jf2849: I love ARPGs but if I can’t theory craft and make my own builds I don’t really want to play. I rarely ever run a meta build and using a build guide is even less likely.

karmoth6666: Its so hard to motivate me playing poe2. Really sad as i love poe in general. But this is......

roundishcap: What is funny is that this kind of stuff is what POE2 was trying to change from POE1. Instead poe2 doubles down on every bad or questionable design decision. Great vid. Sometimes you just have to air this stuff out. Reminds me of when I tried to frozen legion league start.

MrBuns-yi2hk: The biggest reason leveling feels so bad is because the psssive skill tree is super weak compared to gear. In PoE 1, you can get pretty far with relatively weak gear, and you can easily craft what stats you need.

FFB-3675: Each patch i play less and less. I feel i'm wasting my time and forcing myself to play. I dont have fun at all in poe2. I doubt i give ot another chance. Cant wait for 3.28.

lukemajewski4823: Its getting better but i still can't get myself to play this for any significant amount of time

Sevenjewellers: This league I decided to play poe2 for the first time since its release and I must say that I was just as disappointed as I was when I played it for the first time, I don't think I'll be playing it again very soon

jaimerojas6578: They really need to buff the gem drop rates, you should be allow to try stuff and experiment with different supports especially in early game, I don’t understand why they limit them so much in the campaign

Tibasu: My example of how this game made me feel stupid is that Shaman has a node that gives me More Spell Damage per Rage, but both triggered spells from meta gems and spell totem don't work if I'm in bear form, so my options are extremely limited to spells I can cast in human form which have a duration.

I still get a ton of bonuses from my 95 rage, but when I saw that node before league start, a "Cast on X" bear was the thing I wanted to make.

DragonwareStudios: You've nailed my thoughts on poe2 as well; it's just unnecessarily punishing. Want to try your own builds? Grind through a 20hr campaign first and probably won't have enough skill/support gems to experiment anyway. I also died at that exact same sekhema trial scorpion boss which also made me ragequit for a few hours... time to grind another half an hour of irritating challenges... poe2 ascendancy challenges really make me appreciate poe1 izaro labs.

abelke: I’m at the point I might just wait to play until launch. I’m just bored

Pepecigar: My issue with PoE2 is that it forces you to play the way they want, you don't have the choice you have in PoE1. I like how the game looks and how it feels between the hand but that's all there is to it for me, game need way more time to be less boring and more rewarding. I can't play 8h per day and doing that long ass campaign each league is just so outdated, some people have fun in it and i wish i was like them but it's impossible. Hard to believe it's the same company as PoE 1

Tjimmeske: Early wolf seems very rough to get through compared to bear. I switched to bear and my problems disappeared. Thanks for making this video, it makes me feel less embarassed about uninstalling when I play every POE1 league religiously.

uzekial1656: I can not believe we went from the amazing Abyss mechanic to quite possibly the worst league mechanic I've ever played in my PoE total playtime.

sombrego2260: I had a similar experience as you I dared trying a fun crossbow/werewolf build and it was such a struggle until I scrapped the werewolf part from the build and then the game became ten times easier.

The balancing is abysmal and the game is a chore if you don't play anything meta. It's super frustrating and I don't get how they can be so far from the mark it's been a year and it's not gotten any better. Last league was kind of ok-ish because abyss craft was making everybody stronger but it's still a mess monsters hit still way too hard, we are still way too reliant on gear and some skills like Lunar Assault for instance are crazy undertuned compared to similar ones (Permafrost bolt).

Just like the Huntress was a lot of miss and some OP stuff we have the case again with Druid and bear being ten times stronger than it has any reason to be with most of the rest being mediocre at best and requiring perfect gear to get going.

dukksauze433: As I commented on an earlier video, thankfully there is still 3.27 with ssf friendly tree if 0.4 isnt too good, and so by sunday already I did go back to poe1. I have same complaints as you brought out, game feels antifun unless you follow specifically a meta build, and even then its just bearable. Trying to figure out something on your own leads to mediocre at best, usually a struggle build to play. And if by some miracle something fun is found that isnt intended by the developers "vision", you can expect it being nerfed(actually triple shot dead). Anyways, I rolled dominating blow on wheelofbuilds, so time to figure out what awful monstrosity I can make

Roulade-ho2ig: I started wolf asw i Had crazy dps troughout the whole campain but i was also squishy

ElSabio159: Dude I’m going to have to go to a psychologist after watching your video.

LetoThaSec0nd: So I see the vision is still real. Seems like I won't have played PoE2 in 2025...

thehubbleton: You and me both, man.

Koombs: Valid criticism. It blows my mind that ggg has neglected quick swap from control to mouse again. Gameplay feels much better on a controller but I'm not managing loot without a mouse.

chuckmaddox6725: holy bass batman

dashfrone352: I got the the interludes in SC trade and with no promise of anything exciting waiting for me in maps decided to restart SSF HC because I realized dying was already so unfun in the base game I might as well play a mode that encouraged me to avoid it at all costs.

I enjoyed the slow walkthrough back through Act 1 as I experiment with a spell caster druid but when a boss inevitably one shots me I'm probably going back to PoE1 and will enjoy some SSF HC there. I've at least found that game mode forces me to learn a lot more than I've been doing in softcore and when I RIP I can reevaluate my enthusiasm for continuing.

xXVintersorgXx: I played bear until act 3.. got bored and now I'm taking a poe break

jaimerojas6578: The league is ok, not much new other than Druid, im guessing player retention will be super low, the fate of the Vaal mechanic feels overwhelming in endgame, i rather just map to make some money and just go into the temple every now and then

kliersheed: every time i see you complain about damage you decently chunk the bosses. what do you want? 3-tapping bosses on mid-gear? its supposed to be a fight, you are supposed to dodge their attacks. if you 3-hit them they cant even get to do anything how boring would that be ?!

Dec 19 2025

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