else feel PoE 2 is way too sweaty?

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Jyrlep#4788 a écrit :

Yeah, I’m with the "too punishing" crowd. It’s hard to "just play the game" when you have to tip-toe through everything because one mistake can delete hours of progress. XP, ascendancy runs, maps, portals, whatever - the game stacks penalties like it’s trying to teach me mindfulness through fear.

Crafting is the same vibe. The in-game hints aren’t actually informational, and you can brick an item just by doing things in the wrong order. People say "you learn by testing", but the problem is the feedback doesn’t teach you anything. It’s not a lesson, it’s just "congrats, you made it worse." That’s not a teachable moment, that’s a casino with extra steps.

Overall the game really lacks educational info inside the game. Yes, there are third-party sites, but they shouldn’t be mandatory homework. Some of us are couch potatoes who want to blast monsters, not enroll in a higher-education course titled "Proximal Tangibility 301".

Campaign wasn’t that bad for me, aside from a few bosses that felt borderline impossible on a low-tier minion setup (priest + priestess). But endgame ramps into "pay full attention forever" mode really fast. You can play slow and careful… until a random rare rolls the wrong lottery ticket and you get one-shot anyway.

PS: 90 to 100 takes way too long, and the XP penalty is brutal. I get that it’s not supposed to be free, but those last 10 passive points still matter, and right now the grind isn’t even fun-rewarding, it’s just stressful. If something has to be hard, I’d rather it be getting gear, not leveling.

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tdonov5#2743 a écrit :

sweaty isnt the right word, grindy is. not disagreeing that there aren't balance issues with overtuned mobs/bosses/etc, but that's just how it is. it's early access, if you can't do the grind, then play something else instead?

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Slart1bartfast#0332 a écrit :

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arandan#3174 a écrit :

poe2 is much easier than poe1 in endgame; it is actually close to diablo 4 level of trivial at the moment.

You have to accept that some games will simply not be for you, period. If you have to force yourself to play, then use common sense and spend your free time doing something else.

The problem is not the difficulty. It's the punishment. Engagement with content becomes extremely stressful if every single mistake costs you potentially hours of progress. You are constantly trying to avoid frustration.

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AlexiaRP#4088 a écrit :

As multiple people already said, "Sweaty" is the wrong word. It's that you just can't calm down at any point. Just not being ready for something for a single second is pretty much a death sentence.
PoE1 in comparison has almost dedicated bits of "pay attention now", but mostly things are calm. It's stressful and exhausting to have to focus all the time on everything. And yeah, the several layers of punishment if you do have that moment where you're not paying enough attention, just make it even worse.

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Morae#1328 a écrit :

The way I see it, considering the amount of people in chat asking for carry, a lot of people cant do it. In my case, I simply dont want to be carried.

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ThreeBelowZero#2968 a écrit :

The RNG is way too heavy. You either trade for what you need or you might never get it until you spend an actually insane amount of time playing the game. PoE2 feels like a game for people that work gaming: Streamers and YouTubers.

The game is simply horrible for people not willing to spend 4 entire months. GGG expect you to be powerful and to have that power fantasy the last month, at least for people playing a 2-3 hours a day. Just take a look at how long campaign is, it is not a campaign thought to allow you to try multiple characters or having fun at all, it is made to be devote to the game and invest it all into 1 class and 1 build.

It is not that is ''sweaty'', the game simply demands all of your time and also to look for knowledge about the mechanics outside the game way too heavy.
If I could, I would ask for a refund.