FurdTurgeson: First patch in history that makes people want to go back to work

RiversEnd75: Low level uniques need to drop at low levels. They are useless when you start finding them in late cruel and endgame.

TheVillainInGlasses: Players: Warrior sucks to play

GGG: Understood, brought other classes down to Warrior's level.

Players: ???????

gordonwaiwiri5235: "first time?" - Warrior players

KillerKlowns112: Warrior players last patch- please for the love of god help us

Warriors this patch- everything plays like a warrior now it’s great!

kalenen: When defeating the boss he feels "thank god that is over" ya great design....

loganwhite6173: My biggest issue is the loot is dog shit. Why even have chest in the game that are empty. Thats so pointless

korbandallas8931: PoE 2 is a game for streamers only, 16 hours a day to grind. Sorry folks, I gotta get up at 4a.m. for work.

xbsmoovin: "And if me with 900 IQ, handsome"

totallynottrademarked5279: The vision is that if you are not miserable 99.5% of the time, then how can you know when you are having fun for the other .5%?

frodrigues1011: The worst part ATM is the power growth; it's totally BS. The resource drops are still too low. I'm ACT2 with the Witch. I feel like a worm. I can't change much in gear, but I can't get many gems. It's hard to get excited playing. The pace was ok at 0.1; now is too slow and borderline boring. Every level I got. I did not feel much difference in the damage or defense. I am not excited to get into the maps. Takes too long to not feel the power growth, to have to work 3x compared to what was before. If the maps take longer to clear, fine, but the reward should be double. Otherwise, there is no point in dedicating time for something that will not give much. Every DEV is ignorant because they struggle to understand a simple concept: "risk & reward." The game is harder. Fine, where is the REWARD?

wuffies6162: The dev forgot the most simple thing when someone playing a game and it is FUN.

bub5842: I actually dont like one button builds generally. I like mixing skills. But my god NOT being able to do damage without a 5 button combo is just soul sucking. I even got good gear. But halfway thru act 2 i just said F this. I know these dudes want their vision to work, but the customer is always right. And they will leave if the game is not fun

KazaiVT: As someone who’s barely played Path of Exile 2 (because of terrible performance) and hasn’t watched much of it, here’s my take. Everyone expected nerfs at some point, but not to the campaign. GGG rushed PoE2’s release, delivering an endgame (mapping) that feels disconnected from their vision of the game that they had in mind.

Their solution? They shoehorned PoE1’s monsters and combat into PoE2. This clashes with their supposed goals and it was obvious changes were coming. Rushing PoE2 out the door forced this awkward compromise.

The real issue is that GGG tampered with the campaign, which is the hardest part of the game to begin with. Nobody wants PoE2 to just be PoE1 with a new coat of paint; otherwise, why bother with a sequel? The ideal focus should be on Magic and Rare monsters, with map bosses as the highlight. Players loved the challenging boss fights, but struggling against basic white monsters? That’s a slog no one asked for. Magic and Rare monsters need a full rework, while white monsters just need rebalancing—tweaks to HP, damage, movespeed and quantity.

This mess is GGG’s own doing. They build a solid campaign, then hastily patched together an endgame they planned to fix later. Now, PoE2 players are stuck with PoE1’s combat etched in their minds, shifting away from that towards a true PoE2 experience will be tough but necessary. Unfortunately, GGG seems doomed to repeat history, PoE2 launch state already showed that they don’t learn from their mistakes (PoE1 history), and here we are again.

Having engaging combat with combos is amazing but not against every single whitepack that comes at you at the speed of light.

TLDR: The players are stuck playing Path of Exile 2, while the monsters are still playing Path of Exile 1. GGG didn't get this and instead chose to nerf the players from the very beginning instead at the very end. Bosses are already challenging inside the campaign so there is no need to make the entirety of it challenging, especially since PoE2 aims for a much broader audience than PoE1. The campaign should prep the player for the endgame.

MTDucas: how can this be better when you have to roll every 0.5 seconds in any fight ?

AkmrMotomoto: "The problem with these boots is I'm not going to be able to tell the difference between enemies shocked ground and my own shocked ground".

EXACTLY.

After reading them, you realized this within 20 seconds.

GGG still put them in the game.

They had months to think about that.

THEY KNOW THEY DID THAT.

ibrahimjah4299: Darth ' i need 17 intelligence. The problem is my character is stupid"

carlosribaltes6110: to be honest, I haven't had that much trouble, just the same as my first playthrough, people have forgotten how hard it was the first time around if you ask me, and it was much easier for the second toon because of all the loot gathered during the first run, that's it.

joshuabingham1303: Such a nice breath of fresh air, approaching it with curiosity and a willingness to adjust vs just raging that you can’t cheese through it anymore

drubizzy: Honestly coming from a Last Epoch practice run PoE2 feels really bad and I have 400 hours in 0.1. I think I’m just burned out after 0.1 and Phrecia.

joik3308: For some reason i ain't getting support gems to change out my spec , just ain't happening , so i did the most logical thing and just logged out.

theholyvessel5736: the moment Jonathon said he felt like warrior felt good in end game i knew the game might be doomed.

sagi3933: What I felt playing through act 1 and part of act 2 on Huntress and Lich was this:

- cheap deaths

- bad loot (unlucky?)

- passive points don't matter (too little things to choose that have a real impact on gameplay)

- clunky combos forced down my throat

- everything worse than before, and most things already weren't great before

- I don't want to play, I don't want to login, I want to do literally anything but play PoE 2 right now

Can't wait for LE, or new PoE 1 content

negativeimpactz: While I was fighting the count I found out for the first time that before his second phase he turns into a non corrupted wolf as a move. All my boss fights are like 6 minutes now but I will admit there's a part of me that enjoys it.

ermanmutlu7658: I enjoy huntress and love it's not one button.

MrColbrot: I know what I feel.

I have a limited amount of time to game, I was making my way through maps on an invoker monk playing solo and not trading for gear. Now I feel like playing monster Hunter wilds. That ruined the game for a casual player like me because some people can one shot their bosses and they got hurt hurt. Just a complete gut job. Maybe if they fix it, but not like this. Waste of my time.

Jalae: "it's like we are beta testing the game"

um yes... that's literally the point of the early access... ... ...

Apr 08 2025

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